Nine Months of Connor | Personal

This month we celebrated Connor’s first thanksgiving and then switched into Christmas mode! We had so much fun this month. We traveled to Ohio for Thanksgiving and had a great time with family.

I did a LOT of photoshoots with the kids over the holidays haha! The first was with Connor. I played around with some twinkle lights in his Christmas outfit!

I bought this hat for Adaline when she was a baby, so I had to take photos of Connor in it!! He was quite a bit older than she was when he wore it, but I still got it to fit ha! He makes the best facial expressions!!!

I forced the kids to take a few photos together! :)

We set up a timer in the backyard to get some family photos for Christmas cards and they turned out SO GOOD! We were so surprised!!

I had another photoshoot with Connor haha! I saw this sign on instagram last year and I wanted to re-create it with Connor, I love them so much!

We spent some time with our boys, Jayson and Jordan!! This was the only good photo I could get of all four of them haha.

And the most exciting part of the month was when the kids got to meet Santa!!! Adaline was so excited and so sweet. Connor just tried to rip his beard off! Haha! But no tears were shed!

Nine months!!

The Reynolds Family | Family Session

This session makes me miss summer so much!

Erin and I both grew up in the same church in our small hometown, and our parents live just down the road from each other! I was so happy to meet her husband and adorable son!

Their session was one of my favorites from last year, the colors were gorgeous and they were great models! I can’t wait until warmer weather for more sessions like this!!

Eight Months of Connor

This month was full of change since we moved out of house and into our new home! It was such a bittersweet last couple weeks in our home!

We moved into our new home and started enjoying it! There is a park in our neighborhood so we went there the first weekend we moved, both kids loved it! They both did great settling into our home!

We celebrated Connor’s first Halloween dressed as Toy Story 4 characters!! Adaline went to see Toy Story 4 in theaters (it was her first movie!) and so we wanted to do something fun for her!

November came with beautiful fall weather! The kids enjoyed getting outside!

Happy Eight months to my baby boy!

Seven Months of Connor | Personal

This month we were starting to get into my favorite season, FALL! This month was pretty chaotic (more so than normal ha) because right after we got home from the beach, we bought a new house in TN! It happened really quickly, so we were busy getting our house ready to sell, while still trying to do the fun fall activities!

Connor started on foods this month! I had to document his first food, peas! He hated them haha

It was still hot, so we got in a couple more pool days! Connor started sitting up really well, and I was SUPER pumped to be able to put him in the cart at Sams! (Adaline, not so much hehe)

We started October with a trip to Just Piddlin’ Farm with Jayson and Jordan! It was so fun! The kids had a blast.

A couple days later we went to Honeysuckle Hill Farm in TN! Adaline was the perfect age to enjoy all the fun things they had! It did get very cold that night though!!

It was also mine and Jon’s sixth wedding anniversary! We loved spending the day with the kids!

Seven months!!

PCB

In September we went on vacation with Jon’s family! I had never been to Panama City Beach and it was so beautiful! Connor had his first flight and he did pretty well! This was the first vacation that Adaline really loved the beach, so it was so fun!

Connor pretty much napped on the beach, and Adaline loved playing in the sand! She wore her sunglasses the entire time and it was so adorable haha! She did get in the water a little bit, but it wasn’t her favorite lol!

We were on the beach on 9/11 and a kind man was passing out American flags!

On our last day on the beach Adaline and I wore matching swimsuits from Old Navy :) I love matching with her!! ha!

Our last night we went down to the beach for a little photoshoot! We were blessed with a gorgeous sunset!

We had such a fun and beautiful trip! We are so thankful for Jon’s family for having us and all the fun memories we made!

Six Months of Connor | Personal

This post will be short and sweet because i’m going to split it into a couple posts! Connor’s sixth month was so busy, with Adaline’s birthday and a vacation to Florida, but here are some of my favorite photos!

We spent a lot of time outside taking walks and playing in a small pool in our yard. We got to spend a lot of time with my nephews, Jayson and Jordan. Both kids had check-ups this month and did great! Connor definitely lost almost all his hair this month! I was so sad to see that red hair go!

And just like that, we celebrated his half birthday! So many emotions!!

Adaline is THREE! | Personal

I can’t believe my baby girl is three. I wanted to dedicate a post just for her because I’m so stinkin’ proud of her. I’ll share some photos first! I decided to do a photoshoot early to have photos for her invitation, but life happened and I never made invitations HA but I still love the photos! And we had a gorgeous sunset to finish off the shoot!

We celebrated her birthday as a family a few days early and took Adaline to the zoo!! We all had so much fun and it was so good to be together!

Her birthday was on a Saturday this year so she got to wake up and open presents with us before her party! I decorated her room and she loved it!!

Then Adaline had her Paw Patrol “Party” that afternoon! She had so much fun!

We put the finger foods in dog bowls to go along with the theme, and I found Paw Patrol juice pouches at Walmart! But I have to say her cake was AMAZING! One of my best friends, Whitney, made her cake and it was so adorable and so well done! Her website is https://www.thecakebakkerij.com ! Our friends let us borrow their huge bounce house and everyone had so much fun! We loved celebrating our little girl!

Five Months of Connor | Personal

This month me and my friend Laura took Adaline to see her first movie, Toy Story 4! She loved it and did SO good! I was super proud of her!

We had lots of fun on Pap’s farm, including a cool encounter with a fawn! We also visited her Grandpa Mark, where Connor got to meet his aunt Jaide!

I LOVE sunflowers and I’ve been wanting to take photos with there for a while now, and I finally found a local place to go! The kids were a mess but we got a few good photos!! :)

This is one of my favorite photo series of my kids haha! Life is so chaotic with two, but it can be so fun!

Connor started getting stronger and you could tell he was wanting to move! Adaline LOVES to swim so we took a quick trip to the waterpark one afternoon and it was so much fun!

Five months of our sweet handsome boy!!!! These photos make me a little sad because right after this all his red hair fell out!! We love you so much little boy! Five months wasn’t easy, but you are so worth it!

Four months of Connor | Personal

This month Connor took his first dip in the pool! And we pretty much hung out there all summer long :)

Here are some favorite memories from home!

Probably my favorite photo shoot of Adaline ever! We wore this bubble machine out this summer! You can see the pure joy all over her pretty face :)

My parents had their annual 4th of July party and the kids had a blast!

When Adaline was around two months old I took a photo of her in my moms elephant ear plant leaf, so I had to try and re-create it even though Connor was way too big by then haha! And I got a nice grumpy face photo :)

I drug the kids out for a random photo shoot and I was so happy to find some bright flowers and get some keepsakes of the kids!

We had a pool themed four month shoot! I convinced big sister to get involved too hahaha!

The Fassett's | Family Session

I absolutely love this family session! I met Kellie the summer before our senior year at photojournalism camp, and then we were roommates our freshman year of college!

Eric is in the Air Force and they have just moved to Japan! How cool is that!? I photographed Kellie and Eric’s wedding in 2014 and I was so honored to capture family photos before their big move!

Carter | Maternity

Today I’m sharing one of my favorite sessions from this year so far! Kelsey and David have been long time friends and I was so excited to hear she was pregnant again back in September. Their daughter, Etta, is only a week older than my daughter and now our boys are only a couple months apart!

Here are my favorites from their maternity session! I’ll be posting their newborn session soon! :)

Enjoy!

Two Months of Connor | Personal

Month two went by so incredibly fast! To be honest, Connor is a lot more fussy than his big sister ever was! Haha! This journey has been so different but it has been so good! Connor started to be more alert this month and really tracking people with his eyes! And of course he was loved on by his sister! :)

We celebrated Connor’s first Easter! We took Adaline to an Easter egg hunt that had inflatables and she had a blast! She climbed up the biggest slide and went down by herself, but the last time she got scared, so Jon had to go get her! I don’t think he minded too much (see pictures below;))

Connor gave me his first real smile and UGH y'all! I can’t handle it! I forgot how stinkin’ sweet baby smiles and coos are! He loves to talk and sing to us! His eyes also started to lighten up, so it looks like we will have two blue-eyed babes! We try to get out of the house and head to my parents farm once or twice a week, I’m able to sneak off to have some one-on-one time with Adaline while my mom watches Connor for a little bit! I’m so thankful for those days!

We spent one weekend at my parents house so Jon could go turkey hunting, so I used that opportunity to get some pictures with the kiddos on the farm! The next morning Jon got his first turkey ever! Adaline was so excited for him :)

Lots more smiles and fun memories! :)

My Month 2 photo was kind of a disaster haha! It was a cute idea, but the greenhouse was too bright for Connor! He wasn’t feeling it lol! But he’s still so adorable… I love this sweet boy!

Three months of Connor | Personal

Whew, month three was a doozy. Ha! Connor was (and still is) attached to his momma pretty bad! But of course we made it through, and we got to do some fun things with our girl! We took her to the Strawberry Festival and she had an absolute blast!! It was so sweet to see her enthusiasm over all the ride all the small rides. She is so brave and always down for an adventure!

Here’s some random home photos! We took advantage of the nice weather as much as we could and went on lots of walks! And took lots of naps :)

I miss that crazy red hair!!!

For Memorial Day weekend we took a road trip to Ohio! On the way down wasn’t bad because we left at about 3 am, but the ride home was BRUTAL. Connor cried so much that he barfed everywhere. It was truly horrible! BUT we did have fun spending time with family and getting away for the weekend!

We came home and continued our boring lives haha! Adaline was the best sister ever, and really learned how to be a little independent when I had to tend to Connor. She is so amazing!

Here are some pictures from my camera! These two are so adorable!

Fun at Pap’s house with our favorite cousins!

I realized that I hadn’t taken many photos of Adaline by herself since Connor was born, so I made her do a couple photo shoots for me! :)

And here are some sibling photo fails hahaha and some cute bath photos of Connor!

3 month photo!