Let’s be honest, it is scary to follow your dreams or to pursue something you love to do. It is scary because it is not always the most logical or safest thing for you to do. I wouldn’t consider myself much of a risk-taker, I am a play it safe kind of a guy. If there is a possibility of failure or getting hurt, there is a good chance I won’t do it. But two of the biggest things I have done with my life up to this point have been huge risks to me and they both have one thing in common, love. The first big risk was the day I (finally) decided to pursue my wife, it took me a long time to work up the guts to ask out my wife on our first date, just because I had that big fear of rejection and not wanting to put myself out there and risk getting hurt. But I did it, after much prayer (and the threat of not being allowed back in my home or being beaten with a hammer by my college roommates if I didn’t ask Jessica out) and confidence building I asked her out, and now we are married and in our first home. The second biggest risk was the day I decided I would quit teaching and pursue my love and passion for photography. It is by no means an easy decision to say goodbye to a nice and steady paycheck, but Jessica and I decided it was a risk we would be willing to make together and just see what God has in store. God would be the underlying foundation in all the huge decisions and risks I have taken up to this point, because his son Jesus Christ would be the ultimate example of risk and love. Coming to earth knowing he would die on a cross in order for us to have the chance to be seen as guiltless in the sight of God, solely on the act of love. Because His sacrifice was done out of pure love and faith in God, there ended up being no real risk involved at all, because God was in complete control. I feel the same way about my decision, since I am pursuing what I love and have put my trust in what God wants, I have faith that He knows exactly what He wants for our life and whatever happens is in His will, which makes this big risk seem much more manageable when it is not in my own hands.

With all that to say, 2009 has been an exciting year for my wife and I. 2010 will be the first full year of business and I can’t wait to see what is in store. I am continually amazed and blessed to see my business begin to slowly grow each month, I love getting inquiries for weddings and portraits and just amazed that more and more people find my site daily. Just that simple idea blows my mind. To close out the 2009 year I wanted to share some of my favorite portraits and weddings from 2009. Today I am going to share my favorite families, kids, and babies. Stay tuned for seniors, engagements, and weddings. Enjoy!

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Time to share another great family session with you! I had the pleasure of having a family session with Blake, Kristin, and baby Cade Clickner again during the holiday season. Here is the post from last year from our session together in their home. It is crazy to see how much can change in a little baby over a year, Cade is such a big boy now. The Clickner’s go to church with us and we are all in a bible study together, so I see Cade all the time and don’t see the change so dramatically until I look back at our old pictures. Cade is one of the happiest babies I know and I love being around him, I actually rarely even call him just Cade, it is actually more like Cade-erific or Cade-oroni. I may be confusing him for the rest of his life? Ha. Alright, well enjoy our session we had together at the Dallas Museum of Art.

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Time to meet Dustin, Tricia, and their cute little boy Dylan. The McCoy family met me out in Terrell, TX (home of Jamie Foxx) for a fun/urban family session. Up to this point they have had their pictures at studios and were not completely happy with the outcome or variety from the pictures, so I couldn’t have been more excited to provide them with a custom portrait photography experience. I had never shot in Terrell before this session, but I pass by it every so often and when I go through the tiny square I always knew it was a place I wanted to have a session. Dylan just turned 3 years old the other day and has already been practicing saying how old he was with his fingers as you will see in the pictures below. Thank you Dusin and Tricia for allowing me to take your family portraits. Enjoy some of my favorite images from the session. Don’t forget to click the link to see all the pictures from the session!

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I am very happy to share this family session with everyone today, mainly because this family is part of my HUGE family tree. In a mexican family (or maybe just my family) when it becomes a little complicated to explain how a certain person is related to you, you simply just say they are your cousins, not 2nd cousins, not 3rd cousins twice removed, simply cousins. This large and loving family stem from my mom’s side of the family tree and Albert (the dad of this big bunch) is my God-Father.

This family session was organized by Amanda(pink shirt) and all the children as a gift for their parents 25th wedding anniversary, what made this gift all the more special was their oldest son Alberto(red plaid/green shirt) who is a Marine stationed in Japan, came back after almost 20 months just for the occasion and celebration. I was more than excited that they thought of me for their family session and couldn’t wait for the day to come! When trying to decide on a location we wanted a place that was special for them as a family, and they are a family who loves to camp and be outdoors in nature. Amanda finally decided that the one place that would mean the most to all of them was going out and doing our session in Tyler State Park, a place that they have visited for 12 years. Out of the 30+ state park they have visited over the years, Tyler State Park is their favorite by far! They consider Tyler State park their home away from home simply because of all the memories they have shared there over the years, from fishing to walking the nature trails.

We scheduled this session for last Saturday and everybody was ready to go but I think the weather missed our memo and it began to rain more and more closer to our session time. As I was making the trip out to Tyler the rain seemed to just get heavier and heavier and it was looking like we were going to have to reschedule sometime very soon since Alberto would have to make his way back to Japan. I was not very happy of the thought of having to reschedule so I just kept hoping and praying that somehow and someway we could still have the session once I got to Tyler. Sure enough as soon as I exited for Tyler State Park the rain began to stop and it just turned into tiny sprinkles, I couldn’t believe it! So we ended up being able to have our session with only a few sprinkles here and there, which you might see in the background occasionally.  It worked out perfect and as soon as our session ended the rain began to pick up again! God had our back for this little moment in time! Well enough of me yappin’ away, enjoy my favs from the session!

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