So I decided to try and capture a few of these things in portraits. While I believe that I captured her love of books during the photo session, it was really hard to capture her love of dancing and singing.  I hope these portraits of my daughter make you smile.

Make sure you take time to capture these fleeting moments with your family.

Let me know if I can help you create memorable portraits for your family.

So I encourage you to spend as much time with your family as you can and make all the time with them as special as possible.

And what is a post without pictures.

Emma cooking with her mommy.

Trying to figure out this whisk thing.

All the ingredients gathered.

Ingredients are together, ready to be mixed.

Emma trying out one of these fake eggs.

Now what are we supposed to mix together?

Everything is mixed, ready for the next step.

Yummy cookie dough, ready to be rolled flat.

Mommy, my bowl seems to be empty.

Let the rolling commence.

This is fun. Cutting out stars.

Trees and stars. These look good.

Sprinkles are fun.

Pretty Christmas trees.

Why can’t we eat them yet?

There cooking. Almost ready to be eaten.

Looking good. Cooling off so we can eat them.

Pretty stars and trees.

Yippee! I finally get one.

How do you bite this cookie?

This is so good. ‘Tank you mommy’

Thanks for sharing in our holiday fun.  Hope you had a great Christmas with your family.  Look for new things to come from Jarman Photography in the new year.

Here is a sunrise photograph from the dock.

We had so much fun playing around in the boat.  It was Emma’s first experience with a life jacket and a boat ride.  She didn’t like the life jacket at first, but once we were on the boat and the wind was blowing through her hair, she loved it.

As you can see she really warmed up to the boat and by the end of the week she didn’t want to leave it behind. When we were getting ready to head back to Tennessee, she waved bye-bye to the boat. It was cute.

My parents brought along there new puppy, Chloe.  Chloe is a border collie, who is 11 months old and still in the midst of her training.  This was Chloe’s first experience with a boat and water.

Along with the boat ride, Chloe had her first experience swimming.  My parents had brought along a new toy for her. The toy is designed to help dogs learn to fetch in the water.

This was a never ending game.  Chloe absolutely loved the water and always wanted to get in.

Emma also loved the water and wanted to get in as often as she could.  She would point at the lake and  say “bath”.  In her understanding, it was a giant bath tub and she loves to play in the bath.

We also got to spend some time with my grandparents, Emma’s great grandparents.  She was shy at first but started warming up to them by the end of the week.

This week left me with such a sense of wonder at how fast children grow and learn.  At the beginning of the week Emma was walking some on her own, by the end of the week Emma was walking all over the place.  I am in awe of this beautiful child that was given to Robin and me.

Click here to see more photographs from our vacation.

I enjoyed the chance to do some more artistic/abstract photos.  I focused finding light a creating the photographs.  And in some cases I just wanted to document that fact we were there with Emma.

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Emma with her Easter lamb.

Emma trying to figure out what the eggs are.

Happy Easter from my family to yours.

We are so thankful for Christ who is Risen.

Emma got to meet Santa for the first time this year. She really didn't know what to think of him, but she had a blast.

We had a fun time with Steve from Expressions Photography on this photo shoot. This is one of the many photos Steve took of us.

Emma and I had a fun time taking these photos even though she kept trying to crawl off the seamless paper.

If you would like to see some more photos, check out the gallery.

Emma posing in my new portable backdrop setup.

I hope you enjoy these photos.

Let me know what photographic needs I can help you with.

Emma's Special Visitor

That’s right, Santa came to Powell, TN to visit with Emma.  As you can see Bridgett had to get in on the action also.  Emma was very curious about Santa.  She kept staring at him and pulling on his beard.  She really didn’t know what to think of him, but she wasn’t screaming or crying.

It was a great visit with Santa and even though it was a week before Christmas, he brought us presents.

Thanks Santa.

Emma's First trip to Dollywood

Wow.  It has been awhile since I updated everyone on my beautiful daughter.  Well, she will be 6 months old on the 12th.  It is hard to believe, but time flies when you are incredibly busy with a baby.  It is amazing to see how much she has changed in the past couple of months.  She is now turning over from her stomach to her back with a regular consistency,  she can go from her back to her stomach occasionally.  She can push up with her legs, but still doesn’t know what to do with her arms.  She pushes her face into the floor then pushes off with her legs, which leads to a very red-faced child.  She is eating rice cereal and oatmeal know and really liking both.  We should be able to start trying different veggies in the next couple of weeks, so that should lead to some interesting photos.  Hope you all enjoy these photos.

She was great during this photo shoot and only got a little fussy towards the end.  It still amazes me how much she has changed in the past three months.  It is so fun seeing her personality starting to show and it just warms my heart when she smiles.  I know she is my child, but I absolutely love photographing children.  They are so much fun to work with and to see their expressions and personalities come out.

Enjoy the photos. Click on the photo below to see the rest of the gallery.