They will never be exactly this age again.

The gap-toothed grin. The way they still reach for your hand in a parking lot. The serious little face they make when they’re concentrating. The expressions, the quirks, the little things that make them unmistakably them.

It’s all changing, often so quietly you don’t notice until it’s gone.

This season, I’m making it a little easier to hold on to.

Now through November 24, 2026, book an Heirloom Portrait or The Story of You session for December 2026 through March 2027 and pay your child’s age in dollars instead of the regular $150 session fee!

Your four-year-old? Just $4 instead of $150. Your ten-year-old? $10. It’s that simple!

Two Beautiful Ways to Remember Childhood

Heirloom Portraits

Classic, timeless portraits that celebrate the beauty and innocence of childhood. Inspired by traditional children’s portraiture, these images are designed to become treasured artwork, beautifully framed and passed down through generations.

After your session, we’ll meet in person to choose your favorite portraits and explore custom framing options together.

Explore the Heirloom Portrait Welcome Guide

The Story of You

A portrait experience that celebrates your child’s unique personality, just as they are today. Whether thoughtful and reserved or playful and full of mischief, these portraits capture the expressions and little details that make your child one of a kind.

After your session, you’ll have the flexibility to select your favorite images through an online gallery or an in-person ordering appointment.

Explore The Story of You Welcome Guide

How the Promotion Works

• Book by November 24, 2026. Your portrait session may take place anytime from December 2026 through March 2027.
• Pay your child’s age instead of $150. A five-year-old’s session fee is $5, a twelve-year-old’s is $12, and so on. ($1 minimum)
• Each child enjoys their own session. Siblings are welcome, with a separate age-based session fee for each child.
• Choose your favorite portraits afterward. Images and artwork are purchased separately from the session fee, with image collections beginning at $450 for both session types.

Your session fee reserves your child’s portrait experience. You’ll make your image and artwork selections after seeing the beautiful portraits we’ve created together.

Because This Age Is Worth Remembering

Someday, the little things that feel so ordinary today will be the things you wish you could see again.

Let’s make sure you can.

This early Black Friday offer ends November 24, 2026. Sessions are available December through March, with limited appointments each month.

REACH OUT TO BOOK YOUR HEIRLOOM PORTRAIT OR STORY OF YOU SESSION TODAY!

Offer valid for new Heirloom Portrait and The Simplicity of You sessions booked by November 24, 2026, and photographed December 2026 through March 2027. Session fee is determined by the child’s age on the session date. One child per session; siblings require separate bookings. Images, framing, and other products are purchased separately. Cannot be combined with other promotions.

An early Black Friday offer for expecting families in Wake Forest and Raleigh, NC.

There is a version of you that only exists right now.

The woman waiting to meet her baby, wondering who they’ll look like, what their little voice will sound like, how it will feel to finally hold them in her arms.

Soon, she’ll become the woman rocking a newborn at 2am, memorizing tiny fingers and toes, and wondering how it’s possible to love someone quite so much.

Both versions of you deserve to be remembered. So this season, let’s capture them.

Book a Newborn Session, and receive a complimentary Petite Maternity Session as my gift to you!

A Little Something Extra for Expecting Mothers

When you reserve a Newborn Session during my early Black Friday promotion, you’ll receive a complimentary Petite Maternity Session, including five beautifully edited digital images — a $600 value.

Your maternity session will be a relaxed, simple portrait experience in my Wake Forest studio. We’ll focus on you, your growing baby, and this extraordinary season of anticipation.

I’ll help you prepare, including guidance on what to wear, so you can arrive feeling comfortable and confident.

Then, when your baby arrives, we’ll welcome you back for your newborn session! There’s plenty of time for feeding, snuggling, and capturing all those tiny details you’ll never want to forget.

And together, your maternity and newborn photos will tell a story that neither session could tell quite the same way on its own.

How to Claim Your Complimentary Maternity Session

It’s simple!

1. Explore the Welcome Guide. Learn more about the newborn photography experience, including session pricing, collections, and artwork options.
2. Get in touch. Complete my inquiry form and mention the Early Black Friday promotion.
3. Reserve your newborn session. Sign your session agreement and pay the session fee by Tuesday, November 24, 2026.

A Few Important Details

This special offer is available for new Newborn Session bookings with due dates on or before March 31, 2027.

Your newborn session and images are purchased at regular pricing. Additional maternity images and artwork are also available for purchase.

To qualify, your newborn session agreement must be signed and your session fee paid by November 24, 2026.

Complimentary maternity sessions take place in my Wake Forest studio and are subject to scheduling availability. (So be sure to get booked in early!)

Let’s Remember Both Chapters

I’ve been photographing growing families since 2009, and I know just how quickly these seasons pass.

Someday, your child will look at these photographs and see the woman who loved them before they were born, and the family who welcomed them into the world.

I’d be honored to help you tell that story.

Ready to begin?

Complete the inquiry form here and mention the Early Black Friday promotion. I’ll be in touch with everything you need to get started.

I can’t wait to meet you and your little one!

Thoughts from a Raleigh family photographer who’s watched a lot of kids grow up

Time doesn’t announce when it’s changing your family.

There isn’t a morning when you wake up and suddenly realize your child’s face looks older. You don’t necessarily notice the day the last little bit of baby disappears from their cheeks, or when your oldest somehow becomes almost as tall as you are.

It happens while you’re making dinner and driving to swim practice and helping with homework.

Which is probably why one of the questions families wonder is: How often should we actually have family photos taken?

And my answer might be a little surprising for someone whose job is taking family photos: you don’t necessarily need professional family photos every year.

But I also wouldn’t let “nothing has really changed” be the reason you skip them.

How often should you update your family photos?

Babies change dramatically in their first twelve months, so we actually photograph them every few months. Once they’re a little older, many families choose to create an annual record as their children grow.

For other families, every year might feel like too much. Maybe every other year feels right. Maybe you tend to schedule photos around bigger transitions, like a new baby, a milestone birthday, senior year, or another season you especially want to remember.

There isn’t a correct interval.

The part I’d pay more attention to is how long it’s been since you last made a photograph of your whole family that really feels like you.

Not the school pictures. Not the phone snapshot where someone is missing because they’re the one taking it. Not the obligatory Christmas-card photo where everyone tolerated each other for exactly eight seconds. 😅

A photograph where you’re all actually there.

“But nothing has really changed since our last family photos.”

This one gets me.

Because usually? A lot has changed. It just happened too slowly for you to see it.

These three sisters are a perfect example.

I first photographed them six years ago, and then again last fall, and putting the photographs next to each other stopped me in my tracks.

Obviously, they’ve grown. But look at the way they are with each other.

Six years later, there’s something wonderfully familiar there—the way they lean toward each other, laugh together, and fall naturally into being sisters.

That’s one of the things photos give us that our memories aren’t always very good at holding onto. We don’t just get to remember what everyone looked like. We get little clues about who they were together.

Do you need family photos every year?

No. There. A family photographer said it! 😂

But I do think there’s something valuable about creating a record of your family with some regularity – whatever “regularly” means for you.

Because six years sounds like a long time when I write it here.

Living it doesn’t feel that way.

It’s six falls. Six birthdays. A whole bunch of school mornings and vacations and practices and dinners and ordinary Tuesdays.

And then you put two photographs next to each other.

Oh. There it is.

So, how long is too long between family photos?

I don’t think there’s a magic number.

Instead, I’d ask yourself this:

If another year passes and we don’t do them, will I wish we had?

Sometimes the answer really is no. That’s okay.

But if you’ve been saying, “Maybe next year” for the last two or three years, that might be your answer too.

Time is going to keep on trucking either way. We don’t get much say in that part.

But photography lets us put up a pretty good fight.

Maybe this is your year.

If you’ve been thinking about updating your family photos – or realizing it’s been a little longer than you meant for it to be – I’d love to photograph this version of your family.

I offer relaxed, connection-filled family sessions seasonally in Wake Forest and throughout the Raleigh area. You can learn more about family sessions here, or get in touch when you’re ready.