Thankful
for you!
Today on Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for you — the one reading this.
Thank you for paying attention to my business.
If you’ve hired me, thank you for trusting me with your family’s memories.
If you’ve interacted with me in any way — liked a post, left a comment, shared encouragement, given feedback — thank you.
And if you follow quietly from afar, I appreciate you, too. Every click on my website, every view of a post, every kind word you share about Liz Cook Photography adds up. It allows me to encourage moms, serve my community, work a flexible schedule for my family, and fill my cup through the creativity of what I do.
It’s all a gift, and today feels like the perfect day to say how grateful I am.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Every year, I love to reflect and recognize all that has been accomplished with Liz Cook Photography. It’s so easy to get caught up in the daily tasks and the goals-not-met, that it is such a healthy and anticipated task to take a birds eye view at the past year.
Today on Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for you — the one reading this.
Thank you for paying attention to my business.
Breck turned two earlier this month so I thought it was about time I published his birth story! It’s been so long, I am going to take a different approach to documenting this birth than I have in the past.
Things I never want to forget about the birth of Breck:
How much Sunday wanted to help and be as much a part of my birth team as she could. She brought me combs to grip, she offered me water, she kissed me and encouraged me. What. A. Gift.
I am thrilled to make it website and blog official that we welcomed our precious baby boy on February 4th, 2023 at 12:52AM! Breckinridge Samson Cook arrived in the comfort of our home after just 90 minutes of active labor! Mama and baby are both healthy and I plan to share his birth pictures and the full story soon. For now, I wanted to get his newborn portraits posted while I have a few minutes during nap time! :)
If it seems a little early for maternity pictures, I’ll confess. I broke my own rules and scheduled our family maternity session wayyyy before I was 30 weeks along.
But my heart was set on beach portraits, so I justified my rule-breaking pretty quickly.
If you follow me on Instagram, you probably have seen way too many photos of this girl and this blog post is not news to you. BUT, instagram is really the only place I’ve shared much about our newest family member, Charis. (Well there was that one night she went missing and I posted on Facebook for help finding her and the post was shared over 1k times… whaaaat? And we DID find her!)
So for those of you who haven’t been formally introduced…
Meet Charis!
Yesterday I shared in my 2019 Goal Setting, Pt. 1 blog post about my reflections of 2018 and what I learned throughout the year. Today I am excited to share with you what my goals are and some of the small steps I will be taking to reach each of them!
I’ve been using Lara Casey’s Powersheets for my goal planning the past few years. I love Powersheets because before you even begin to set your goals, there’s an entire section dedicated to walking you through a process of looking back over the past year at what worked, what didn’t work, what your big dreams are, and also asks you big questions like where do you want to be when you’re 80 (talk about perspective!), and more!
This past weekend was my 2nd Annual Celebrate Motherhood Client Appreciation event located here at our photography studio in Forest, Virginia. My heart is so full as I look back at the pictures from this event! What started as a fun marketing idea to help get the word out about my business, I quickly realized was an opportunity to celebrate and honor the mothers in my community as well as thank my clients for their support of my business.
