More!?

So you though this was a blog featuring my latest work, but lately its been a blog about my kids….. well… deal with it! 🙂 Not that I haven’t been photographing hundreds of beautiful children, babies and families, I have and I will blog them, soon…..

We have had some bumps in the road as of late. The job and church we moved to Texas for turned out not to be what we thought, and our time here has been a season of loneliness and changes. It has been a good time for Brian and I. When you live in a small town like Ruston sometimes its easy to hear and talk to everyone else in town before you really get to know your spouse’s opinions and talk through what’s going on in your life. Out here Brian and I have had a lot more long talks and nights of just sitting on the couch together. We couldn’t be happier together, and I am truly married to my best friend.I know we can do whatever God puts in front of us together and I am grateful for our friendship, love and ability to work together on everything.

I have also learned living out here that I truly do like to work, and no matter how much time I have I don’t keep a clean house….sorry, but it’s true. I also don’t love to cook. I like to cook things I know the recipes and ingredients for off the top of my head, but not new things, or things I have to plan, shop, write lists for and think about. It stifles my creativity I think, or at least that is what I tell myself. 🙂

We are in a new church now, and we LOVE it! The people there are real and living out what they teach on and its been challenging and encouraging. Josiah and Autumn like the new church too and each week Josiah tells us in detail what story he learned form the Bible! I have been going to GriefShare there, a ministry for grief and loss and, dealing with my sister’s death last December and have been encouraged by so many people who have and are currently healing after a great loss in their life.

Not that you really wanted to know any of this, but I told you anyways! Many of you have asked if we are loving back to Ruston, or what our plan is. We honestly don’t know for sure. Brian is in the interview process for a job at our new church, a church we plan to attend whether or not he gets or accepts this job. He also has leads in other states as well. Moving back to Ruston still wouldn’t give Brian a job and while we are open to whatever God wants for us, we feel like we will only move back to Ruston if God gives Brian a specific purpose there or if it is a temporary place on the way to someplace else. We both love Ruston, but Brian does not want to be a house mom again, and I don’t want to be the primary income earner either. So we are just praying for God to make His way clear, and we know in time that He will.

So here’s some more pictures of my adorable, crazy, little monkeys at the Flower Mound Pumpkin Patch here in Dallas.

Also if you will be in the Ruston area on Saturday November 13th please join us out at Lincoln Parish park for Share Saturday, a community fundraiser for Share International, who is reachign the world the good new of salvation through Christ and humanitarian aid and education. There will be family activities, a 5K race, mountain bike race and 1.25 mile paved walk/run or jog for families and children. Register online at www.ShareSaturday.com and I will send you a free 8X10 from your 2010 session! Plus we will be giving away a family session complete with Christmas cards and the disk of images!

My Little Pumpkins and Their Little Cousins

Last week I was in Ruston for the annual Townsend House pumpkin patch. Jamie and I had over 45 pumpkin patch sessions in two days between us, but before we got started I took my kids out their for some pumpkin time as well! My lovely SIL, Katie and I decided that before our babies got any bigger we were going to dress them up matching for a cousin picture. We have never matched them like this before, and though difficult it was fun. Tensions were high with four kids, two grandmas, two moms and a dad running around, but we did the best we could and I have to say I love the results!  I love these guys! Wish I could have grown up in a cousin group like this when I was a kid!

Field Full of Flowers

Today I took Autumn out for a really fun new project/product testing on an old film camera. When I ran out of film (boy that happens fast!) I shot some digital to work on while I wait for my film to come back processed and scanned. Here are my digital faves!

Baby Esmee

I got to photograph baby Esmee the other day.  She is a beautiful baby, and was so very sleepy during the whole shoot.

Such beautiful children.

Thanks Lisa for letting me photograph your sweet family.  I can’t wait to see how much Esmee has grown in 3 months!

~Jamie

Family of Five

Last weekend I was lucky to be in Ruston at just the right time to photograph the Durrett family birth, and then stay in town long enough for them to get out of the hospital for newborn pictures at just over three days old! Our session was complete with all five of our children (Brian and I’s two, and the Durrett’s two preschoolers and newborn baby!). Luckily between the two of us moms and our two husbands, no children were harmed in the making of these images, although one was peed on. 🙂 Thanks for being such a fun family to work with guys;I am sure there will never be a dull moment in your home. 🙂