Christiana Childers Photography Blog

This post is definitely in the “Things That Make Me Happy” category. Last week so full but it was packed full of so many of my favorite things.  I have a lot to be thankful for.

This tree makes me happy because it is in a special place for me.

I think I’ve taken a photo of this tree every year for several years.  Once a year my girlfriends and I go away to my friend KA’s parents house to pick our book club books for the year.  This year we just gave up pretending to be a book group and we are now just a group would loves to be together and stay in our jammies all day and sometimes a few of us read the same book.  I’m thankful for my girls (who’d all kill me if I showed a photo of them all in jammies so I’ll stick with the tree).

I’m thankful for cozy moments like this in front of a real fire.

I’m thankful for my home group.  We celebrated Ryan H’s birthday on Saturday.  There is nothing better than getting together with friends over a yummy meal.  Here’s a few shots from the evening.

Lora decorated the table for me.  I just love it! 

I love it when people pick up my camera and take shots.  Thanks Ryan B for this one.  Look at JJ waiting for his turn to hold Baby W.

I’m also so thankful for my family, wonderful friends here and abroad, love, laughter, adventure, U2 tickets !, new babies in my life, my home, my camera…and on and on.  The Lord has blessed me richly and I am humbled by it.

Happy Thanksgiving!

*I just re-read this and thought I should mention that I’m not trying to be all code-y with KA and JJ that’s really what we call them!  But I never use kids names in my posts so will always say W, C, P or whatever for kids.

Meet C.  Nearly cobalt blue eyes, throw on an every-ready smile and then add dimples!  Well!   She is a wee charmer for sure.  Her parents are in trouble with a capital T!

We met at Lincoln Park in West Seattle on a day that even in the morning the forecast was saying it was going to rain all day or at least be cloudy but as you can see we had glorious sun for this family session.  But you could have thrown this one in a dirt pile during a down pour and the pictures wouldn’t have suffered!  She that cute, people.

Sweet, isn’t she?!

Thank you guys for showing me a new spot!

So here we are again with the MOMS group.  Last bunch!  Once again, I wanted to thank you all for being such a great group and so much fun with beautiful, wonderful kids.  Its amazing to me how much I genuinely liked being with you all despite how much work it was!  I can honestly say how blessed I feel to be with you during these photo shoots.

So here are the rest of the shots from the day in no particular order.

I also wanted to tell you about how I kept staring at one dad’s picture and trying to figure out why he seemed so familiar.  There was just something nagging at me and then finally it hit me.  He’s Jesus!  Bet you all didn’t know that about Chris.  Plus his name is CHRIS…put a T on the end and there you go.  You’re not fooling us, Jesus.  We know what you look like from our Children’s Bibles.

My friend Ryan (who knows Chris) thinks he looks more like Barry Gibbs – Bee Gees lead singer.  You tell me.

Ha ha!!

Anyway, thanks again families!  If I forgot to post a family, please forgive me.  I tried to get at least a sample from every family but I have this nagging feeling I left someone out.  I’m really pleased how they all turned out!

I know you all have been waiting patiently for part two of the Marathon Family Photo Shoot but I’m going to have to ask a few of you to practice patience just a while longer.  Last week was just one of those weeks!  I’m part way through the editing so I’ll give you a sneak peek into the finished families –

Dear W,

On the day you were born, we waited to hear that is was time to come in the room and watch you come into the world.  We took bets  - Boy? Girl?  We laughed lots and were told to be quiet.  We kept watch for the dr.  We watched the clock.  We prayed.  We looked outside at the beautiful trees glowing in the sun.  We texted…a lot.  We tried to help your mama but couldn’t help her the way we wanted to.  She was strong and beautiful…and tired.  We wondered if you would sense how much people already loved you.  And then you were born!  A boy!  I was right. I just wanted you to know that.  And I also wanted you to know that you already have a big piece of my heart.

I saw this view on the way to home and it seemed right.

Love you sweet boy,

Auntie Sug

Wow!  I can’t stand how fun my job is!!  So this weekend I got to take Family Photos for a bunch of families connected to Westminster Chapel.  We did a marathon photo shoot and got 11 families in and will do more this weekend as well.  Whew!  Hard work but oh so fun!

I asked Ben to pick out his favorites from the shoot.  He initially picked out over 50 shots!  With each family having quite a few in that bunch and then narrowed it down to the ones you see here.

For those families that got their photos taken – I want you to know how much fun I had and how much I enjoyed meeting you all!  You were so flexible, fun loving, and trusting of my suggestions.  I’m busting my buttons on every family’s collection of photos!  If you don’t see the photo or photo of a child you were hoping to see here on the blog, don’t worry!  I got it!  Ben just had to cut it down….

Thanks again MOMS group!!  Looking forward to meeting the rest of y’all!