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:

This one is Miranda and I’s favorite

I love baby toes!!

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!

Thanks again guys! Y’all rock!

- heather

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:

And y’all know how much we LOOOOOOVE their chair. We’re still going to steal it one day

Such a loving family:

Hadassah is soooo cute and is such a sweetie!

Can’t you tell that we had a blast with them!

Thanks again Serena and Chris! Y’all are forever awesome in our book ;)!
- heather

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??

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—–

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:

then we shot some of each of the individual families:

you may remember this awesome couple from here and here:

malissa’s mom and dad:

and one more of the whole family:

we are in the process of working on an engagement session so check back soon for more pictures.

—-miranda

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—

it was recently wohs homecoming and i was in charge of taking the pics of my younger brother and his girlfriend. we had an engagement shoot previously scheduled so they were good sports and willing to meet at 3:00pm in the heat of the day so that they could get some pics. i think they turned out cute but i am a little biased.
i love their color coordination:

aren’t they cute:

we have been really busy lately! we have several shoots waiting to be blogged so be on the lookout in the next few days. we are also looking forward to shooting sandee and patrick’s wedding this week and to posting our favorites from the wedding!

have a great rest of the week!

—-miranda—–

I know its been a while since we’ve posted, so to make up for it, we have a loooooong post here. You might remember these two cuties from a few months back when we took their newborn pics. Well, Reyd and Avery are now 6 months old, so their mommies wanted updated pics. And these babies are just soooooo adorable, so we were more than happy to oblige :). And I think its so neat how the mommies (they’re sister-in-laws) both had babies so close to each other.

First up, Reyd….

This little boy was just sooooo animated. Seriously, he made the funniest faces! And isn’t he going to be a heart breaker when he gets older ?

I love this picture with him and his baseball and bat… doesn’t it look like he’s ready to go play. Such a serious face (and I don’t condone tobacco products in ANY way, but it looks like he has a big wad of dip in his cheek too, and it just cracks me up):

One of the whole family:

Such a daddy’s boy. He just laughed and laughed when Stephen would blow on his belly:

Two of my favorites:

But of course you can tell that he just adores his mommy too:

And here’s little Avery…she had the biggest smile and laugh I think I’ve ever seen:

I just love the way she sticks her tongue out when she smiles:

precious little baby feet:

And here is one of them two together. I always wonder what babies say to each other…

We have another shoot today, so be on the look out for those pics soon.
Have a good Saturday and GEAUX TIGERS
- heather