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📷 Kids, Animals & Those Who Love Them
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👇🏼 Choose to Be You
Homecoming night! 💙🏈 I may or may not have dug my Homecoming night! 💙🏈 I may or may not have dug my letterman jacket out of the closet today. 😂 My daughter would like me to clarify that I am apparently not allowed to wear it. Mom’s rules and teenage rules are clearly different. 😉 But tonight is extra special because I’m heading back to my alma mater for an all-alumni Homecoming reunion before the game. I’m looking forward to reconnecting with people from different chapters of my own life, seeing familiar faces, and soaking up a little school spirit. And then I’ll be heading over to photograph my senior and her family as she arrives for Homecoming as part of the court. It’s pretty special getting to photograph these moments for the next generation while remembering what these nights felt like when I was the one walking those halls. So yes… The jacket is coming out. Maybe not being worn. 😂 Happy Homecoming! 💙🏈
Sometimes a girl just needs a little room to be he Sometimes a girl just needs a little room to be herself. 💙 To dream. To play. To be silly. To be brave. To try something different. To figure out who she is becoming. That’s one of my favorite things about photographing girls. I’m not looking for perfection. I’m looking for HER. The personality. The confidence. The little things that make her uniquely herself. Because these years go by so quickly. Let her fly. 🩵
This is the stuff I never want us to forget. 💙 Th This is the stuff I never want us to forget. 💙 The funny little expressions. The things they’re obsessed with. The way they love their animals. The personalities that are changing before our eyes. The completely random things that make them laugh. 😂 Because they won’t always be this age. They won’t always love the things they love today. And they won’t always look at the world quite this way. That’s why I created Simply Me: Kids & Pets. Not perfect portraits. Not trying to make them into someone they’re not. Just photographs of who they are right now. Big personalities. Big feelings. Big love. Exactly as they are. And those are the photographs I want them to have someday. 💙
Monday gets a bad rap sometimes. 😉 But a new week Monday gets a bad rap sometimes. 😉 But a new week means we get another chance. A chance to try something new. A chance to take a different path. A chance to notice the little moments that turn into something special. You never know what this week might bring. 💙 Go make room for something good. ✨
Sometimes we spend so much time taking care of eve Sometimes we spend so much time taking care of everyone else that we forget to take care of ourselves. 💙 Last night I did something I honestly hadn’t done in well over a year… I got a massage. And apparently, my body had some things to say about that. 😂 It was exactly the self-care I didn’t realize just how badly I needed. And the really cool part? I met the woman who gave me the massage through networking. One connection led to another… and suddenly I was on a massage table thinking, “Why have I waited THIS long?” 🤣 This morning I’m heading down to the harbor to meet up with some women, connect, have a hot chocolate, maybe take a walk, and just spend some time being around good people. Because I’m realizing more and more that self-care doesn’t always have to look like a spa day. Sometimes it’s a massage. Sometimes it’s a walk. Sometimes it’s a hot chocolate and a conversation. Sometimes it’s laughing with women who understand the season of life you’re in. And sometimes it’s simply giving yourself permission to slow down for a minute. So today I’m filling my cup. ☕️💙 And maybe that’s your little reminder to fill yours, too. Thank you @carlafaymassageandskin @iamnicolemichelle and see you soon @upliftingourwellness
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