Sophia Joy {Five Months}

Despite this month’s photoshoot happening indoors because of the cold, it turned out SO CUTE AND BEAUTIFUL, AHHH. Sophia is such a photogenic little girl. All my photographer mom dreams are coming true, hehe.

I love looking back on these photoshoots and seeing just how fast our baby is growing up. Hopefully you enjoy them too! Read on for a bunch of day-brightening pictures of our sweet chub friend.

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Farewell 2024 {My Year in Review}

2025 was for sure one of the most memorable, joyful, difficult, important years of my life. 🙂 This was a year of extremes for me – incredible amounts of excitement and love and happiness, as well as lots of pain, frustration, and difficulty. The things I lived through this year will impact my life forever and were something God used to grow me for sure.

As always, I wanted the last post of 2024 to be a yearly wrap-up post. I’ll do this one in last year’s style with a mini summary of each month along with my favorite post. Enjoy!

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We Wish You a Merry Christmas! {+ Sophia’s 4 Month Pictures :)}

Merry early Christmas to you all! We didn’t send Christmas cards this year (because I didn’t want to pay for stamps, heh), but I still wanted to take some family photos to serve as a digital card. So enjoy this cute small photoshoot!

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Sophia Joy {3 Months}

As an early Thanksgiving gift, you get another Sophia post! 😀 We’ve been super busy recently between me getting strep throat, preparing for our first trip with a baby (a vacation with Sully’s family this week), and lots of Etsy orders + window washing jobs for peak season. I really wanted to get some pictures of Sophia before we left for the trip though, and managed to squeeze them in yesterday.

Guys these photoshoots keep getting cuter and cuter! Enjoy this absolutely delightful baby. 🙂

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Fall Fest 2024 {Event Photography}

Our friends host a huge fall party every year with fun family games, yummy treats, and plenty of opportunities for memory-making. I always take pictures, though this year I didn’t cover it quite as thoroughly since I was also taking care of my baby. 🙂 Sophia did well with the noise and being passed around to lots people, although her naps were rather lacking.

I took TONS of pictures of course, but I’m leaving out most of the portraits of people I don’t know just in case they don’t want to be on my blog. 😉 Enjoy these shots of chickens and sunsets + cute little kids!

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Thoughts on… {a Living Sacrifice}

I meant to make this post way earlier, but it’s been a rough few weeks. My mysterious fever kept coming back, baffling my midwife and the ER doctor alike. The latter prescribed antibiotics for a possible UTI and so far, it seems to be working! Praise God. We had a couple other appointments and concerns and lots of fussy-baby-sleep-deprived nights, but I think we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. 

So today I wanted to share some thoughts I wrote down a while ago. Hopefully they will encourage you as well as myself. This post speaks especially to motherhood, unsurprisingly, but the concept of “living sacrifice” applies to any season. Enjoy some thoughtful words and cute pictures of baby Sophia!

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Introducing Sophia Joy {She’s Here!}

Well guys, the last two weeks have been a wild ride. Sophia Joy was born on Monday, August 26th, weighing 8 lbs. 12 oz and looking adorable right from the start. I’ve had a pretty rough recovery, but I’m finally feeling good enough to make a post!

Enjoy this darling photoshoot of our sweet girl while I tell you a bit of her birth story, for those of you who enjoy that sort of thing. 😉

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Alexander Family Vacation {2024}

Every year Sully’s family goes on vacation together, and this year was bigger than ever: 25+ people in one house for a week, including 12 kids under 12. :O

I was SO excited but also a bit daunted, especially with being 34 weeks pregnant and remembering the traumatic ending of the last vacation. But it turned out to be a blast. Since I’m not posting as often these days, I decided to cram all the best photos into one post. Read on for plenty of cute kids and fun adventures!

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