Each month the PPA magazine has a “Good Works” article featuring a photographer and their charitable work.

I’d love to hear about some of the things you are involved in – please share with a comment here!

Each month the PPA magazine has a “Good Works” article featuring a photographer and their charitable work.

I’d love to hear about some of the things you are involved in – please share with a comment here!

Wow, how quickly you forget how busy toddlers are.  We just let her wander around and be cute.  My kids are in the stage of “where are we going” and “who can sleep over tonight” so it so fun to escape back to the days of finding an acorn and it being so interesting.  My favorite thing is when they get upset or frustrated with something and you can start singing a song and they smile and start dancing (now, what was I irritated about?)… too bad that doesn’t work on teenagers!!

What happy girls!  Aren’t they adorable?!! 

We found a beautiful new venue – The Mill at Fine Creek.  It’s a  historic gristmill with gorgeous landscaping and architecture only about 8 miles from the studio.  We battled schedules, sickness and weather but finally got our great family portrait.  Beautiful family!

Wow, I’ve been back for over a week and trying to catch up and everyone around me keeps getting sick.  My husband got strep throat (who knew you could get strep throat at 42 years old) and then passed it on to me, then our oldest daughter got swimmer’s ear (I knew nothing about this and told her she just had a little sore on her ear – mom of the year!) and the dog got an abrasion on her eye.  Ugh!  Can you say doctor / prescription copay?!

Oh well, everyone is on the mend and it could be worse, right?!

So, it was really windy all week at the beach.  It was Thursday and they were calling for rain on Friday.  We’re sitting at the pool late afternoon and the clouds start rolling in.  I rushed the kids to the shower (slow pokes still had wet hair in the portraits) and we hustled to a great spot over on the sound… thought it would be less windy, but no go.  Oh well, we got the annual portraits and will look forward to the great family portraits we’ll get in Italy in a few weeks (for those that don’t know – my sister’s wedding is there middle of Sept =)

The 4 cousins…                                  Me & my girls…

My message or tag line has always been “Capture the Memory Today”.  I feel very passionately about this message.  Obviously I want clients to come to me to capture their memories, but even if they don’t I really encourage everyone to document their lives through photographs.  

Now that our children are older and don’t change as drastically year to year we do one formal family session every year.  We do it at the beach with my sister and her family.  Boring, I know, but it’s the only time of the year I know we’re relaxed, tan and everyone expects it.  The girls enjoy being photographed with their cousins (and best buddies).

I thought time flew when they were little and one stage ran into the next, but now that they are older it’s unbelievable how quickly time passes.

Could 4 related children look any different? 

Sisters:  redhead and blondie with blue eyes

and

brunette and other blondie

I’ll post this year’s in a few weeks!!!