Business & a Thank YOU!

Are you still without a Christmas card for this Christmas? 

I am booking quick photo shoots for this weekend!! 

You will receive one family photograph.  One custom designed card. And then pay for the cards you choose.  Card prices vary based on the style of the card & then of course  how many you purchase. Contact me for pricing.

You will have the option of purchasing more prints of the photograph if you choose!

The cards that I create are done based on the information you give me & the style you want. 

It is an interactive process where I will send you a proof I have designed & then you will tell me yes or no, & make suggestions.  It is custom for your family.  You choose the words, colors, photos & we work together to create something just for you!

See more of the cards I have created here.

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Gift Certificates are available!!

I am including $20 in free prints to anyone who buys a gift certificate to give this Christmas.

Contact me for pricing.  Half of the sitting fee will be due now and the other half at the time of the photo shoot.

I am not booking large photo shoots until spring.

This winter I can only offer quick shoots indoors (which are very limiting) and newborn photo sessions.

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I am very blessed to have found a way to support my family & thank you to all of my customers!! 

I am blown away by God’s faithfulness to our family over the years, and I am searching for words to convey that. 

This will be the fifth Christmas we have went through without HSSH.  Its mind boggling sometimes. 

Another thing that is mind boggling is the financial support that our family continues to receive from this community. 

In so many ways I would say we are “healed” and “peaceful” about where we are.  Yes, the kids have moments of struggling and I don’t know that they are as healed as I am.

The one thing that just doesn’t end is the finances needed to raise this many children.  My brain can’t even go to where we would be without our church’s support. 

Cardboard boxes & rags come to mind.

Seriously.

So, I hope that when you book a photo shoot with me and you work with me, and as I work with your photographs, you understand how blessed I am to have work and to be able to do something I love.  I hope that thankfulness never ends.

Pam

I didn’t think he could dive…

Who knew?

Not me.

So, when he came home a few weeks ago and told me that he was going to dive this year.

I honestly didn’t think too much about it.

He’s never dove before.

Figured he wouldn’t do to well.

Yet another lesson learned from my children.

You never know how good you will be at something if you never try.

You could go in to your first diving meet of the year and win first place.

Who knows?

Pam

I Heart Faces: Tooshies

This week’s themed contest at I Heart Faces is Tooshies…

I had this perfect one of my boys this fall…

Brotherly love.

If you remember right though, it did wonders for Zach’s ability to look more natural for the camera!

Pam

YOUR Gonna Miss This… Moment… Week 61

It’s been an interesting week over here.  Thanksgiving. Busy. Family. Busy. Christmas Tree. Busy. Kids causing stress. Busy. A little back pain. Busy.

Will I miss pushing a shopping cart that looks like this one day?  Weekly??? 

Dealing with some nagging back pain?

Taking pictures of seniors & newborns?

Seeing my oldest son & his girlfriend look like this?

Sitting at ball games night after night?

Wondering if my kids are going to survive the effects of divorce?  Or adoption?  Or both??

Trips to the counselor?

Feeding players?

Watching my kids learn to use chop sticks?  Absolutely!

Dealing with a 5 yr old who doesn’t want to eat?

& is stubborn & pouting in Walmart about the lip gloss that she wants & is still angry about  having to give up in the Christmas Shoe Boxes?

Listening to them argue on the way home? 

Finding distracting games like “how many Christmas trees can we count on the way home?”  Yes.

Until they start to argue about whether a bush counts as a tree.

Sigh.

Which do I choose this week??

Thanksgiving day with the whole family.  And getting a good picture.

Too many to choose from.

Life is a lot of good, a little hard & a whole bunch of prayer.

Pam

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Happy Thanksgiving From Our Family!

My Family Today!  Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Pam

Sun-flares

Many people think that if you take a photo and it ends up with a sun-flare in it you have a poor quality picture.

Did you know that sun-flares are the latest in photography?  And if you happen to get a beautiful sun-flare in a photo it is viewed by other photographers as a true gem?

In fact this week at I Heart Faces the theme was sun-flares!  I didn’t enter the contest, because I didn’t think I had anything to offer.  I’ve been working on some photos and actually trying to add sun-flare to them! 

Today on I Heart Faces they are actually hosting a contest for some really great edits (for Photo-shop) that ADD SUNFLARE to your photos!!  OOOOOOHHHHHH…. so it’s okay to fabricate the sun-flare????  Emphasize the small sun-flares?  I guess so!!

I took this picture last Sunday.  This is Cary and Amy.  They have been in my life in a multitude of ways over the years.

Before:

Nice picture.  Not wild about the color.  Indiana is not real colorful this time of year.  See that tiny spot on Cary’s arm?  A sun-flare!  It was sunny on this day & that gave me an idea!

What do you think of that?

It’s something to keep working on & but I think it is kinda cool!!

Pam

The Man In the Middle

I have a burden on my heart. 

It’s my handsome, smart, clever, 2nd son.

I’ve mentioned he’s struggling.

Last night, watching his first basketball game.

It became quite obvious he’s struggling.

He’s angry.

He’s bitter.

He needs help.

Do I have any choice but to sit back and let him go off? 

His own words on Facebook last night cried out that he knows he’s angry.

Please pray for us to find the help he needs to work through all of this.

He is not the communicator that his brother is.

He has not opened up to Grandpa like his brother has.

He has not dealt with this like his brother.

He’s 15.  15 is hard enough.

Please pray for him.

Pam

Sunshine…

The Sunshine Banquet was last night…

James & Alisen…

Pam

YOUR Gonna Miss This… Moment… Week 60

Yesterday, Kiahna and I had the rare opportunity to drive James’s car…

She asked me, in her own little Kiahna way… (read: whiny why does everyone else get to do that I I don’t)  “why does James get to have a car and we don’t?”

Of course her 5 year old mind didn’t  understand the seating arrangements in a mini van are much more conducive to driving around 5 plus children…  but she seemed happy with the answer that maybe one day it would only be her, Jadon & I left at home and we might get a car then.

Wouldn’t that be strange? 

Think I’ll ever miss driving a mini van?

Maybe.

Pam

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Autumn Beauty… Continues…

I have so many pictures of my own kids that I haven’t even had a chance to edit!  When I was trying to decide which photo to put up for the I heart faces contest I edited a few of them… finally!!

Here are the others I was choosing from…

 

Pam