How is my sweet little nephew 6, almost 7, months old? Where in the world has this year gone?!! Wasn’t I just waiting for him to arrive and photographing is newborn portraits last week? Time, it’s ok with me if you go ahead and stand still for a little while. In honor of Cason’s six […]

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Cason Riley • 6 Month Family Portraits


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Oh how I love this little girl. We had no idea how much we needed her in our life until she arrived. Even while I was pregnant, we still didn’t get it. But, as every mom will tell you, the moment they laid her on my chest, it was all over. Our heart was hers. Even on […]

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Adeline’s 18 Month Photos • Raleigh Lifestyle Photographer


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Remember the best friend from the newborn post two weeks again? This is her! Two years ago, I got to photograph this sweet family’s firstborn in his gorgeous all white nursery. To this day, it’s still one of my most viewed posts!! It’s hard to resist the fresh and clean look of an all white […]

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Newborn Lifestyle Session in an All White Nursery


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World, meet Cason Riley. This little guy came into our lives on January 3rd and stole the heart of our entire family. A little over 2 weeks new now, and I swear, he gets cuter by the day! He’s changed so much since these pictures when he was 4 days new, and he’s actually starting […]

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My Nephew, Cason • Raleigh Newborn Lifestyle Photographer • Whale Nursery


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It’s late on a Friday, which means no one’s going to read this, but I had to write something. Just for the sake of writing. The holidays and a week long server transfer knocked me off my regular blogging schedule. To the point, where I actually started to miss writing. My 11th grade self can’t […]

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Welcome 2016 • A NC Wedding Photographer’s Life


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I may be stating the obvious, but we believe in documenting your life. Moments are fleeting. I love progress, growth and change, but I love that photography freezes the here and now to help us remember. It shows us who we were and where we’ve come from. The only way to get right now back […]

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Our 1 Year Family Portraits


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This isn’t my story to share. This is my sister’s story. A story of loss, tears, heartbreak turned into joy, celebration, and thankfulness. When Carter asked me if she could share her story here on the blog, it might have been one of my proudest big sister moments. I know this wasn’t easy for her […]

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My Sister’s Story


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Is this really happening? Our baby girl turns 1 today. Wow, just wow. This year. I don’t even have the words to describe this year. Daily, we pinch ourselves and ask is this real life. Is she really ours?! This time last year we were staring in amazement at this tiny little girl, completely smitten, […]

White & Gray nursery for a 1 year old girl.

Adeline Pearl is 1


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I know, I know, I’m so late in posting these. She’s a week away from turning 10 months, and here I am sharing her 9 month portraits. May is a busy month for wedding photogs! Plus, building a house and launching a workshop makes for an interesting combo. But here I am finally sharing her […]

Adeline | 9 Months


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It’s about time we updated with our house progress!!! We didn’t mean to go MIA on this, there just hasn’t been much to share quite yet. Not to worry, things are about to start moving over here, so we’ll have lots of updates coming your way! In the meantime, we’re actually supposed to start building […]

Wake Forest wedding photographer house update.

Breaking Ground


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