Happy New Year!

Hi everyone. I hope everyone has has a wonderful, blessed and rested holiday break. Our house was full of blessings and I pray we honored Jesus on His day as we were supposed to. As some of you know about my poppaw (read the last post)~ well because of him and that pic I am starting a new project.
"The simple moments" is the only name I can come up with. I am so thankful to have the gift of capturing those moments and I want to share them with you. I am lookin for elderly people to photograph doing their 'thing'. I want to come to their home and capture them cooking, quilting, golfing whatever you want to remember them with. I just think everyone should have those moments captured! No posing just real natural portraits. There will be no session fee and you will also receive a 11x14 wall portrait FRee!! All you need to do is send me a email or comment here about your person, how they have touched you and what you want captured. I am not sure how many I can complete at first but I will get to them all eventually! I am soooo excited about this and cant wait to hear your stories. I am thinking I will make a small book with all of the portraits when we are done.

So get typing and Have a wonderful SAFE New Years!!!

Whats important...and a thank you!

As Christmas fast approaches it leads me to think...about things. You know those moments when you must slow down and stare at nothing and Just think. Well tonight I had one of those moments. I was feeling pretty crotchety ( is that a real word?) and trying to clean house well my kids were not helping and i got mad. So then I just kinda ignore them and go about my biz..well then i think...those are your blessings and your missing a moment with them. So i stop and just visit with them. He shows me his "new" beat on his drums and she rambles on about something with her music and phone. So then i feel better and go finish cleaning. Arent those the moments that we are supposed to cherish? My poppaw was just diagnosed with prostate cancer. Any one that knows me knows that my poppaw is my pal. I just cant get enough of him when we are tog. they live in KY and I dont get there enough and their trips are getting less and less. This was quite earth shattering news for me. Arent they going to live forever?? So I pray for God to heal him like only He can. Its way too early to make him an angel and Im just not darn ready to give him up. So then I think some more...are those moments there to make you realize how many things you take for granted and how many things we just look over everyday. Maybe God is telling me something. Wake up..so I will. I will appreciate my family much more this Christmas and I cant wait to get my arms around my poppaw and smell that pine rustic smell of his. To see him in his jeans and white t. To walk to the garden and him point out everything he has done and every animal track. His life is so simple and he does not ignore the lil things. So that leads me to the lil things. After being so sick lately I am still in a funk. Tonight as the love of my life is doing his firefighting gig I sit here thinking about all of hte lil things he has done for me. He has taken care of me like a mad man. He has had to do alot more than I would ever ask of him. He has loved me and supported me and just made me laugh when I needed it. He has a sick sense of humor but it is funny! I feel closer to him bc of the sickness..again a time to make you stop and wonder. He will never read this but honey ~ thank you. I love you more than you will ever know and I thank GOd everyday for bringing you home to me. You are my life and soul.

SO i guess this year we all need to just stop........breath.........and enjoy the lil things and watch as they become the bigger things in life.

I hope some of this made sense to someone. I know im rambling..but I just needed to say it.

can you guess who is in the picture above?? This was taken in Oct. before we knew about the cancer. this is his true essence~ his life at a most simplest moment that Thank God I captured!!

I am back to work....

some of you know I have been battling kidney stones for about 5 months. Well I had another surgery to remove those boogers and I think we are done! I am feeling better already and pray this is it for a while.
Thank you to everyone who has prayed for me and been patient with their portraits. I should have all phone calls returned in the next few days and orders delivered!
If you have contacted me and have not heard back please call again. I will make it up to you!

Just a reminder the studio will be closing over the holidays, please email me if you want and I will check them some.
I am soooo ready to spend some time with my beautiful children and husband. I love cuddling with them and watching Christmas Vacation for the 100th time! I pray that you all have a blessed Christmas and remember what the season is about, Our Savior!

Thank you all and I look forward to seeing you again soon! I will be having a open house for the new studio so keep in touch!

With all of my love and no kidney stones
mandy

double hugs and kisses

double the lovin and double the fun!! Meet the R twins. They are soooo lovable I wanted to bring them home with me, well at least one! They gave me and mom a great workout trying to get them in sleepytown..but it paid off! They have been born into an amazing family and I am honored to capture them at this young perfect age!!

been a while...

meet the "o" family. They are great friends and clients. They are very blessed with such beautiful land and kids. We had a blast driving around and finding great places for these shots.
Thank you guys for a fun day and your loyalty! I hope you love them as much as I do.

Holiday Rush update...

Here is a sneak peek for a few families!

Well i hate to do this but I have to. I had to turn away sooo many people this week for Christmas sessions. There are no more sessions open in December! Thank you for filling up my calender with awesome clients and I appreciate it sooo much. I am sorry if you didnt get in this year.

All orders must be turned in by Tuesday the 4th to receive them by Christmas. If you are still waiting on a gallery or still in the process of ordering dont worry I will give you some extra time.

The studio will be closed from Dec.17-Jan. 2. I will check some emails and voicemails but may not get back to you until after the New year! THis is family time for me. I hope to have some new and exciting things for the New year so keep looking.

I promise to blog more often.....for those that are complaining :0

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving. We had way too much food as usual and all of our family was in town. There is nothing like a holiday when my grandparents are here. They live in KY and mean the world to me. My mommaw is a sweet short lil thing that cooks better then anyone!! ( we should give her a show) and my poppaw is this strong man that makes me melt when he hugs me! I wanted to do alot of pics of them while they were here but we ran out of time. So hopefully next time. Anyway I hope everyone got to see their special ones and had a great peaceful day!!
If you are waiting on a sneak peek or your gallery I promise I am working on them!

How was your Black Friday shopping? What was your best deal????? We hit alot of stores and got quite a few deals. I think my best purchase was clothes for ummm...well,, yesss me !

Miss M

Could this family be any cuter? I was thrilled to meet them and Miss M with her red hair is a photographers dream! SO stinkin cute! She was so good and even though dad wasnt a UK fan we had a great time in the session. Thank you guys and your gallery will be ready soon! LOve these!!

yummm..hot coffee with so many extras..

our first blog contest has a winner. ms CG has won herself a $10 starbucks card. thanks for playing and i will see you soon girly!!

new contest and holiday info coming soon.

Baby G

I had the honor to photograph this lil angel in his first few days of life. There is nothing like a newborn to connect you to God. What an amazing gift he blesses us with.

Couldnt you just eat him up! He is so lucky to have such wonderful parents that looove him soo much! Thanks guys for sharing him with me! Here is your sneak peek!!

New Blog...New contest...

Ok, I just started this blog today so the first person to email me and say "Hey, its about time you have a Blog" will get a $10 starbucks card on me. You know with these cold days coming YOU gotta have some white chocalate mocha with caramel sauce and whipped cream....ummm!!

Girls just wanna have fun!

well miss M just turned 9 and she watned to have a dress up/modeling party in my new studio..so hey that is easy enough!! They had pedis and manis, hairdos, makeup, the works then they got to wear a ton of crazy outfits! What a great party! I might start offering these for my clients! So here are the lil divas!

Mandy Johnson Photography

hi everyone! well many of you have asked me for a blog...here it is I AM A BLOGGER!
I am still learning so give me some time to make it purty! First i will say i am not a proper typer and speller..so no judging please!!
I will include personal stuff and also specials and sneak peeks for clients! So keep looking and see what is coming!
My first post should of course be my babes..RIGHT?? This weekend we went to get some family shots and of the kids..well it would help to bring the tripod..well I didnt. So this first pic was a challenge..Just imagine a large box sitting in the street with my sons bible on top and my camera sitting on it..yep that is how a photographer gets a family portait :0 But anyway this is about the best we got. I will photograph other kids over my own ANYDAY! they make it sooo hard.