Holidays are right around the corner and you’ve promised yourself you are going to start preparing for your cards and gifts with a little time to spare this year. But where are you supposed to find that kind of time?!? Well…Tammy Swales Photography has got a solution.

Holiday Family Mini-Sessions!!!

They are like sessions, only…mini-er! Which means less time out of your holiday preparations, less time to try to coordinate short attention spans and the same priceless photographs without any fuss at all!

For more information check out this link!

You are thinking about the holidays (sort of).  You think…hey!  It might be a good idea to get our family photographs taken so we can….

A.  Have them.

B.  Give them as Holiday Gifts

C.  Print them up in holiday cards to send out!

Right?  Don’t try to hide it.  I know the thought has crossed your mind.  But.  It is the middle of NOVEMBER.  And if you have any HOPE of having me take your family photographs…

You should call or email me right away.  You have until December 1st.

So if you’re reading this and thinking…OMG I have to do this…remember…

I know who you are. 

PS — These families are WAY ahead of you. 

Here’s the cliff note version:

wedding.  fun.  pink.  amazing sunset.  (you’ll have to wait for those however.  they’re still a secret.  ::grin::)

senior Bryanna with the most.amazing.hair.and.blue.eyes.ever.

crazy fam session that included sand eating (8 month old) and falling into the lake (3 year old).  Yep.  I laughed the entire time.  So freaking cute!

a pair of adorable Llapso’s and their moms and a great sunset.  but lots of mosquitos.  You’d be surprised at how many mosquitos I have to photoshop off people’s faces at this time of year.  srsly.

an engagement session that started with a soccer ball being kicked quite dramatically at the poor fiance.  And yep.  My suggestion.  Luckily Victor didn’t actually HIT her with the ball.  But I made a note to self:  bad idea.  ::grin::

Whirlwind week.  New ideas.  New components that I can hardly wait to share with you…but I must.  Self restraint is never good for me — but I am trying to improve as I get older — so you’ll have to stick with me and see when it rolls.  But I mean it — so cool.

Without further ado…I give you:  this week in pictures.  Sort of.  this week in sneak peeks for clients.

When you are photographing children under the age of say…oh…10…

You have to be on the ball.  There’s no “okay.  just hold that while I get it right” going on.  There’s no three hour window.

Little kids move fast.  They tire of you quickly.  And there are many times when you have to just trust to the powers that be that you are going to get the images you hope to get.

Knock knock jokes started us off today.

Then silly faces (omg wait until you see THOSE).

Dancing.

Yeah.  I was heavily into trusting the outcome would be good because we never stopped moving.  ::grin::

I was super impressed with these two beautiful girls today.  The charming miss N.  and miss S.

And when they busted out the tutus?  Seriously?!  Could they be cuter?

You tell me…

C — here’s your sneak peek.  Thank YOU for letting us have fun with the camera today!

Shimelle.com offers crafty scrapbooking classes for people and she has an annual “journal your christmas” class going on right now.  It looks seriously cool.  I was reading about one person who did this last year and treasures her journal because her life is so different (and not in a good way) this year.  Shimelle has all kinds of ideas and advice and inspiration in this class — so if it sounds good — it’s not to late to sign up!

Woo!  Fabulo!