What is it about kids that keep growing each year?! Ha! I know, but all jokes aside. Wow, time flies by. We first had the privilege of photographing the Ogren family back when no-longer-so-little Jeremiah here was a newborn. Yup, picture a newborn baby in not the greatest lighting and with a person who was just entering into the photography world. Oh my have we learned so much since that day, but the trust and privilege that Bethany and Jeff gave me all those years ago and continue to give me in documenting their family portraits means more than I can say.

C​an I say there’s just something added cool about showing up to a senior photo shoot of someone that you personally know? Like maybe you aren’t super close, but you’ve seen the person and had conversations with them multiple times and, so, when you arrive at their senior portrait session, it just feels a little bit familiar and yet different. Different? In a bad way? Not at all. More like when you watch a butterfly emerge from a cocoon. You blink twice and realize rather suddenly that he or she is no longer that “young kid” anymore, but someone emerging and on the brink of adulthood.

​Okay you know the old saying, “first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in the baby carriage”? Yes, classic elementary school stuff, but the thing is it sticks to the brain. Well, at least mine anyways. Any-who! The point is, when it comes to photography world, it can often be first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in the baby carriage… or in the case of Jenna and Kyle, first comes maternity portraits, then comes family portraits, and, hopefully down the line, more fun family portraits, because, I (Lindsay) can’t get enough of these two!