When we headed up to Nashville for Cory’s flash photography workshop, I knew one of our brides had moved there after her wedding. She told me they were expecting a sweet little baby in September! This is so full circle for me. She was one of our first brides and she is also the first to have a baby. It is so special for me to photograph her son and the new sweet baby in her belly. I love how big brother did some pictures with his favorite “whiz kid” shirt and I love that he showed up to the session in sunglasses. I mean, you just can’t beat that!!

And Nashville is a photographer’s paradise! There were several times that I told Cory I wanted to move there just for the locations for sessions!!

This picture make me gasp… I love it so much!

This is a few from our first family that was selected for our “10 families in 10 months”. We are running a little late with the story and finishing the session because Dad was out of the country! I hope to share the story very soon!

I spent the afternoon with some very dear friends of ours! They are expecting a baby boy in a few weeks. Isn’t she radiant? I am so in love with the maternity portraits from today! They brought along a banjo and guitar and I was serenaded during our session! Thanks, that was a first for me.  I can’t wait to meet the new baby boy soon.

I started compiling a year in review for a slideshow to share with everyone a month ago. A month later and I still haven’t added all the families and brides from the year! What an amazing year it has been! I look at all these families and I can’t help but tear up thinking of all the wonderful people I have met this year. If I missed you in the slideshow please forgive me! If I keep working on this slideshow, I will never get it up on the blog.

Every single picture on here means something to me and that is why I want to share it with you. I am once again humbled that this is our job and we are a part of all of the lives here even if for a short time. Thank you for allowing us to live our dream…..I can’t even imagine what exciting things 2009 will bring. I trust that God has big plans and I just let Him drive. And now….. sit back and press play!

PS. We also updated all of our galleries on both the portrait and wedding website. There are so many pictures on the site that I never blogged! Stay tuned for some exciting news to be released this week!!

These pictures were taken a few weeks before Sarah’s early arrival. Cory snapped these while we were working at our church for VBS. I usually hate pictures of myself but I loved these! Sarah is almost 5 months old….where does the time go? These seem like just yesterday!