A couple of weeks ago, I had the PLEASURE of being a bridesmaid in my best friend Amy’s wedding. We all had a great time celebrating Amy and Chris’ marriage, even Oliver who rocked his 3-peice suit for the first time. Since I was apart of the wedding party, I didn’t shoot the wedding but I did get to shoot Amy’s bridals which was so fun and turned out gorgeous! Enjoy:)
We had lots of places in mind to shoot and we worked really hard to make it to a blue wall before it got too dark, but we didn’t make it. SO we decided to venture into the local laundry mat beside the wall. Love how this turned out!
Amy wanted to surprise Chris will a few pics with her and his English Bulldog Gus. So sweet:).
September and October have been my busiest months thus far and when there is so much editing to do, blogging gets put on the back burner. (Not to mention, I’m caring for an 8-week old all day). Sorry about that! I really am going to work on it:). But I did just do a session for a sweet friend from college and she requested a sneak peek, so here ya go Beth! 🙂 Can’t wait to share the rest of the images of your gorgeous family!
Stay tuned.. LOTS more coming soon!
Meet Harper…
This sweet girl is one of the happiest babies i have ever met:) She was absolutely a breeze to photograph! Her sweet parents Ashely & Dylan asked me to capture this fun time in their baby’s life and I was so happy and honored to do so.
Ashley, Dylan & Harper- I had so much fun with you guys, you have such a precious family! Thank you for allowing me to capture the love that is so evident in the images.
Like I mentioned in the last post, I got back to work this past Saturday by spending a couple hours with the sweet Morrison family. Harper just turned 6 months old and boy does she love to smile for the camera! Makes my job so easy. Stay tuned next week for the full post but for now enjoy this little sneak peek! 🙂
It’s been a little less than a month since I last posted… I hope to normally never have such a gap in my blogging but this time I think we have an excuse and his name is Oliver. That’s right, he FINALLY decided to make his appearance on Wed. Aug. 10th (making his birthday 8-10-11, kinda cool!). After a long, hard labor (that story will hopefully come later) he arrived at 11:36 pm and weighed 6lbs 8oz and was 19″ long. We were so surprised to see that he came out with his daddy’s red hair & fair skin. I say we were surprised b/c we were sure he’d end up the darker more dominate features that every other family member seems to have. But he is his daddy’s boy, even in looks and I love it:) The red hair and fair skin is one of the reasons we decided on Oliver, doesn’t Oliver Tucker just sound so Irish? We’ve loved that name for a long time, it reminds me of the hundreds of rows of olive trees i lived around in South Lebanon and well as Psalm 128 where it talks about your children being Olive Shoots around your table. The name Edward is after my dad, it is his middle name as well, so that’s pretty special too.
Since his birth 3 weeks ago, we have just fallen in love with this little boy. It is amazing to me how I feel that i know him so well and I can’t even have a conversation with him. The times where only his mama can console him are just so special to me. But I also love to see Matt with him. Until Oliver was born, Matt had never changed one diaper and didn’t have much experience with kids at all. It just blesses me to look over and see him reading Babywise or taking care of our son like a pro. He is the best dad already and I love him even more for it.
I will share some of the images I shot while we were at the hospital when i get a chance to upload them, but for now here is a video we put together of Oli’s first week in the world. Oliver also had his first photoshoot when he was just a week old. To see those image click here. Jenna with Red White and Green Photography is the best!
I also go back to work this past weekend by shooting some portraits of a precious little girl named Harper. Stay tuned for a sneak peek of that session coming up maybe even this afternoon…
I’m now officially 4 days overdue. It is crazy how about a week before the due date time slows down quite a bit, then stops on the due date and at this point I’m convinced we are going backwards. I am trying to maintain a balance of continuing to be physically active and resting/relaxing but I’m not sure there is anything left to clean in my house! Because we have a natural birth plan, the plan is to go to 42 weeks before an induction. We’re praying that I’ll labor naturally before this- please pray with us! So until our little guy comes along, here are some pics of his little room. The shot on the left what we affectionately call Palmer puppy (Palmer is our dog’s name), and we think this guy looks like our real Palmer and adds a quirky element the room.
So when it came to a theme we really didn’t want to go with anything specific. I want the room to be easily transition-able to a girls room if we have a girl after this one… I found the art over the crib here and i loved the earthy feel, so that is the direction we went in. B/c we love to travel, particularly overseas, I thought a loose world theme would be appropriate. We have some random animals throughout the room that you’d find in many different parts of the world, including our Palmer puppy and the camel pillow on the glider… Ok, I’ll stop explaining and let you see for yourself:).
The bookshelves on the left are actually rain gutters made by my oh so talented husband & the toy box below was mine when i was a little girl.
Amy and I have been best friends for about 10 years now…. We met in college and became roommates soon after and the rest is history. We have done so much together and this blog post would get really long if i started sharing stories, so I’ll just say that Amy is one of the most special people in my life and I am so happy she has found such an incredible man as Chris.
I shot their engagement session in their town of Wake Forest, NC. We got started at the deli where Chris worked when they met and Amy visited often (i wonder why;). Then, we found this amazing abandoned loading dock with lots of color and light that I could probably shoot at 20 more times! After that we stopped by the park where these 2 love birds got engaged. Enjoy!
What you don’t see here is the 20 times Chris & Amy had to move for people to walk out the door, but I’m so excited we got these shots!
Amy & Chris, I love you both so much and I can’t wait until your wedding!
Heather and Jesse are some of our closest friends:). But mine and Heather’s connections go far beyond just friendship… we all attend the same church, we are both photographers and work together quite a bit (check out Heather’s website here!), and we are both pregnant and due in the same week! It is actually laughable how similar our lives are these days but we love it. Matt and I love these two so much and I was so excited when she asked me to shoot their maternity session, first of all b/c Heather always has great ideas and secondly b/c they know how to work it in front of a camera, which is always wonderful:).
This is one of my favorite sessions to date so i hope you enjoy!
Heather looks like such a hot-mama here!
Matt and I met Jessica and Tim in our childbirth class and immediately hit it off. I can’t believe their precious Lily has arrived and is already a few weeks old. Hopefully our little guy will be soon behind her!
Penny the dog just loves looking at her new little sister!
Can’t imagine how many lilies little Lily received… So sweet:)
Coming soon….
(Hopefully before the arrival of Baby Tucker!)
Newborn Love :: Lily Grace
Engaged :: Amy & Chris
Baby Bump :: Heather & Jesse
Make sure to show these gorgeous ones some comment love!