Jenna | Van Wert Children's Photographer

Jenna has always been willing to be my model when it comes to photo sessions!  Recently she asked to have some photos taken in Ft Wayne.  Of course, she picked one of the most bitter cold Saturdays for her mini session....but I went with it since she was so excited.  She picked out her own clothes and accessories, we scoped out some locations, and she posed like a pro.   I can't get over how grown up she looks in these.....but I love seeing a glimpse of who she is going to become!

Totally Awesome Photo Session

For the past several years, I have done a themed photo session with Jenna and her cousin Carsyn. It started when Carsyn was 1 and Jenna was 3. We bought them matching dresses and took them to a local photographer to take photos of them together. After that first session, I became the photographer and we seem to have taken photos of them in matching outfits of some type almost each summer since. This summer while they were visiting Ohio we started brainstorming what type of session we could do this time. We came up with a lot of fun ideas, but decided to go all out and did an 80s photo session. We had so much fun shopping for 80s accessories (who knew neon accessories, net gloves, and even banana clips would be so easy to find) and quickly came up with their outfits. By the time their hair was crimped and they were dressed, they seemed to have embraced the "Valley Girl" attitude and were ready for their photo moment! I love how the photos turned out......and love that they will have such fun photos as memories of their cousin time together this summer!!

Ten!!

Happy 10th Birthday Jenna!!

Back at it....

Most of you know that Jacob broke his ankle pretty severely right before Christmas. It has been a long, slow, frustrating healing process for him with a few setbacks. During Spring Break he was finally cleared for activity....right in time for baseball season. Baseball has always been Jacob's favorite sport and it has become my favorite sport to watch him play. This year he is playing on the Van Wert 7th grade club baseball team and will move on to Pony League this summer. I'm not a huge fan of the cold, windy, rainy spring baseball weather we have in Ohio....but I love being able to watch Jacob finally get back at it and play sports again!

Jacob usually plays 2nd base...

Attempting a diving catch....he almost had it! (It will take me a while before I stop gasping when he does something like this....I'm still so worried about that ankle!!)

Dance

This is Jenna's 7th year of dance and her 2nd year being a competition dancer. She is taking 3 classes this year, 2 of them are competition dances. Jazz - this is such a cute dance! They dance to "Wake Me Up" and she dances on the bed several times. I am helping out as a team mom this year, so I spend a lot of my time backstage. All of these pictures were taken back stage during their competition in Van Wert last weekend She's the first one to pop up out of bed....

Tap - This year her tap class dresses like little old men/women for their dance. It is such a fun dance! Jenna happens to be a little old man - too cute! They have won judges awards for "most entertaining" at both dance competitions.

She is also taking Contemporary dance this year. This isn't a competition dance, but she got to show off her costume (which happens to be her favorite) this week for dance photos.

Dance Competition Season....

Saturday was Jenna's first dance competition for this season. She has been so excited for competitions to start up again! This year she is only competing in tap and jazz. She also is dancing in contemporary, but it's a non- competition class. She decided to do less dance classes this year and give gymnastics team a try...but she is finding that she really misses the dance classes she took a break from this year!

Her dance makeup....

For jazz they perform to "Wake Me Up" and their costume is the cutest pj's! Her tap routine is really fun too, but they can't perform tap at this competition since they dance on a gym floor.

Warming up in the hall before competition time....

Waiting for their turn to dance....

Jenna is the first one to "wake up"....so cute!! Later she comes back to the bed and dances on it.

All finished performing and ready to go watch the other dancers. She did an awesome job. She has improved even more this year and is so fun to watch. Dancing is definitely her thing!!