A few favorites from my second round of mini-sessions at Tam O’ Shanter Park in Kelso.
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Mini-Sessions Round 1 | Family and children’s photographer Longview Wa.
Back in November I ran a facebook special that went over so well I had to do it twice! This is the first round of mini-sessions from way back then, of course I had to wait until now to post them as all of these families used photos from their sessions for the Christmas cards and I didn’t want to spoil the surprise for anyone. 
“R” and “A” | Family photography Longview Wa.
Another set from my Christmas mini’s. This handsome guy and beautiful mom were so stinkin cute together! Thanks guys for having me as your photographer!
The “B” family | Mini-session | Family photography Longview wa.
Mini-sessions this year were a huge success! I’ve got a full blog post coming up on these soon, but in the meantime here’s one of the families I wanted to feature. 
I love outtakes! :-)
Love Inc. | Love in the name of Christ
I was first introduced to Love Inc in 2010 through my home church (Father’s House in Longview). Love Inc’s mission statement is this: “Our mission is to mobilize the Church to transform lives and communities In the Name of Christ.” To describe in more detail – Love inc is a group of people that work together to organize the body of Christ (all Bible believing churchs across the denominational board) to care for the poor and needy in our communties and show the light of Christ to them through practical acts of caring. I’ve had the privilige of being asked to work with them on several occasions now – one being the Highlands clean up project, another being an after school program for kids, and this one that I’m going to blog about was the Broadway School painting project. The Broadway school is our local special education preschool center that desperately needed a new paint job. It was huge project that spanned several weeks and dozens of volunteers. When it was all finished the school went from being a bit of local eyesore to a beautiful new-looking building.
Love Inc volunteers completely amaze me with their giving hearts and willingness to go above and beyond to bless our community here. On a side note – they’ve actually blessed me on more than one occasion – being a single mom with 3 kids sometimes there are “things” that I’m not capable of doing myself. When I moved last year (twice) they helped me here and there one time even going so far as to drive to Castle rock to pick up a piano that I was given and deliver it themselves to my front door. Blessed my socks off – I never could have picked up that piano on my own, and I didn’t even ask, they heard about it through a friend and showed up at my door with a delivery truck. For those of you that know me – I’ve played the piano since I was 4 years old, but since I’ve been a “moved-out-of-my-parents-home-adult” I haven’t owned one. It’s a small thing to some, but HUGE to me to finally own a piano of my own AND not have to worry about getting it through my door. Love inc is AMAZING.
So – when Larry Russell called me and asked if I could volunteer some time to photograph the Broadway School project I was super-excited. Giving back is something I love. And sadly not something I get to do nearly enough of in my current life-season. THIS was something I could do and I jumped at the opportunity.
I started out photographing the prep – scraping off chipped paint, taping, priming, caulking (there were a lot of holes and gaps that needed fixing).
Then they moved on to the actual painting.
And the very last thing – painting the flagpole. 
Thank you Love Inc volunteers for all that you do in our community. You are an incredible group of people and know that the love of Christ shows through all you do!
If your interested in volunteering with Love Inc of Cowlitz County, check out their facebook page here – Cowlitz County Love Inc
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