I have this thing about pictures. I love to take them, so much that it drives my entire family crazy. My husband has been known to groan when at another event, I have to wait to have someone take a picture of our family. But for me, it’s capturing memories of my family. I love looking back at photos and remembering the great times I’ve had with my family.
In the past 5 years since Hayden was born, we have only had one professional picture taken of our family. While I love it because it’s my family, it’s just a boring ol’ studio picture. When Olivia and Evie were born, I knew that I wanted to get pictures taken of our whole family to capture this time that seems to be moving by so fast.
When I came across Michelle Evans Photography on Facebook, I was so excited. I absolutely loved her pictures and I loved that she was just starting out and growing her photography business. I was excited to find a photographer who could hopefully become our family photographer – there’s so many occasions I want to capture!
When we met Michelle at a local park, I instantly felt comfortable with her. She has 2 year old twins so she GETS how to photograph young ones. She was patient and fun with Hayden, who is 5 years old as he posed for silly pictures and begged to immediately see what she had captured. She was totally patient and still had a smile as Evie fussed and cried and didn’t want to leave my side. I have to admit, that is what has stopped me from getting professional pictures before – you never know if your child will have a meltdown, especially with younger ones.
Michelle took over 30 photos and I had to get them all. It’s been hard deciding on which ones to frame and I’m excited that I now have gifts to give the Grandparents this Holiday season! Take a look below at some of my favorites.
Ah, I could have shared so much more because I’m in love with them all! You can learn more about Michelle Evans Photography and see her her work over on her website!
I am SO excited to be teaming up with Michelle to offer one lucky St. Louis reader a one hour session for up to 5 people – that includes 1 hour of shooting, online viewing gallery and a CD of 20 edited images with print release!
Enter the Rafflecopter form below!
Disclosure: I am receiving a photo session in exchange for this post but all thoughts and opinions are my own!
We true to do them every year. Last year (2012) we were able to but we can not afford them which make me very sad.
That is something that held us back too. I love that Michelle is so affordable!
My brother-in-law took our pictures last. He does a great job, but isn’t a professional photographer. He’s actually a medical doctor. Ha!
Probably 5 years ago
The last time we had family photos done was about 10+ years ago. I recently got married so it would be so great to do a new family photo with my husband in them!
The last time we had family photos was probably when our daughter was 3 or 4. She is now 7. My son is 2 and his only professional photos are his hospital photos. We really need some family photos and this would be so awesome to win!!! 🙂
Our last family pictures were when Hayleigh was 6 months old. She’s now 2.5 years old. So it’s been awhile.
This would be amazing to win! We had photos done earlier this year and he just…didn’t understand young kids, we were so disapointed with the shots.
I can’t get over how amazingly your photos turned out! I think you need to frame them all. <3
We had pics taken 2 years ago for our family and for our twins 1 yr birthday. I think it’s time for another!
Love the girls!!
The last time we had all of us done was Dec 2010.
We haven’t since our oldest (now 4) was born. And we have had 2 more little ones since then. We are due!
How adorable! Love the photos!
This is would be great to win! I am a twin mom and it would be great to get the opportunity for a fellow twin mom to photograph ours 🙂
I’ve never had family photos done. Would love to finally get some!
Beautiful pictures! She really captured the kids’ personalities!
Excited about this contest! Our baby is almost 6 months old and we haven’t taken family pictures yet. I’ve taken lots of pictures of him but haven’t taken the time to get pictures taken of the 3 of us together.
What a fun contest! The last time we had family photos was 6 years ago!
This would be great! I haven’t had pictures taken of my daughter since her first birthday. I want to get them done annually but it can be hard. I’d love to get some of the both of us.
We do them every year. Unfortunately the last 2 years we have had bad luck with our photographer. Desperately need new pictures taken!!
Michelle took some fabulous pics of our twins a few weeks ago! We’d love to win this session to use for some family pics!!
Our last family picture was in May and it was terrible! We had them done with our parish for the parish book, but the photographer was ancient and didn’t have a clue. He was a very nice gentleman, but had no business taking pictures anymore. I even asked him to redo the picture of my kids, but it didn’t help.