Ruegg Family

Meet the Ruegg family!  I recently met with this family while in Missouri for a little family photo shoot.  Emily Ruegg and I were roommates during college (ah, the memories!) and it was great to catch up with her and spend time with her husband (who reminds me a lot of John Corbett, seriously) and her two beautiful sons.  Thank you Ruegg family for a great day!  It was so nice to see you all!

Such sweet faces, they look so peaceful!

They were a playful bunch

I just love these facial expressions!

Waters Family

A couple weekends ago I had a lovely photo shoot with the JB, Amanda and Judson Waters.  I have photographed this family several times before when Judson was just a newborn.  I love the Waters family!  They are former neighbors of mine and Kyle.  I have really missed our impromptu hang-out time (that consisted of a surprise knock on the door in the evening and then hanging out in pajamas most of the time) since they moved to South Carolina.  So, when Amanda told me they would be in Louisville and they wanted to have family photos taken, I was really excited!  We love you guys!  Can't wait until you all make your next trip this way!

It was such a beautiful afternoon.  I love the light in these photos!

Having fun with Daddy...

We also took a few photos of Judson since he just turned a year old.  Happy birthday, little man!

Photo shoots are tough stuff!  He still looks so sweet though, even when he has tears rolling down his cheeks!

Fall Time!

Hello again from another long blog hiatus!  What can I say?  Things have been wild around the Meadows household these days.  Anyway, I can't wait to share these lovely fall family photos with all of you!  You may remember this family from past blog posts such as this post.  The Stewart family is ADORABLE.  Who can resist those beautiful blue/green eyes that the whole family is blessed with?  Plus, I have a lot of fun with family, partly because they are fun, also because they are my friends.  Anyway, we had a terrific photo shoot a couple weekends ago.  Thank you Jessica, Shane, Lydia and Jonathon for a fun day!  Check out the pics!

And......keep a watch out for my next post on my very first wedding that I photographed with much help from Julia Black.  Yay!

Jessica made her daughter's skirt just for this photo shoot.  It fit in perfectly with the scenery.

My favorite part about the photo on the left - I can see Jonathon's freckles on his nose.  So cute!

I loved the sunflowers we used for this photo shoot!  Great idea from Jessica Stewart!  I love creative clients!

Sweet brother and sister!  And check out Lydia's skirt!  Ahhh!  So cute!

We were also able to snag a few photos of the happy couple....

Thank you again Stewart family!  You guys are beautiful!

Ashley and Evy

Meet Ashley and Evy, two very beautiful girls I had the honor of capturing with my camera recently.  And not only are these two beautiful, they were also a blast to spend time with.  Evy is a big Disney fan, which I totally love.  I mean, I'm the girl that drew pictures and wrote letters to Mickey Mouse as a kid....  And my father may still have Steamboat Willy memorized by heart because I wanted to watch the movie so frequently.  So, you could say Evy was a girl after my own heart.  She showed me how to fly like Peter Pan, she told me about the Princess Parties at Disney World and at the end of the shoot, we had fun shouting out the names of our favorite Disney characters.  And Ashley is a fellow photographer and homemaker (AND she is a fantastic interior decorator).  If I lived in Missouri, I would love to meet with this lady over coffee (or in my case - hot tea, not a coffee drinker) to talk kiddos, photos and hope some of her awesome decorating skills would rub off on me! 


Ashley and Evy live in Southeast Missouri, which is where our photo shoot took place.  (Thank you Teegarden family for lending us your field for the morning!)  Ashley and her husband, Kurt, are currently on the journey to adopt a little boy, Liam (they have such great taste in names), from South Korea.  Hopefully, their little boy will be home in September!  If you are interested in learning more about this family's adoption journey, visit Our Adoption Tapestry.

FYI - I did not photo shop those blue/green eyes.  Crazy, right? 

Little Evy knew just when to ham it up for the camera!  She was so sweet!

I love these yellow chair pictures with Evy.

She was modeling for us in the bottom photo.  Love. it.  Oh, I was thought I would try out some vintage editing with that pic, whaddaya think?

Dimples!

We even snagged a few photos of Ashley for her blog.  This girl should be a model!

Thank you Ashley and Evy for a fun morning!

Trapp Family

Jessica Trapp is one of my dearest friends.  We have been friends since junior high, we were roommates in college, traveled overseas together, were maid of honor in each other's weddings....  Needless to say, I love this girl.  And her family.

Six months ago, Jessica gave birth to Uriah - who was several weeks premature.  This little guy had a rough start.  He was in the hospital for the first month of his life.  Jessica and her husband, DJ, were faithful to make trips to the hospital several times and day and several times at night in order to feed and sooth their newborn son during his entire stay at the hospital.  They actually couldn't even hold him for several days after he was born because he was so weak.  I was so impressed by the patience and grace that the Lord gifted Jessica and DJ with during this stressful time.

Well, fast forward now 6 months and you would have never guessed that this little guy had been through so much!  He is one chubby, happy and beautiful little man!  I just couldn't get enough of his big smile and rubber band wrists.  Praise the Lord for how He has cared for Uriah!  I was so excited to have an opportunity to capture this family on my camera!  Thank you so much guys for a great morning!  I love you all so much!

I love this face!

Such a happy guy!

I like the lines in this photo.  I also like DJ's tongue hanging out.

They call this his "fish face"

I loved this location!  I love old murals.

Getting a little sleepy...

Now we are working out that last bit of energy....

Modeling is hard stuff!  He fell asleep immediately after we stopped taking photos.  Of course, I had to get out my camera again to catch this.

Jessica, Nathan, Silas and ?

   Meet Jessica, Nathan and Silas Lugbill!  This is a beautiful family I have been blessed to get to know since our family moved to Louisville.   We met when Liam was a newborn and Silas could not yet crawl.  Man, it's amazing how much things can change in just a year!  Especially when you have another baby on the way!  We can't wait to meet the newest Lugbill, due a just a few more weeks!  And, because they want to wait until the baby is born to find out the sex, well, the rest of us have to wait too.  Bummer.  My guess is.....it's a girl.  I'm always wrong though.  And the names?  They are keeping that under wraps too.  Can you believe that?  Keeping all of us in suspense like this is just a shame.  Just kidding, it's been fun trying to guess.  We can't wait to meet you Baby Lugbill!  Until we do, here are the best pics we have of you so far!

I love his eyelashes.

Silas did so great through the photo shoot!  He had a lot of fun!