WELL this has been QUITE the year, hasn’t it? It started off like any other. I had a few fun sessions and things were in the books for spring, but just as we were about to have Cherry Blossom Minis at the end of March, the whole world stopped turning. I had newborns being born and friends having milestones that we were missing and we all felt so isolated from one another. My boys were happy to fill my creative void with our own Front Porch Project session and I stretched my comfort zone with a fun rain session. As we learned more about Covid, Maryland allowed us to be outdoors in the sunshine with each other! Yay! I stayed masked and safely distanced, but we were able to have sessions again! Thank goodness. I saw a lot of my favorite families with 10 total sessions during 2020. I modified my 5 newborn sessions to safely allow parents to cherish those sweet early days and celebrated 5  happy, messy birthdays this year in my open studio. I was mostly booked through the fall season, almost as if things were back to normal, but when it came time for Holiday Minis, I had to get creative. Snow minis were a hit with 16 families playing in our yard for a few minutes each and I managed to sneak in a few last minute sessions in tree farms to wrap up the year including my 3rd maternity session on the nicest day in December. If this year taught me anything, it’s to absolutely cherish the moments we have with our people and to enjoy those true beautiful connections between humans. We’re off to a slow start in 2021 until the weather warms up and we can get most of us vaccinated, but I absolutely can NOT wait to get back out there snuggling babies and high fiving those kiddos.

Let’s look back on all of the beautiful reasons we had to be happy when the world felt crazy:

Thank you so much for another gorgeous year!!