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On Saturday we got together with Jon and Rachel and the girlies to commemorate Lauren’s 3rd year and Evie’s 6 month milestone.  I seriously cannot believe that Evie is already 6 months old!  Last year absolutely flew – I’m feeling so old!

My favorite part of photographing young siblings is the look on the younger ones’ faces.  They’re either resigned to torture or afraid of being killed.  After 6 months of living with a 3 year old, Evie’s pretty resigned. :o)

Lauren is pretty sure that she is a real live princess!  She would love nothing more than to be able to wear only princess dresses every day…

We ended up in historic Franklin for the shoot and I am so proud of Rachel!  She cringed but she let me put her baby on an entry way floor….after she wiped it down thoroughly with baby wipes but still! :o)  This is Evie’s new trick…

And one more of Princess Lauren that I love. :o)

Happy Weekend Everybody! :o)

Best friends are hard to find and they’re even harder to keep close when you rarely see each other.  If you’re lucky, you have people in your life who you can be absent from for months and then pick right back up like it was yesterday when you meet again.  Sharon is that friend for me.  We met when we were in the 10th grade and through going to different colleges and living in different cities, we’ve always picked right back up where we left off no matter how long it’s been.  She is now getting ready to have her first baby and we simply can’t wait! 

If you’ve sent an email to me over the past week, you would have gotten an auto-responder that said we were taking time off to spend with family and friends – it was a lie – we’ve been working nearly the whole time but at least I did have a work-related excuse to see my beautiful friend! :) 

Brian says I made Sharon’s stomach look like a planet in this one.  I believe in bigger than life! :)   

This is currently Sharon’s view of the world…

Sharon is from Nolensville and after seeing this building on a friend’s Christmas card, I had to go find it!  Look familiar Joy? ;)

These guys are going to make great parents! :)

By the way, were you wondering what Baby Girl’s name is going to be?

Brian swears it has nothing to do with his Bulldogs obsession!

And last but not least…due to time constraints, we decided to forego the traditional Christmas decor extravaganza and got a tiny metallic purple, pre-lit tree instead.  Since I didn’t get to decorate a tree, Sharon let me decorate her!  Yeah, she loves me. :)

Sharon, I love you dearly!  I’m so excited for Georgia to get here and thank you for letting me document your pregnancy in my own crazy way!  Hope you enjoy them!  See you soon!

– Mel

We’ve been traveling all over the place, and I think we’ve only been home for about one week out of the past month.  So now that we’re back, we’re playing mad catch up!

Here’s one of the resulting images from the McLellan’s in action that I promised about two weeks ago.

Most of the time when we’re on the beach, there isn’t a single cloud in the sky to play with.  This day was absolutely perfect.  I love the lines, reflections, drama in the sky in this shot of Mel’s.