So for my last session of 2012…I tackled my toughest clients!  As any Photographer Mama knows, photographing your own children is one of the most challenging (and rewarding!) things you can do as a photographer.  I often get the best images of a session when I ask parents to step away a little, when I can “buddy up” with a child and just hang out with them.  Well, that is a little tough when you are Mom and Photographer!  HaHa! But, honestly, my boys do great.  They have a Mama for a professional photographer – and that can be a little tough for a kid.  So we do a “session” three or four times a year and try to leave it at that 🙂  And the only one I do in the studio is in the winter – otherwise we are outside running around for sure!  The thing is though, they are starting to really get into it.  This fall I took them out location hunting and my oldest starting watching out the window of the car as we drove around spotting barns and fields and asking if this or that spot would be good for one of my sessions – now that made my Mama Heart proud!

So when it came time for our session in December, I was geared up for a bit of a wrestling match, but I didn’t need to be!  We had a couple false starts – first time I have shown up at a session with a dead battery, ever!  But once we got all our ducks lined up and got started, the boys did fantastic.  Jonah is still getting there – he always wants to jump up and take my picture instead!  But Benjamin, my five year old, is starting to really enjoy our session times together…as long as we stick to the every three or four months rule 😉

Thank you to the Petite Peanut Boutique for the fantastic Super Hero bow tie.  Benjamin picked this one out himself this summer – and I was so happy to order it.  This series was created in honor of her own little Super Hero – her son Clayton, who suffered from Williams Syndrome.  He has now become a Super Angel.  I pray for her family daily and will always think of her sweet boy and the strength and love he showed the world when my own precious boys wear their Super Hero ties.  Clayton’s mother is a woman of great faith – please keep her in your prayers…