Megan and Carly’s children continue to amuse and delight another year later! Last time, their son was just a lil baby and Big Sister was all decked out in shark shoes and a variety of different outfits, all of them fabulous. This time, Little Brother has just turned two and loves puzzles and cars and slides and his big sister. Big Sister is four and is incredibly theatrical and loves everything and everyone, and still prefers multiple outfit changes a day into really fabulous clothes. Both of them majorly love glitter and intentionally overuse it in their craft projects. Little Brother, at one point, spilled red glitter all over his blue paints. Big Sister gasped, paused, then said, “I love that for you!” They both looked like they had murdered someone covered in glitter by the end of the project and were quite pleased with themselves. Both love dancing and playground equipment and piggyback rides and racing, although Big Sister can’t help herself regarding early starts. They’re wonderful kids who are joyful and sweet and love each other and their moms so much. I’ve loved watching Megan and Carly’s family grow over the years while watching Megan and Carly remain the same loving, compassionate, hilarious people they were when I first met them years ago.

It was an absolute pleasure to take some headshots and candid shots of one of the rehearsals of the Durham Community Chorale! I’ve been part of this community choir since January 2024 and I absolutely love them. It’s such a fun, positive group. I had been looking for a choir to join for quite some time and they fit the bill perfectly. Since joining, I’ve made a lot of choir friends and have a blast singing the large variety of music that our director Melody picks for us. I felt good giving back to the Chorale by doing some branding photos for them that involved taking some headshots of Melody and our accompanist Ramon, small group photos of the DCC8 (a smaller, subsection of the choir that has special concerts and rehearsals), as well as candids of the Chorale practicing for our upcoming winter concert (tomorrow, December 7th!). If you’re interested in joining the Chorale, please check out our website or ask me if you have any questions (we always especially need more tenors and basses, so if you know of any guys in your life that sing, please pass along the info)! We hope that you come hear us sing soon!

I love this little crew! I’ve known Hannah and David for a long time and they’re some of the nicest people, and Hannah also sends me really quality bat content on Instagram. In addition, their son is obsessed with cats and therefore my best friend. He now also likes dinosaurs and Ghostbusters (!!) and is just an overall delight of a dude. We spent some time taking photos in a beautiful Raleigh park, hiking down to the water to walk on some logs and then circling back to the playground. I, for one, have never seen a child use a slide like this, and am convinced his bones are made of rubber. He would climb up, slide down, literally shoot out and land hard in a type of stuntman roll, and then shoot straight back up and do the whole thing again. He keeps everyone laughing and active and amused, all the while talking about cats. The best!