I can’t believe 2017 is SO close to being over! I feel like things just flew by – maybe that’s just me though! It’s been such a crazy year for our little family and I know 2018 will feel even crazier by comparison – but also so full of joy and our little guy making his […]

Happy Holidays from our family to yours! We hope your holidays are full of light and laughter, filled to the brim with time with family and friends, and of course, good food!  We hope 2018 is full of amazing moments and is the best year yet!    Love, Kristina, Ryan, TOC, Grey Cat & Shelby […]

As this pregnancy is rapidly coming to an end, we feel so overwhelmed – with love, with joy, with nerves even if we’re being honest. I realized that there were so many little things I wanted to remember as long as I could and one thing that mattered was the nursery that Ryan and our […]

Wow. Two years already?! How is that possible? It seems like just yesterday I stood in our apartment and cried on the phone to my mom, feeling like I didn’t know how to make the right choice for my future before finally deciding to pump the brakes on graduate school and give myself time to […]

I’m not going to lie – the idea of taking maternity leave, time OFF, from my business is terrifying. I’ve build up my amazing clients, I’ve built up projects and systems and it worries me that in 6-8 weeks, I could lose some of that. On the flip side, it SCARES me that I would […]

Booking maternity portraits was so important to me for a variety of reasons (read about that here!), but picking a photographer turned out to be harder than I thought! I was so happy when we found Lundy Photography to take our portraits while we had a brief trip to the Outer Banks this fall. The […]

One of the comments I hear a lot from older clients, family and friends is that “maternity portraits weren’t a thing when I was pregnant!” and many of them don’t quite understand the concept. For some women, pregnancy looks glamorous – I don’t feel like I’m one of those! – and for others, it’s a […]

Happy birthday, Ryan! I can’t believe it’s here again!!! It’s your day and I hope you have a super wonderful day. 🙂 You deserve it! Can you believe it? What a year we’ve had. We got to travel together, enjoy some time off, found out we’re having a baby – a little boy at that! […]

Dear David, People told me that once we found out if we were having a boy or a girl, things would feel more real to us. I didn’t think it was possible for things to feel more real than they already did until you join us in the world in January. But finding out that […]

In May, Ryan and I found out the best news in our lives: I’M PREGNANT! We are so excited to finally be able to share our amazing news with everyone! It has been a long couple of months keeping this secret but here we are! Ryan and I have always wanted to be parents but […]