Whitehill Photography - Murfreesboro Photographer, Murfreesboro, TN Photography

I’m leaving on a jet plane…

and attending (and teaching) at an amazing workshop filled with over 20 AMAZING photographers. So, I’ll be out of the office from August 6 -August 8th!

I promise to return any emails as soon as I get back! Take care and have a fabulous weekend!

Summer

Some of you might know that my husband is a youth minister (and an awesome one at that!)  Every year he takes his youth group on several mission trips.  When our girls were smaller, I wasn’t able to go on those mission trips but I loved hearing the stories.  Now that they are getting a little older, I GET TO GO!!!   So the office here at Whitehill Photography will be closed starting today (June 20) until June 30th, 2010.  If you have questions about a session or want to book something (by the way, starting to book into September, start thinking about those Christmas Card portraits NOW!) you can go ahead and shoot me an email and I promise to get back to you when I get back!  Have an awesome week and I hope the heat isn’t horrible hear.  We’ll be heading to cool summertime temperatures in Maine!

I’ll leave you with the sweet images of both of my birthday girls.  These two little beauties make me so proud, I love that I’m the one they call “Mommy!”  Aren’t they just amazing?!

Summer

He’s my brother!

That’s right… MY little brother (well one of them, I have two!) is featured in a BIG way on the blog tonight.  He’s 18 and going to be graduating very very soon.  We were slated to do his senior pictures in the fall but well, things just didn’t happen that way.  So here he is.  I remember SOOO vividly the day he was born (10 weeks premature, might I add… which was alot back then).  I remember going to see him every day in the NICU while he grew strong enough to come home.  I remember watching him grow, going to little league games, wanting to beat up little kids who weren’t nice to him.  I CAN NOT BELIEVE HE IS GETTING READY TO GRADUATE!  How is that even possible?? I feel like it wasn’t that long ago I GRADUATED!  And here is someone, who is almost like my OWN child, and he’s graduating.  I love him dearly, he means the world to me and I hope he LOVES his senior pictures.    So I’ll leave you to the pictures… and maybe a little from The Hollies.  Enjoy!

The road is long
With many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where
Who knows where

But I’m strong
Strong enough to carry him
He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother

So on we go

His welfare is of my concern
No burden is he to bear
We’ll get there

For I know
He would not encumber me
He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother

If I’m laden at all
I’m laden with sadness

That everyone’s heart
Isn’t filled with the gladness
Of love for one another

It’s a long, long road
From which there is no return
While we’re on the way to there
Why not share

And the load
Doesn’t weigh me down at all
He ain’t heavy he’s my brother

He’s my brother
He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother
I’m so proud of you Shaker-ton.

Congratulations

I love you and am always here for you!

Summer

The weather finally warmed up, dried up and everything is a bloom.  So I finally got to take some shots of my girls in their Easter dresses.  And let me tell you… not only was the weather beautiful, not only were the flowers beautiful but MAN, oh MAN… this mommy is proud to say THE GIRLS  are so insanely beautiful, it takes my breath away!   I have sooo many of these to share and (so many I’m going to want for the walls!!!) but here are three to start us off.
My oldest… quiet, shy, a total bookworm.  And gorgeous.

And another…

And my youngest – bubbly, charismatic and also very very cuddly!

I am SOO excited to be out and shooting outside again, I can barely stand it!

Summer

I know, I know… there are a million people out there asking you to donate your hard earned money for a cause.  Telethons, walkathons, raffles, school fundraisers, church fundraisers, sports team fundraisers… the list goes on and on.  Its not often that I talk about my personal life here on the blog.  However, the annual Walk for MS is approaching and we’ve begun assembling our team.

“MS, you say?”  Yes, Multiple Sclerosis.  “But that’s treatable right?!” For many there are treatments that really work and really help.  Unfortunately, not all forms of MS have and FDA approved medications or treatments for them.  The way we fight this is for more money and more research.

A few years ago, my husband – my amazing wonderful gift from God husband, started having some strange things going on.  He was having intense fatigue and deep leg pain that no medication was even touching.  Things progressed and after alot of drs appointment we found an answer.  My husband has Primary Progressive MS.  PPMS is one of the more rare forms of MS that really have no helpful treatments for.   So my husband is left in pain pretty much every hour of every day of his life.  You would never know it unless you noticed him limping or watched my vibrant, young, seemingly healthy husband use a cane on long walks.  He’s determined not to let this thing stop him and we are all determined that they (meaning the wonderful doctors and researchers out there working hard) WILL give him some hope and some relief one day.  So I’m asking YOU to help us!

The event happens on April 10th, 2010.  Registration begins at 9:00 am and the walk begins at 10:30 am.  Its a 1 mile walk (nothing too strenuous, I promise!!) at the Barfield Crescent Park here in Murfreesboro, you can find registration at Shelter #7.

If you can, join our team or sponsor us.  If not, please include us in your prayers as we walk!

http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR/Walk/TNSWalkEvents?pg=personal&fr_id=13585&fr_id=13585&px=6320634

And because I almost always have a picture for EVERY post… here is the man I’m walking for!  (Did I mention he was hottie too!?!  ) 

(I’m soo gonna be in trouble for posting the picture too!)

Summer

After the hustle and bustle of fall portrait and Christmas card season, this photographer is taking a much needed vacation.  Starting Monday, December 21st- January 4th, I will be out of the office.  I want to spend the rest of this week concentrating on my family and what this coming holiday means to me and our family.  After Christmas we are going on a highly anticipation family vacation and will be away from the computer.  I do have access to my email if something is incredible urgent but won’t be available at all times, even through email.
I want to take this time to again thank all of my amazing clients this year.  It has been an incredible year;  full of learning experiences, tons of laughs, millions of silly noises (by me, to get those sweet children to smile!!) and I thank you for following me on my journey.  I pray that you and your family have a blessed Christmas; delighting in what it means to be a family, the miracle of His birth and the beauty of it all.   Happy New Year, I’m excited for what 2010 brings and the changes it brings in your children as I get to capture them growing!
And fittingly… a little bit of love shown by my own sweet children:

Summer