10/20/2026
🤍 A NEW CHAPTER FOR SIMS LOVELY SNAPS 🤍
Okay, everyone… this is a post I never thought would be so hard to write. 🥹🤍
Ten years ago, I started this little business with a simple goal: to help provide extra income for my family while still being able to stay home with my youngest after his autism diagnosis. What started as a tiny little seed has grown into something so much bigger and more beautiful than I could have ever imagined. 🌱🌳
Over the last 10 years, Sims Lovely Snaps has become so much more than a photography business. It has become a part of my life, my story, and my heart. I’ve watched little ones grow into teenagers and young adults. I’ve had the honor of capturing love stories, witnessing marriages, and celebrating the arrival of precious new babies. I’ve been invited into some of the most meaningful moments of people’s lives, and that is something I will never take for granted.
To every single client who has trusted me with their memories, every person who has shared my work, recommended me, cheered me on, and supported me throughout these 10 years… THANK YOU. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for helping me grow this little dream into what it is today. You have given me so much more than a business. You’ve given me relationships, friendships, memories, and a piece of your lives that I will forever be grateful for. 🤍
But as much as I love this business, life is taking me into a new chapter, and my heart is telling me it’s time to slow down a little.
Starting in January 2027, I will be taking a very limited number of photography clients. This isn’t because I’ve lost my love for photography. If anything, it’s because photography has given me so much, and now I feel called to give more of myself to the people who mean the most to me. ❤️
My babies aren’t babies anymore. 🥹 I have one daughter in high school, two children in middle school, and my youngest in elementary school. Somewhere along the way, time started moving a little too fast. The tiny hands have gotten bigger, the little voices have changed, and the years I once thought I had so many of are suddenly flying by.
I don’t want to look back one day and realize I was so busy capturing everyone else’s memories that I missed too many moments of my own.
I want to be there for the games, the sports, the school activities, the milestones, the ordinary Tuesday afternoons, and all the little moments that won’t seem so little someday. I want to soak up every second of this season of motherhood while I still have them all under my roof. Because as much as I wish I could slow time down, I know I can’t. And I don’t want to miss it. 🤍
My husband has also received a promotion at Tarleton State University, and this new season gives our family the opportunity to slow down, focus on our children, take care of our home, and pour more time into each other. After years of balancing family life and running a business, I’m incredibly thankful to have the opportunity to embrace this chapter. My husband has always been my biggest supporter throughout this journey and has seen the countless days and night of me juggling my photography and our family. If it wasn’t for his hard work and growth, me being home with the kids wouldn’t have even been an option. Thank you so much Randy Sims for being an amazing husband, father, and provider for our family. Thank you for allowing me to go after my dreams and now for allowing me to be here to watch our children grow into adulthood! 🤍🥹
Now, please know this is NOT goodbye to Sims Lovely Snaps! 🥹📸
To my loyal, longtime clients who have been with me through the years, who have trusted me again and again to document your families as they grow — my books will always remain open to you. You have become such a special part of my journey, and I will always do my best to make room for the people who have supported me along the way.
I will no longer be accepting new clients, and I will be stepping away from photographing weddings as the primary photographer (except the ones already scheduled for 2027). However, you may still see me at a wedding here and there because I will continue second shooting with my girls at Little Bear Photography and AMT Photography! So I’m not disappearing completely. 😉🤍
I may not be posting as much, and things may look a little different around here, but the love I have for this business and the people it has brought into my life will never change.
Ten years ago, I planted a seed without knowing just how much it would grow. Today, I get to look back at that beautiful tree and see all the people, memories, love, and life that grew alongside it. And I couldn’t be more thankful.
Thank you for allowing me to be your photographer. Thank you for trusting me with your milestones. Thank you for growing with me. Thank you for supporting my family and this dream of mine for the last 10 years.
Sims Lovely Snaps will always be a part of my story, but now it’s time for me to be a little more present in the story I’m living at home. 🤍
This isn’t the end. It’s simply a new beginning, a slower pace, and a little more time for the moments that matter most.
I love you all more than you know, and I will forever be grateful that you allowed me to be a small part of your lives.
This isn’t goodbye, my friends. It’s just… see you later. 🥹🤍📸
With so much love and gratitude,
Ciara Sims | Sims Lovely Snaps 🤍
