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Little Miss E | Pittsboro, NC Child and Family Photographer

admin — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:43:33 +0000

This is the third time I have had the pleasure of photographing Little Miss E and I believe that she gets cuter and cuter as she ages. Dave and Griffin came along to this session so that they could spend some time outside and Griffin could see the cows at the farm, but Griffin also did a good job of getting Miss E’s attention so I had to utilize him to keep her attention near my camera on numerous occasions. Worked like a charm! Griffin is shaping up to be a good assistant already! Two can be a challenging age to photograph, but Miss E did amazingly well! She was a trooper throughout the session and we really got to see her personality shine through with genuine smiles and laughter. The location her parents chose could not have been more perfectly suited for the dress she was in and at times, it reminded me of a scene of The Secret Garden. Here are a handful from their spring photo session….

Kids Being Kids | Cary, NC Children’s Photography

admin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:30:33 +0000

Since before Griffin was even conceived, I had been hearing about how awesome our daycare provider was. One of my former co-workers described her as the “toddler whisperer” and I fell in love with the fact that she teaches the kids at her house New Zealand manners by clinking their cups at snack time and saying, “Cheers, Mate!” Tania is a an amazing woman who cares for all of the kiddos in her house as if they were her own and Griffin has been very lucky to have her in his life. Tania is probably one of the coolest moms I know. She encourages her kids to try new things and Jamie and Leo are into everything! Anywhere from swim team, to guitar lessons, to now football and softball… Tania is there cheering them on every step of the way. I admire that about her and about the way she parents. She thinks that kids should be outside playing instead of sitting in front of the TV and she always tells her kids that they can be great at whatever they set their minds to. I was excited to pay Tania back for everything that she has done for us and for Griffin by photographing Jamie and Leo a few weeks ago. Tania forewarned me that Jamie and Leo weren’t going to be down with posed smiley pictures and I told her that was fine because I would rather capture them in their element, kids being kids.

This is what happened when I tried to get Jamie and Leo to stand together for just ONE picture. Leo wasn’t having it! This is his death glare to Tania because she promised him that there wouldn’t be any posed pictures! Haha! Sorry Leo, that was my bad!

Leo is playing football for the first time this year and I think that this picture lives up to his team name, The Chargers! I would be intimidated by you Leo if I was your opponent!

Tania has always told me what a girly girl Jamie can be because she loves clothes and anything fashion, but these go to show that girly girls can be tough too! Check out those legendary tie-dyed purple socks!! Did I mention that Tania was the coolest mom around?

Dave and Griffin came along to the session with me and Griffin was sure to give Leo a high five for all of his modeling efforts!

Thank you Jamie and Leo for letting us hang out with you for the afternoon and thank you especially for always being so good to Griffin! He is lucky to have both of you in his life and I know that he adores you both! Tania, all I can say is you rock and we are very thankful that we found someone that we could trust with the most important person in our lives. I hope you know how much you are appreciated and admired!

Happy Mother’s Day & Congratulations to our Winner! | Holly Springs, NC Photography

admin — Mon, 10 May 2010 01:03:42 +0000

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the mothers who are reading this post this evening! I hope that your days were calm, restful, lots of fun with a lack of stress! My second Mother’s Day started at 430 this morning with a run to the ER with Griffin. Add to that a doctor who proceeds to tell us that he thinks that our child who is running a 203.4 degree temperature has Kawasaki’s disease BEFORE running any sort of tests…. and it makes for the beginning of a lovely Mother’s Day!! Needless to say, the doctor was wrong and caused us an unnecessary three hours of worrying during which three nurses had to hold my 19-month old son down to take his blood. Yeah… thanks Doc.

During those three scary hours, I thought a lot about being a mother. I thought a lot about all of the time I waste in my life doing things that don’t really matter, when I could be spending more time with my son. I thought about all of the things I stress about on a daily basis when I should be thankful for every second I have with my family and I should make an effort to enjoy every single second of it. Life is so short. My life is so busy. I need more time. I need more time with my son. I need to cherish these years as they are already passing so quickly. I don’t think that I have ever felt the sense of relief I felt when the doctor on the next shift came in and told us that Griffin’s blood panel was fine and that it must just be a virus. Even though it was a HORRIBLE way to start off Mother’s Day, I am thankful because it made me so thankful to be a mother to the most beautiful boy in the world and it caused me to re-evaluate my priorities.

With that said, Happy Mother’s Day to all of you wonderful mothers! Enjoy EVERY second! The moments pass so quickly and you never know when life can happen and everything changes in an instant. In honor of capturing and treasuring memories, I would like to offer a $50 print credit to all mother’s who book a session for their children before the end of the month. Email me for details!

And I suppose some of you are waiting for the winner of the contest right? To select the winner, I had a random number generator randomly select a number (it selected 12) and then I counted down the comments and found the winner.

Drum roll please……………………………………….

Nichole Olbertz come on DOWWWWWWWWN!! Nichole shoot me an email whenever you want to set up a session!