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Erin + Steve + Brennan + Dylan : Grand Floridian Family Session

January 16, 2017 by Jensey Leave a Comment

Well, it’s time to kick our 2017 family sessions off with some Root Lifers! <3

We photographed Erin and Steve’s Disney wedding, and three years ago, we got to meet their sweet boys. Wellllllll, we had the pleasure of photographing them again two months ago, and these boys are grown and silly and perfect!!

Nate and I met this family at the Grand Floridian for some updated family portraits and play time. :) These boys took to Nate like, well, best friends? Brennan was a little upset when he learned at the end of our session that Nate wouldn’t, in fact, be going back to their hotel room to play Legos! Our shoot ended with a teary Brennan telling Nate, “I’m going to miss you” and my heart grew a million sizes and then abruptly shattered!

Can we talk about how time is going waaaaaaay too quickly lately? October 2013 :

November 2016! <3

Soooooooooooo many favorites. <3

Next photo by Dylan :

Dylan saaaaaandwich! <3

Brennan was such a trooper even though he was sick on their trip. :(

Brennan’s photo request! <3

Bye, friends!! Can’t wait til next time. <3

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Disneyland Holiday Family Session!

January 15, 2017 by Jensey 4 Comments

The week before Christmas, Nate and I had the honor of going to Disneyland for a work trip. But just not ANY work trip… A trip for a session with favorite Root Lifers, Liz and Bryan! Just to recap, we photographed their wedding at Walt Disney World years ago (see that here!) and their anniversary session at Disneyland last summer…

Which you can see again here! :) Last summer, the weather was warm but lovely and we were able to get to the park first thing and beat the crowds.

This year, however… :/ We were “lucky” to get to experience a rare sight- Rain in Anaheim! Nate and I had followed the forecast like crazy people leading up to our trip, but the rain didn’t pop up in the forecast until we got there. Unfortunately, this meant rain or shine we were making it happen. Luckily, they were wonderful sports, as was Liz’s sweet family who we were also photographing! :)

We actually got really, really, REALLY lucky with the weather. We may have had to start our session after lunch instead of first thing that morning, but the rain held out until our last set of photos! I was so thankful!! :)

Liz’s parents are two of my favorite human beings on Earth. Her mother is pure sunshine and it’s impossible to not smile when she’s around! :)

Sibling photo ;)

Oh, Tower of Terror! :/

Liz was showing off her newest Disney tattoos to me, but Nate took this photo thinking to anyone else, it looks like I was admiring her biceps, lol. <3

I MEAN! And yes, that’s Ellie, her pup, riding in a doom buggy from Haunted Mansion!

Colschens and Youngs, we adore y’all!!!!!!!!!!!

Alyssa + Austin : Winter Park Orlando Family Portrait Session

December 15, 2016 by Jensey 2 Comments

I can’t even believe it’s been 5 YEARS since our last session with these sweet Root Lifers. <3

Andrea and Brian were married ~7 years ago, and met us for a family session around Port Orleans Riverside with their sweet baby girl, Alyssa. This was my favorite family photo from that session…

And look at them now!!!!!!!!!!! <3

We met them at Rollins College Campus for these photos. My favorite part about their session was that Alyssa kept asking her mom when the “real photographer” was going to get there, lol. I don’t think she was expecting us to just play with them for an hour for their photos! :)

Stop. This. Train. <3

Alyssa was so incredibly sweet and spunky and truly stole our hearts. Our shoot began with Alyssa telling Mom a secret about us- Specifically, “That man is SO funny, Mom.”