a treasure

{a simple treasure for this mommy}

thank you Raye for this simple gift

we LOVED working with you...

a special thank you Amie Hansen

If you have read my blog for awhile especially after having Grayson you all know that I love pictures!

My sister Amie is a fabulous photographer {Amie Hansen Photography} and I REALLY wish she lived next door to me.  My favorite thing about my sister's work is that she captures a story with her images. 
I see this in all her work. 
It is just not portrait images of children and families smiling at the camera. 
It is moments of families together, it is first moments of baby newness, it is moments of mother's with their children, it is moments of dad's with their children, it is moments of fun and laughter from children, and it is moments of children being children. 
It is images and expressions to cherish for a life time!  I know when I look back on images that Amie has taken for me I remember that special day like it was yesterday.  

We had the privilege to have Amie take pictures of our family twice since Crew was born and we LOVE the moments she captured!
She created a story of a moment in time of Grayson:
his love for TRACTORS

She created newness when photographing Crew with all the tiny details

She captured special moments of me with my boys

 

Then there are images spent with family that I JUST LOVE!  These images are priceless to me.  Crew was just a few weeks old and my time was dedicated to him, but I was luck to have my sister along side us on Easter weekend and a trip to the Children's Museum to capture moments of our families interacting together.  

What I love about Amie's work is that she sees things differently and captures images that are beautiful.  

My experience with working with Amie as a photographer has been very rewarding.  Not just because she is my sister, but I have seen her work with other families and the memories she has created for them and I know first hand that those families are forever grateful for her time and talent as a photographer. 
She not only creates images for print, but she goes above and beyond with some sessions and creates slideshows of the images and storybooks. 
Create a story now with your family through photography you won't be disappointed! 

Documenting Details

I do get asked a lot how and what programs do I use to edit or make storyboards so I thought that I would share with all!

The storyboards I create I use Adobe Photoshop.  It takes some time to get use to making them, but now it is easy!  I love them because I make photo books for Grayson as well and I can just transfer those storyboards to the book with all the details I write too!  Love it!

You can get templates from this site
CoffeShop Blog

I use both Shutterfly and Mixbook to create our photo books.  I like how simply Mixbook is and I feel that I can finish a book through that program quickly.
I am currently working on Grayson's 7-9 month photo book.  I am extremely behind, but I am focused to get this all complete before the end of this year!   

Anyways I love that I have taken the time to take pictures of Grayson over the past 17 months as well as during my pregnancy and now this pregnancy.  It is great to look back at the photo books and see how much Grayson has changed.  The book I love the most right now is my frame a day or 365 day project book.  It is about 85 pages at the moment but I love how it is turning out!  
I look forward to seeing it in print! 

8 Month Pictures by Jenny Marrs Photography

Several weeks ago Grayson had his 8 Month Pictures with Jenny Marrs Photography in NWA.  We also took the opportunity to have family pictures taken too.  Today I met up with Jenny to get our prints and I LOVE THEM! 

Here is one picture of Grayson and you can go to Jenny's Blog and see additional pictures of my sweet family. 

My personal favorite picture of my family is the black and white print at the end of Jenny's blog post. 

Jenny has been featured in the local Peekaboo Magazine and right now she is running an ad in the magazine for 10% off prints for the month of February.  If you are looking for some one to take pictures of your kids or family you should give Jenny a call.  She is great to work with and his a sweet family of her own.  I have enjoyed working and becoming friends with Jenny over the years. 

Thanks Jenny for capturing special moments of my family!

BIG NEWS:

{Last night Grayson slept all night long}  I don't remember the last time this happened!  I was in total shock when at 6:30AM I woke up and discovered that I did not get up once with Grayson last night.  In fact Grayson slept from 8:30PM until 7:30AM and if he could have a cupcake or M&M's I would have treated Grayson.  Instead we went to the park and played on this beautiful day!