Beautiful, wonderful, sweet baby S is here!

Random comment: A few of my shoots this past month were “christmas card” shoots but it just doesn’t seem like it should be that time of year already.

The “H” family has done a christmas shoot before and I always have fun with them! The kiddos are so different from eachother but each of them are very sweet! The best part is that they don’t even mind my camera being in their face for an hour or so! haha
I hope you enjoy this sneak peak “H” family!!! I have LOTS of new Christmas cards to show you! WOOHOO!!

xoxo Melinda Ann

My cousin Summer is a genius! (How is that for an opening line Sum?) She had the best location idea for her family shoot…. Crossroads Village in Genesee County! We had the whole place to ourselves a few hours before they opened. Beautiful grounds, beautiful family and hilarious times! Summer is hysterical and her oldest son Mr. R is just as funny and entertaining. The subject line is for him of course and yes I included a picture of why I wrote that. He isn’t even 3 yet and we passed a fake graveyard with skeleton bones laying around and he grabs the skeleton arm and starts giving everyone high fives with it! LOL

I love all four of you so much and thank you for helping with Leighton while I captured the sweet and crazy of your family!

When we purchased the campground about 4 years ago, there were numerous seasonals and they became our summer families. Casey’s family is one of them and I can’t believe he is a senior. I remember when I was taller than him (barely, but I was) and now he towers over me and I’m pretty sure he could beat Don in a arm wrestling match. haha

Enjoy your sneak peak guys!!

xoxo Melinda Ann

A few of you have heard me rave about Erin, our neighbor and babysitter, so you’re probably sick of it. haha But now you get to put a face to a name! YIPPEE!!! For those of you that haven’t heard me talk about Erin here is a quick fyi…. she is amazing, kind, thoughtful, sarcastic (awesome), beautiful, considerate, very trustworthy, and is less than 3 minutes away. Leighton loves her and so do we!!!
Here is a sneak peak of Erin and GIGANTIC horse Keeno! I will put a more worthy sneak peak up in a few hour hours but right now Leighton has decided she comes before the rest of Erin’s sneak peak. How RUDE Leighton!

ENJOY ERIN!! We love you!! xoxo

Jessica Hegge

Congratulations to you!!!! Thank you to everyone who participated in the giveaway. I’m definitely going to be doing more of these in the future. Too fun!

*A 2010 Simple Session and a 10 page Custom Photo Book* is what I am giving away today! This is my first time having a giveaway and I LOVE IT! I’m definitely going to make this an annual thing.

Please make sure you leave your first and last name in a comment. The comment tab is just below the title of this post…. right hand side…..see it?

At 11 p.m. the giveaway will end and using Random.org a winner will be chosen and announced on my website at 10 a.m on Friday, October  16th.

*Only one entry per household and must be used by the winner, it cannot be used as a gift.*

GOOD LUCK to everyone that comments!!! I am so excited to announce a winner!

And no post would be complete without a picture… I figured I would post one that makes me think of warm weather since it is gone and over with. :*(

Well this is the update that everyone has been waiting for!!!!!

The giveaway is…drum roll please…

A 2010 *new* simple session and a press printed 10×10 hardcover custom photo book

The giveaway has now been moved to Thursday, October 15th! It will begin at 5 a.m. and end at 11 p.m. If you would like to be in the giveaway you must leave your first and last name in a comment on the giveaway post (NOT THIS ONE!) which will be posted at exactly 5 a.m. on Thursday . By the way the comment box is right above this post but below the “topic” line….right hand side….see it?

I will then take all the names and put them into random.org for my one time draw and it will randomly (weird I know) choose from the list of names. VERY exciting!!!!! A gift card will be given to the winner and must be used within a year from Oct. 15th. The winner must be able to meet my easy to live with policies. If you want to see my policies before you comment on Thursday, just contact me and I will email them to you.
I know there will for sure be some questions about the giveaway and I would LOVE to answer them. I will list, what I think will be asked, below and if there are other questions please comment on this post  and I hope to get to them before the giveaway!
Here are some questions:
*How long is the session? 90 minutes at the least

*How many pages will the book have? 10 pages (not including cover and back)

*Can we choose our own photos for the book? I will ask for your top 10 favorite photos so that I can put them into prime spots. I like to choose where a lot of the photos go so that the book makes sense and kind of tells a story….your story.

*Do I get to choose when my session takes places: You sure do! You have a year to use it and we will work together on a date that works for both of our families.

*Can I fix the giveaway? ABSOLUTELY not! I can’t even fix the giveaway! I paid random.org to choose someone for me, so this is a very fair giveaway!

I hope this all made sense! I am of course open to any and many questions! Just leave it on this post instead of emailing it to me because your question might have already been asked.

xoxo - Melinda Ann