at home with the porterfields

it's all business now that i'm back to work. i've been so busy shooting lately that i've stored a ton of photos in my "ready to post" folder...just haven't taken the time to get them up yet. here goes!

i had the exciting opportunity to work with the porterfield family here in roxboro a couple of weeks ago. miss tina has two awesome kids who know how to give a great mother's day gift - a portrait session! - and we ended up with the perfect day to shoot outside on their gorgeous farm. images like these are the reason my personal photographer's passion lies outdoors. everyone was right at home and happy!

thanks so much tina, willie, caitlin & matt for allowing me to document your family fun. i had a blast!

callie

i've had so much fun with these babies lately! i did a maternity session for casey and jim back before Christmas, and i thought they were excited that baby then!


callie was born on march 29th, and she's just as beautiful as any kid with two pretty parents could possibly be. maybe it's the daddy's girl in me, but i can't help but love these first couple of images. jim might be a giant compared to his baby girl, but he's not too big to be completely wrapped around her tiny finger.





and maybe my favorite shot of all - i think she may have been trying to tell me to get that camera out of her face before she handled business herself. :) i don't blame her. a little girl's gotta be tough!

congratulations casey and jim on your beautiful beautiful little lady. can't wait to watch her grow!

drake & emma

adorable. energetic. sweet and sassy. it only took a quick glance for me to fall in love with these two crazy kids. after an hour with drake and emma, i was completely sold. their smiles are contagious!








it's amazing to get great feedback from an adult, but when two sweet faces like these run over at the end of a session to say, "miss allison, we had FUN taking pictures!," there's just no topping that!

here comes eli

Yep, that's my girl Stacey...smiling...in labor. She's my superwoman. After months of not taking, but teaching Jazzercise with "Baby Boy" in tow, she and Kelly finally made it to their special day at Durham Regional.

The scene in the waiting room was all smiles too (minus the pain, unless you count the pain of waiting). Grandpa Mike tried to concentrate on the game with the boys for some distraction, but we all know he was jumping up and down on the inside.



The waiting room erupted when we finally received word of some action. "7lbs, 11oz" was the text message from the new daddy that sent the family and friends in that room into a frenzy a little before 12:30 a.m. on March 24.







Eli Samuel Davis, only a few minutes after his birth.



Congratulations Stacey and Kelly! We looooooove baby Eli and can't wait to watch him grow!

little lexie

it's amazing how quickly our world can change. just a few weeks ago, i dropped in on laura and stephen and watched them laugh and dream about their baby girl on the way. now she's here, and lexie kay clayton is even more beautiful than i'm sure even they could imagine.

i stopped in on them again today for another fun photo shoot and she and her parents are doing great. she was even more gorgeous today than she was when i first met her. (i'll post those photos soon...forgive me for being behind! i started drafting this post in the waiting room at durham regional hospital on monday night, but was interrupted at 12:15 a.m. when roxboro baby #2 entered this world (stay tuned for baby eli too!).)

welcome to the world lexie kay!!!

stacey & kelly

when i got into photography, i imagined spending my time documenting special moments for those around me. i did not imagine that a short time later, i'd be documenting my best friend's journey into motherhood. i mean, other people do this kind of thing all the time, but us?! wow. here comes life!

i'm so excited for stacey and kelly. they were both born to be parents, and although they've refused to tell anyone what baby boy's real name will be when he arrives, i know that whoever he is, he will be born into the most adoring hands possible...then he'll be passed around to hundreds more adoring hands as soon as this community gets the chance to welcome him!

he's a thumb sucker!

baby buck's soon to be favorite place to hang (if he has any of his parents' blood at all).

finally, the only prego I know who has enough ups to make this one look real!

love you both. can't wait to meet baby boy davis!!!