I'm so happy to introduce you to my newest baby friend, Emma May.  Emma is the baby girl of Matt and Eileen, Aiken's area directors of Campus Outreach.  

Thanks, Emma, for a fun photo session!

The charming gentleman in the photo is Hayes, one of my baby club sweeties.  He's a big boy now because he just turned one. The year flew by!

If you are interested in Baby Club info, please call the Studio at 803.221.8951 or send us an inquiry at heathersargent@me.com. 

Do you see the bride and groom below?  That's Curtis and Christina Holmes on their wedding day in 2007.  Christina was a radiantly smitten bride.  Curtis and Christina walked the aisle, said their vows, and partied with friends and family in what was one of the most beautiful and lavish weddings I have photographed. 

All of that planning...all of that romance...

it was the just the beginning-albeit a marvelous one- to the book of their lives together.

Chapter One, "I Do".

Chapter Two, "We're Having a Baby".

Meet Sullivan, the bouncy baby boy of Curtis and Christina. While I was photographing baby Sullivan today, I was telling Christina how my own oldest boy would be heading to high school this year.  But it seems like only yesterday that his Dad and I fussed over our new boy and washed our hands fifty times a day.  Can I tell you that I almost laughed out loud when I pulled up to their driveway for our photo session?  The Holmes live in a lovely home in a manicured neighborhood.  I had never been there before and I did have precise directions but I could have picked out their home without the address...mile high grass and the morning paper still sitting at the end of the driveway at 6pm. And  Curtis and Christina inside with the unmistakable look of exhausted, joyful satisfaction as they introduced me to their brand new son.  No one could have told them how tired they would be, how challenging babies can be, or how the very moment they laid eyes on Sullivan they couldn't imagine in a million years how they Ever got along without him.

It was perfect.  The nursery, the happy parents, the gorgeous new baby, and the unmowed lawn....there really is nothing on Earth as wonderful or as life-changing as a new baby.

Anderson is such a beautiful boy I knew you would want to see his face:)  Isn't he wonderful?

Jenny and Robbie Yarborough know what it means to feel gratitude.  Last Monday night they watched their world come crashing down around them as baby Anderson was born without a heartbeat.  Many scary moments and days at the MCG Neonatal Intensive Care Unit later Anderson is now home and looks very much like every other healthy new baby boy that I have ever seen.  I think Jenny and Robbie would agree that every baby is a miracle- but having been so recently on the front lines of crisis and loss perhaps they know the miracle of new life in a way that is deeper than most will ever know. I imagine that they came home from the hospital and saw the three darling children they already have with new eyes and an overwhelming sense of how temporary we are.

God answered some fervent prayers with "Yes" this week and I am grateful to have been there today to capture this sweet couple and baby Anderson with my camera.