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Hi I'm Ali and this is my little slice of life that God has blessed me with. So glad you are here! I have always loved photography and the story that it tells.  I will be sharing my client shoots and of course my family fun. My two daughters are the reason my skills and photo files are expanding. Capturing those everyday moments in our everyday lives. 

I am coming up on my one year anniversary and would like to say thank you to all my family, friends and clients who have supported me! I am forever thankful for all your support. 

If you're interested in a session shoot me an email. 


{Mom}ents

We have been battling the flu around here for the last 4 days. I have been in the house  with the girls for the last 6 days (5 of those were my days off). As I sit here in peace and quiet or “peas and corn” as my 3 year old Presley said it tonight, I am so thankful for my girls. Yes they have done their share of driving me completely without at doubt crazy these last few days, but I still LOVE them.

Now that we all have our Tamiflu in our systems I’m hoping for a better tomorrow.

It’s moments like these below that I realize how blessed I am and thankful I am for the joys that have been put into my life. I’m thankful that my girls are able to walk, run, climb, ride, draw, talk, laugh, smile, giggle, eat, play, giggle again, cry, love, live and even be stinkers.

It’s moments like these below that I  have to remind myself to slow down and remember they’re a child and they were given to me to give them the best love and care that I am capable of.

It’s moments like these below that make me smile because I was there to capture all of these moments.

I was there to watch them draw, jump, smile, giggle, ride, run, sleep, kiss boo-boo’s, and all the wonderful things they do.

It’s moments like these that I will cherish and always remind myself to look back upon when I’m having a  UGH moment because we have been stuck in our house sick for 6 days.

It’s moments like these that shows me just how BEAUTIFUL you both are and how much I LOVE YOU both.

Presley & Reagan

Thank you so much for all the joy you have brought to my life.

xoxo

mommy

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Cute lil’ Girl {Mishawaka Childrens Photographer}

I photographed this family awhile back. Their little girl had a plan of her own that day. She didn’t want mommy or daddy to hold her or help her in anyway.

Thank you “V” family!

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BIG LEAVES {Elkhart, Indiana Photographer}

I took Presley and Reagan outside last week to play on one of the nicest days we had in quite a while. We live on a dead end cul-de-sac so all the leaves congregate right by our home. I had so much fun watching these two play. Reagan is talking like crazy and her favorite word lately is “pumpkin.” A few of our neighbors have the inflatable halloween decorations and so the girls love to watch them at night out of Reagan’s window. Once we were in the circle playing Reagan squatted down and told Presley and myself to “shhh” and pointed to the pumpkins across the way. I’m not sure if she thinks they can hear us or not, but it was so sweet. The girls took turns finding extremely large leaves and acorns. Enjoy these little snap shots of our girls enjoying themselves together.

Girls I love you both so much.

xoxo

Mommy

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shhh i see a pumpkin

shhh i see a pumpkin

right there

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see..right there

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Lots of Baby Love {Elkhart, South Bend, Indiana Photography}

Had a wonderful time last week photographing sweet beautiful little bundles!

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Miss S Newborn Shoot {Mishawaka,IN}

Ok so I still have a billion things to blog about…BUT this cutie couldn’t wait or atleast her mom, which is a friend of mine. So here are just a few for you C. Loved chatting with you last night. Enjoy your maternity leave!

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Miss M {Elkhart Newborn Photography}

I photographed Miss M and couldn’t help but edit all her photos that night. I was sooooo in AWE of her sweetness. She is just precious congratulations to A&A.

To anyone that does read my blog I have been super busy lately with weddings, family shoots and work. I am going to try really hard to make an effort to spend more time here. I will most likely blog a bunch in a row to play a little catch-up.

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Beach Engagement / Elkhart Wedding Photographer

I met Mandy through my sister-in-law Megan quite a few years ago. Mandy reminded me how at the time she met me I seemed so much “older” than her and all their friends. My husbands youngest brother Josh was in their class and so a college couple seems “old” when your only in 8th grade. Well now the time has passed and I will be shooting Mandy and Brett’s wedding this October. Brett proposed to Mandy up at Silver Beach so we thought it was only appropriate to shoot their engagement session on the beach. Thanks for making my job fun guys!

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Family Fun at the Lake / Elkhart Family Photographer

Ahh the beauty of the lake. I grew up many of my summers on the lake. We would move up soon as school was out and move back right before school would start.  A few Friday’s ago we went up to the lake to hang out with our Dad. I was bummed that Jeremy didn’t get to come along it was our girls first time tubing. Here are some of my favorite images from that day and the fun times we had. Thanks Dad we love you and had an awesome time.

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Cutie Pie Sneak / Elkhart Child Photographer

This morning I went to a friends house to take photos of her little sweetie Phoebe. She will be turning 2 tomorrow. Here is a little sneak of Phoebe and her fun morning splashing in the sprinklers. Hope you enjoy Ali & Chris.  Happy Birthday Phoebe!

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She’s A Big Girl Now / Elkhart, IN Child Photographer

Well I have been super busy lately and just wanted to tell a quick story of Miss Presley. Presley turned 3 last week and every time she wants to tell me a story it starts out by … “mom when me was a baby I sat on that chair”….or….”mom when me was a baby I wear this shirt. Well I very quickly figured out that since she turned 3 everything prior to that day she considered as “she was a baby”. I absolutely love it. She is cracking me up telling me these hilarious stories all the time.

I have so much to still update on my blog. I had my first published photo in an annual children’s center report/magazine. My photo was on the cover and I loved it. Thank you so much Shawna for finding me and if I am ever in Oregon I will let you know.

Then on top of that I received this unbelievable gift from my dad and will be posting some photos of that very shortly. If you haven’t already seen or heard about it on my facebook or seen me driving around town you too will be amazed. He had asked my quite a few months ago for some images and info about my business and showed up last weekend at Presley’s birthday party with a SUV and a complete screen/photo wrap advertisement for Moments By Ali. Kinda hard to imagine just check back in a few days and I’ll have a photo for you.

Well here are a few photos I do have to share of Miss Presley and one of Miss Reagan dancing….just some good fun watching our girls be themselves!

Oh and yes that is her in the wig :)

and again sleeping on Jeremy’s lap while he was mowing the yard!

One more thing she did something so amazing a month ago when she woke up and decided she wanted to wear panties all the time and there you have it she was potty trained! Voila just like that!

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