Happy Thanksgiving! I hope this love-filled photo warms your heart a bit :)

My family went on a quick vacation to NYC a couple of weeks ago. It was the first time any of us had been to New York, and it was AMAZING! My little sister will be a high school senior at Powell High School next year and we figured, why not shoot her senior photos while we are exploring NYC? There wasn’t that much down time to take photos, but I think it turned out pretty well. Maddy was a trooper modeling in front of tons of people.

Leave her some blog love please! Isn’t Maddy adorable? I can’t believe she’s almost a senior in high school!

Little Marleigh is the daughter of Becki & Cary, whose wedding I just shot yesterday. Look for them on the blog soon! Isn’t she just precious?

My friend Sarah works for Read To Succeed in Rutherford County and she was looking for photographers to cover their annual event, Reading in the Schools Day . Sarah was my editor-in-chief when I worked as photo editor for MTSU’s student paper. She’s also an AWESOME writer. Seriously, check out her blog. I jumped at the chance to help out because I love kids and books!

Rock Springs Elementary in La Vergne hosted a literary parade. Each class had a different kid’s book. It was adorable! For about an hour I really wanted to be an elementary school teacher… I mean come on, they get to march in literary parades! Who wouldn’t love that?

A few weeks ago I headed out to Ijams Nature Park in Knoxville to meet up with Sara and her adorable sons, Ian & Rowan. I absolutely love Ijams. It was the perfect place for the kids to run around and for me to run around after them. I absolutely love childrens photography and Ijams is just perfect.

The boys are hilarious. I had so much fun and I can’t wait to photograph them again as they grow! Within 10 minutes Ian spilled bubbles on his shirt and started running around like crazy. So we embraced it. We let the boys be boys, and this is what came from it.