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Posted on December 24, 2011
{Jackson, TN family photography, newborn photography}
From my family to yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
We pray that your celebrations are blessed by the one who came to save us.
May the manger laid, cross hung, tomb conquerer be the center of your Christmas celebration.
JT Photography is on vacation until January 9th. I cannot wait to help you capture many new and exciting things in 2012. I can’t wait to get your family in front of my camera so that you have memories to hold in your hand.
I am looking for a newborn to photograph. The first person to mention this (or my facebook post) will get 50% off their newborn session fee!! Newborn sessions are the only sessions that I will book or photograph during my vacation!
See you in 2012.
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Posted on December 20, 2011
{Jackson, TN newborn photography}
I don’t normally talk to strangers. I’m pretty reserved and keep to myself. But when I see a pregnant woman I can’t help but ask questions…like most people I suppose. When are you due? Do you know the gender? Is this your first? Standard fare. But then I usually progress with, have you had maternity photos taken? Do you have a newborn photographer in mind? A little forward? Maybe. But to me, I just want to know that the person has a way to capture the newness of life and the love of a family. Many times when I ask those last questions I am met with the name of a photographer in town. And that’s good with me. I am so passionate about people having professional photographs taken that I don’t mind when they tell me that someone else is doing their photos. I’m all about leaving a legacy and getting this point in time down in print. Since I am new in town I don’t suspect that people would have my name on their tongue for photos of their new babies, anyway. Most people don’t even know I’m here, let alone that I photograph babies and families, among other things. So, when I saw Nichole, I approached her and asked the standard questions and was met with an open opportunity to tell her about my photography business. I am so glad that she welcomed me into her home and allowed me to photograph her sweet six day old baby.
I’d like to properly introduce you to sweet Eva Grace. I shared a few sneak peeks with you on Saturday but I’d like to give Nichole and Brandon a few more photos to share with their family and friends of their sweet baby…and I’d like to tell her story. Everyone has a story, whether it’s dramatic or not does not matter…it’s YOUR story and you’re the only one who can tell it and share it with the world.
I think having a newborn in the house around Christmas can add so much to the season. You are instantly reminded of what happended two thousands years ago as our Savior came to the world as a baby. You’re reminded that Mary still had to wake in the middle of the night to feed him, she had to calm him when he cried and even change him when he was dirty. You see everything with a new pair of eyes. Even last night when five year old Naomi prayed “Dear God, thank you for making Christmas so close. It’s only 6 days till Christmas. I cannot wait to see you as a tiny baby. It’s so awesome. I can’t wait. Amen” it reminded me of how tender and fragile and amazing those little lives are. Even the earthly life of our Savior Jesus Christ started as a baby.
Here are a few more photos from little Eva’s session. She didn’t fall asleep too hard so I didn’t get to try all my sleepy baby poses on Eva but I am so happy with the ones that she did allow me to capture. Here they are.
Eva has been loved since they knew she was coming. Nichole, Brandon and the boys were the recipients of that care and love before Eva arrived. Nichole had asked her grandmother to make her a quilt, not knowing that her grandmother had never made a quilt before. But her grandmother set to work and with the help of some friends made this beautiful Lonestar quilt. My cousin-in-law Jamie who is a quilt maker and has even designed patterns said, “It’s takes a lot to piece the top, you have to make sure all the colors are in the right spot and there are Y seams in it that is more tricky to piece….Gorgeous quilt, one of my favorite patterns of all time and it’s impressive that it’s the first quilt she’s ever made!” That’s love. Now their family of five can snuggle up under this gorgeous quilt and think of all the time and love that went into making it. 
Nichole is a third grade teacher and her class made Eva a VERY special quilt that includes all of the students handprints in the shape of hearts and then each student also made an owl (one of Nichole’s favorite things) with their fingerprint. They took the time to make handmade gifts for their special teacher and her new baby. That’s love.
Eva is the first little girl in the family so Nichole made sure to give Eva a girly space of her own. I know how much fun it is to decorate a little girls room so I know Nichole must have had a blast dreaming up this space and making it happen. I love the black and white damask pattern with the hot pink. She had her friend cut out the tree and owls with her silhouette machine and many items in the nursery were handmade or given as gifts. When you spend that kind of time working on your babies room make sure to have your photographer take some photos of it for you!
This precious little girl is loved and doted on by everyone in her family.
What a great family. A great example of love and faith.
Thank you Brandon and Nichole for allowing me to come into your home and work with your little six day old baby. I had so much fun working with all of you. Thanks for letting me get a few new baby snuggles in as well. I hope that you like these images and that you’ll cherish them for many years!
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Posted on December 17, 2011
{Jackson, TN family photography}
I am excited to be able to offer another way for my clients to be able to have ALL of the images from their sessions in one place. I am a big advocate of the coffee table books, they are gorgeous and easy to share with others. However, I also am offering full length DVD’s with all the photos from your session for purchase!! Just ask me how to get yours!
Here is a slideshow that I made for the Pierce family.
Here is a slideshow with photos from the Abernathy’s session!
Here is a slideshow with photos from the Carlson’s session!
These are not the full length DVD’s that you would receive, rather just a sample to give you an idea of what I am talking about.
Posted on December 16, 2011
{Jackson, TN Newborn Photography}
I am so honored to be asked to capture these first moments in a precious little one’s life. Sweet baby Eva is an adorable little lady doted on by her two big brothers and loving parents. She wasn’t too interested in sleeping (until I was ready to leave) but I am so excited about the images I was able to capture. Nichole and Brandon thank you so much for allowing me to capture this amazing time in your lives. Thank you for trusting me with capturing these memories for you. I have SO many photos for you to see but here are three quick little sneak peeks! Check back later in the week for more!
Eli was so excited to be able to take Eva’s picture with his own camera! Looks like I may have an apprentice!!
Ethan and Eli love their little Eva!! Such sweet big brothers!
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Posted on December 12, 2011
Let me tell you a story. Grab your coffee, sit back and read a little story of a weekend in my life that was SO amazing but I’ve never shared it. I think that since this happened a year ago it must have been that I just simply forgot to tell some of the details of this weekend because Christmas was happening and I was getting ready for the festivities of that. So, here’s my story.
The story actually starts in October of last year. My mom came down to San Antonio to spend a week with us before Hannah was born. Our hope was that Hannah would come a week early like the other two did…but Hannah (God) had other plans. My mom spent a week playing with the big kids, helping me clean, going on some family outings with us, enjoying some quality time with us and hoping and praying that “today” would be the day Hannah would come. I finally started with active consistant contractions early in the morning that my mom was scheduled to go home. By the time I got to the hospital my contractions basically stopped. But they kept me because of my high blood pressure. Everything was going good and my mom was trying to change her ticket…but she wasn’t able to. The morning went on and she wasn’t able to bring the kids out or come say goodbye because there simply wasn’t time. Hannah was born around 1:30pm and my mom’s flight took of a 1pm. We were beyond disapointed that she wasn’t able to be there to meet Hannah and snuggle her at least once before she left. But like I said, God had plans for us.
My parents had decided by this time that they were going to serve as missionaries overseas. They were scheduled to go to Indonesia at the begining of February 2011 (that changed and there were some hiccups along the way but they are happily serving overseas…just not in Indonesia). Our home church was having a commissioning service for them on December 13th (and it would also be there last Sunday at Grace) so my siblings and I started the conversation…can we all be there to share in this with them? Eric and I knew it wouldn’t be feasible for our entire families to fly home so we figured that it would just be us. We both flew into Milwaukee on Friday, December 11th and stayed with my sister. Mom and Dad had NO IDEA that we were 10 minutes from their house! The plan was that on Saturday Tracey and Brad were going to pick up my parents and take them to breakfast so they could celebrate Christmas with them before they left to come visit us in San Antonio and eventually head out to California to stay wtih Eric and Catherine for a while. So, we got in Tracey’s car and headed to my parents house. We knew they would come out the back door of the house so she pulled almost all the way up the driveway, Eric and I got out and hid behind her car. Brad had to drive seperately otherwise there wouldn’t have been enough room for all of us (since Hannah was with too). My mom thought that was odd at first but it didn’t take her long to figure out why he drove too. Mom and dad came out together and Eric and I stepped out from behind the car and mom SCREAMED! I’ve not heard her scream like that before. I thought she was going to have a heart attack. I got ONE picture of her freaking out and it’s priceless! Dad, just smiled so big and they kept saying I can’t believe this, I can’t believe this. We got them good! And it was good!!
I then added to the joy and told my mom that Hannah was in the car. This was the first time that she had seen Hannah…remember she left San Antonio the day Hannah was born. She was so excited….like most grandmas are to see their grandbabies! We enjoyed a great breakfast and catching up. We got to drive out and see Brad and Tracey’s new house. I got to see my best friend. We went to church on Sunday and got to see friends from there. We enjoyed lunch, dinner, hanging out and just being home with all of us one last time in their home was GREAT. My parents were able to sell their home by the end of December but when we were there it wasn’t sold yet. We knew it would be the last time that we were all in the house and it was bittersweet for us all.
On Monday before my flight back to San Antonio I was able to take Hannah to meet her other godmother for the first time. It was great to see Tami and all the kids again and the kids LOVED seeing Hannah and having a baby in the house! By February their house was going to grow by 4 feet! (you can see their family of 9 here) Tami was pregnant with her second set of twins when Hannah first got to meet her. Now, Hannah will be able to play with those sweet kids! She did enjoy sitting on them though!! The flight back was uneventful and it was an incredible weekend that I will not forget.
When Christmas came my parents were tying up loose ends with their house before they could make the drive down to be with us for two weeks before heading to California for a month before leaving the country for their mission year and a half (did you follow that). So, while they were driving unbeknownst to them Tracey and Brad were also driving down from WI to San Antonio so spend Christmas with us. We had tabs on both vehicles and knew that Brad and Tracey would arrive well before my parents on Christmas Eve. Tracey was able to go to church with us and when we arrived home my parents were sitting in the driveway waiting on us (they had just gotten there). When they came up to our van to greet us and the kids they were surprised again to see Tracey sitting in the back seat with Naomi…another mini heart attack for mom! It was priceless! What great memories. We enjoyed a great Christmas celebration and had a great couple of weeks with my parents. It was REALLY hard to let them leave for California. We thought it would be the last time we saw them in person for 18 months. But God had other plans. My parents were able to be around for the birth of their 5 grandchild when Ella was born in California in January so that’s great news. Then Greg got the call to serve at Concordia in Tennessee and we knew we needed to fly up there and visit the church, but we didn’t know who would keep the big kids. My parents mission trip was delayed so they were actually able to come back to San Antonio and spend another two weeks with us! They got to be with Naomi and Micah and spoil them while Greg, Hannah and I were in TN. They got to see the SMALL amount of snow in San Antonio (the Friday we were gone) and we just had a GREAT time with them being with us. I treasure those times, those memories.
Here are some photos from our surprise weekend in Wisconsin, one year ago!
This is what happens when you give your camera to someone who doesn’t know how to use it. Sorry Eric!
Grammy loved hanging out with Hannah…as much as she could!
Me and my best friend! (who just drove 24 hours two weekends ago to spend my birthday with me!! Thanks Clif and Julie we love you and are so glad you could come)
Grace, Faith, Tami, Jeremiah, Josiah and Thomas oohing and aahhing over Hannah!
Here’s Hannah and her godmother while Hannah sits on Jonathan and Hope!
Brrr! There’s no weather like this in San Antonio. It was actually one of the coldest weekends WI had that winter. Go figure!
Hannah and her first “experience” with snow!
Gonna miss this house! We moved to this house when I was 10. So, it holds a lot of memories…
Here we all are after the Christmas service in San Antonio.
