Connie Hanks Photography

formerly Clicky Chick Creates

10 on 10 – February // Crazy Love

Connie Hanks Photography // ClickyChickCreates.com // heart hands, red door, beautiful, spirited daughters, sisters, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA

Connie Hanks Photography // ClickyChickCreates.com // beautiful, spirited daughters, sisters, holding hands in Spanish Village, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA

Sometimes I feel like my daughters make me crazy. Like how many times can I say “put away your shoes?” or “we have to leave before we’re late” or “NO you cannot wear that!” But truth be told, I’m absolutely, unequivocally, head-over-heels, crazy in love with them!

Connie Hanks Photography // ClickyChickCreates.com // beautiful, spirited daughters, sisters

They made me a mommy. They pick flowers (sometimes weeds) and lovingly hand me their bouquets. They draw pictures for me and write cards for me. They constantly want my attention and love to sing and dance, showing off their newest moves or lyrics. At bedtime, they ask me to read to them, even though they both can read, especially my 8-yr old who can breeze through chapter books, but still wants me to read to her. They’ve given me the most amazing gift and journey… motherhood. Truly, they’ve made me complete ❤

Connie Hanks Photography // ClickyChickCreates.com // beautiful, spirited daughters, sisters, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA Connie Hanks Photography // ClickyChickCreates.com // beautiful, spirited daughters, sisters, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA Connie Hanks Photography // ClickyChickCreates.com // beautiful, spirited daughters, sisters, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA Connie Hanks Photography // ClickyChickCreates.com // beautiful, spirited daughters, sisters, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA

But life gets busy. I get overwhelmed with the everydayness of life — cooking, cleaning, laundry, chauffeuring, volunteering, working, blogging — everything it takes to make our family life keep plugging away. And I forget to take it all in. To take in my girls as they are right here, right now. So for this month’s 10 on 10, I wanted to focus on just them, my baby girls, before yet another month goes by and I realize I’ve been focusing  my lens on the “stuff”, and not the most important beings: my beautiful, smart, lovely, compassionate, free-spirited, whimsical, silly, big-hearted, musical, fun loving baby girls!

Connie Hanks Photography // ClickyChickCreates.com // beautiful, spirited daughters, sisters, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA Connie Hanks Photography // ClickyChickCreates.com // heart hands, red door, beautiful, spirited daughters, sisters, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA Connie Hanks Photography // ClickyChickCreates.com // beautiful, spirited daughters, sisters, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA

I hope you don’t mind indulging me and letting my proud-mommy-ness shine through ❤ We spent an afternoon in Balboa Park having fun, getting pictures of them being little girls, being themselves. My girls are my life and I love that they radiate joy, love, innocence, sweetness, and all the goodness that my dreams filled with at the thought of having daughters! Truly, I am blessed!

Connie Hanks Photography // ClickyChickCreates.com // beautiful, spirited daughters, sisters, jumping in Spanish Village, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA Connie Hanks Photography // ClickyChickCreates.com // beautiful, spirited daughters, sisters, playing in Spanish Village, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA Connie Hanks Photography // ClickyChickCreates.com // beautiful, spirited daughters, sisters, running in Spanish Village, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA Connie Hanks Photography // ClickyChickCreates.com // beautiful, spirited daughters, sisters, twirling in Balboa Park, San Diego, CA

As always, thanks for stopping by to check out what I’m up to these days! Be sure to continue the 10 on 10 circle and head on over to be inspired by the sweet life of Laura Bastien – she’s an incredibly talented photographer with a true gift of capturing grace, beauty and light!

If you’ve missed any of our previous 10 on 10 posts, you can check them out here and follow the hop from each individual blog post 🙂

As always, thanks for stopping by. Have a joyful, creative, blessing filled day! Make sure not to miss any future posts by signing up for the Clicky Chick Creates email list here! You’ll get a great little freebie download as my thank you. What’s the freebie? One of my go-to shot lists: 7-must get photos for kid birthdays!

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Live creatively!
xoxo,
/c

PS. Are you in Southern California and looking to capture beautiful images of your family? Head on over to my Styling and Investment page to find out more and get in touch to schedule your 2015 session!

PPS. I’m linking this post with the Daily Post weekly photo challenge, sharing that even amidst the craziness of our life, my girls bring much needed “Symmetry” and balance to my heart ❤

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20 responses to “10 on 10 – February // Crazy Love”

  3. Love all these images of your darling girls. You can feel the love that not only you have for them but that they have for each other. So, so sweet! And I totally agree how important it is to capture these fleeting moments of our children.

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    • Thanks Kristina! It startles me at times when I’m looking for photos for a project and realize how few I have within that time frame of my babies! I’m so happy to hear you say you can see the love they have for each other! Somedays they’re the best of friends and others they’re siblings who are needing their space, but all-in-all, they really do love each other to pieces! Thanks again for your sweet words! xoxo

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  4. Connie, what a wonderful reminder to me to turn the camera toward those whom I love the most: my children (hubby won;t let me take pics of him.) Your images are beautiful and your words are such a blessing. The love you have for your girls shines through in each shot.

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  6. Connie! I adore your girls! You are indeed blessed and we are all blessed to have two mini-Connies roaming the earth! These are beautiful photos with so much life and expression! Thank you for sharing images of your little loves!

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    • Thanks so much Kimmie! You are too adoraBELL 🙂 “Mini-me’s roaming the earth” — hopefully that’s a good thing 🙂 Ha! I’m blessed to be their mama and moments like this it’s nice to take them in with all their craziness and enjoy the exuberance of 8- and 5-years olds!

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  10. Beautiful girls and fantastic, fun-filled photos of them (I especially love the photo of them at that orange table). Also, your post is a great reminder to focus our cameras on the people in our lives . . . I don’t do that enough.

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