Over the past couple weeks you might have noticed a lack of session postings from me.  Don’t worry, all is good.  Normally my holiday season is so insane I take, the month of December off to focus on getting orders out and recover from October and November.  Last year it didn’t work out that way.  I took about 2 months off  during the summer, around the time Clinton was born and last winter was the busiest winters I have ever had. Not only with maternity and newborns, including one on Christmas Day, but I was also  honored to work with some awesome out of state clients that had flown north for the holidays.

January was an awesome month in which we focused a lot of time on the Live Love Learn event and raising money for the American Heart Association.  There is nothing like the feeling of giving back for a cause you completely believe in. February was an awesome month of meeting new people and shooting in some super fabulous places.  After non stop working since Clinton was born, I decided to gave myself a couple weeks off in March, and it was awesome.  I caught up on work, life and enjoying the small things.  One of my favorite things has become baking with my boys.  They love eating the batter, and why not, it taste great.  I let my husband sleep in on the weekends.  He does an awesome job with the boys in the mornings during the week, I let him get a couple extra “ZZZ’s” Saturday and Sunday.  We never have a full Saturday together so we took advantage of those by going on a couple day trips.

I have to admit, I enjoyed some “ME” time as well. As a mom of three, who runs a household and a business, “me” time is very limited.  Imeet up with about 25 of some of the best photographers in the Hudson Valley, I  enjoyed a very RARE parents night out, and even a couple girls night out here and there.

I constantly get asked by friends and other photographers, “How do you do it with 3 kids?”  Late nights, long hours and not much sleep.  My house is a wreck, but with 3 boys, when will it not be LOL!   Now and then you need to give yourself a little down time to just breath and enjoy life.

We have a VERY busy schedule here for the rest of the year.  We are very excited with some of our new ventures we are working on as well as our summer project.  Thank you for being apart of the Surprise Photography family and we appreciate your support more than you know!