The Andrews Family :: Sweetwater Photographer, Abilene Family Photography

Is this a beautiful bunch of little faces or what?!!

















Seriously, I could adopt this cute little face!!!






Caught the train coming in.... :)


I had to be sure we did some pictures of the only girly in the family in the girly chair!! :)





This shot cracks me up... I told them "ok, serious faces" and my little man, Carson, on the right couldn't do it!! Mom was saying "don't smile, don't smile," and he just thought that was hilarious! There was no way he was going to comply!! I kind of love the fact that he's got that clever grin on his face all by himself! :)




As I sit here, wide awake at 12:45am.... Braxton Hicks contractions crunchin' down... feeling my little girly tumble away in this ginormous belly of mine... I'm thinking about what an amazing holiday shooting season this is/has been!!! I still have a good handful of appointments left after Thanksgiving week... but can't help but feeling like I'm on the last half of the "back 9" and slowly are starting to wind things down!!

Along with all my South Florida families, I've been blessed to work with some precious families out here in West Texas in the last month or two of holiday photography craziness!! The Andrews family is no exception!! The Andrews bunch are new clients for me... but I've seen Mom, Leah, around quite a bit in one place or another!! She is friends with some of my best clients and I've seen some of her design work (she designed Whitney & Andrew's wedding invites and they were gorgeous... and totally meshed with my own style!) and loved it!! I was way excited to get a call for an appointment from her, not to mention the fact that she told me she's been following my blog and work for about a year and a half now! When ever I'm meeting with new clients (esp. ones with 4 kiddos), I always feel a bit .... not nervous.. but just have the feeling of anticipation of working with a new family that doesn't know me whatsoever... and trying to find a way to make them feel comfortable with me... so they loosen up and I can get to the "real" expressions and personality!! Well I'm tellin' ya... that feeling of anxious anticipation lasted for all of about 2 seconds... I got out of my car and Dad, Kirby and little man Kaden were waiting for me in the driveway! They warmly greeted me and Kirby immediately engaged me in conversation about the session... he was ready to rock and roll!! I met the whole family and we were off on our photography adventure! I sooo enjoyed chatting with them and getting to know them throughout the session! I seriously felt as if they were old friends by the time we were done... they just seem to be those kind of people.... easy to love and be around... the kind ya just want to invite over for dinner and hang with!! Each one of their babies were just as endearing and polite as they could be too! What fun!!!

Leah & Kirby, you have a beautiful family and I seriously look forward to working with you again in the future! Thank you so much for having me!! Can't wait to show you the rest of your photos!

Kali's Maternity Session :: Abilene Maternity Photographer, Abilene Family Photographer

I met with this sweet little family tonight for a maternity/family combo mini-session of sorts! We decided on an outdoorsy country look (my favorite lately) and actually just found some random trees with wild "stuff" growing below them for our sunset setting! I'm a huge fan of this warm, dreamy light and am having so much fun with the images I get from sessions like this! Kali is expecting a baby girl and looks beautiful, don't you agree? I'm excited to get to the rest of their images... but for now this post will have to due as a little peak into our time together!! Enjoy!

Happy Early New Year- Wedding Promotion :: Abilene Wedding Photographer, San Angelo Wedding Photographer

So the recent round of beautiful bridals has left me in the wedding mood... and since I'll be having a baby around the beginning of the New Year, I'm thinking I'd be smart to post this now... otherwise it may not happen! I'm excited to see who will get the be the ones to take advantage of this great savings!!

***If you have a bride in your world.... pass her the link... if she books, YOU will get $50 off any portrait package!!!

Jenny... Getting Married :: Abilene Wedding Photographer, Sweetwater Wedding Photographer

What an opportunity this session was for me!! Jenny, the gorgeous bride you see here, sent me an email this past Sunday morning after reading In Bloom's feature article in the Sweetwater Reporter!! After a visit to my website, she decided to drop me an email to see if I might be able to squeeze her in while she was in town from San Antonio visiting her parents. It just so happeed that she had picked up her wedding gown in Lubbock a few days before and was ready to have her bridals done! Bridals and TTD sessions are so much fun that I decided to switch a few things around and was able to fit her session in on Monday night! When Jenny told me her Dad had a WWII airplane at Avenger Field that she wanted to be photographed with... I swear my heart skipped a beat!! Originally, I was hoping to do some sunset shots with the plane, but it was positioned next to the hanger and it just seemed to work, and gave a retro, authentic feel to the whole scene. A little artificial lighting and the warm light from the sunset coming in from the side, and that's all we needed!!! It's always tricky with bridals.. .because you must take so many pains to keep the dress clean... doing anything too crazy is usually out of the question... but man-oh-man can I just imagine that plane with a "Trash the Dress" session.... what fun we could have!!?! :)

I was so happy to have found the gorgeous spot with all the fall foliage too.... considering that most of that is dying off out in the country areas around here... the timing for this session was perfect!

Jenny- I hope you love these as much as I do!! I wish you and your fiance a perfect wedding day and a blessed marriage!! Thanks so much for allowing me to be a small part of your wedding festivities!!!

The Ward Family :: Sweetwater Photographer, Abilene Family Photographer

Love Heather's face here... she looks so sweet snugglin' on her man!!!













Above & Below = My faves of the kiddos!!






Another sweet family from my church that I've only recently begun to get to know... with 2 beautiful kiddos that I've hoped for the opportunity to photograph since I met them! I give kudos to Mom who styled the session beautifully... all wearing something in the same color family, yet not matchy-matchy! Love that! It took me a little bit to crack Mr. Caleb into showing me his real smile... but I managed to grab it eventually using some tried and true methods... which left him cracking up several times! I think he had fun with the touch guy serious poses... and little Miss Hannah sure knew how to turn on the cute! I am proud to share that as Dad was settling up with me after the session, he reported that our time was "the most fun" he's ever had taking family pictures!! Mom chimed in and told me that "Yes, he doesn't usually enjoy this"... and I was actually shocked because he seemed to at ease and go with the flow the whole time!! Apparently, that's because he was actually enjoying himself and the experience of going on my little wild goose chase of "where will she take us to shoot next?" How great is that??!!! :) Thank you so much for having me... hope you've enjoyed these so far.... more to come!