I am receiving several emails a day wondeirng when the pumpkin patch session will take place in Ruston at the Townsend House this year, so here it is!

Jamie and I will both be taking sessions the afternoon of Tuesday October, 5th (2:30am-6:30pm) and the morning of Wednesday, October the 6th (8am-1pm). This means that we are ONLY doing 40 pumpkin patch sessions between the two of us and last year I alone did over 60!

Here’s the details:

You can come with your child, in their Halloween costume or in regular clothes (some of you managed to change your child and do both and stay within your 25 minute session time spot!). Your session time is 25 minutes long (which was plenty for the small area we worked in last year, we weren’t rushed at all!), and we schedule them every 30 minutes (so make sure you are on time!)

The session fee is $99 and can include just your child (or children, sibling groups welcome) or you and your child/children and includes 15 digital proofs in an online gallery and on Facebook.

Book your session by September 15th and receive a complimentary 8X10 Unique Motifs limited edition autumn photo mat with a 4X6 opening ($30 value), and 15 hi resolution digital images for download ($375 value) with a limited personal use copyright release to make your own prints, cards, photo books and more!

To book a session you must fill out the contact form bu clicking the contact button above. Please include your preferred day and time (spaces are first come, first serve) and we will email you your actual date and time. If the time works for you then we will book your time for one week. You will have that time to mail a check for the session in order to have your photo mat ready on the day of and secure your spot. If we don’t receive your check we will notify you and then give someone on the waiting list your time slot. There have already been more inquires than spots so reserve yours today!

Here are some images from last year! I has so much fun and so did all the kids!

PLEASE remember to purchase a pumpkin at the pumpkin patch as it benefits DART. If you do not plan to purchase a pumpkin please DO NOT book a session. Thanks!

This is the 11X14 version of the photo mat with three openings. You will receive the 8X10 version with one opening. To purchase extra copies for the 8X10 for $30 or an 11X14 mat for $50 please email us in advance so they will be ready to take home with you on your shoot date.

Jaycee was such a sweet little thing today.  She was tiny and had absolutely flawless skin! She looked like a little china doll.   Thanks, Taylor I enjoyed meeting you and your sweet little girl today!

~Jamie

Tomorrow Josiah goes to his first Meet the Teacher Day at school! Yesterday was his third birthday and he is so excited about being big and going to preschool. Even though it’s only 2 days a week for a half a day I can’t believe we are doing this already! My little man is growing up so fast!

Today he had a big boy hair cut, and then we went outside to enjoy the weather (it was in the 70′s in Dallas today!!!) and play on the playground at his new school. I intentionally had him wear his new Preschool t-shirt for some pictures so I don’t have to try to take the pictures tomorrow or Tuesday when I will most likely be crying.

Our baby boy Josiah at one week old. He was one of those newborns that stayed quietly awake for long periods of time even as a newborn. So sweet!

During his big boy “school hair cut”

That smile that melts my heart!

Yesterday Brian and I were at our church/Brian’s work in Grapevine for an amazing video and photoshoot for the FC women’s ministry, Flavour, and their upcoming conference! My sweet friend Ashley drive up from Waco the night before to stay with the kids in the morning since we had to leave before 5am for the shoot (thanks Ashley!). Around 10am Ashley left and I brought the kids to the shoot with us. Autumn ended up modeling for a bit, I shot some more photos and Josiah “assisted” Brian with video. It was so much fun being there all together.

Brian and I have always tried to have the mentality that our family is our life, and we work with our kids daily. Editing with kids on our laps, having them on shoots, and taking phone calls with laughter (and often screaming) from the kids in the background. Do we turn on cartoons to get work done? Absolutely! Do I cook like I wish I did (like Jamie:)? No way!

But something I have learned is that everyone chooses how they run their lives and their family and this is how we do ours, its crazy, but it works for us and we couldn’t be more happy to have out kids as a part of our business and our everything!

Here’s a few from yesterday behind the scenes, since I can’t share the others with you yet!

Brian and Josiah shooting video on the DSLR

Autumn right after a brief session of standing in for another model (baby) who was getting cranky.