Brittany’s maternity pictures

You may remember Brittany and Andy from there wedding HERE and from their engagements HERE. We were super excited when Andy contacted us to see if we would be interested in taking maternity pictures for them. We had such a fun time with them during their wedding that we jumped at the chance to hang out with them again and snap some pics of such a fun couple :) . They had a great location picked out for us, and it was so good seeing them again in this new exciting stage in their life.

Congrats Andy and Brittany on your beautiful baby boy Madden Andrew! Hope you enjoy your maternity pictures :) !

The light was PERFECT for the shoot!
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Love that baby bump!
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Brittany makes such a beautiful expectant mother!
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- heather

Lots of blog posts all in one…part #2

So here is part #2 of lots of blog posts, and this should have us caught up for a week or two, then the fall wedding season begins in full swing. Bring it :) !

First off, Ana and Chris’s wedding. Ana and Chris got married in July at Christian Life Church and the reception was held at Aubrey Hall…and if you remember from our last post, we love shooting at Aubrey Hall :) . We’ve been excited about shooting their wedding ever since we had such a fun time doing their engagements last year, and the wedding day didn’t disappoint! We had a GREAT time and they are such a fabulous and fun couple! The wedding and reception was beautiful, and even though the weather wasn’t perfect and rained some, they didn’t let it damper their happiness and excitement for starting their life together.

Ana was a radiant bride!
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Ana and Chris also chose to see each other before the wedding to allot for more picture time and to help the day flow seamlessly.
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Can’t you just feel the love in this pic :)
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I usually love the happy and fun pics the most, but I also really love the mood in this pic
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Super fun bridal party!
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Ana and Chris were equally happy to tie the knot:
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Luckily, the rain let up a little while to let the new happily married couple ride to their reception in style!
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The beautiful reception:
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Next up, we had an adorable family photo shoot for one of my old highschool friends Cheryl, her husband Josh, and their precious little boy Braeden. We met up at Black Bayou in Monroe, and I’m not gonna lie…it was about 115 degrees with 100% humidity! It was HOT! But they were such troopers (I know I complained waaaay more than them about the heat) and we had a great time with them despite the heat and my whining about the heat ;) .

Aren’t they the cutest family :) !
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Such a cutie!
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And lastly (but certainly not least), we shot Amanda’s maternity pictures at her parent’s house in the country. It was a beautiful location with a beautiful mother-to-be, can’t beat that combo :) !

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- heather

Lindsey, Stan, and their precious Anniston

I just love this family. I really do. I’ve been friends with Lindsey for many many years and I cherish our friendship very much. I can remember when we were in high school, we’d get together and “exercise” together (and by “exercise” I mean we would bake cookies and watch tae-bo…no DO tae-bo, but WATCH tae-bo). When we graduated, she and I and a couple of other friends went on a week long cruise to the Caribbean; and when I think back on that trip I literally laugh out loud thinking of some of the memories we created. I’m so thankful that Lindsey has been a part of my life, and I look forward to many many more years creating fun memories :) .

When Lindsey asked us to do family pics while they were in town, I was super excited because I’d finally be able to meet their precious Anniston. Anniston is truly a miracle, and you can read about her story on Lindsey’s blog HERE . It was so much fun spending time with them while we took pictures.

And aren’t they such a CUTE family!
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I love love love this:
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And I love the way Lindsey is looking at Stan in this pic:
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Lindsey brought a basket and blanket for pictures and it was such a great idea! Look how adorable…
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I could just kiss those cheeks all day!
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While Anniston slept for a little bit, we took a couple of pics of the mommy and daddy:
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They are such a loving family. Anniston is so lucky to have them as parents.
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Love that smile!
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Lindsey, thank you so much and I can’t wait to see y’all again soon! We’re still going to come visit y’all one weekend :). Love ya!

- heather

Family vacation to Gulf Shores

This past weekend my family and I (and of course my best friend Miranda who is practically family anyways…plus we needed a photographer for the family photos :) ) went to Gulf Shores for a final summer trip “hoorah.” We had such a fantastic time, and spending time with my wonderful family always reminds me how lucky I am to have them. The condo we stayed out was AMAZING…by far the nicest place I have ever stayed and probably ever will stay. The only bad thing about the weekend was that it rained a good bit of the time, but luckily we still had a great time shopping and even managed to squeeze in a family photo shoot when it wasn’t raining. Here are some of pics from our weekend.

The inside of the condo:
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I loved the decorations…”beachy” but not too cheesy:
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The balcony was HUGE and even had a jacuzzi on it!
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The place had like 3 pools and a lazy river:
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The lazy river at night:
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Seriously….#10??? Who violated that rule to the point that they had to put it up on a sign?
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Miranda and my little cousin Dawson:
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And me with another precious cousin of mine, Addison:
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Something about this picture of my mom and my uncle Clint makes me smile:
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Like I said earlier, Miranda came along to take family photos of us since we haven’t had big family pictures since like…ever.
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I love this photo…its so typical of our family…just laughing and having a good time:
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And of course I love this picture because I just love jumping shots…I think I may be obsessed with them.
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We also took individual family shots as well. Here’s me with my beautiful family.
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Oh, and I also love feet shot…another obsession of mine. Maybe I should branch out more…
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We’re so cute :)
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Me with my handsome brothers:
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Can you believe this gorgeous mom is almost 50 years old?!?! Me neither…
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My mom and dad:
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After being in photos, I was ready to get on the other side of camera and help take photos with Miranda. Here’s my uncle Clint, aunt Tonya, and my cousin Quint:
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My grandmother whom I just adore. She’s an amazing lady:
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And I know y’all have seen this beautiful family before. My aunt Darla, my uncle Mike, and their gorgeous kids Addy, Bria, and Dawson:
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I love picture of Bria:
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And then my Dad so kindly took a picture of me with my very best friend. Thanks Miranda for taking such wonderful pictures of my family!
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Oh look, another jumping shot:
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I’m so blessed….

- heather

Delta Style

We were so honored when we opened the website to vote for Delta Style’s ‘Best of 2009′ and discovered that we were nominated under the photographer category! Seriously people…we were on cloud nine. Even though we hadn’t actually won anything we were just so honored that we had been nominated!! We have the absolute best clients in the world!!
Anyways, if you would like to vote for us we would appreciate it. You can click on this link and you will find us under the photographer category!
Voting ends this Friday so head click HERE now! ;)

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Grover, Stephanie, and precious Ava

So its a funny story how we came to know Grover and his beautiful family. About 5 years ago, Miranda and I traveled down to south Louisiana to visit our old youth pastors and to go to the American Idol season 3 summer tour in New Orleans (and yes, I know we’re dorks for that). Well, while visiting Pastor Mo and Mrs. Shontel at their house, we met Grover and some other people from Pastor Mo’s church and stayed up late playing cards and just having a great time. We exchanged emails and have actually kept up with each other over the years even though we only met that one time. You can almost say that Grover, or “Bubba”, is my real-life pen pal :). We’ve complained and rejoiced over email about everything from LSU and Saints football, to politics, work, and school. Now that Bubba is married and has an adorable daughter, and seeing as how we’ve only met him that one time and we’ve never met Stephanie or their daughter, it was about time that we made the trip back down to south LA. It was so awesome hanging out with him and his family again. His wife Stephanie is just fabulous (seriously, I felt like I’ve been friends with her for years because she was just so much fun to be around), and his daughter Ava is just as sweet and precious as she could be. We had such a great time with them that we’re trying to talk them into moving up to Monroe, LA with us :). So Bubba and Stephanie, don’t y’all want to move up here so we can take pics of y’all anytime :)?

Now on to the photos of the awesome family:
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This one is Miranda and I’s favorite :)
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I love baby toes!!
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The shoot was right during Ava’s usual nap time, so she ended falling asleep while we were driving to a different location. So instead of waking her up and having her not be happy with us, we just let her sleep and took pics of the happy husband and wife!
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Thanks again guys! Y’all rock!

- heather

Serena and Chris and their precious baby…

Ahh…we just adore them :). Serena is one of our most faithful blog readers and commenters (and we LOVE blog comments); so for that reason alone, her and her family rank high on our list. But Serena is also one of my close friends after working together for a couple years, and we really do love taking pics for her and her family. You can see Serena’s maternity pictures here. And when they had sweet Hadassah, we loved taking her newborn pictures (seen here). So, of course we jumped at the chance to do more family pics for Hadassah’s one year birthday. They are such a loving and beautiful family, and we’ve always had so much fun with them.

One reason that we love doing pictures for them is because Serena has an awesome choice of colors and outfits picked out for them to wear. She doesn’t shy away from colorful and happy outfits, but at the same time their outfits never appear too “busy”. See what I mean…fun, happy, and colorful:
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And y’all know how much we LOOOOOOVE their chair. We’re still going to steal it one day ;)
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Such a loving family:
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Hadassah is soooo cute and is such a sweetie!
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Can’t you tell that we had a blast with them!
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Thanks again Serena and Chris! Y’all are forever awesome in our book ;)!
- heather

I’m so Thankful!

I’ve always loved Thanksgiving and have always felt that I am a very blessed person, but this past year God has given me so much more to be thankful for. Those of you that read our blog and know me personally, know that two months ago my mom had a stroke. As with most, it took us all completely by shock due to that fact that my mom is fairly young. My mom was out of the hospital in less than a week and over the last two months has recovered so well giving me so much to be thankful for! I have a great family, great friends, and a wonderful life!!!

Here is a picture of my mom with my youngest brother after one of his football games. This was a month after her stroke and you can’t even tell can you?? :)
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By the way..Heather said that it would silly to post two Thanksgiving posts so she wants me to tell everyone that she is blessed to and is thankful for all her wonderful friends and family!

—-Miranda—–

a big family:

while we don’t usually do large family shoots, we just couldn’t say no to this family! we shot matt and malissa’s wedding in june and had a wonderful time. they were such an awesome couple and great to work with. so when malissa contacted us about doing a family shoot for their christmas cards we just had to do it! :) we met up at black bayou and had fun just walking around shooting!

we started out with the entire family:
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then we shot some of each of the individual families:
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you may remember this awesome couple from here and here:
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malissa’s mom and dad:
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and one more of the whole family:
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we are in the process of working on an engagement session so check back soon for more pictures.

—-miranda

Colvin family shoot:

we recently followed the colvin family around town and had a great time. we started out the shoot taking some pics of the entire family.

and we ended the shoot by taking pictures of just this cutie:

so full of personality:

he’s such an LSU fan:

leaving now for a busy weekend. we are really looking forward to shooting sandee and patrick’s wedding tomorrow night. sandee’s bridals will be up soon so be on the lookout!

have a great weekend!!
—miranda—