R & G Best Friend Session

Friendly reminder to include your pets in your family photos! Or in this case, give your child a best friend photoshoot!

I recently stumbled upon this session from a few years back and can not believe I missed sharing this gem! The absolute CHAOS in this session makes it probably one of my favorite ever, I remember struggling to keep up with these two wild girls! Toddlers alone are hard enough to get to focus, but photographing a child and her dog was definitely a challenge at first!

Anyone that’s ever had a puppy knows that their teeth are like razor blades and G was out for blood that day. The fact that R wasn’t having a massive meltdown the whole time tells you just how tough she is! The great thing about this session, along with any other photos of your kids, is that the more time that passes the more precious they get!

Considering the fact that these photos are now 3 years old, I can only imagines the many adventures these two best friends have had! Hopefully many years from now, when R is in High School and G is enjoying her golden years, they can look back on these photos fondly!

V Winnie the Pooh First Birthday Cake Smash

Following V’s Pizza Party blog and still on his Pizza high, this sweet birthday boy was nothing but smiles in anticipation for his Winnie the Pooh Honey Pot Cake!

Winnie the Pooh and the 100 acre woods is a constant request in the studio, so much so that I’ve invested heavily in finding both Classic and Modern dolls of all the characters and have stacks of Honey Potts in storage.

Despite what we thought would be a little boy with a very full belly Baby V was an absolute animal when it came to his Cake! On several occasions he shoved his face into the icing and once again we had to take the cake from him. I can only imagine the crash he had once he got home.

S Studio Newborn photos with Family

As we approach Newborn season I have to share this simple boho newborn session with Baby S and his family! While I tend not to create ‘room’ style setups in the studio unless it’s a holiday, Mama M’s vision gave me the opportunity to pull out my long neglected wicker peacock chair and use all the pampas grass I had stuffed in the back cabinet.

Bringing a new baby into the family can be difficult for siblings. Their whole world is changing, their schedule, Mom is less available. It’s completely understandable that when it comes time for photos, they’re generally not very corporative. This wasn’t the case for Baby V and if you even remotely have baby fever right now let these sibling photos just push you over the edge! He was very eager to hold and love on his little baby brother, if anything, I think he was more frustrated that he wasn’t able to play with him like he wanted and was having difficulty understanding he was basically a limp noodle right now.

Giving his older brother a run for his money during his newborn photoshoot, Baby S was a fantastic sleepy model and gave me and his family so much variety in his newborn gallery that he set the bar for the rest of the year very very high!

BLUEY Third Birthday Cake Smash

I know I just shared a Bluey Cake Smash the other day but this ones different! That one was blue and this one is pink!

As I said in my last post, Bluey has continued to be a requested a Cake Smash Photo theme but instead of a one year old, we were celebrating E’s 3rd Birthday! Lucky her and fortunate for me, her Mama is a talented dress maker and made this Bluey and Bingo themed dress just for her photos and birthday party! It really brought the set together and she was so happy to be wearing it she couldn’t stop twirling and showing it off!

To make this set a little more dainty and feminine, we included cutouts of all the Heeler girls, including Muffin and Socks from the wedding episode with their adorable flower crowns! I feel like we could make a brand spanking new set with just Muffin and her pink cowgirl hat and some flamingos.

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M 100 Acre Woods First Birthday Cake Smash

Even though cake smash sessions are my absolute favorite to do they can be challenging if the same theme is picked several times. I try my hardest not to do repeats and typically, every year I receive the same request from at least two or three people . This could be from a recent popular movie or TV show but for the most part, the classics pull through and one of the. One of the most reoccurring birthday party themes we see here is Winnie the Pooh!

I absolutely love seeing a classic from my own childhood withstand the test of time. I've seen Winnie the Pooh use for baby showers, birthdays, nurseries and still somehow it never gets old!

I went into this Cake Smash with very high expectations for you see, sweet Baby M is an Eater. There’s nothing she won’t eat. Her Mom is Laotian and her Dad a Southerner so she has the best of both worlds, whether it be actual food, fist sized objects, or sometimes the floor, she’ll try it. Despite this, I guess she just wasn’t feeling it today! Even though her session only lasted about 3 minutes we still managed to get some adorable shots before the meltdown!

V Pizza Smash First Birthday (Slice Slice Baby)

It’s no secret that Cake Smash Photos are my absolute favorite. Like, if I was told I could only do Birthday photos and nothing else, I would be okay with it. I never get tired of creating custom sets for little ones and over the years I’ve gotten relatively good at making birthday cakes, HOWEVER…

More times than not, babies actually will not touch their birthday cake, or parents don’t just want their kids to have a monumental amount of sugar in one sitting. Typically we have to improvise and smash the cake ourselves or rub a little bit of icing on their face to appear like they have been eating it.

I’ve always offered alternative options and have always wanted to explore so many alternatives and fortunate for me, Mama M was more than willing to allow me to get the best of both worlds! Baby V was blessed with the privilege of having his cake and eating it to! With Fat Pappys pizza, a delicious restaurant right across from the studio, we had the most perfect cheese pizza for our Italian themed Pizza Party!

It was so good, we had to pull the pizza away from him, much to his dismay. The only way we avoided a full blown meltdown was replacing it with cake! Needless to say, ever since the session V has never had an issue visiting us at the studio! I'm glad one of his first experiences with us was so positive!

Construction Party First Birthday Cake Smash

I heard a saying about little boys a while back that by the age of four they would either be obsessed with Space, Dinosaurs, Trains or Big Trucks and working in the Cake Smash and Birthday party industry a statement has never been truer!

Baby C’s construction themed Birthday Party was exactly what I expected it to be. Messy.

As a completely feral and range free Baby, I spends most his days outside with his Mama playing in the dirt and tending to their farm animals. Needless to say he was no stranger to getting down and dirty. His poor cake never stood a chance.

Bluey First Birthday Cake Smash

Even though these Cake Smash photos are from a while back now, I was originally worried that I missed showcasing them to all the Bluey Fans because of how quickly popularity in shows and movies come and go now a days. Fortunate for me, Bluey is still wildly popular, as it should be, and is still a requested theme two years later!

Admittedly I haven’t been a huge fan of a lot of recent cartoons that kids watch now a days (they’re far too fast passed, noisy and busy) Bluey is one of the rare few that I would closely compare to the cartoons we had growing up! Plus, the lessons and deeper meaning in all the episodes is so relatable and at times heart wrenching. I didn’t think a show about talking Dogs that wasn’t homeward bound would make me cry!

I was over the moon when this family requested the theme, especially considering I had just finished painting my Heelers Car! It was such a fun and easy set to put together. I’ve done several Bluey Cake Smashes and been to several Bluey Birthday Partys since then and there’s so many fun elements from the show you can incorporate in that I’ve never had difficulty putting creating something! Also, how Darling is this Bluey Dress?

Fortunate for me, little lady loved her Bluey Cake and was nothing but smiles for her photos! I can’t wait to share other Bluey themed photos and I’m so happy to finally be able to share some of my most colorful and loved Cake Smash sets with everyone! Big thanks to Mom, Dad and of course Baby girl for making the drive all the way to Nashville for this Cake Smash photoshoot!

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W Baseball Theme Cake Smash

Having just literally shared W’s newborn photos, his Mama who is a big overachiever knew way in advance what theme she wanted for his First Birthday so planning and getting ready for his Baseball themed Cake Smash was a breeze! Despite being a theme I’ve done on a few separate occasions, for both newborn photos and first birthdays, it never gets old!

Complete with his own custom Jersey and Baseball bat, this little slugger was more interested in the popcorn than his actual smash cake

W Newborn Photos

It must be raining Boys because that’s all I’ve had at the studio the last several weeks! I cant complain, they’ve been spoiling me! Newborn Baby Boys are notoriously more sleepy than baby girls and therefor easier to pose and photograph! I always joke with parents and say girls and boys are all born the same. Girls are born with the innate desire to get things done and if anything interferes with their schedule (or sleep cycle) they’re going to let you know, whereas newborn boys are just happy as long as they’re warm and their bellies are full!

Mom and Dad included so many sentimental elements in their baby boys newborn photos and even Grandma was included in some of the family photos! Parents, if you’re on the fence about taking photos with your newborn because you’re feeling tired or just not up to it, look at how gorgeous these two look. That could be you!

Milk Bath Mini

Before I had the studio in White Bluff, I used to photograph families, maternity clients and newborns in my sunroom at my old house in Nashville. I’ll tell you, it was traumatic every time I had someone over. First, I’d had to clean for hours before, then, I had to shun anyone that was home into the back part of the house, and worst of all, the animals were literally shaking the door trying to get in the whole time! It was stressful to say the least but one of the things I actually do miss about shooting at my old home studio was that I had access to a bathtub!

You’d never be able to tell by looking but my old bathroom was the size of a coffin, so fitting a massive softbox in there and having to hover over my Maternity clients on the edge of the tub was quite a sight to be seen! I also would buy several poster boards and tape them to the walls to create a clean smooth look that also made it easier to edit after the fact, it was all very Jerry Rigged.

As difficult as it was, doing milk bath maternity photos was well worth all the effort! Though I now have a blow up pool to do milk bath or water photos, it doesn’t come with the heavy trauma and funny story that these gorgeous images did!

W Newborn Session

Though I am a big fan of vivid colors and very bold themes, the minimalistic newborn photos have been very popular over the last few years! I even have two whole pages in my prep and styling packet covering the variety and potential possible with just the bare minimum. While I am all for bold and trendy themes, this minimalistic, or as I’m told, Gen Z calls it the clean girl look is a perfect way to ensure your photos are absolutely timeless and flow with any theme or room in the house!

I did big sister E’s newborn photos at Mama J and Papap L’s house a few years prior to Baby W being born and I’ve got to say, it must be hard being born into a family of super models. With Mama J being a creative artist herself, there’s always a lot of pressure to create but W made it easy for me!

Newborn baby boys are always so sleepy (putting my foot in my mouth here) but I was thrilled to be able to include photos with his siblings, one of who was a toddler and was still such a good listener, and his families love of sports! This session was done ages ago which means we’ll be sharing his Cake Smash even sooner!

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2024 Santa Christmas Minis

We chose this years sets with nothing more than inspiration from old Norman Rockwell Paintings, with the sole purpose of bringing back the classic magic of Christmas!
We will be hosting our Santa meet and greet in what we call the Peppermint Room, which is classic enough to wear formal attire yet homey and comfortable enough to where wearing pajamas is perfectly acceptable!

Photos with Santa are to be held on November 11th from 12pm to 4pm and are on a first come first serve basis via booking.

Photos with Mrs. Klaus are to be held on a separate date which is still to be determined.

To book your session you can email us at CMeadowsPhotography@gmail.com
After booking you will receive a detailed email and prep packet on what to expect next and how to prepare for and get the most out of your Christmas experience!
To view more of Santa Wards work and see the other services he offers visit him over at

Santa Christmas Magic

Our sessions with Mrs Klaus are 15 minutes long and will give your child the chance to hear what it’s like living at the North Pole and learn which Christmas cookies are Santas favorite!
Sprinkles with Mrs Kringle’s is a great interactive set and is ideal for older children and families. To get the most variety out of this Christmas set Mrs. K is more than willing to step out to check on the elves so you can get individual photos of the kids in the kitchen or photos with the whole family!

You will leave this session with not only memories that will last a lifetime but also a goodie bag which will include sweets as well as a special print out for a recipe you can make to leave out for Santa Christmas Eve!

Don’t worry, Mrs. Klaus will be sure to tell the children that any cookie or desert made with love taste the best!
If you have a traditional recipe you and your family make during the holidays please send it to us prior to your session so we can print it out and present it as Santa’s favorite!

M Milk Bath Maternity Photos

Hey 2021, long time no blog!
That was lame, sorry, I rely on the fact that nobody ever reads these! So this blog was drafted in June, I haven’t blogged since Mayish of last year but I have about 30 blogs drafted so the next few weeks will be me attempting to write blogs. Fun stuff.
But at least there’s tons to say about this fun milk bath photoshoot I did with a then very pregnant Mama M!
Mama M special requested a milk bath for her rainbow baby and I’ll admit I didn’t realize just how challenging it would be.

All the maternity milk baths you see on Pinterest take place in an actual bathtub, but, I have to big as dramatic as possible and had to shoot it in an actual full length blow up pool! Now, it’s been so long ago but I’m pretty sure when we did this shoot it was about two months after that 15 day flatten the curve so all pools were either sold out or they were $80 on amazon, because everyone was stuck home with their kids and was just trying to find a way to keep them busy.
Thankfully one of my long time clients/buddies had a blow up pool available for us to use, but the only hold up was I had to drive 45m out to the country to get it, ducks had been using it so it was extra dirty, andddd there was a small hole in the side. I can’t complain at all though, I was super fortunate she was even allowing me to use it! (and she had cleaned it up quiet a bit before I picked it up so I’m really not complaining, just getting those 1000 words lol)
The pool was so big we also had to set it up outside, instead of in my home studio, and we had to keep filling it with water, because of the small leak, AND it was threatening to rain the whole time we were shooting, BUT it was well worth it though to bring our vision to life.

Mama M was and always is the most complying model and was absolutely amazing when the water started getting cold and her neck started hurting. I can’t thank her enough for going out of her comfort zone to bring both of our visions to life, and I’d say I can’t wait to meet her sweet baby girl but I’m planning her first birthday cake smash next month!

G First Birthday Cake Smash

Good lord this blog was drafted in September of last year, even worse, I think it was shot months before that!Any who, here’s a super handsome little man with the prettiest blue eyes!
Baby G & his parents came to me for his Wild Ones themed First birthday Cake Smash and he was just the sweetest baby with such a big personality! He laughed at all my jokes, tolerated all his outfit changes, and loveddddd his cake! His parents were okay too I guess :)

Pregnancy Announcement

So I think it’s safe to share this families pregnancy announcement blog now, considering their baby boy is now one month old. Mama K is one of the MVP’s of CMP, I did her senior photos in High school (don’t want to admit how long ago that was), I shot her baby boy when he was first born, and after this announcement I was fortunate enough to shoot her maternity session!
I found this location on the way to my brothers house wayyyy out in the country and was dying to use it, so naturally when K & B asked me to shoot their pregnancy announcement I knew just the place!
These pregnancy announcement pictures came out perfect, but I did have the cutest models to work with! Big Brother O was very excited that he had a new baby on the way and I can’t thank these guys enough for entrusting me with their secret! I kept it wayyyy longer than necessary!!!

M Family Session

One of the biggest compliments you can ever get as a photographer is having clients that continue to come back to you and I was so happy when the beautiful Mama M contacted me about getting up to date family photos/Baby M’s 18month pictures! I had the pleasure of photographing Baby M (now big boy M) last year when he was 6 months old and he was nothing but rolls and a big ball of happiness. Not too much had changed since that time, except now that he’s mobile he’s lost some of those precious precious rolls but he was just as attentive and sweet as ever! I guess you’re extra smart too when your Mama is a teacher and has had extra time home with you…

Just like our prior session it was an insanely hot day in Nashville and of course our location required a bit of hiking to get to. I felt so bad for Papa M who had already been working outside all day but none of them complained once. I was sweating by the time we got to the lakeside but somehow Mama M & Papa M still looked perfect! I guess I’m just really out of shape. Baby M was so well behaved and was so attentive to everything we were doing, he was probably the easiest baby to get to look at the camera. He was in such a good mood for his photoshoot, he didn’t care who was holding him, which made family photos so easy, or what he was doing, he was just happy to be out on an adventure!

We thankfully avoided all the rain that had been looming all week, this was the first nice day in a while and we had already had to reschedule once or twice, and I couldn’t have picked a nicer family to work with. Baby M got to model one of the new outfits I have available for little boys and he was the perfect baby bear. He also loved the chair I had brought for him and kept sitting in it no matter where I moved it. He even tried to sit in it when I was trying to put it up, it was the cutest thing. My favorite part of the session though was when his parents had him identify all his body parts, which you can see in some of the photos below. He was starting to get tired so to keep his attention we asked him to find his belly, his nose, and his ears, and he got every single one!!! Oh, and his Chris Farley impression was pretty dang spot on

J At home newborn session

Things that happened just a month ago or so really seem like they happened a year ago at this point. Going through so many of my recent sessions I realize that even though everything still seems to be at a standstill, time has gone by insanely fast! Take this little handsome booger… after seeing some of his most recent photos his mama has shared, he doesn’t even look like the same baby anymore! This precious newborn boy now looks like a handsome full grown man and I’m so glad I was able to go over to his parents house for his newborn photos before he made the jump!

Sweet Baby J has some minor (what seems like minor now of course) hiccups when he was first born so we really hesitated on when we were going to do his newborn photos. We originally decided to wait a month to do his newborn photos but after seeing how much he changed in the first week Mama made the call to have his photos done early! I was fortunate enough that this amazing family allowed me into their home during such an insane time and despite what I can only imagine was sleep deprivation, both Mama and Papa both looked like super models and made everything so insanely easy! Baby J was such a great sleeper too, he was so well behaved through all his newborn photos and transitioned through sets with ease. We did a combination of jungle themed newborn photos and incorporated the fact that his father is a professional football player into his photoshoot but my favorite photos are definitely the family photos!

J Family Lifestyle Newborn Session

So, I talk all the time about how do my newborn sessions at my home studio or on location outdoors but did you know I’ll come to your house? Especially if your home is as cute as Mama A’s and Papa B’s! (or if you have animals as cute as theirs). If you read my last blog you'd know this, stay focused. I offer at home Newborn Family/Lifestyle Sessions and you have your choice of adding on a miniature ‘studio’ portion to that shoot and we went all out for sweet Baby M’s session!

If you didn’t know any better you would think this family was assembled by some modeling agencies for some magazine shoot to promote a product, but no. They’re just that perfect. Mama A is so exceptionally bubbly, energetic, kind, fit, and of course a knock out, which is hard to believe considering she had just given birth about 10 days before. Papa B is a funny, well rounded, very charming, handsome and talented musician from Memphis Tennessee and together, with their dogs skittles and the dogs name I can’t remember but it has something to do with Hawaii and starts with K, and their newborn daughter M, they make the most picture perfect family!

Now I’ll say this… generally Baby boys are much more relaxed throughout newborn sessions. Baby girls just have a lot more to say! However, Baby M literally didn’t make a peep our whole session and did every little pose I put her into! She spoiled me rotten. I really had to narrow down how many I was going to share because literally every image was just amazing! She also spent most of her time naked farting and stressing us all out, thinking that she was going to use the potty on Mama’s view or Papa’s guitar. Little lady held out for us though right until Papa B was trying to put her diaper back on her in the other room. Thanks Baby M, you’re a real trooper and I hope all my future little ladies are as wonderful as you were!

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L Graduation Session

I’m finally fully in the month of October in the catch up process to blogging form last year!
It’s not often I get to work with adults, much less adults by themselves, but thankfully this Russian princess felt obligated from our years of knowing one another to have me take her gradation photos!
I’ve forced L to model for me before but it was wonderful to photograph her in a more natural setting. We both realized how out of shape we were (more so me) after our hike to this location, which has become one of my favorites, and thankfully made it there before the other 4 photographers behind us! Despite not having worked together for years L jumped right back into pro model mode. She’s one of those people who it’s almost hard to get a photo of. She’s beautiful at ever angle and could wear a potato sac and still look like a movie star.

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