It’s Time | Dallas Fort Worth Child and Family Photographer

People come over to our home. They hear I’m a photographer. And then they look around my house for portraits I’ve taken. “Nope. None of them.” I’m embarrassed–ashamed. Kind of awkward.  But have you ever heard the saying that the peddler’s children go shoeless?  Yup, that’d be us.  I take lots of pictures–lots of images I love.  But when it comes down to it I can’t decide what I want, I get too busy, and then I think that the image is already 3 months old.  Now I need to take more to put on my walls to keep them current.  And the cycle continues.

Nate and I try to make at least an annual trip to the beach with our kids.  They LOVE playing in the giant sandbox, and we love crashing through the waves and just relaxing.  Last year I took this picture and we have ALWAYS loved it.  Oh, but time has gone by!  I finally said I just didn’t care.  And made it into a canvas.  Let’s just say, I’m in love.

I chose to put the canvas in the kids bathroom, since it already went with the colors.  But now that I have this beautiful work of art, I need to DECK that bathroom out.  Make it exquisite.  To go with my new portrait.  I’m not even asking Nate, it just has to be done.  And I am going to put my foot down.  No more bright pink toothpaste in the sink.

I went with a new lab for this one and fell in love with the quality.  I couldn’t believe how my kids just popped from the image, the colors were perfect, and the texture makes me take a deep breath in…and smile.  My only issue now is I wish I had gotten it bigger–like twice as big.  And do you like the texture on our walls?  That matches the texture on our ceilings?  Yeah, me too…