Christiana Childers Photography Blog

I’m a Mentor Mom for Young Lives.  Young Lives is basically Young Life for Teen Moms.  I’m supposed to come along side these girls and offer my “wisdom” as an older mom but they are teaching me so much about courage, pride and strength.  I admire these girls so much.  I think back to when I was their age and the peak of my selfishness (still find myself on the slope down – will I ever get to the end of it?!) and can’t imagine being able to let that go and take care of someone by myself while finishing school!  Can you?

We met at the park with two of the moms and their boys.  Both of these boys are so expressive and so much fun to follow around with a camera.  It was tough to narrow it down to only a few so I didn’t have a mile long post!  Hope you can see a little glimmer of their personalities and their mamas’ love!

I never get tired of shots like this…Can you see the lipstick print on his cheek?!  Love it.  Thank you all for a fun afternoon at the park!!

OK, so some of you know that my friends tease me that my stories always start with “My cousin…”  It’s actually true.  I’ll admit it.  BUT, in my defense there are lots of stories there!  First, I have about 75 cousins (not really…but wait.  That’s not far off..) and they are really remarkable people! So here we go -

MY COUSIN Adam just got home this weekend from his first Command Tour as a Navy Commander on a SHIP (I got in trouble for calling it a boat.  Learn from my mistakes!).  Here are some shots from the day!

Here’s my patriotic brother…

This guy kind of killed me!  Do you ever see someone like that and they just remind you of something special?  This man did to me.  I took a bunch of shots of him.

And then the reunions began!  So fun to watch!!

Here’s my cousin and his daughter -

Here he is being interviewed by the media.  I love all the hugging going on in this shot.

And the newest member of the Starr Clan -

If those pics don’t make you bite your knuckles from cute, well, there’s something wrong with you!

And one last one that I got first thing in the morning.  I made Ben stop on the freeway.  It was just too beautiful!