I can not get over Michelle & Chip's expressions in this photo... I mean how seriously enamored with their new son do they look? Man what a beautiful family!

Michelle & Chip welcomed sweet baby Isaac into the world just a couple weeks ago.  And as usual it was a huge compliment to be entrusted with his first photo session.  Doubly so though in the case due to the fact that Michelle’s sister, Lisa (one of our favorite and most documented clients) asked me to travel to Indy for this session.  What an awesome sister to be concerned with them getting photos enough to send me to Indianapolis for the shoot.   Anyhow all this to say I love getting to be part of our clients lives.  I’d met Michelle at Lisa’s wedding and now I got to see her again and meet her so squishy, so sweet, so new baby boy, Isaac. Congrats, congrats, congrats, you guys are doing great.  Just remember when you feel so sleepy that you feel like a walking zombie, when you are covered in baby spit up, or are changing the worlds stinkiest diaper, look back on these photos and remember how great it was to hold Isaac just days old fast asleep in your arms, remember that feeling;  it’s a great reminder of how totally worth it they are.  And here’s the really cool thing— it just gets better and better!

Loved meeting this sweet little family and their adorable boys!  I love hearing the random connections of ways clients find us.  This family is friends with one of our very first wedding clients and Shane and April share the same hair stylist.  Anyhow it was great holding, cuddling, shushing, swaying, and of course shooting this new little guy.  Their family was so laid back and up for anything.  They seemed amazingly well rested which left me in awe.  You have a beautiful family.  Thanks so much for allowing me to document this awesome time in your life.  Congratulations!

There are a few families we are lucky to see once a year and then there are a couple families we have the pleasure of seeing more then once a year, and this is one of them!  I feel a special bond with Lisa, because our boys are similar in a lot of ways.  Our pregnancies were a lot alike, we grow amazing hunky baby boys, they had similar tummy issues, and both Dawson and Ezra had thighs that could win championships!  I love seeing them and photographing them and it’s always nice to see what Dawson looks like and is doing  he’s a great gauge to know what Ezra will be into next.    Till the next time!  Keep growing your healthy, handsome, hunky little man!

We met Connie at the DWF convention in Nashville a couple years ago.  We chatted one night till the wee hours of the morning.  (Ahhh those were the days, pre-baby where we might stay up for fun.)  Anyhow it was a great convention, heard a lot of amazing speakers, met a lot of cool people, but none actually changed our business as much as Connie.  She offered us candid, helpful constructive business advice at just the right time in just the right way.  Sounds a little silly I know, but there are people who offer you a key piece of information you’ve been lacking at just the right time, and that is what Connie did for us.  Anyhow, fast forward a couple of years and our paths crossed again, this time while she was working on a new extension of her business, she is the founder of the Indy Studio Share, a super cool concept that has really flourished with her guidance in the Indy area.  Since then we have had the opportunity to hang out with her and her family as she and her husband graciously continued to advice us on the business side of things— they are kind of geniuses when it comes to business.  Can’t say how great it is to brainstorm photo ideas and new business paths with someone who isn’t a local competitor.   Hopefully I offered a little insight in exchange and that it was helpful for her to be on the other side of the camera (while also getting some updated family pictures), I know we always wonder what it feels like to be photographed!  Thanks so much for sharing your time, family, and general geniusness with us!  Enjoy the sneak peek.  Oh and folks if you are in the Indy area and need a new family photographer check her out Connie Phillips Photography!

We photographed her wedding I think three years or maybe it’s four years ago now.  We met her for coffee at downtown starbucks and talked things over, I’m pretty sure that when she booked with us I was still working at the Journal, WOW that seems like forever ago now!  Anyhow it was a beautiful wedding and I especially remember enjoying time with her family before hand photographing Rachel and her siblings.

Fast forward to July 2010 and Rachel and Sean welcome a sweet baby boy into their lives— little Harrison— HARRY!  So, they called me up and I had the pleasure of photographing their new addition.  I was pregnant at the time with Ezra.  We chatted, enjoyed ourselves and I did my best to document their sweet baby.  Little did I know that dinner and several conversations later that we would be seeing Rachel on a regular basis.

Many of you have asked what we do with Ezra while we’re working— well Rachel is just one of the people who makes what we do possible, she graciously shares her time, knowledge, love and son with Ezra several days a week making it possible for me to work on all your lovely photographs!  Thank you so much for sharing your lives with us we are blessed to call you friends.  And I know Harry can’t read this or even understand this sentiment right now, but thank you little man for hanging out with my buddy, showing him how to smile, growl, crawl, giggle, bang things, bump things, pretty much all things boy and for sharing your summer, your mommy and the last several months with my Ezra.  Happy First year Harry, here’s to many new adventures!