Jenn Hopkins – YOU ROCK!
When we first moved to Florida, I got an email from a photographer friend of my sister’s who offered to do family portraits for our little family of three. Jenn Hopkins was a sorority sister of my sister’s and she now has her own photography company, Jenn Hopkins Photography. The pictures came out so perfectly that I ended up using Jenn to do my pictures for this website and for press packets and media kits for my blog.
Naturally, when it came time for newborn pictures, Jenn Hopkins was my first thought. This past weekend, she came to our house and spent Saturday morning taking pictures of Gracie, Grace and Bean, and of our new family of four.
Jenn was fantastic. Really, really fantastic. I had no idea how hard newborn photos were, though I should have guessed. It’s hard enough for me to get Gracie to lay still so I can change her diaper.
But Gracie wasn’t the hardest to photograph. This little gem was such a stinker!
Jenn showed Bean how to lay on his back for a picture. And then we couldn’t get him to get up. He only wanted to lay there on his back. We tried getting him to roll onto his stomach, sit up, stand up, anything! But he only wanted to lay on his back. So, Jenn basically had to build any picture with Bean in it around him laying in the middle of the floor.
But you’d never know.
Jenn posted some sneak peak pictures to Facebook this weekend and they blew me away!
Although, I don’t know why I was surprised.
She does beautiful work every single time.
Later Saturday night, I got an email from Jenn. She said the photos were beautiful, but that it was the outtakes that were the best. And she was right. I guess no matter how you dress ’em up, kids will be kids…
54 Comments
Maria
What beautiful photos! Jenn really does amazing work. But that last pic is definitely my favorite – it needs to be framed for sure!
Mindee@ourfrontdoor
Oh my goodness, Jenn is talented! She caught the color of Gracie’s hair so well. You all look terrific.
Meghan
ADORABLE!!! I seriously wish I lived in FL so I could have Jenn do family portraits for me 🙂 The pictures are fantastic!
Lori @ I Can Grow People
That last photo needs to be shown to all of Bean’s future girlfriends.
kirsten
the pictures are AMAZING! I love them all.
Sarah @ ExPat Bride
Love that last picture…. just laughed out loud in class. Whoops!
Stephanie
These pictures are great!! LOVE the last one 🙂
Robyn
I aboslutely adore the 1st picture of Bean and Grace love the way they look at eachother!
Rachel
I LOVE the pictures took of you guys! That last one really shows personality between siblings! 🙂
Robin
Amazing! Love the one of Grace in the pink knit. And Bean could not look more adorable.
nycldenise
That last picture really is amazing. I would use that one definitely.
Sara @ embrylovescookies
Wow! Jenn is so incredibly talented and you have a beautiful family. Your love for them just pours right out of the photos!
Lissa
You got so many gorgeous pictures! I love the ones of you holding Grace and her ruffles! Your little guy is just SO handsome too!
Alaina
Those pictures are great! I love the outtake one, too 🙂 Cute look on Bean’s face!
Jaclyn
Beautiful photos! I love seeing the results of your Jenn photo shoots 🙂 And that last picture — HILARIOUS! I would be just as likely to hang the outtake photos, as I would the real ones, haha.
Alicia
Such beautiful pictures and I loved getting to peek at them again after seeing them on Facebook already. LOVE the last outtake picture…too funny!
Katie M
What a beautiful family you have there Katie! I love the one where Bean is a little apprehensive holding his sister, so sweet!
mom of two
SOOOOO precious! I regret not taking pics like those! They are beautiful!
Leah @ JustPluckingDaisies
these. are. gorgeous!!!!!!
Betty
I love the last one, hilarious. And she does wonderful work, but she did have two adorable kids to help!
Sara
Grace has the most rockin’ collection of headbands I’ve ever seen. LOVE!
Ashley @ A Recipe for Sanity
That is the greatest photo! And I already saved Jenn’s website on my computer ages ago for my future wedding. Her photos of your family are so perfect that I want her to do some of ours someday!
Marie @ It's a Kind of Normal
Oh. My. Ovaries. Katie, ever since Gracie was born I’ve just been broody non-stop. It doesn’t really help matters when I’ve just started seeing a guy. And while I don’t think he’s against the idea of kids, I’m still fairly certain he’d go running for the hills if I mentioned just how much I want babies after only 5 dates.
That being said though, please keep posting lots & lots of gorgeous pictures. I really love the last one, it looks like you’ve got two seriously funny kids on your hands 🙂
And those pictures of your original session. Oh. My. Goodness. That was seriously only 5 minutes ago right? Because the Bean Man has gotten so grown up since then. It’s scary!
Mellen
I am giggling so loudly, that our dog is barking at me! What a beautiful family, what a talented photographer! These pictures make me wish I lives in Florida so Jenn could take pictures of my family!
Rebecca Marsh
New blogger/follower here!!! Oh my goodness. Jenn has defiantly out done herself. You have a beautiful family. And I literally LAUGHED OUT LOUD when I saw the last photo. That photo has ” Senior yearbook” written all over it!!!
Life of a Doctor's Wife
Those are gorgeous! She does wonderful work… but you also have a beautiful family.
Love that “outtake”! So hilariously precious.
Kristin H
These are such beautiful pictures of your truly lovely family – and I love that last one!
Jen @ Caved In
I had never thought about getting pro pictures done of my hubby and I but thoughts changed when I saw the pictures from the first round. But these are just stunning. Amazing work Jenn and if you know of anyone in st. louis who is as good as you are, let me know. I’m dying for some pics of my peanut.
Maureen
I love that first picture of them on the floor. suuper cute! and the outtake pic is pretty awesome as well.
kk
i find that Bean has grown so much since his first session. gracie is such a cutie!
Maggie
Beautiful! The last one is my favorite : ) If I were you…that’s the one I would frame!
Shelley
Oh, you’re so right – these are so fantastic I didn’t take a breath while I was looking at them. She sure does fabulous work! The one of Bean & Gracie on the floor (not the outtake) is begging for an enlargement.
Lisa
Haha the pictures are all beautiful, but that last one was priceless!!
Nikki
These pictures are amazing! It’s amazing how much of a gift Jenn has. I hope that you share more!
Niki
Love the pictures!
Chloe
Love this!
These pictures are adorable!! Jenn is so talented!!
But you are right. The last picture is the best! haha
Meredith
That last picture is SO FUNNY! My fave Grace one is when she has her tiny little arms behind her tiny little head like she just chillin. 🙂
Sonya
That last picture is priceless! All of the pictures are just beautiful!
Christina
Outtakes ARE the best!! They are some of my favorites. 🙂 The one of the four of you, right before your “worst/funniest/weirdest sibling” pic brought tears to my eyes…what a BEAUTIFUL picture of a BEAUTIFUL family!
Stacy
These are all great but I love the last one! I am a long time reader but never really comment. I wanted to congratulate you on the new addition to your family! She is adorable (and tiny).
alison
all the pictures are adorable Katie! especially the last one!!
Kat @ Living Like the Kings
I am OBSESSED with these! They’re amazing! AMAZING! And the outtakes really are the best.
Amy L Butler
These were so beautiful they almost brought tears to my eyes. You have a beautiful family and Jenn took amazing photos. I am quite jealous as I have two children myself, ages 6 yrs and 17 months, and we yet to have a family portrait. One day maybe… Thanks for sharing!
Waiting for Bulgaria
So beautiful. But that last one is priceless.
Ella
Beautiful photos! The last one made me laugh – so cute!
Holli
Oh my..caaaaa-ute pics! I think I threw my back out laughing at the last one.. She does really great work!!
sarah
thx so much for sharing your lovely photos!!!!
Lesley
The pic of Bean and Grace is really sweet, he looks like a great big brother.
You guys look like one big happy family!
Amanda
Oh my goodness!!! They are beautiful pictures (of beautiful children of course). That last one made me *almost* spit my water onto the computer screen. SO GREAT!!
Beth
Seriously, that last one will be replayed many times over. Priceless!
Erin
Those pictures are unbelievable amazing! So good!!! Can she come up to Tallahassee!! I especially love the first and last ones of Bean and Gracie! Precious!
Julie S.
That last picture is so stinkin’ funny. The rest make me so very anxious for October.
Alyssa
Oh these pictures are so wonderful. Bean just seems to fit the big brother role so well. And the family pictures are so precious. They make me want to pack up and move to Florida so I can have Jen take my family pictures too. That’s not irrational at all right?
Mariya
Wow, great photos!