Yay for snowy Monday’s! I am not usually the winter lover, but all of this snow really has me in a cheery mood lately.  While everyone is out in the frigid cold, I have so many ladies getting steamy for their Dolled Up Dahling sessions! I really am so excited for all of my ladies […]

Friday is finally here and woah am I happy to see it! It’s been a whirlwind of a week for me.  How about some super fun, bright, Lisa Frank inspired awesomeness to cap off your week? That sounds amazing doesn’t it? It hits me right in my nostalgic heart and I love it.  Well my dear fellow mompreneur and boss lady Katrina threw a workshop full of our favorite neon, leopard printed goodness! 

Yay for Friday!! How many mamas have kiddos in school already?? Ollie goes on Monday and as much as I am excited for her to go back, I’m going to miss her. The sadness if me missing her was put on hold last week when I found her in her brothers’ room covered in baby […]

Hey mamas!! Today is a super special post.  We celebrated our beautiful daughter Ollie’s 4th birthday on Wednesday! I really cannot believe it, she is getting so big before my eyes.  So in honor of hr getting older and smarter and funnier, I want to share her birth story with you 🙂 I know that this is a controversial topic-birth.  I also know that there are 2 kinds of moms out there: those who loved pregnancy and those who didn’t.  I did not.  So I’ll preface this by saying that if you want sunshine and flowers don’t continue and just come back next Friday!

Happy Monday everyone!! I’m so excited to tell you a bit about Nikki’s second half of her senior session.  We went on an off road adventure looking for a specific road.  We may have passed it 2 times trying to find it, and we found tons of beautiful places while looking, but we finally made it with time to spare! There’s just something about back country roads that makes my inner country girl giggle.  I love it.  We even made a pit stop on the way in the middle of the road for a few photos.  It was one for the books you guys.  Nikki made everything effortless; working all the angles and bringing the smiles on without me asking.  She even let me in on her goofy side and we caught a few moments of her just being herself.  

Hey there gorgeous!! I am getting so excited to be wrapping up my senior rep sessions (not because I want to be done with them, but because I want to show you all of them!!) Nikki met me in downtown Erie to play around in a super cool courtyard.  She is so full of laughter […]

A few weeks ago, I spent the morning at the beach with one of my favorite families! The E family and ours have gotten considerably closer recently, and I was super duper excited to do some fun family photos with them.  These boys were so excited to get out of the car and play around.  We did some climbing, (I did some climbing too with my gear- talk about scary) and then took a short walk to a pavilion to see some fish and some geese. Here’s a handy dandy little snippet for you guys- I am terrified of geese.  Like really really scared of them.  So we walked over and there they were just waling toward us.  I decided we should go back to mom and dad then.  We did some photos on a floating little shelter which was cool, and then went across the parking lot to the beach!! The boys loved the beach.   I think mom and dad did too 😉 We splashed around with our feet and took some fun candids, overall an amazing session! Take a look at this gorgeous family 🙂

So all my mamas out there…do you ever just want to dress up your littles and take photos of them playing pretend? Even if you don’t I have this urge to do it every now and then and my baby girl is FINALLY playing along. I cannot tell you how happy I am that she is playing into my obsession (and life obviously) and letting me be creative and play with her.  We decided now day that we were going to dress her up like a gypsy fairy…she picked out her dress and wanted braids in her hair.  She asked if she could wear mommy’s red lipstick and I said no BUT you can wear the purple if you want.  We ventured out into our own backyard, picked some pretty flowers form our garden and played around.  It was an amazing hour with my daughter that I am so blessed to have.  Here’s a look at our super fun afternoon!

It’s Friday!! Who’s excited for the weekend?? As I promised last week, I’m going to dedicate every Friday to my new Mama series, last week with an introduction of myself! This week I want to introduce you to a very special mompreneur and friend of mine, Katrina!

Jared had his senior session last week!  I am so happy to be getting all of my reps in – it’s so amazing to be working with these kids.  So Jared is a lifeguard at Camp Sherwin in Lake City PA.  He knew of a secluded beach right at the camp that was absolutely stunning.  So we started at camp super casual.  We had to climb down this crazy staircase made of old wood to get down there, and if you know anything about me it’s that I’m not graceful at all.  It was a bit scary, but 100% worth it.  There were a few trees that lined the beach and some cool slate rock steps.  We even climbed up the side of a cliff to grab a few higher shots.  After we had gotten about halfway through his session we decided to take a 5 minute ride down the road to Avonia Park.  It’s right on the lake and there is a gorgeous little set up to watch the sunset from.  We walked around there for a more formal feel and I think we nailed it! Take a look at some of my favorites 🙂