Few words are needed for this family. They are simply and absolutely beautiful! Mother’s Day afternoon the weather was perfect, the sun was shining and even though these two are teenagers that wouldn’t typically enjoy having their pictures taken- they stuck it out for mom just long enough for me to capture some beautiful pictures for her to have for years to come. (Ok.. so Brittany didn’t mind but Austin really wanted to go hit some golf balls…) :)
Recently it seems as though life is running non-stop and days run together and before I know it months have been here and gone! We’re pushing up to the end of May and I feel like just yesterday it was Mother’s Day- where does time go?!
It’s a fact of life that the days seem to run together and before you know it another month has passed, and then another and before you turn around a year has gone by. Selena’s not alone in the fact that the last professional pictures she had made of the kids were from when they were about 5 and 7. It’s easy to get caught up in the day to day routine, work, schedules, Life and forget to take time to capture and preserve the faces, memories, and expressions of your children as they are right now- at this moment- before their head hits the pillow… right now. What will you remember about today 5 years from now? Will it be the way they smiled or laughed? Will you remember the way they look so you can see how much they’ve changed? Will you remember how year by year they grow and what years they change the most?
I’ve been reminded over the past several weeks how blessed I am to be healthy and in all my travels kept safe, but how quickly life can change- in the blink of an eye everything can suddenly become different. Just a few of the reminders I’ve been given are a friend I’d see outside riding bikes with his daughters has been laid up in the hospital for the past 6 weeks after a very bad accident and still has a long road to recovery, or my cousin who nearly lost him thumb in a work accident, and even the family I’m coordinating the fundraiser for next month whose world was changed at a routine doctors appointment when they discovered their daughter had an incurable and life threatening disease.
My friend, Dane Sanders sums up the importance of photography quite nicely with his quote, “Do you have the photographs to remember today, if it all changed tomorrow?” It’s that fast. Life can’t be taken for granted and everyday should be lived to its fullest. It’s amazing how fast the perspective on life can change and it usually happens when you least expect it.
So right now- go tell someone you love them. Make that phone call you’ve been meaning to but you’ve been too busy… make sure you let those you care about know and lastly take time to enjoy today for what it is and has to offer because tomorrow could be the beginning of a new chapter in your journey in life.
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