Kayson: Cheers to 4 Years!

Kayson's mom, Alison, and I go waaaayyyyy back. She is one of my oldest friends (I'm talkin' back in the permed hair and Guess jeans days), and her older sister is married to my older brother.

Her oldest son, Kayson, is full of personality and completely totally 100% BOY! He is a very big helper with his baby brother, Knox. He recently started preschool along side his best friend Tatum (he told me). He sang me some songs....a little Eric Church, a little Frozen Soundtrack. He is a total sweetheart, and he just turned 4!

Alison's family owns a tractor dealership....so of course that is exactly the first place I thought to shoot. Alison suggested maybe a creek too, and that was also a perfect match. So, we did a little of both. I had an absolute ball with this kid, and you'll see why! It's difficult to choose my favorites, but I wanted to share a few from our shoot.

Cheers to 4 years!

xoxo

Siblings: Hannah and Andrew

As we were driving to our first location for this shoot, we were hit with a pretty severe storm that we had no idea was coming. So, we sat in my car and waited it out....which put us way behind schedule. We did, however, manage to get half of the shoot finished before we ran out of daylight completely.
What you see here is us shooting in sprinkles of rain and MUD. The trek down to this creek was pret-ty messy. These siblings were troopers though. The only complaint I got was from Andrew who was not real happy about missing the Georgia game. ;)

Here are just a few of my favorites. Thanks for looking!
Hair: Annslie Galliher
Make-up: Karyl Garrett
Hannah's dress: Vintage Pearls on 626
Hannah's ring: Paint the Town Me
Hannah was styled by me...her look was simple and beautiful.

 

The second half of the shoot was supposed to be with our old rusty truck, but we just ran out of time. Here are a couple that I did get though. It was hazy, and the bad light makes these shots look spectacularly vintage. I stuck my daughter, Annslie, in a couple too....she is the one in the blue jacket. Annslie and Hannah are really good friends. So, their mom and I thought it would be fun to get them both in some. 

 

 

xoxo

Madison Leigh

Madison Leigh is 6 months old!

Once upon a time, I actually introduced little Madi's parents, Ashley and Lee! You're welcome, Madison! ;)

Here are some of my favorites from our session yesterday evening. Thanks for looking!

Madi's dad just finished Trooper school! Congratulations, Lee!! Ashley asked me to capture some shots of Lee in uniform. So sweet!

Madison is a busy girl right now. She is learning to sit up all by herself, loves being on her tummy and showing off how she can push up, and being entertained by her daddy! There was lots of drooling, too, because this princess is teething....and I would've never known because she was an absolute sweetheart the entire time!

xoxo

Seasons

We have pumpkins growing in our yard. We carved our jack-o-lanterns last October, dumped the seeds beside our back driveway, and now we have three little pumpkins just taunting us!

I was talking with a friend earlier today about how I am just ready for a change in season. There is something about a fresh season that makes things just feel exciting and new and good....particularly, for me, when that season is Fall.
Every year, when the kids go back to school and a new hometown football season starts....it begins to feel like Fall. The days are still hot, but the mornings are cool. And when we step outside to begin our morning commute (3 school drop-offs and work), the air is crisp. Our new season is only weeks away.

With that said, seasons are much more than just weather. We enter into new seasons everyday. Seasons of hope, seasons of boldness, seasons of sadness, seasons of freedom....they are always changing and infinite. We pray for our seasons to be easy and fun, but that isn't always the case. Life lessons are what come from them....happy or sad....easy or challenging. We take just little bits of our past season adventures and people with us to help us remember what is important....what we learned from it all...what God planted in every second of everyday for us to discover.

If you've had a tough Summer or even just a crappy year so far, start over with Fall.
Or start your new season now.
I think I'll start with you. xoxo