Caring Hearts for Children: Adoptive Families Project

When I was contacted about working with a local adoption agency to feature adoptive families, I was so incredibly honored and excited. Caring Hearts for Children is doing amazing work serving children, foster families and adoptive families in our community. To learn more about this organization, check out their website here!

So what did this day look like? Hearing bits and pieces of each family’s adoption journey, the vision of Caring Hearts’ founders, and a whooooole lot of chasing energetic kids around the playground and capturing their personalities on camera! It truly was so special and felt so celebratory.

Enjoy some sweet photos of these kiddos with their forever families!

The Cooper Family: Stephenville Family Photographer

It was such a sweet thing to be able to take photos for the Cooper family. When I first moved to Stephenville, Alex was one of the first people I met, and we bonded quickly over a Hobby Lobby trip and the fact that we were both pregnant! Our babies were born a month apart, and walking through pregnancy and mom life together has been so sweet. And now the Coopers are moving across the country so Sterling can attend seminary!

As bittersweet as that is, it makes me so happy that we were able to get family photos for them right before they moved. AND, it worked out in the coolest way— it just so happened that they were also celebrating their six year anniversary, AND we did their photo session at the same place where they got married! Cue all the feels. You can see why this was such a special session on so many levels. Enjoy this sweet family/anniversary photo session!

Alyssa Lauren

P.S. Shoutout to my husband for being my clown/toddler wrangler/ Baby Shark singer during this session :)