When I thought about posting the pictures from this shoot, I was going to talk all about how this great photographer chose *ME* to do her portraits with her son, Aidan. I am still going to touch on that because I am always honored to be chosen to do someone’s portraits…but when another photographer who’s work I really respect chooses me – it’s a great feeling. The wonderful Carrie Small from Fayetville, North Carolina – seriously a WONDERFUL newborn photographer was in the area and chose me to do portraits of her with her son and her grandmother. She had never had portraits done of her with her 3-year-old little boy and I had the honor of doing the first set of professional photos of the two of them together!
Once I did the session and started editing them, I started thinking about it….3 years of her little guy’s life and no pictures with him? I started to think about it…I really don’t either. I’m always the one behind the camera!! I started sifting through our photographs over these past few years – I’m in well, pretty much NONE of them. I’ve been feeling really sad about that. I mean, my kids have the most gorgeous photos of them – they are going to grow up with some spectactular portraits of themselves – not only the posed ones, but the every day ones – they will remember our home, our favorite places we went, their rooms, our backyard…our favorite beaches…
But….
What makes me sad is they won’t look back on our family portraits and see ME with them…what are your favorite portraits when you look through your ablums?? I LOVE seeing pictures of my mom and I…here’s one I love from an old family slide….check out my abs!! HA HA HA…
I’m unfortunately not giving that same gift to my own kids… I’m thankful to Carrie for choosing me to be her photographer, but I’m even MORE thankful that the experience I had shooting her and her sweet little boy has opened my eyes to the need to be photographed with my own children. And it also makes me MUCH more aware of the need to get my moms ( and wonderful clients) into portraits with your little ones!! Don’t be afraid moms – our kids don’t care what we look like!! Moms of newborns – stop worrying that you look like you just had a baby – YOU DID!!! It’s incredible what our bodies go through to have these beautiful children – we should stop hating them and give our kids the best gifts ever – ones they’ll never get rid of – portraits with us!!!
With that, here are Carrie and Aidan’s new family pictures….
Isn’t he just the CUTEST???
C’mon moms!! Don’t put it off any longer!Call me and we will capture these precious days together! 
