My kids and I took a little time off and went to visit my brother and his family at Lake Cumberland in Kentucky. It is so pretty there and we had a lot of fun.  Here are some of the pictures from our trip!

I started photographing the beauty

( aka Brooklyn ) when she was 9 days old. She has always been dainty and beautiful and from the start she loved having her picture taken.

21/2 years later along came the ”Beast“ ( aka Liam). Although adorable in his own right

Liam is pure boy, he is big ( just as big as his sister who is over twice his age ), rough and tough and a dirt magnet. Liam is not so crazy about getting his picture taken but this time around he was just a little put out that his sister was getting so much attention while the focus was on her.

( see the “pouty” picture ) After a little coaxing… liam cheered up and we got some great shots of him too : )

One time when I was on the phone with the kid’s grandma Dorothy, Dorothy turned to Brooklyn and said ” hey Brooklyn I’m talking to Muffet. Brooklyn’s response was ” My Muffet? ” I love that!

One Reason why I love being a photographer is because I LOVE people… and… I love being able to touch peoples lives. Being able to capture big and small moments in a person’s life and then being able to feel the emotions and feelings in each of the images that I capture is priceless. After time goes by and memories fade… you have the images to bring back that special moment in time. I believe that God has given me this “gift of photography” and I love sharing it as often as I can.

Many of you know that I think the world of Children’s Mercy Hospital. My niece has been a patient there many times so when I was asked to help with a fundraising project for their new cardiac unit I could not have been more excited. The images that I took for that project I turned into a book which you can see on my web site www.muffetpetrehn.com. The book called “The Gift Of Life” recently won a Fujifilm Masterpiece award and will also travel word wide with the PPA loan collection. The images that you see here are from a second surgery that I photographed at Children’s Mercy Hospital. I will be making another book that will be given to the Down Syndrome Guild to help families understand what their child might go though during open heart surgery. I hope that as you look at these images you will be able to see how incredible the Doctors and Nurses and Staff are. Every time that I am at CMH I am so blessed by their skill and genuine care and concern for every child. A special Thank You to Bonnie! You are Awesome! You made sure that I was in the right place at the right time to capture these special images.

Many of you know that I think the world of Children’s Mercy Hospital. My niece has been a patient there many times so when I was asked to help with a fundraising project for their new cardiac unit I could not have been more excited.  The images that I took for that project I turned into a book which you can see on my web site www.muffetpetrehn.com. The book called “The Gift Of Life” recently won a Fujifilm Masterpiece award and will also travel word wide with the PPA loan collection.   The images that you see here are from a second surgery that I photographed at Children’s Mercy Hospital.  I will be making another book that will be given to  the Down Syndrome Guild to help families understand what their child might go though during open heart surgery.

I hope that as you look at these images you will be able to see how incredible the Doctors and Nurses and Staff are. Every time that I am there I am so blessed by their skill and  genuine care and concern for every child.

A special Thank You to Bonnie! You are Awesome!  You made sure that I was in the right place at the right time to capture these special images.

We have some really great specials going on for the months of July and August.  Don’t miss out!  Call the studio to set up your ” Special ” session.