Lifestyle

Dinner time. Y’all, can I be honest? It has been the worst! In my motherhood journey for the past 6 years, I have found dinner to be the hardest time of day despite the age of my kids. That tends to be the baby’s “witching hour,” a toddler’s most exhausting time of the day, and […]

Mornings. Oh, mornings. I know many people aren’t morning people to begin with.. throw a kid or a few in the mix and you have a highly stressful situation on your hands. I am a morning person. But looking for my son’s other shoe when I’m 5 minutes behind and my youngest is crying is […]

One parenting task I feel no one is talking about is the “logistics of clothing.” And I am not talking about laundry here (but I do have a post about laundry here!) I am talking about facilitating the hundreds and hundreds of clothing items that are constantly flowing in and out of our homes. We […]

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Here is the thing: no one wants to look at Santa Clause photos and photos that scream the holidays when it’s July and 100 degrees outside. We just don’t. Every November, I open up my studio for my annual Simply Christmas Session. The number one question I get asked is, “should be dress ‘Christmas”ey”‘ or […]

You decide you want to get serious about photography and what do you do? Go drop several hundred (if not thousands) of dollars, of course! Well, that’s exactly what I did and I’ve seen countless others do the exact same before they even know how to use a camera. 🤦‍♀️ (Don’t do be like me- […]

One of the biggest stressors of having photos made is hoping that your kids act good. Am I right, or am I right? It doesn’t matter if you are hiring someone to do the photos or if you taking them yourself (and if you are, you are my kind of mama… but make sure you […]

There are lots of options when it comes to picking a location for your family photos. If you are going to go through all the effort to have the photos made, picking out what your family should wear, and preparing your kids for the session, you want to also make sure to get the location […]

If you know me, you know I love, love, love printing photos. I make albums, I frame this and have them all over our walls, and I also print photos… just to have them printed. The most commonly asked question when it comes to printed photos (right behind where do I choose to print my […]

Let’s talk about printing photos. Are we still doing that? Is there any real reason to print photos in this day in age? Yes, we are, and yes, there is! However, no one has really given us any guidance on how to print photos in a digital world much less how to choose the photo […]