Jack and Lola Session Giveaway!

November is a month for giving thanks, so to thank you, I'm giving away a free session!

I am really feeling the fortune of wonderful people and clients in my life right now and am thrilled to offer a session to a loving family who is excited to capture the people they are most thankful for this holiday season. 

To be considered, please send me an email (link in my contact page on this site), detailing a little bit about you and your family as well as:

1) Your location

2) Who are you as a family, what would you say defines you, what are you thankful for? (not to be answered exactly in that order, but share yourselves with me on a deeper level. I am really looking to connect with someone and share in celebrating the special people in their lives.)  

3) One other family you'd like to nominate for a mini session  (That's right, I'm giving away a full family session as well as a mini session to someone you are thankful for! ) and why. 

4) Follow me on Instagram, handle:  Lyndseyyo and Jack & Lola Photography on Facebook 

The session will last about an hour and a half and include a CD of your edited images. I will choose a family and their nominated mini session family on the 24th of November. The session will be scheduled after the new year at the convenience of the family and myself. SO looking forward to meeting some new people and spreading the fortune of celebrating family! 

My little October baby

October 16th is a day I will both celebrate becoming a mother and silently grieve the wickedness that is growing up. It feels like he crept up on us in the night, this boy that has eclipsed the baby I thought I shared my days with.  This boy who won't let me carry him, who puts his underwear on backwards everyday, who requests a knife with his meals to try and fork and knife each bite like a man, who tells me he IS a man when standing on his tip toes, who I knew had one foot out the door the minute we laid eyes on him. 

(*This was just a family walk one morning...none of these images are staged, I came to capture the fog, he came to rock.)

A few weeks ago on the eve before Henry's third birthday, I sat going through my photos on Instagram, and I felt full of love for him, the life he has given to us, and the people he is turning us into. I have been following our family's journey on Instagram pretty much since I became pregnant with him and it reads like our not-so-private little life journal. In it, I see so much I take for granted, so much free, out of thin air, joy we get each day because he is ours. His confidence, strength and will are ever present in everything he does, and serve him well in getting what he wants, and not to so much in giving his mother's poor heart a rest. But perhaps more persistent than all the steam that propels him forward, is his giggling joy that seems to pull people into orbit about him. I pray both of  these sides to our boy only grow as he does, and that in the middle of all his go-go-going he remembers to stop and appriciate where he is once in awhile. I will--watching with hands clutched to my chest, and orbiting proudly. Isn't that what we do as parents? With our tools in place, we orbit them...always. 

 Happy third birthday Henry Porter.  The world is yours son. 

Holiday mini sessions

I honestly cannot believe it's holiday season prep time...honestly. And even as the sweat beads down my back in this awful heat, I know I'll be looking back at the holiday season come 2015 before I know it. 

This year I'm only doing one quick round of mini sessions...two little boys keep these two tired hand quite busy! Space is  limited, and will be held at an Orange County location given once you've booked. And for whatever kind of holiday photos you are taking this year, here are some of my favorite fall what to wear inspirations for the kids!

So excited to see everyone!!