Glenelg Maryland Family Photography : Luca Family

I have known the Luca's for a while.  Seth was good friends with my brother in high school and Jen is my go to girl when I need a new vintage camera for my collection!  I did their family photos a few years back and was so excited when Jen contacted me to shoot Ethan's senior photos.  After talking with her we decided that it would be a good idea to split the session into half and do a mini senior session and a mini family session.  It was perfect!  I got their early to catch up a bit and get a tour of their new home.  It is their forever home so they wanted it incorporated into their photos.  I love how the photos turned out!  Here are a few of my favorites!

Thank you  Luca family for trusting me, again, to capture memories for you! 

Highland Maryland Family Photos : Marshall Sisters 2012

This is so late, it is embarrassing. Oh well!  Better late than never :).

I have a big family.  A HUGE family, and I LOVE it! My Mom-mom and Pop-pop had 9 children, 3 boys and 6 girls.  There are currently 39 grand children and 23 great grand children.

One thing my family is awesome at is making traditions.  This post is about one of those traditions....

When my grandfather was alive, he would always take all of his girls out on a day between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I remember my mom looking forward to this day.  They spent the day shopping and having a nice dinner and sometimes my mom would come home with flowers, sometimes she would come home with a box of her favorite candies.  He took a day and made it all about his girls.  They loved it and looked forward to it.

Now that he is gone, my Mom puts together a Christmas Brunch for her sisters every year.  It is usually held the first Saturday in December and each year has a specific theme.  My Mom prepares for this for days.  Each sister brings a dish for the brunch, they do a gift exchange and then they all go shopping.  After they are done shopping, they all go out to dinner and end up back at my Mom's where they have a sleepover.

Growing up, we all knew that "Brunch Day" meant we would be gone for the entire day.  When I was younger, my Dad used this time to take all of us kids out to breakfast and shopping.  I was spending this particular "Brunch Day" at home in my pajamas.  I started getting all of these phone calls and finally decided to listen to the voice mails.  My aunts were calling and asking me to come over and take photos of all of them together.

Each one of my aunts are so special to me and I'm so thankful to have them in my life.  My grandma is a rock star.  I love her so much.  I'm so glad I was able to do this for them.  Here are a few of my favorites! 

I hope your family has traditions and you have special memories with your loved ones.  Hold them tight.  Life goes by way too fast.

FAMILY : Harvey 2011

 I never got around to showing these pictures on my blog last year, but better late than never!

Most of you probably know that I married someone from New York so the way I spend the holidays is a little out of the norm (from how I grew up anyways).  Since I have been married, I have spent every Thanksgiving in NY and my family was awesome enough to change the way they celebrated Thanksgiving so Derek and I could be a part of it every year.  Now, instead of Thanksgiving being celebrated on a Thursday, we celebrate on the Saturday before. 

Two years ago we got together early on our Saturday Thanksgiving and had a photo shoot with just us girls while the boys went to the shooting range.  We spent the morning at the Savage Mill and had an absolute blast!  We were having so much fun in fact, I had a family stop and book a session with me for the next day.  How fun!

We had so much fun doing this we decided to make this a new Harvey family tradition.   I adore these images we got; they are something I will treasure for years to come.  Sessions like this are why I LOVE photography.  A photograph captures a memory.  Even if you forget the moment you can look back on the picture and remember how life was that day. I hope you enjoy these pictures!!

Click here to see our 2012 Thanksgiving!