Shanna Chess Photography

Here are a couple pictures of each wonderful family I had the pleasure of photographing yesterday.  There were 7 families total and they all looked amazing in their coordinating outfits!  And those kiddos--oh my gosh, aren't they just adorable!?!  I had so much fun and thank you to all the families that joined me out at Porter's Yuletide Christmas Tree Farm.  I think I will probably want to do this every year!  Enjoy!

Yes, it is a little early to be wishing you a Merry Christmas, but honestly, we HAD to do these pictures this past week.  This young, married couple is sooo busy!  Nainoa works a ton of hours and is going to school and also working on logging hours towards his commercial pilot's licence.  And Lindsey has two jobs.  So when we had a dry day in the forecast, daylight and they both weren't working--we had to jump at the opportunity! I love photographing this couple!  Of course, I'm a little biased since she is my "baby" sister and Nainoa is my brother-in-law and the Godfather of our youngest daughter.  But I absolutely think they are just stunning.  They take such gorgeous photographs and their immense love for each other is just oozing out of their pores.  It's a little disgusting actually!  :p  I'm pretty excited that no matter what happens with my photography business, I will at least always have this session every year.  Lindsey ...

I had so much fun photographing at a local Eugene preschool.  Thirty little adorable smiles to start my day!

Kelsey had such a fun Birthday party at the Science Factory this past weekend!  A fun tie-dyed theme, a magic show and a bubble experiment.  Oh, and who could forget the delicious cake from Sweet Life!?  Happy 9th Birthday Kelsey!

My mother is a "house mom" as they call her for a group home.  This home has four wonderful, special needs ladies that live there.  They wanted portraits to give to their parents as Christmas gifts, so I had the pleasure of spending a morning with Marla, Beth, Melody and Angela.  We started at The Campbell House where they let us do some more formal portraits in front of their beautiful fireplace.  And then we wrapped it up at Owen Rose Garden.  Enjoy!

Our beautiful Raelee is already 3 months old!  We had a great day at Lonepine Farms and I loved the idea of doing a little Halloween type photo shoot with her :)  Enjoy!

What a fun photoshoot we had this past Friday, despite the rain that started :)  We decided on Lonepine Farm and what a great location to take a child!  With the goats and chickens to feed, the playground and sandbox to play in and the fields to run and burn off steam in, Tyler had a great time!  And so did I.  Enjoy!