10/06/2026
I re-edited this session from last year because I realized I never got to share it… and honestly, I don't know why I waited so long.
I think about this session daily.I’m not even kidding.
This session changed me.
It changed the way I come home to my babies. The way I move through life. The way I look at the little moments. And the way I document YOUR families.
This session was actually a giveaway I did last year. I picked a random winner, and she had to reschedule once… maybe twice… because, in her words, “life.”
When I finally met her for her session and we started talking, I realized “life” was a lot bigger than I could have ever imagined.
She had recently had emergency open-heart surgery.
She DROVE HERSELF to the hospital.
And somehow, in the middle of something that could have completely broken her, she came through the other side even stronger… for her babies.
And then there was everything else.
Being a mom. Working. Taking care of the kids. Cooking dinner. Cleaning the house. Showing up. Doing all the normal, everyday things that somehow still have to get done when life throws something absolutely unimaginable at you.
I left that session carrying her story with me.
Because sometimes we get so caught up in the laundry, the dishes, the schedules, the school drop-offs, the work, the chaos… that we forget how incredibly precious this ordinary life actually is.
And I think that's why this session stays with me.
Because I got to see a mama who had been through something incredibly hard, standing there with her babies, still showing up, still loving them, still living.
And I got to document it.
Not just pretty pictures.
Her life.
Her motherhood.
Her strength.
Her babies loving on their mama.
And now, every time I come home to my own babies, I think about her.
I hug them a little tighter.
I try to slow down a little more.
And I remember that these seemingly ordinary days we're living right now… are actually the days we'll wish we could have back.
This is why I photograph families. 🤎
