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Soroptimist Int’l of Dixon: Bras 4 a Cause

I’m SO excited to start sharing these! We have two more days of shooting scheduled for December and January but here is a first look at one of the images for the Soroptimist Int’l of Dixon, Bras for a Cause 16-month calendar which will be available in the spring. This group is amazing - at a club level, they provide scholarships, grants, computers, etc., for young women entering college as well as women who are head of their households and trying to go back to school. If there is a family that is in need of finacial help in Dixon - for example, if their house burned down, they need bus tokens for their child to go to school, they need a washer or dryer and are finacially strapped  - they provide emergency assistance. At a district level, they support our female troops by sending care packages overseas to the Blue Star Moms. At an International level, they work to stop women trafficking and are involved in such projects as Sierra Leon. If there is an international disaster, they ban together to help the women and children in that area. 

Needless to say, this is an AWESOME group of women working to provide assistance on several levels. This calendar goes to support these causes as well as breast cancer research. Several of the women featured in the calendar have been personally afflicted by breast cancer or know someone who is or has struggled with it.

I’m so inspired by them and so proud to be a part of this project. 

You can pre-purchase a calendar, which will be released in the spring, by contacting me at studio@llfotos.com. I will not be involved in any actual money transfer but will direct you as to where to send your check and add your information to a list for pre-purchased calendars.

Stay tuned, lots more to share!   

a little behind the scenes glimpse with that includes our makeup artist Tess and some of the crew…

Sneak Peek: Christmas Cutie

Seriously hard to figure out what pictures to share from this session when there were so many cute ones. Mom Sarah once again totally and completely rocked the outfits and her little man could not have been a better baby. I mean, he let us play for two hours! True, we were making a bit of a ruckus at the end to try to grab his attention :) but even then he really showed very little annoyance, more just a desire to be set free from the studio so he could properly explore. In any case, check out the Christmas cutie! 

would you look at those little toes!

Thanksgiving

A few days late but I hope everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving! I’ve been so falling short on the posting job lately but I’m hoping to make up for it by making a few posts - including this one with some fun pictures from our holiday.

the hunkies, my nephews…computer genius and firefighter…I might be just a tiny bit proud… :)

my girls! from left - my aunt, my cousin, my mum and me (the goof)…

Hannah Jean getting some love from grams…

It’s the Decorating Diva!!!! She’ll probably kill me for posting this but THIS is the lady who made my house so fab!!! Saying she has skills would be the understatement of the century - this lady has it goin on!!!

my little man in grandpa’s shoes…

Ahh, nothing like siblins that love each other…(ps - that would be my brother-n-law, aka: tapping foot  - as mentioned in a previous post).

My mom’s husband Don playfully showing love for his sister-n-law…

the little miss showing off her (finally) updated pictures…

Me and my beautiful Mum…

It’s Cooper Pooper! And (his) grandma Paulette…seriously, could this little man be any cuter????

and the girls with big thanks to Aunt Kathy, aka: Decorating Diva, who gifted us with these huge coloring books that have been best friends to everyone the last few days! :)

Yo Mama!

This is just for fun - every year I do pictures of my mom and her husband Don for their Christmas cards. Usually, it’s quick and chaotic, fit in between visits and this and that and this year, I have to say, was no exception. We literally had maybe 10 minutes of good light and - uh hum- “someone” wasn’t exactly being the best listener - “someone” was being a jokster and having a little too much fun while I kind of frantically tried to hold the light and get a few shots.  I think I need a bullhorn. Maybe then my voice would carry a little more weight. :)

Overdue Sneak Peek: Family Session

One of the things I absolutely love about this season is usually my family asks me to photograph them for Christmas photos; but, I’ve never photographed my brother-n-law and his family (well, one of my BILs - I married into the big family I always dreamed of, lucky me  - and double lucky because they’re truly the sweetest, funniest group of people). Anyway, not only was this my first time photographing them but it was their first family photo in - 8 years? And wow has a lot happened in that time…let’s see, child #1 gets married, child #2 comes back from mission, falls in love and gets married, child #1 and spouse have grandchild #1…you can see why they were way overdue for a family session. And special on top of special, this is infact the same BIL mentioned in the post below who is doing amazingly good post-surgery as told to me by Des, who you may also recognize as our Studio Manager…yep, we keep it in the the fam! :) 

Anyway, here are my beautiful peeps! Thanks for being SO patient with me you guys! 

 

I love it when people play along with me even if it’s totally goofy! Check out little man Cooper Pooper…even he was gettin down with his goofy self.

Since the boys were featured in an earlier post, I’m posting one extra of the girls because they’re so beautiful and I can’t pick which one I like better!

This seems to be my litany lately - “rain, rain go away!” - Yep, once again, it got us. But we perservered! Ha! Take that drippy skies! :)

My absolute FAV image…they met when they were 15 years old (? something close) and this is them today…suffice to say, several years later….this is something to aspire to. :)