St. Charles/St. Louis & Pensacola, FL Children's Photographer

I've just realized I haven't blogged any of my Florida sessions from November! So here I am watching the snow fall outside while blogging my first session from Florida. Where it was warm! Hey Florida peeps, watch out for that ice storm this weekend! Now you guys can feel my pain ;-P
Okay, so this session seriously it got off to a rocky start! I showed up 15 minutes early....without my camera! Doh!!! I was able to get the camera and show up 5 minutes late for the session. That is the first time and will most definitely be the last time that happens! Kelly was very understanding. (Thanks Kelly!) I guess she remembers what an airhead I was in high school! :-D This was the first time we had seen each other since graduation and she looks absolutely the same. I got to photograph her very adorable, spunky mini-me and had a blast. Kelly, your daughter is so adorable and I had so much fun photographing her! Can't wait for next time!

{disclaimer} {Seriously, that is the first and last time I will ever forget my camera...Fer Realz!!!}

St. Charles/St. Louis Wedding Photographer~Weight Loss & Weddings, in this case one has nothing to do with the other!~

Okay so It's Monday after the new year. The hubs & I have decided that we want to be able to watch our daughter grow up, be at her wedding, hold our grand babies you know...live! So it's time. We've been putting it off long enough. We need to eat healthier and yes....actually go to the gym. So today we are getting all the unhealthy food out of our house because you see my problem isn't how much I eat. It's the junk I eat. I have a wicked sweet tooth. It's going to be my downfall unless I change. Diabetes is very prominent in my family and I don't want to end up being diagnosed so here it is. My goal is to be 120 to 125 lbs. I am {oh yes, I am going to be brave and share!} 151 lbs right now. So, I need to lose 26 to 31 lbs to be at my goal weight...by April. In April I have scheduled my families photo session! I had to schedule something to have as an incentive and we need newer family photos so there it is! Before picture of the both of us will be at the bottom of the post. After picture will be the professional ones we have taken!:)
If you have any advice, healthy recipes, words of encouragement, it would be greatly appreciated! I will be updating every two weeks and I would love to have some support!


On a more professional note.
A ton of wedding inquiries have been coming in. I am so excited by this! I love photography but I never intended on being a wedding photographer. Until I helped a good friend out very last minute{like the day of} last minute. And something happened. I fell in love. With wedding photography. I was so surprised by this but there I was photographing this ceremony and tears were running down my face. Partly because of the joy I was witnessing and partly because I had unexpectedly found something I loved doing. :) So I have a new website that is dedicated solely to weddings. It is a work in progress and I have a ton of images I haven't even added to the site yet. Most of the stuff on there is my earlier work but I will be updating very soon! I am so excited at the direction that my photography is leading me and I can't wait to shoot my first weddings this year as a primary!

So...on to the photo!
Attempting to hide the belly by holding the daughter=fail!!!