Moments

Moments... I believe that one of the reasons that I love photography so much is because it allows for us to capture these brief moments in our lives and hold on to them for generations to come.  As Shiloh is growing like a weed right now, it has really made me much more aware of how quickly time passes and how brief these moments in our lives our.  Even as I am typing this, moments are passing, each one behind me, never to be captured again.  So, I love the essence of the beauty of photography in that I am able to capture all sorts of emotion such as love, fear, joy, heartache, tenderness, elation!  Also, it is so wonderful to be able to capture big events in people's lives.  And it is for these moments, events, emotions that make life such a beautiful thing.  Just a few thoughts I have been thinking about lately in the quiet moments of my home while I am feeding Shiloh.  :) Here are some more photos of our sweet little girl!  (I realize I am still way behind on getting current pics up!  My goal is to have everything caught up by the end of October! Yay!) 

So my white balance was a little off the day I was shooting these at the beginning of August, but I still wanted to post because of the sweet moments I caught here of Shiloh playing with Josh!  I just love how amazing of a father he is to her! :) 

 Back at the beginning of August when we first started to love standing!!! :) 

I love how she intently stares at her feet! So cute! :) 

~Laura 

You are enough

Well, as I said, here is another blog post!  I will probably have a lot this week as I am playing a littler catch up!  This morning God has reminded me that I am enough. :)  I don't know about you, but for me there are so many days that I feel there are 10,000 things I should be doing, which never get done and at the end of the day I can feel like I am just not enough.  I know this has gotten a lot worse since my demands of life have changed.  In college, as a gymnast, student, leader in Athletes in Action, and girlfriend I think I had every single minute of my life planned out!! And that was  ok, because for that season of my life things needed to be that crazy.  However, now that I only work part time and watch Shiloh the rest of the time, many times I feel I don't get enough done.  Every minute of the day is usually consumed with Shiloh right now, however, it is more laid back in the fact that we have story time, dance parties, and play time! :) And for some reason in the back of my mind many days I feel I need to be doing more things.  However, this morning God has been reminding me that I am enough, that spending time with Shiloh is the best thing I could be doing right now, and that not getting all those little extra things done is ok.  :) So, in with all that precious mommy time I get, here are some more pics from the beginning of August! :) 

She loves looking out that window! :) 

 12 Weeks old!

 Love when she holds her hands together like this!!

 Pretty smiles! :) 

Had to do it in black & white as well! 

 Just love her eyes in this picture! 

Until the next pics! :) 

~Laura

Thankful!!

Today I feel extremely grateful and blessed.  I am so thankful to have the amazing family that I have and all the great aspects of life surrounding me.  Even now as I am writing this, my sweet husband is taking Shiloh out on a walk just so that I can have a bit of time to myself!  I really hit the jackpot in the husband department I believe :) Recently I had a bit of a health scare, but I found out this week that all is well and nothing is in deed the matter.  What a relief!  It has also been in and through this time though that I have realized all the amazing things that God has blessed me with and not to take anything for granted.  A simple reminder that life is so so precious and an incredible gift!!! With that being said, I am finally playing some catch up on getting some photos of our sweet Shiloh uploaded.  As I have been going through them it is crazy to think about how much she has changed simply in the past month!  :) What a blessing she and Josh are to me!! Here are some pics back from the beginning of August!!  Oh and I will probably have many more to come here in the next few weeks as I start going through all the pics!  Hope you enjoy!!! 

Love her big morning stretches!! 

 Smiles for Mommy! 

 ...And Daddy!

 Love those sweet hands!! 

 Talking to Daddy!!! :) 

Just a simple evening in our household!!  More pics to come soon!!! Thanks as always for reading! :) 

~Laura