Beginning today and ending TOMORROW, the lovely ladies at Matilda Jane are hosting an auction to benefit Habitat for Humanity where all the proceeds will go towards building a home for someone in need.

I loved this statement of faith from the Habitat website:

“Habitat’s ministry is based on the conviction that to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ, we must love and care for one another. Our love must not be words only— it must be true love, which shows itself in action. Habitat provides an opportunity for people to put their faith and love into action. We bring diverse groups of people together to make affordable housing and better communities a reality for everyone.”

I donated a session to the auction with hope that together we can make a difference in the lives of a deserving family. That one small act of kindness can impact the lives of those in need. And that our light will just be of reflection of His great light into a dark world.

If you were considering a session with me sometime this year, would you please consider bidding on this auction? The highest bidder will receive a session and disk of images valued at $595.

BID HERE

Let it shine….

For the glory of the skies.

For the love which from our birth,

over and around us lies.

Lord of all, to thee we raise

this our hymn of grateful praise.

–hymn by Folliot Pierpoint, 1864

This family was so awesome. I always kinda cringe when a mom says she has tween/teen boys, because I know they probably won’t be too excited about a photo shoot. But these boys were definitely an exception. I am so blessed to have such great families!

These girls and their family have been returning clients since their oldest was a toddler. Which really doesn’t make them clients at all anymore, it makes them friends. It has been such a privilege to capture them as they grow. Love them!

And this family had NEVER had a family picture made. And their kids are in college! Soooooo glad they asked me to do this for them this Fall. I hope they don’t wait quite so long for the next one. There is nothing sweeter than a toothless grin, but TWO of them? At the same photo session? Let’s just say that these little girls with their super sweet smiles and big chocolate eyes had my heart from the first click of my camera that day.

Hope to see your family this Spring!

And after seeing their little faces light up with sheer joy as they ran around and enjoyed themselves, we all decided it was the perfect place indeed.

I spent the last few days giving this place a bit of a face lift and transforming it from a blog to a ‘blogsite’. Which really only means that I disabled my outdated old website and used the fantastic plugin available from prophoto to move my galleries and content over here to one centralized place. And since the majority of the images on my old site hadn’t been updated since 2008; trust me, this was a good thing.

Sooo, now I can finally say….”back to regularly scheduled posting”. But we all know that there is nothing regular about my posting.  So I guess I should say…”back to infrequent posting with hopes to do better!”

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For this senior session, we actually had to meet three times to capture the variety of images that she was hoping for. Once downtown, once in a field, and once at her  second home (the softball field). It was so much fun trying such completely different looks and so well fitting for a girl who wears a lot of different hats and does it all so beautifully.

Last night it was Cleopatra, her princess, and her mummy.  One of those nights when it felt like it took all we had just to get them ready and out the door. One of those nights where they could not wait to put on their costumes and transform into their characters. Where there were tears, but giggles of excitement too. Where there were sugar highs. And sugar lows. And at the end of the night, there were worn out kiddos with a mom and dad who rummaged through all the candy and stole the butterfingers.

The circumstances of the last five years may not have changed all that much. But the little people? Well they have changed so much that comparing these pictures side by side made me stop and catch my breath. And then pray a prayer of thankfulness. For the gift of experiencing it all with them.