2018 Family Favorites

Happy 2019! Here is the second 2018 Favorites blog post! I met so many amazing families and captured so many moments and milestones in 2018! It truly has been such an honor to be able to provide keepsakes for families that they will cherish forever! It was so fun to look back at so many sessions! Here are a few favorites from each family session I was blessed to capture this year!

Please enjoy and I hope you had fun celebrating the New Year! I can’t wait to see what 2019 has in store!

2018 Milestone Favorites

2018 has been so amazing! I’ve met so many amazing families and captured so many moments and milestones! It truly has been such an honor to be able to provide keepsakes for families that they will cherish forever!

I decided to take a look back this amazing year. I split my favorite images in two blog posts, Milestone babies and Family sessions, so here is the first post this morning!

It was so fun to look back at so many sessions! Babies change SO MUCH in their first year, and these sessions are just a reminder of that! I absolutely love being able to document a babies first year of life and capture all the details of each stage!

It was so hard to pick just a couple images from each session, but here are some of my favorite images from 2018! I’m so thankful for all of these families and their adorable babies! Look out for the second blog post later today!

Grant | Fresh 48

I know that you have seen this beautiful family on the blog a ton! Hillary and Luke and such great friends of ours, and for the past year I’ve been lucky enough to photograph their family!

Their first son, Lincoln, was born in August 2017 and he is one of my milestone babies! During his 9 month shoot (which you can check out here) they announced their second pregnancy! Lincoln and Grant are about 14.5 months apart, and I absolutely can’t wait to watch these two brothers grow up together!

Grant was quite a surprise so Hillary and Luke decided to nickname him “Rocketman” during Hillary’s pregnancy, but little did they know he would live up to his nickname the day he was born!

Hillary woke up in labor at 5am and was holding Grant before 7am! He even made his arrival before a doctor could get to the room! How amazing! (Hillary is a ROCKSTAR)!

I rushed to the hospital a few hours later to get some of the sweetest images, the first time Lincoln met his little brother! These shoots are why I absolutely LOVE what I do!

I hope these images will be treasured forever! I’m so excited to watch little Rocketman grow and watch Lincoln be the best big brother!

Logan | 3 Months

I can’t believe it is already November! This year has flown by so far, but I’m so excited for fall and all of the holidays that are coming up.

You might remember Logan’s Fresh 48 I did back in the summer! He turned three months old at the end of September so here are some of my favorites from his Milestone Session! Logan is so handsome and was a trooper during the entire shoot.

The Cates | Family Session

This session is definitely one of my favorites ever! We took these pictures back in August, and the colors are just gorgeous!

My family owns a farm in southern Kentucky and this is where all of the photos were taken. The orchard was so beautiful and we headed down to the river to snap a few shots! Jase had so much fun at the river! He almost immediately jumped in, it was so cute!

Paige and Josh were so laidback and fun to work with! They had just celebrated their 3rd anniversary so we took a few couple shots while Jase was playing! :) They are seriously the sweetest family!

The Carters | Family Session

There’s not better cure for a rainy day than a sweet family session like this! Etta is only a week older than Adeline, and we’ve been friends with the Carters for years! I always love when we get together to document this sweet family!

I can’t believe that Etta is two already, it is crazy how fast time flies by! Her birthday was back in August and we did this fun session to celebrate her birthday! I’m so thankful for these sweet friends!

Logan | Fresh 48

This was truly one of the most precious photoshoots I've ever done! Logan was just over a day old when I took these photos, it was such an honor to document such a special time! I will definitely add Fresh 48 shoots to my favorites!

If you're a parent, you can relate to those first few days after meeting your little one for the first time. This brought back all the feels after see this sweet newborn!

Enjoy these sweet images of these new parents and their bundle of joy! 

Brewster Family | Paint Fight!

This was probably my most fun session EVER! I've been photographing this awesome family since before Kinslee was born, now she is 4! I've loved watching her grow up!

Kinslee is quite the little artist, so her mom reached out to me and wanted to involve paint! The idea of a little paint turned into a super fun paint fight! It. Was. Awesome! 

I absolutely love it when my clients are willing to do something different and I love capturing these moments! I mean, I'm pretty sure it's every kids dream to have a paint fight with their parents! And Ben and Haley totally rocked it! 

Olivia | 12 months

Its hard to believe, but Olivia is turning a year old next week! It seems like yesterday I was photographing her newborn session, its so bittersweet! 

We started the session with a cake smash, and I really wish all of you could have been there to see what was going down! It was POURING rain in these pictures, but Olivia was safely tucked under a porch! I can't say the same about myself or her mom, and by the end of it we were completely soaked! Katelyn danced in the street for smiles and the rain was flowing off the roof straight on my back, but it was totally worth it for these shots! (All the heart eyes emojis!)

And then we threw Olivia in the tub in the backyard to clean her off, because thats how all the kids on the farm do it :) And then in between the rain showers we visited Olivia's sweet calf, and  took some beautiful family portraits! 

We had so much fun, and I'm so excited to share these with y'all! 

Lincoln | 9 months

I can’t believe Lincoln is 9 months!! I’ve been photographing Lincoln and his family since he was born last August, and they are such a joy to be around! Lincoln is SO adorable, and has the best facial expressions ever! He is one of the happiest babies I've ever met, and his parents are just so in love with him! 

This shoot was extra special because Hillary is pregnant with Lincoln’s LITTLE BROTHER!! They used this session to announce their second pregnancy and the gender with a smash cake! How adorable!! 

These moments are some of my favorites, and I’m so excited to share with you! Every family I photograph is so special to me, and each session fills me with so much joy! I’m so thankful to tell these stories and capture these memories they will cherish forever!

 

Briahna & Faith

This is probably the most colorful blog post you've ever seen, and I love it! I have known Briahna and Faith their whole lives, and it has been such a joy watching them grow up. They literally have the complete opposite personalities and it is so hilarious to see them together! 

Briahna and Faith are into several different activities, but both of them love ballet. So their mom pulled out some super adorable costumes and we had so much fun! I wanted it to be super colorful, so I got some metal flowers and butterflies to fill the background! I thought it turned out pretty neat! 

Thank you for stopping by, and I hope your weekend is great! 

Olivia | 10 months

This was one of my favorite sessions ever! Olivia is so adorable (just look at those cheeks!!) and was so good during the whole shoot! Both Olivia and her wonderful momma, Katelyn, radiate so much joy when they are around! It was such a pleasure to watch their sweet relationship unfold in front of my camera, and I'm so honored to be able to capture those real moments between mother and daughter. I was so grateful that Katelyn was so trusting and went along with my crazy ideas, because we got some awesome images! 

Be prepared to take in all the cuteness below!! :)

Lincoln | 6 months

Carter Family

I figured a good blog post to brighten up this rainy day would be from the Carters family session/cake smash last summer! Kelsey and David are so hilarious, and their sweet Etta Claire can always bring a smile to your face! I've known Kelsey for many years and it was such a blessing that our daughters were born only one week apart! It has been so much fun to watch Adaline and Etta grow up together. 

This family is always filled with so much joy and I loved capturing these precious moments. Thank you for stopping by, and I know you will leave with a smile on your face seeing this beautiful family! 

Have a great weekend friends! 

Lincoln | 3 months