A Couple of Snow Days with my Nieces | Personal Work | North Carolina Portrait Photographer

On a snow day you get excited to sit in your pj's by the fireplace, eat comfort food all day, maybe go out in the white stuff for a couple of minutes, and watch all of your favorite shows on Netflix or Hulu ... right? Well, not my nieces. They expect a photoshoot. Fo' reals. These were obviously two separate snow storms because the oldest has blonde hair in some of them and is a brunette in others. I love these girls, but I don't have the time to let them change hair color and photograph them again in the same day :P

Can you tell that these girls have had a lot of time in front of the camera? They seriously do whatever I tell them to and most of the time don't need any direction at all. It's like they practice for these days or something ;)

Hopefully we won't have anymore snow shoots this winter, so y'all enjoy these and keep your eyes peeled for some lovely spring portraits!

xoxo

It's a GIRL | Gender Reveal | North Carolina Family Photographer

This day was special for two reasons:

1. It was this little ladys first time going to Krispy Kreme

AND

2. This family got to announce to everyone that that little doughnut in the oven is a GIRL!!!!!!!

Both of those are very huge moments in a person's life ;)

I am so excited for my BFF and her family to welcome in a new little girl and can't wait to spoil her with kisses and kittens!!! Well, probably not the kittens :P

xoxo

Baby Noah | North Carolina Family Photographer

This little guy is so completely blessed to have been given the family that he has just as much as they are completely blessed to have been given him and I am blessed that they chose me to photograph the first year of their lives together :)

After years of trying to add to their family this extremely patient couple were given Noah. They were given his ten little toes, his ten little fingers, his amazing curly mohawk, his gorgeous eyes, his kissable little lips, and his amazing little smile. Right after meeting the whole family I felt as though all three of these individuals were meant to share their lives together. This was God's plan for them.

This was the first of Noah's four sessions with me this year and it was only suiting that it took place on his Dad's very first Father's Day :)

* this was the sunset after our session and it was just as beautiful as they are as a family *

Baby Kennedy's One Year Session | North Carolina Fine Art Photographer

You guys remember this little lady's first ever session with me??!?!!???!? She's grown up so much already hasn't she???

Hope y'all enjoy the photographs from Kennedy's one year session ... the last one in this post is my favorite ;)

xoxo

Happy Birthday, Ainsley | Life

Someone is turning 13 TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Time has flown by and Ainsley has become a teenager. I remember the days when all she wanted to do was sit in your lap and cuddle while sucking her thumb and twirling her hair with her pointer finger. There were def times that we had to cut her hair from that pointer finger because it had become so entangled. She also used to walk around with this fake cell phone and call it her "cella phone" ... "Call me on my cella phone, Aunt Court" :) And boy did she LOVE some Bob Marley and The Grateful Dead's "Tennessee Jed". LOVED it! She loved music in general. The summer that Ludacris' "Move B-word (Get Out the Way)" came out she edited to relate to her own life by throwing in her big sister's name, thus singing "Move, Bairdy. Get out the way. Get out the way, Bairdy. Get out the way" ... Genius. She is the only one of her sister's that didn't cuss when she was little. Not that the other's had mouths like sailors! Once I was talking to her mom or one of my girlfriend's, while Ains was close by, about this awful roommate that I used to have. Since I knew she was within an earshot I used my words carefully ... or so I thought. I told the other person about how this roommate called me a "witch" (but really she started that word with a "b" instead of a "w") and right away Ains started asking questions. I'm pretty sure Ainsley thought that I practiced magic for a couple of years following that incident...

I could go on and on with stories about this sweet little girl, but what I really want to say more than anything is that she has turned into such a great young woman and I am beyond proud to be her Aunt :)

Love you, Ains!!!!!!

xoxoxoxoxo,

Aunt Court

Now it's photo tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime ;)

Ains LOVES to model ... she actually begs for sessions of her own. She's a natural.

I mean, look at these two poses she came up with herself (circa: before digital). Classic and edgy. Can we say "prodigy"???

And here are some of the two of us just being cool (top left to right): This one was just after my wreck so half of my face was paralyzed, but Ains didn't care about my creepiness ... she just loved me. This next one was at Battle of the Bands on ECU's campus ... She was a dancing machine. Numero three is one when we visited them at Camp Seafarer ... I almost squeezed her to death this day. And the last is at our fave hangout spot, Chico's (the Mexican restaurant, not the store) :)

And this is her and Moose from the beginning up to the present. Buddies fo' life.

Happy birthday, sharkbait!!!!!!!!