Meredith Alane Photography

This little guy is a true miracle. He has to be the happiest baby I've ever meet. I'm so in love with him and I'm so lucky to be his aunt. Graham was born at 28 weeks and only weighed 3 lbs 10 oz. In his first 5 months of life, he had many surgeries and had to stay at Dayton Children's during that time. I remember going to visit him and just wanting to hold him or touch him and not being allowed. When I finally got to hold him, I didn't want to let him go. I'm so thankful for all the prayers and help my brother and sister in law received at that time. Now the little guy is doing wonderful, he is starting to sit up, rolls all around and loves playing with his feet. He giggles and talks all the time. When I got to watch him this weekend, I was overjoyed at how far he has come. He has the most gorgeous big blue eyes and a smile that melts your heart. I just had to do a mini session with him :)

  The girls had to go outside and enjoy the snow Sunday afternoon. I was not able to get any "good" images of Natalie during our play time in the snow. She was running around to fast for my camera but miss Rory stopped to pose for the camera a few times. She was so cute, picking up the snow and putting it on her head. I loved the purple hat with her beautiful red hair. I'm so glad our friends came to visit us this weekend and we got to play in the snow. Even if it was only for a few minutes. I wasn't sure we were going to get snow this year. 

 Wow, is it hard to take pictures of your own family. My mom and dad asked me this year to take pictures with them and all their grandchildren. First of all, it really hard to get my whole family in one locations. Someone is always missing, see the Bennett not shown message above. Then trying to get my nieces, nephews and own daughter to all try to look at the camera as somewhat of a challenge. Their ages range from 16 years to 8 months. (I wont lie, there is some photo shop work done to one or two of these images) All in all, I think the pictures turned out great. I hope my parents loved them too. These are just a few of my favorites. Maybe some other time, I'll show some bloopers :)

  A few weeks before Christmas I got to meet this fun and energetic family! I had so much fun photographing them and especially chasing Benji around Wartinger Park in Beavercreek. Aiden is a fantastic big brother and a huge help to me. I think we got some perfect pictures of the four of them. It may have taken a little longer than expected but was totally worth it.    Just a few action pictures of Benji   Benji fell in love with the blue picnic table and only wanted to be photographed on the table. We even tried having Aiden lay on the ground, I thought Benji would have loved to crawl all over him. But no, the picnic table was more entertaining. I love this shot of Aiden in the tree, he wanted to climb the tree but we kept chasing Benji around. He was so patient in waiting his turn. I love that Benji had to do it to after watching his big brother. Thank you so much Niki and Chris for allowing me to spend time phot...

  Merry Christmas! I hope everyone had a fantastic and safe Christmas. We had a wonderful day spent opening presents, visiting with family and playing games. Natalie loved all of her wonderful gifts. This was the year of Frozen. Santa brought her Elsa and Anna barbie dolls, then Oma and Opa got her Elsa and Anna baby dolls. She also got an Elsa dress from mommy and daddy and Coronation Day outfit from mamaw and papaw.   Santa's presents!   Chocolate stocking from Santa!    Oma and Natalie using her molding clay and tools while Opa plays on his phone in the family room.   Santa also visit Oma and Opa's house and brought Natalie and Riley a new doll house with some Frozen figurines :)   How cute is this face, love him! We are so thankful and blessed to have such a wonderful family. Natalie loves spending time with her cousin (sometimes bestie) Riley. We are really lucky everyone is so close....

Playing a little catch up this weekend from one of my oldest friends Kristen. Kristen and Aaron now have a beautiful 9 month old daughter Jordyn Ashleigh. These are a few of my favorites from our photo session back in February when Jordyn was still a little peanut in her mommy's tummy. It was such a cold and very windy day we had to move our session in-doors but we were still able to capture the love and excitement between these soon to be parents.