Life Isn't Always Pretty and Why It's Okay to Remember it That Way!

Why would anyone want to open themselves up to a complete stranger, invite them into their home and say “Have at it! We’re an open book, show us what it looks like!” Sounds scary right?

Ellie hunts for treasures underneath her bed. 
Ellie hunts for treasures underneath her bed. 
   Stella tries on her mom's shoe during a sick day with not much to do at home. 
   Stella tries on her mom's shoe during a sick day with not much to do at home. 

No matter what we look like on social media, LIFE IS MESSY. Life is hard. But this is your life and it’s moving fast, I don’t know about you, but I want to remember these messy, loving, real days while my kids are still kids. You don’t have to display your life unless you want to, (I’ll print them in a book so you can look back on these “everydays” throughout the years).


  Vital lost his phone in the subway and his sister tries to cheer him up. 
  Vital lost his phone in the subway and his sister tries to cheer him up. 

You may want to have a few prints made of your youngest giving your oldest a pedicure or the water fight that spontaneously erupted in the kitchen or the quiet, tender moment between you and your youngest. Those might make it onto the wall!  

 

    Vital fights off his sister Celestine while she tickles him on the couch in their living room. 
    Vital fights off his sister Celestine while she tickles him on the couch in their living room. 

I GET IT! With so many photos of happiness posted on social media, we’re all under so much pressure to be “perfect” and the possibility of being seen as anything different than that makes people uncomfortable. It’s such an unrealistic standard to measure ourselves against. Who’s perfect?! When I see and capture these lovely and real moments, I see you and the love between you and your family, You may see bedhead now, but I can guarantee years from now you and your family will appreciate that the time spent with papa was captured forever. 

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10 year old Ellie plays violin with her uncle and dad in a family jam, still dressed up from playing waitress with her brother. 
10 year old Ellie plays violin with her uncle and dad in a family jam, still dressed up from playing waitress with her brother. 

Documentary Family Photography is for every family. Families who go shopping on Sundays and violin lessons on Tuesdays and soccer games on Saturdays. It's for the family who loves to eat and hates to do the dishes or the cleaning up or the laundry... yet again. It’s for the family who has to wake up their teen in time to get to school. Every. Single. Morning (feel me?!). It's for the family that snuggles in bed with their toddler on a Sunday morning followed by pancakes, a bath, a nap, a walk around the neighborhood. 

What's your family's story? Get in touch and let's tell it.

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