Meet the Broughel Family! Full of fun, love and pure sweetness. I was excited when Alicia asked me to meet them at their home. A lot of times people won’t think to do the session in their own backyard but it is nice to have memories of the kids playing and just being in their own comfort zone. These will be precious for them to look back on years from now.

October was a busy month! Not only was it the start of my Christmas Tree Farm mini sessions (blog coming soon!) but I also photographed a Fall fundraiser for my daughter’s school.

This was the perfect fall afternoon for a maternity session. This mama is a sweet friend of mine. Phyllis started my obsession with all things Young Living. And I am not joking when I say OBSESSION….ask my husband!

I went back to my hometown to take newborn photos for this adorable new family of three in early October. I am from Brooklyn incase you didn’t already know…..ya know the home of the best pizza in the world. Well I guess aside from Italy but I have yet to have pizza from Italy so to me Brooklyn is the best. OK back to the photos.

This fall season has been so so so rainy!! I had to either reschedule sessions or just deal with the gloomy skies (which BTW make for amazing photos as well!). But this sweet family lucked out for their evening sunset session!

Guys I am really behind on blogging sessions! I had so many plans on blogging ideas over the summer that I never did and now I am behind on regular session posts. I am going to do my best to catch up in the next few weeks. But first up the Jackson family!

Like promised here is the date and time slots that are available! If you would like one of these slots please follow the link below. Once you hold your time slot I will send you further booking info.

Tree Farm minis will be happening soon! Stay tuned for more details coming in the next couple of weeks! If interested in holding a spot email me here dawn@alovelyshadeofjade.com

What a perfect summer morning that I got to spend with this family! This would be the 1st time that this beautiful family would all be together as a family of 10! What better way to celebrate having everyone together than with family pictures?!

It was a beautiful day for some special portraits. May 5th was the day that sweet Sarah received her First Communion and I was more than happy to capture some memories for this beautiful family to cherish for years to come.

April 23, 2018 will definitely be a day that Emily & T.J. will look back on years from now and luckily have these memories to share with their kids & grandkids! Why you ask? It's the day that T.J. proposed to Emily!

Today is April 6th...Springtime. When beautiful flowers are in bloom, birds are chirping and sock-less feet begin to make their appearance.....unless you live in New Jersey because here it's SNOWING....again.

When you have a February birthday chances are pretty high that it will be freezing when you have your birthday photos done. So we were prepared for that. What we didn't plan for was the extremely high winds! Like push you over, chill your bones, hair covering your face kind of winds. But you know what....thats totally fine!

Cheers to 2018!

Just a quick thanks to these amazing families that I had the pleasure of documenting in 2017! It was great to see some old and new faces!

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas from our family to yours! This little one was very good this year so we are happy to say Jewel the Elf was able to report back that great news to the big man....Santa :)