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Featured Session: The Franke Family Documentary Session

Life with littles is just plain hard sometimes.

My prayer for this film as it goes out to this family in the thick of it, is that they can watch it in quiet moments and appreciate the beauty that’s being buried in all that busy business of keeping babies alive and fed.

 

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Family Pictures with Older Kids

Scheduling family photos with older kids isn’t only possible, it’s necessary! This Niles, MI shoot is full of inspiration for you.

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Family Pictures with Older Kids | Mishawaka, IN Family Photographer

Taking family pictures with older kids is just as important as it was when they were younger, but we tend to put it off and not prioritize it like we did when they were reaching baby milestones, first birthdays or beyond. I don’t know why that is… maybe it seems like they aren’t growing as fast (not true!), or that the school photo each year does the job. Maybe it is that our teens are awkward and let us know, sometimes loudly and often, how much they are not interested in it. Likely it’s that these older kids come with busy schedules and finding the time to even think about scheduling photos seems daunting. Fitting in a session between a zillion practices, music lessons, birthday parties, sleep and school sounds impossible.

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Family Pictures at Saint Mary's | South Bend Family Photographer

Things I loved about this family pictures session at Saint Mary’s College in South Bend.

  • Brynn took the time to think about the session, do a little homework, and came up with the great idea of doing a leap in one of her photos. I love that she was thinking about it!

  • We definitely, 100% captured Nolan’s personality. I was laughing through some tears trying to edit these photos. His dad is the funniest person I know. He’s kept me laughing since Elementary School, so this did not come as a surprise to me. Mom said “that IS Nolan. He will LOVE that and think he’s so funny!” (See below for the picture I’m talking about.)

  • I tried out a new game to get some real, authentic smiles. I loved it. Better yet, the kids loved it. Can you figure out what it was?

  • An old man in a security car pulled up to us during the session. I thought he was going to ask us to leave, but instead, gave us some inside info about some pretty places to take pictures on Saint Mary’s campus. Yay for nice people!

  • This family. I love this family so much.

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Family Pictures on the Sandy Shore | Mishawaka Family Photographer

When you really love the beach look for your family photos, but you don’t want to travel the hour to Lake Michigan, I have got you covered. Right here in Mishawaka, we have the most lovely, perfect place for family pictures… if you don’t mind a short, beautiful hike. The sand, water and grasses are the perfect backdrop for pictures of you, your littles, or your bigs. Your kids might even get to see a deer, swing on a rope swing or skip some rocks.

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