Jones Family

It has been my absolute pleasure to photograph so many beautiful families this year.  And I couldn't pick a more fun family to close out my year of shoots than the Jones family!

Everyone, meet the Jones family!

 

I have watched this gorgeous family grow beginning with a maternity shoot at the end of Jamie's first pregnancy. Then it was my treat to shoot them for Nora's first birthday and their secret announcement that they were expecting again! Now just weeks before this family o 3 becomes a family of 4 I had the opportunity to capture them again.

We shot during an early afternoon when a front was blowing through and clouds were covering every inch of the sky!  Luckily for us all I just received a handy-dandy flash for Christmas from my sweet in-laws so we made the best of the clouds!

Here are a few of my favorites from the day!

Isn't she a BEAUTIFUL Mama?

 

 

Some sweet baby-love from Miss Nora

 

 

 

 

 

I couldn't choose between these so I'll post both...



Incredible beauty!



Now you see where sweet Nora gets her good looks :)

I love this sequence...

 

 

 

Jones family, I thank you again, for allowing me the opportunity to capture such special moments in your family's story.  And thank you for your support of our adoption!  I can't wait for us all to have our babies home and have ourselves a play date!

We love you guys!

 

 

One more quick thing!  Since we are expecting Miss Ruthie to be coming home late in February or early March I will have very limited opportunities to shoot in the early part of 2013.  If you are interested in booking me in the first quarter please email me asap so that I can get you on my calendar.

 

Stay tuned to our family adoption blog in coming days for updates on our journey.  We love you and appreciate your prayers and support!

Loving your Christmas Cards!

I have LOVED getting your Christmas cards!  

Thank you and keep 'em comin'!

Here's a little Winter Wonderland treat for you 
from birthday boy Ryan and his parents!

 

PS: If you haven't heard our EXCITING NEWS I encourage you to visit our adoption blog!

Much love and profound JOY!
Maria

Will you send us Christmas card?

I know it's probably not good manners to ask, but we want you to send us a Christmas card!

Pretty Please?

Why you ask?  

First, I LOVE to see what you do with the pictures I take!  I seldom know which pictures you liked the most from our sessions since I'm not with you when you see your photos for the first time... and this is one way for me to see which ones you loved!

Second, it is an encouragement to us in these long days of waiting that you support us and are praying for us.  Seeing your smiling faces on a door in our home is a beautiful reminder to us that God is for us and his people are covering us with prayer. 

And finally, I want our Ruthie to know you all! I plan to save all of our cards this year to put them in a book for Ruthie. I want her to know how much we all prayed for her and desired to have her home.   I want her to know how much we thought about her- especially at Christmas.  I want her to see the faces of all the people that helped us raise funds to bring her home. 

If you would like to send us a card and need our address please email me at:

FergusonAdoption@gmail.com

Thank you for a WONDERFUL fall shoot season.  I look forward to photographing your beautiful families again in the New Year!

To close, here's a Merry Christmas from my time with my precious friends, the Crissinger's!

 

Freeze Family Fun

On Thanksgiving weekend Diana and I had the pleasure of making a sweet Mama's birthday wish come true.  

Everyone, meet Mama Freeze and her "kids!"

 

To celebrate this sweet lady's birthday we had ourselves an EXTRA LARGE family shoot!  Complete with 17 family members!

We had a hilarious time with this family doing everything we could to catch the attention of the 5 precious grandkids.  My favorite shots were the ones with the grandparents- primarily because the 4 sets of parents were hilarious to watch as they tried to get their kids to smile!

Good times were indeed had by all.


Here are a few of my favorites from the shoot!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you, Freeze Family, for a chance to capture your absolutely beautiful family.  We truly enjoyed ourselves.  And thank you for your support and thoughtful questions about our adoption- it really means the world to me.



And I couldn't close without thanking the Lord for 3 very special Freeze's...

Trevor, Beth and Isaac are such a blessing to me and to my family.  Beth and Trevor have walked alongside us this year as we have both waited for the Lord to bring us our babies... they have understood and empathized with our feelings on this roller coaster ride of adoption.  

And now, by God's grace, our prayers have been answered and baby Isaac has joined their family!  I am so grateful for their friendship and look forward to introducing Isaac to our Ruthie when she comes home! 

Thanks again everyone.  

And Happy Birthday again Mama Freeze!

 

Ryan is 2!

Recently I had the opportunity to catch up with a High School friend I haven't seen in over twelve years 

(wow, are we really that old?)! 

I was honored when Austin asked me to photograph her unbelievably cute fella to celebrate his second birthday.

Everyone, meet Ryan!

Such a sweet face!!  

Diana and I had so much fun chasing after this little guy during the shoot.  He is FULL TILT, 100% boy!  We ran, we hid, we played in the leaves, we snacked, we tossed a frog around and acted all kinds of silly.  

Good times were had by all!

Here are some of my favorites shots of the day.

What fun we had with this fella and his sweet parents!  

Austin and Iain is was great to see you.  

Thank you for your generous donation to our adoption fund. 

It means so much to us to have the support of old friends on this adventure.

And we all wish sweet Ryan the happiest of birthdays!

Meet the Ostby's!

This fall shoots season has been such a FUN one!

Recently I had the opportunity to photograph a family of 5- 
3 of whose member's happen to have 4 legs!

Everyone, meet the Ostby family!

 

The kids in this family were AWESOME!  

Ginger (Australian Shepherd), Lulu (Beagle) and Cheese (the cat) kept us on our toes and acting like CRAZY people to get them all to look at the camera.    

So fun!

Here are a few of our best shots-

 

 

 

 

 


Thank you, Ostby's, for your support!  

You guys were a hoot to shoot!

 

Dunn Family

It brings me such joy for my friends to refer new friends for me to photograph.  It's even cooler when one of those new families refers another!  

Recently after my shoot with the beautiful Wood Family, they referred another precious family to me.  

Everyone, I'm happy to introduce the Dunn Family!


 

This family was hilarious to hang out with from the first shot!  Nicole is truly the Princess of this family of 6- even their pup is a boy!  We had a great time hanging out in the shadows on this insanely cold but BRIGHT morning in Fort Mill.

Here are my favorites of the day!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you, Dunn family, for your support!  

It was wonderful to meet you!


And to close, a 

MERRY
CHRISTMAS 
from the Dunn boys!