I am dreaming of sunnier days that we had this fall when I got to photograph this sweet little family! This little family is full of love for their sweet girl, Kate who was 6 months old when we did our session. Six month old sessions are some of my favorite to do family photos! You get to see so much more personality with this age, and the little babies just love loving on their mamas and daddys! Take a look at this sweet family of three, and start dreaming with me of sunnier and dryer days!
“Something Really Big Happens when you say your dreams out loud” – Jon Acuff
So here lately, I have been doing a lot of dreaming. I have always been a bit of a dreamer. I have these amazing ideas floating in and out of my brain at all moments of the day. Sometimes they are so good, that I write them down. In my “dream” notebook. Sometimes they come into my brain so quickly they run out before I can remember them. But they are there all the time.
“The world is lousy with dreamers. Doers? They’re rare. They’re the ones who actually change the world.” –Jon Acuff (he is pretty brilliant). I have always been the dreamer, I think of races I want to run, shoots that I want to plan, places I want to go, family that I want to have. Always ideas, but putting it together. Taking that first step. Writing it down. That is where I have always fallen short. I am not sure why. Mostly because of fear. Fear of judgement, fear of failure, fear of how to start. What I have got to get in my head is that I will learn from mistakes and failures, and I have already learned how to “just keep swimming” through whatever life’s obstacles I come across. Haven’t I been doing that for the past 3 years?
So this year, this is my dream. Just incase you missed the earlier blog post HERE we are in the adoption process! We couldn’t be happier to be starting on this journey to start our family. But with that comes a price tag, which is totally worth it by the way. This is where I turn my dream into reality. I want to pay 100% of our adoption through my profit of my photography business. There. I said my dream out loud! Now that feels better and is scary all at the same time.
Why do I want to do this? Because I love my job. Truly. I love meeting newly engaged couples planning their wedding. Hearing their love story makes my heart happy. Getting to be apart of such a huge moment in their lives. It is immeasurable to me. Capturing a happy, loving family and freezing their lives, their moments, their NOW. It is amazing! So what better motivator, to keep me inspired, keep me excited about each wedding and session than to be one step closer to starting our family. I can’t think of anything better! So bring it 2013. It is going to be awesome.
Awesome, Rebecca!!! Love this dream and can’t wait to see it come to fruition!!!!!
LOVE YOUR BIG DREAM!!! xoxo
That’s a GREAT dream! But since I don’t live close enough to have you take our family photos and have profit go toward that (sad!… because I would love that!), please email me a way where I can donate directly. This family has a HUGE heart for adoption, so helping another family do it would be our honor!
I have been so excited to share this sweet family session
Sarah contacted me early this summer with a vision! A vision with a farm, a quilt, and her loving on her family! And that is just what we did! We went out to a Sarah’s friend’s farm on a gorgeous Saturday at sunset! We laughed, we mooed at some cows, and most of all they all just got to have fun with each other! Here are some of our favorites from her session with her sweet family!
Love the quilt! This is such a beautiful session!
Some sessions you just know are going to be great! Joe and Anna’s maternity session was just one of those sessions that I knew that I would love! When I spoke to Anna on the phone before our session, she said she wanted it to be just like an engagement or couples session, with just some extra little love on the belly. This is just what we did, and it was great! Joe and I grew up together in church, and have been friends for a long time. We even went to prom together my freshman year (now those picture hopefully will never resurface!). Thankfully, we are all grown up now, and he is about to be a dad. I can’t wait to see Anna and Joe as parents and meet Sadie in just a few weeks! Take a look at my favorites from this fun maternity session in Nashville!
Was that a little tear of happiness in my eye when I looked at this beautiful couple? Pure happiness captured! Sadie is one lucky little girl!
texture: the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or a substance
Synonym – feel, appearance, finish, quality, consistency, weave
To me, texture can mean so many different things. The touch, the look, the feel, layers, depth of something. When I started looking deeper into the definition of texture some key words really stood out to me.
quality, consistency, weave, feel
So this introduces a new idea. Called Texture Tuesday. This is where each Tuesday (getting all ambitious here!) I get down to the core of what makes me, me. Y’all will get to know ME a little better. My thoughts, my loves, my dreams, my feelings, my fears. Sometime, I might be stuck in a rut, sometimes it may not be that exciting. But what life is exciting all the time? But you will learn some interesting and not so interesting things about me, like my great aversion of mashed potatoes (now that is the grossest texture!) to childhood memories to all things on our adoption journey to learning my faults like that I am the worst speller. So here is to 2013! A year of new beginnings, new journeys, and a year with lots of texture!
I hope that you will join me to dive a little deeper, and have a little fun along the way! For today, here is one of my favorite texturesMy sweet, anxious, cuddly puppy, Toby!
(Toby does not like his picture taken… So most of my picture of him look like this…)
(unless I say “Treat” then for a split second he looks at me sweetly!)
Thanks for joining me on my first week of Texture Tuesday! Come back every Tuesday for moreI promise it will not be my precious Pup every week! All though, he will probably make a reappearance.
by Rebecca Walker