Congratulations St. Francis Football Team

They did it! The St. Francis football team won the state championship! Michael was there and had a great time. He was so impressed with the team.

While Michael photographed the winning game at Ford Field in Detroit, I was in Jackson, representing Creekside Grains at a craft fair that benefited the Jackson County Rose Festival. The Rose Festival is part of the Jackson County Rosequeen Scholarship pageant, which is a Miss Michigan preliminary, like our Miss Heart of Michigan Scholarship pageant. Creekside Grains were a big hit at the craft show. Lots of gifts were purchased for Christmas.

All three of Michael's businesses were represented this weekend. Classic Gallery covered a winning football team, Creekside Grains sold Christmas gifts and a Miss Heart of Michigan sister pageant raised funds for their scholarship pageant. It was a very successful weekend! Hope your weekend was full of love and family and fun!

Go Glads!!!!

Congratulations to St. Francis Football team! We listened to the first ten minutes of the game as we were on our way to Grand Rapids to photograph the Army Recruiters ball. After that, we lost our radio signal and had to wait until now to find out the score!

We are so proud of the team. Great job!

We photographed the winning team on Thursday evening. They are a great group of young men. Michael will join them next Saturday at Ford Field.

Go Glads!

Happy Birthday Chris

Chris recently had a birthday.
I was going to give her a happy birthday blog
and could not remember
what day her birthday occurred.

Chris has great expressions!

I love the hair and hat changes. It makes a whole new look.

Chris is one of the most positive people I have met.

What a great personality!

Her clothing choices were perfect for the State Hospital images.

I hope you had a great birthday!

Alysha's Senior Portraits

Debbie and I became best friends when we lived in Jackson. Debbie and her family moved to Florida just before I moved to Traverse City. Since then, they moved to Missouri. I hardly get to see them because we live so far apart, but I was still able to photograph their oldest daughter's senior portraits. We met in Jackson, I photographed Alysha all over town and we got great images! They have not seen them yet, so this will be their preview.

I love the images and I love the Flint family!

Who's Who?

This is Laurel.

She was three months old for this session.

Laurel got very sleepy during her session.

This is her brother Gage.

He was three months old for this session.

Gage got very sleepy during his session.

When we looked at both images side by side,
we could not tell who was Laurel and who was Gage.


Laurel is now a beautiful toddler.

Gage is now a chunky four month old.

Gage has Laurel beat in the weight.

He has beautiful chubby arms and legs.

Gage is our miracle baby.

We all prayed for Gage and his mother Jennifer.

Jennifer was six months pregnant for Gage when she went into a coma in Mexico.

God answered our prayers.

Gage is a healthy baby.

Jennifer is healthy.

Praise God for miracles!

Cayden's water adventures

Cayden visited us to go fishing, but he had much more fun playing in the water!
Mitchell Creek is very cold, but that did not seem to bother him.
Cayden is such a fun little boy!

Ashley dances

When I photographed Ashley's senior portrait session a long time ago
(a few months ago seems like a long time ago),
I told her that I had so much fun with these images, that I had to post them.
Finally...I am posting them.

These are just a few of the over 120 images that I took of Ashley.
This was her prom dress. It was so gorgeous!

Once the dress was on, I asked Ashley to dance. She was a natural.
The dress flowed so wonderfully.

The best part of Ashley's session was that I photographed her mother's senior portrait session, then her wedding, years ago. Ashley looks just like her mother and has the same wonderful personality that her mother has, too.

I love photographing second generations! Yes, I am old!

Great job Ashley! I cannot wait for you to see the rest of the images!