The mama in this crew, Catherine, reached out to me with so much excitement over the fact that all three of her kids were going to be home for the holidays with ONE DAY overlapping in their schedules. All three of her grown kids are spread out all over the country, so this was a big deal. So what better way to celebrate that than schedule a long awaited family photoshoot!

It’s become quite the tradition for many of you to join us for our fall mini sessions each year. This was the year a space downtown finally met our criteria and you all let us know how excited you were about it by solidly booking out that day first! And then, you let us know if you wanted a spot and didn’t get one, so we added a whole other day of minis downtown, that also filled up. This day was SO FUN doing minis downtown with you all. If you’ve been following along for more than a couple of years, you’re going to see that all of these families join us annually except one new family to join us. We love this time with y’all each fall!

It's always fun to work with our commercial clients when they are in need of personal photos. You may recognize Brian as one of our friends at Leadership North Carolina, one of our favorite commercial clients! He reached out to have family pictures made at his father's 80th birthday dinner at the Angus Barn. Always a classic Raleigh choice for an important life celebration dinner.

It’s hard to know how older siblings of a newborn baby will do in the family portion of a newborn shoot… let me tell you, this big sister and big brother were so stinkin’ excited to be photographed with the baby and the excitement never let up! Can you tell?! They were excited to hold Baby W, read him books, each get to hang out with him in their rooms... the cutest. They were so full of ideas to participate in the shoot. After the very first set where I had all the kids snuggled in a chair, I showed this mama one picture of her kids all together and she started crying, saying that that was it! That's all she needed! The shoot could end there!

But it didn’t…

It’s always an honor to watch your families grow from behind our cameras and we have been part of the Gibson family for a while. We have photographed their engagement, bridal shoot, wedding, anniversaries, graduations, first maternity, and family shoots. It's only fitting that now we are invited into their second maternity shoot. Mom and dad’s humor shown through in the popular reference to The Office inside joke on the announcement shirt and onesie…

Never underestimate what an easy yet special gift it is to give your loved ones a photoshoot all together! Becca and I have taken turns photographing different parts of this family over the years, so it was really cool to see the group all together for one big photoshoot. Especially for grandparents, you know they want pictures of their kids and grandkids. It really is an easy gift for any occasion.