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Patrick and I are excited to post this family shoot. Stephanie Felton is amazing. This was a neat shoot because we tied in anniversary and family into one shoot. Stephanie and Johnny celebrate 10 years of marriage this October. Stephanie was one of our wedding coordinators at our wedding and helped us out so much the day of. As a way to say THANK YOU, we offered to photograph their family in exchange for all her help. She and her family were so appreciative and planned on the shoot for weeks! 

This past Saturday, I spent 3 hours photographing a beautiful outdoor wedding for the newly wed, Atiya and Mohammed. Atiya and Mohammed are African American Muslims, a sweet and kind couple. Their wedding was unique and a cultural experience for me as I have never had the privileged of photographing a Ghanaian-Muslim wedding. I was honored to have been invited to and hired to photograph this wedding. 

My brother is Sam Hoffman. He is a Senior at Mount De Sales. Sam and I are 10 years apart and I am in disbelief that he is a Senior, old enough to take a girl to Prom, and old enough to graduate. Whatever happen to this little kid that I once knew!?

Sam is such a stud, and yes I’m biased but I am a really proud sister. I’ve watched him grow into an amazing actor and a handsome man full of integrity and joy.

This past Saturday was his Senior Prom. He goes to Mount Saint Joseph’s High School in Baltimore. His date: The beautiful Katie Nardilillo.

Family shoots are always so fun to shoot… they are always full of laughter, trying new stuff, and getting babies or kids to sit still… even if for a few seconds.

Belinda is a friend of my mine and I’ve known her family for a couple years. She has three precious beautiful girls: Cora (11), Catalena (7), and Calleigh (16months).

Belinda wanted to get pictures of her girls for Easter, but little did she know how much fun we would have doing it! We headed to Sherwood Gardens, where Patrick and I had our engagement pictures a little over a year ago. Here’s the outcome of our time together!

I pretty much have the most amazing mother on the planet. And actually now, I have two amazing mothers!

I am the proud daughter of Janet Fox Hoffman. I am the daughter-in-law of Annie Nolan. Here’s a few mini collages of ways to call attention to these amazing women!

Thursday’s are #tbt where you post cool pictures from your past.  Well, this past weekend was my 10th year high school reunion and my 5th year college reunion so I thought it fitting to post pictures from both graduations and times of life! Dang.

This past Saturday, my brother had the honor of going to the Mount De Sales Prom with his friend Shannon. Of course being his favorite big sister, I tagged along my mom to go take pictures of Shannon and Sam meeting up, and then went with them to a Pre-Prom where they would meet up with a handful of friends.

Shannon and Sam looked stellar and so did the other girls and their dates at the Pre-Prom gathering. Everyone looked fantastic! Here are the pictures from the evening!

Christina and Matt helped us with our November wedding. Christina was one of our day of coordinators… she picked up my bouquet, helped with all things ceremony the morning of the wedding, and came the day before to work as well. She did so much. And Matt, thanks for chainsawing all those wood pieces from your wood forest for our centerpieces… they will be great for bonfires this summer when you guys come over!

As a thank you, we wanted to bless them and give them something to have for years! They never got engagement pictures done, so we thought an anniversary shoot was fitting for these two… they are adorable and I’m pretty sure they fell in love all over again on Saturday.

I still can’t believe that on November 2nd, Patrick said yes to me. I am beyond blessed to have him for my husband. It’s been 6 months. We are still newlyweds for another 6 months! Happy 6 months Patrick. Let’s go get some yummy food and do something crazy!

This past Saturday, Maggie got to spend an hour with the Grissom Family. Mark and Sherilyn are pastors at our church, which we love. It’s called Way of Life up in Forest Hill, Maryland.

We met Mark and Sherilyn about a year ago, when we first started attending Way of Life. We are thankful for our new friends.