15 in 2015: Get Professional Family Photos Done

Aren't these just beauties? My best friend, Emily, owner and founder of Topline Photography, does portraits, often with animals and their people. Or rather, people and their pets! She specializes in that niche and does phenomenal work because of her history at a vet clinic and present work training horses and their riders!

As evidenced by the photos on my banner, we have not gotten family photos taken in three or more years! One thing I really wanted to do this year was get our family's photos updated, and I was so grateful Emily was able to squeeze in some time for us to do this. I've got over 50 beautiful photos just waiting on my hard drive for printing, framing, and book-making. I've got two impatient family members (surprisingly, not who you'd think) who hate having their picture taken and she took these and many more gorgeous photos in less than 20 minutes before they gave up and died a fiery Nebraska-heat death. Now that's great service! If you're local to the Lincoln-Omaha-surrounding areas, give her a call, but do it soon because she books up fast.

Thank you, Emily, I love them!

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