Spunky and Sweet Home Newborn Session | Ann Arbor

We started this session off in all the right ways. We had some amazing toddler energy playing hide and seek, marshmallows for bribery (WHY have I never thought of this?! No fearing chocolate stains), and the money shot family picture within the first few minutes. Way to go, guys!

Reid – most patient dad ever. I don’t say that lightly because I have seen my own husband lose his mind and then vow to never do family pictures again. Huge props to the dad of the year over here! I loved chatting with Cass while we were waiting for sweet Collins to eat and sleep again. Such an amazing woman, mom, and example! So grateful I got to hear her story – it’s truly inspiring.

Titan was the champion of the day – he was so good for so long! It’s not easy being the big brother and having to listen for so long, but he was seriously a rock star. Lucy, I could kiss her for giving us such fun moments and some smiles! Those are triumphant moments for me when you get the shot you want, but better because it has all the personality too. Honest – they’re my favorites!

And Collins, oh my goodness, so perfect. She has such a beautiful, petite little face and was so good at opening her little hands up for me. She can also sleep through anything! We moved her so many times, unwrapped and wrapped her up, had bouncing going on all around and she was a dream.

Donakey Family, thank you so much for allowing me to capture these beautiful moments for you! Your family is so sweet, and it was great getting to know you guys better. Can’t wait to see where life takes you and all the exciting things you get to do with your fun family!

Enjoy this little peek into this sweet newborn session!

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Amazing Fall Photos | Mill Pond Park | Saline Michigan Family Session

I met Tiffani at girls camp this past summer. I was teaching a photography class to our girl’s youth group and we had a great time playing around with posing and angles. She told me that her daughter loves to get the most hilarious angle of every photo she takes. It wasn’t until after their session, when I was going through all the photos that I remembered all the super funny pictures she showed me.

This session had some of the most best moments and I super enjoyed going through all of them, so thank you Harris family for making me laugh!

We had the most perfect weather and two perfect trees…and only two perfect trees. We looked all week for somewhere that still gave us a glimpse of fall and we were so grateful that Mill Pond had something to give us! You’d never guess that every where else offered sticks as a pretty fall background. I’m just loving all the glowy light we got with our small section of late fall. I honestly can’t even choose favorites because I love them all!

Harris Family, thank you so much for being so much fun! You’re all so beautiful and pretty amazing at this family photo gig!

Enjoy this little peek into this sweet family session!

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Casual Fall Senior Photos | Chelsea Clocktower

Even after years and years of knowing Haley, new things keep popping up. For example, mom had to cart around a large bag of props to potentially use. She was the mom version of Mary Poppins. Let’s pull out a field hockey stick, and a tennis racket; next up some musical instruments and…oh…”no one knows I’m a drummer” so we go pictures of that too. Amazing!

Haley has grown up with the advantage of having and incredible photographer as a Dad, so she is not camera shy at all and is instantly a natural at…well…everything, so all those beginning session nerves weren’t even there. She was so easy going, so much fun, and we had lots of good laughs with her crinkly nose laughing pictures being some of my absolute favorite. They’re just so…her!

She can pull some of the very best and most hilarious faces I have ever seen. I think it’s a family trait because her sister excels in this area as well. I promised I would never show them, but they are so fun for me to look at. 🙂

Haley, I just love you! Like one of those old mom’s that you get sick of hearing say, “I can’t believe how old you are”…..I can’t believe how old you are! It happened so fast and you’re such an incredible and loving person. I love seeing how inclusive you are to those around you and what a big heart you have. (Insert many heart emoji’s here).

Enjoy this little peek into this beautiful and super fun senior session!

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Downtown Dexter Senior Session

Due to crazy illness, we had to postpone our session by one week. Maybe it was fate because it also rained on the original date. Our rescheduled time was perfect in every way. We had amazing weather, incredible light, really everything you could want. Genevieve was so much fun to hang out with (her mom too!) and I am so grateful I get to meet such amazing people doing what I love.

When you have a session with me, I will always ask if you have something that you love about yourself in photos and something that you might not. It’s helpful to know if you have a favorite side or if I should feature something you love. If you’re feeling super strange posing for pictures for about 20 minutes, that’s totally normal.. You can guess who got all of this down super fast!

My dear Genevieve has this smile that lights up the room, hair to make every girl want curls, and the kindest personality to make everyone want to be friends with her. We could have kept this session going if the sun hadn’t gone down.

Genevieve and Julie, thank you so much for allowing me to capture these beautiful memories for you! I can’t wait to see how you rock your senior year and everything beyond! 

Enjoy this little peek into this beautiful senior session!

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Saline Nature Reserve Session

I meet a lot of really kind and amazing people and it’s one of my favorite things about my job. These guys, seriously, they’re it! I’m positive that they would do anything for anyone. When you give that vibe off as a first impression…well…you’re going down in my history as one of the kindest families I’ve ever met. They love to spend time together and laugh together and it’s obvious. One of my favorite prompts is to instruct my clients to look at each other and laugh. It’s always an awkward moment for everyone but generally gives off the cutest smiles although most don’t give more than a quiet chuckle. What I loved about these siblings is that their fake laughs were their absolute best effort! I think I’ll hear those laughs every time I look at their photos. It makes me smile just to remember.

I am swooning over how gorgeous these tall grasses are for the portrait pictures. I’m that person who always finds amazing locations…off the side of the freeway. Totally not accessible. So excited about this beautiful location. We had really great variety for the family, for couples, individuals and for their super adorable golden retriever. (Total soft spot for me. I grew up with a retriever that was my best friend.) I am so excited that we got “the shot” with their puppy! Sometimes it takes a while and a lot of finessing, but we were done in a matter of minutes due to the expert ability to sandwich the dog between two people. Genius move, guys!

To the Stacey family, thank you so much for allowing me to spend some of your holiday time with you! I hope you had the most amazing Christmas and board game playing week! You’re really as nice as they come!

Enjoy this little peek into this sweet family session

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Fall Colors Family Session

I’m getting it right out there, but we got so lucky with this family session! I don’t know if it’s photographer karma, but somehow so many families show up to sessions telling us, “I don’t know why, but ______ just wouldn’t take a nap today.” If this has happened to you, now you know you’re not alone. There’s only so much we can do as parents. Sometimes kids just don’t do what we want, am I right? Amen. Well, fall colors were the big hope for this family and it has been kind of hard to find a really good area. Some trees are covered in leaves, but others are already dead.

Well, we had a plan to go to Lillie Park in Ann Arbor, but as I was driving home, I saw this gorgeous tree that was close to a parking lot and Walah! We had trees, a beautiful field, and tons of space! Super lucky for us because their littlest man fell asleep on the 5 minute drive over and we were able to let him sleep while we got all the other shots we wanted! I love it when parking lots are just right there! I’m so grateful they were willing to change plans super last minute! I think it was the best idea!

The second nice thing about watching families grow up, is that I start to know what kids like and dislike. For instance, I know that only oldest brother tolerates family pictures well, so I tried to bring all the tricks this time! We had Cocomelon, we had bubbles, we had crazy jumping and acting silly. Bubbles are now going to be a staple in my small children photography bag of tricks because they buy us so much time and happy moments! I LOVE it when we get to see that one shot we needed and worked so hard for!

To the Hanna Family, thank you so much for allowing me to capture your family pictures again this year! It was so fun and worth all the jumping, energy, and entertaining! So many sweet and beautiful faces!

Enjoy this little peek into this sweet family session!

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