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hey there, my name is christy foreman and I hope you love the pictures you see here! often, we find ourselves overwhelmed with life. i think it’s important to remind ourselves to enjoy each day. to live in the moment.  to appreciate the very minute we are living in. I am here to tell your story. i want to spend my time doing something that i really love. and, i want to freeze those special moments, with a photo, that you can cherish for a lifetime. please feel free to browse around here and my website. i would love to capture your special time.

thanks so much for stopping by!
xxxo, christy

 

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The Carrigan Family added one

May 17th, 2012

I know you remember Lawson. He was my very first birth story photo session. He made a beautiful debut into this big world. But, it was time for him to get in front of my camera again! I was so excited to see this adorable family again. i always have so much fun with them! [...]

 

I know you remember Lawson. He was my very first birth story photo session. He made a beautiful debut into this big world. But, it was time for him to get in front of my camera again! I was so excited to see this adorable family again. i always have so much fun with them! Ayden likes when I do pictures for them to, because he likes to see Brayden on my computer screen. He always makes comments about how him and Brayden look alike :) Basically I love the Carrigan family and can’t wait until I see them again!

Thank you Carrigan Family! I hope to see you soon!!!

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Baby Easton

May 13th, 2012

Meet Easton! I absolutely LOVE his name. His mom and dad are very bid sports fans, so he was named after Easton, the brand;) Too cute, i know! He was quite the little stinker, making us work hard for his little adorable faces. I honestly wanted to take him home with me. His mommy and [...]

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Meet Easton! I absolutely LOVE his name. His mom and dad are very bid sports fans, so he was named after Easton, the brand;) Too cute, i know! He was quite the little stinker, making us work hard for his little adorable faces. I honestly wanted to take him home with me. His mommy and daddy love him to pieces of course. And his grandma is one happy lady too. this is her first grandbaby!!! he would just calm down immediately every time grandma picked him up. he already knows how to work the right people;) thank you chad and kathryn for having me over to your beautiful home. i cannot wait to watch this little cutie grow over the next year!!!

Thanks you guys so much! It was my pleasure meeting you three!

 

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Tummy Tuck {the experience}

May 7th, 2012

Most of you who know me know that I recently had a tummy tuck. I wanted to blog about my experience for a couple reasons. One for an informational type tool and two because my life is pretty much an open book. I have been thinking about doing this for quite some time. I have [...]


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Most of you who know me know that I recently had a tummy tuck. I wanted to blog about my experience for a couple reasons. One for an informational type tool and two because my life is pretty much an open book.

I have been thinking about doing this for quite some time. I have been less than pleased with my body for a long time. After having Kaleb at such a young age I was spoiled. My body went right back almost immediately after giving birth. Well then along comes the BIG boy Ayden. I weighed over 200 lbs when I gave birth to this almost 10 lb baby. My belly had stretched until it couldn’t stretch anymore. Then fast forward to 2009. Pregnant with Taylure. weighing over 200 lbs with her as well and then having a c section. I came out and my body (belly) was destroyed! Literally. I had this belly flab that wouldn’t quit!

I went on multiple diets, took diet pills, worked out, but nothing worked. Then the thought of plastic surgery came to mind. I rode the fence about it for so long. I thought I wanted to do it and then would talk myself out of it because of the cost and basically just being scared of having surgery. I finally decided it was time. You only live once, right?!?! And, I am to young to feel this way about my body.

I went for my consultation in early April and scheduled my surgery for April 27th. I was nervous and super excited! Now I want to kind of walk you through the process thus far…

April 26th- Surgery Eve. Super excited. Stayed up super late because I had tons of things running through my mind!!!

April 27th- surgery date. It was a 2 and a half hour surgery. I got into recovery and felt very drugged and somewhat sore. I needed to pee before I could leave the hospital. Problem, I could not pee. I drank 4 diet cokes, a sprite, 2 waters and had fluid and could not pee. Late that afternoon it finally happened for me and I got to go home

April 28th- sleep was not so great the night before. Slept almost all day. Took a sponge bath. in alot of pain.

April 29th- Mine and Joe’s 6 year anniversary. Definetely not what Joe had in mind for celebrating I’m sure.

April 30th- Really wanting to take a shower and shave. Sent alot of crazy fb messages. Thank you paid meds! Kimmy came and washed my hair for me. Went to the Dr. Took a shower. And shaved. WOOHOO

May 1st- Pulled my pain tubes out myself. Not the most painful thing but very uncomfortable and weird. went to Dr. again and had my drain tubes removed. very painful and weird feeling.

May 2nd- Pretty good day. Slept mostly

May 3rd- pain back:(

May 5th- drove for the first time since surgery. very awkward

May 7th- Drive again today and feeling alot better. Still sore but coming along.

That is it people, that is a run through of my first few days of surgery and how I felt.

I am SO happy that I did this! It has been a roller coaster of emotions. I have cried alot. Tried not to laugh, sneeze, cough or breathe in to deep. All these things hurt! Now for some photos. I can honestly say that I have the funniest sister in the universe. She had me laughing, my loud crazy laugh, right before surgery. The nurse had to come in and tell me to keep it down. Thanks Kimmy for making my time right before surgery so much fun. I love you. And thank you all for all the encouragment and kind words!!!

I HAD to update my facebook status right before surgery

The nice RN gave me a smiley face

Kimmy was making her teeth look rotten and thats one of the things I laughed at very loud

My drain tubes or as Joe called them, my plastic balls

One of my ouchies

My before/after photo. 4 days after surgery

Thanks for following along with my tummy tuck journey. I will definetely post updates here. Maybe the next picture I will post, will be me. In a bikini!! Woot

 

 

 

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Spring Mini Sessions

May 3rd, 2012

So…it has taken me a minute or two to get these sessions blogged. BUT, I am getting it done now, while I am stuck on the couch recovering. The day of the Spring mini sessions was so stinking fun! It was basically like a cutie overload! There was lots of sessions that day and luckily I had [...]

 

So…it has taken me a minute or two to get these sessions blogged. BUT, I am getting it done now, while I am stuck on the couch recovering. The day of the Spring mini sessions was so stinking fun! It was basically like a cutie overload! There was lots of sessions that day and luckily I had Kaleb as my assistant for a few of the sessions! He was tons of help!

 

Meet the Brown girls (Ava and Alie)

 

Meet Phillip and family. This beautiful family is who allows me to use his land for sessions!!! Thanks Phillip!

Meet the Kitt children. These are Dave’s brother’s grandchildren. (ya got that)

The Knapper Family. (one of my favorite families eva)

Meet Baby Knox!

And you all know the Knox man! KNNNNOOOOXXXX!

Meet Liam. You will be seeing alot more of his pictures over the next year!

And of course you know the Santell kids. Callie and Tyler.

Thank you to all the families who came out for this, both repeat and new clients!!! I hope to see you all again very soon!

 

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Sweet baby {Kaitlyn}

April 22nd, 2012

Meet Kaitlyn… I went to high school with kaitlyn’s mommy. Kaitlyn is baby #2 for Holly and Dale. Miss Brooklyn was baby #1. I photographed her for her first birthday, which seems like so long ago now. She was so much fun then…and SO much fun now. She asked me to take my shoes off and jump [...]

 

Meet Kaitlyn…

I went to high school with kaitlyn’s mommy. Kaitlyn is baby #2 for Holly and Dale. Miss Brooklyn was baby #1. I photographed her for her first birthday, which seems like so long ago now. She was so much fun then…and SO much fun now. She asked me to take my shoes off and jump on her bed with her while I was at her house doing their family photoshoot. I took my shoes off and sat on her bed, but definitely did not jump! We also sat in her room and she let me hold one of her baby dolls.

Her new sister Kaitlyn is simply adorable also! She was so GOOD the entire session! She let us move her around and pose her and she was cool with it. That little thing is ONE lucky girl, having such a sweet mommy and daddy and an awesome big sister to love on her.

Thank you Holly and Dale. Your family is beautiful!

Baby sneeze….freakin’ adorable, I tell ya!

Kaitlyn, I will see your sweet face again very soon.

 

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Bobbi and Micah {maternity}

April 19th, 2012

Bobbi and Micah were one of the funest maternity couples that I have ever photographed! They were up for anything and Bobbi was like super woman! Micah was so excited to show me his “man room” and I’m so glad he did! It was super cool and bobbi and Micah showed me what it was [...]

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Bobbi and Micah were one of the funest maternity couples that I have ever photographed! They were up for anything and Bobbi was like super woman! Micah was so excited to show me his “man room” and I’m so glad he did! It was super cool and bobbi and Micah showed me what it was to get down with Foosball. They were pretty much awesome. I was basically mesmorized by the fact that they were so awesome and I stink so bad at foosball. Plus, Bobbi eats pickles and ice cream. She made it clear that she doesn’t eat them together. Like together together, but she likes both of them alot right now. She was so stinking cute eating her pickles and ice cream. I always thought that was something that wasn’t real. You know that pregnant women crave those to things, but she sure proved me wrong! Bobbi and Micah, thank you for inviting me into your beautiful home and for being so awesome. And if you come home one day and that hanging bed is gone…I didn’t take it ;)

I cannot wait to meet little Lily;)

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Debra and Dave

April 16th, 2012

I honestly don’t even know how to start this post…These two people have been like a mom and a dad to me. They have been like grandparents to my children, and I really can’t even remember life before them. They are two of the strongest people I know. They have three children themselves…Whitney, Dustin and [...]


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I honestly don’t even know how to start this post…These two people have been like a mom and a dad to me. They have been like grandparents to my children, and I really can’t even remember life before them. They are two of the strongest people I know. They have three children themselves…Whitney, Dustin and Drew. Dustin passed away in 2000. he would have been 30 this November.

We all miss him so much, but not anywhere close to what Debra, Dave, Whitney and Drew do. Sometimes I wonder how they are as strong as they are.

We met the Kitts family soon after Kaleb was born, 11 years ago. I never would have dreamed that they could turn out to be such an important part in our lives. Debra has been there for me several times. When I felt like I had no one to talk to, that was a mother figure, she was always there. She listened to me cry so many times. Without her, I would have felt so lost.  Sometimes I think about how I can never repay them for everything they have done for us. I just hope they know that we love them so very much and appreciate everything they have done for us. Ok, I don’t want to get any more sappy on you guys…so THE BEST PART…

 “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,

 Love like you’ll never be hurt,

 Sing like there’s nobody listening,

And live like it’s heaven on earth.”

And, that’s what these two people do. I love you both!!

  

 

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One word…Nervous

April 13th, 2012

I have been so nervous about posting this, but have wanted to for some time now. There are alot going on in my life right now. A lot of great things and some not so great things. I will start with the great things! Joe was promoted recently. He has been with Wal-Mart for 12 [...]


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I have been so nervous about posting this, but have wanted to for some time now. There are alot going on in my life right now. A lot of great things and some not so great things. I will start with the great things! Joe was promoted recently. He has been with Wal-Mart for 12 years and finally got promoted after multiple times trying. He will be a co manager and hopes to be store manager one day. Next, THE BEST THING!!! Our lawyer has finally got the paperwork drafted and sent to kaleb’s father so that Joe can adopt Kaleb. We have been waiting for this to happen for a long time!!! And finally, our last BIG news….Im getting a tummy tuck at the end of the month. Now, before all you haters look down on me for this…;) just know that I am doing this for me. So that I can feel good about myself like I once did! I am so excited about this that I can hardly stand it!

Now onto the not so good things…Taylure has been having a rough time adjusting to her new daycare so we are shipping her back to Little Hands. I am nervous that she will be nervous making the adjustment back there again. In a perfect world, my kids would be perfect little angels and never pitch fits and never talk back but guess what. This isnt a perfect world. They talk back, they pitch fits, they do things sometimes that makes me so mad. but, you know what…They are wonderful, loving, HILARIOUS kids that i could not live without.

Next, I have been having a rough time trying to balance my life. My priorities are not where they shoudl be. So a quick word to my incredibly wonderful clients: My turn around time for photos are going back to 2-3 weeks. I am not saying they will always take that long, but I have to spend more time with my family. I am stressing so much about having pictures done quickly for my clients that I am taking alot of time away from my family. I CANNOT and will not take time away from my kids anymore. I will not come straight home from work, cook dinner and then instead of playing outside with the kids, edit because I NEED to get finished. I mean I know I can get the photos finished when they go to bed, but I stress to much! I hope you all understand that you guys are so important to me and my small business. I appreciate each and every one of you. I appreciate the fact that I have lots of repeat clients, I am so lucky to get your referrals to your friends and family. but, I have to make sure that when my kids grow up, which they are doing way to fast, that they don’t look back and say that I edited alot instead of playing or spending time with them. I truly love you guys and hope you understand;)

On that note, I think I am going to take the kids to Dollywood tomorrow!

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I talk alot+Poor Sabra+a mouse trap

April 10th, 2012

I talk alot+Poor Sabra+a mouse trap. All three of these things tie into each other. I don’t know if you are like me and somedays you just get tired of hearing yourself talk?!?! Well right now, I wish my husband and I could chat online (even though we are sitting right next to each other) [...]


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I talk alot+Poor Sabra+a mouse trap. All three of these things tie into each other. I don’t know if you are like me and somedays you just get tired of hearing yourself talk?!?! Well right now, I wish my husband and I could chat online (even though we are sitting right next to each other) or knew sign language. Seriously, I feel like I have talked ALL day. And, the bad part is, I know my voice is annoying because I have heard it on tape before. I talked alot at work, well because I had a ton to do today. Then after work, I had a hair appointment with Sabra. Poor Sabra has some major allergy problems going on right now and I feel like she probably has the allergy problem + a headache migraine now also because I talked her head off. You can definetely tell I have children and don’t have enough adult conversation time. I told her about Taylure’s favorite word being butt crack now, Joe’s promotion, about us being in the process of Joe adopting Kaleb, my IUD I had put in and a bunch of other random stuff. Well she listened like she always does and made me feel like what I was saying was interesting. And, she even laughed at what I was saying a few times. Well I got in my car to leave and it just felt….um…quiet. That is when I realized it was because I had noone to talk to. I had no one to talk to!!! So, what do I do…I turn my radio up and start singing. Loud. So that I could still hear my voice. That got kinda old so I called a couple of my friends so I can tell them some of the same things I had just told Sabra. Bad part, no one answered.

Today was a great day, but boy does my voice feel worn out. I need to make a personal goal to listen more than I talk;) Thanks for listening everyone!

Maybe poor Tyler was trying to give me a clue here. Ummm, to maybe STOP TALKING or he was going to snap my mouth shut;)

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Bryson {12 months}

April 5th, 2012

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!!! Bryson will be celebrating his first birthday at the end of this month! He has grown so much over the last year! He has turned into this adorable little…..gulp….toddler. He is always so smiley and makes the cutest little faces during his sessions. During his 12 month session, I had baby [...]

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CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!!! Bryson will be celebrating his first birthday at the end of this month! He has grown so much over the last year! He has turned into this adorable little…..gulp….toddler. He is always so smiley and makes the cutest little faces during his sessions. During his 12 month session, I had baby chicks and let me just tell you that me, his mommy and his grandma was laughing so hard at him! He was loving them. He squeezed them a couple times and made these really excited faces. He really only had a sad face once or twice the entire time! Bryson, you are so stinking cute! Your smile, your chubby little legs, your drool coming off your chin and your adorable little faces and sounds. I sure will miss seeing you every three months! Hope you have the best birthday party ever!

Then….

and now…