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I love giving gifts, but finding something someone will really love can be hard!

So, I have a solution: the perfect gift for anyone on your list....

smileabunch photography gift cards!

Perfect for birthdays, moms to be, Christmas gifts, or just a little something to make your wife happy

(hint hint - family pictures hanging on the walls make wives happy)!

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Easy peasy and everyone goes home happy! 

old friends - salt lake children's photographer

My favorite kind of friends are the ones with whom you can pick up right where you left off...every single time you see them. You might see them once a month or talk to them every day or they might live on the other side of the country, but spending time with them is happy and familiar and wonderful.

The Manwaring family is just this for me (and my kids). Sadly, they do live a whole country away from us, but they were here for a visit this week and I got to take their pictures.

This little guy isn't as little as I remember, but still just as wonderful...

And this little miss seems so grown up...

And the one on the way is sure to be just as wonderful...

This beautiful momma inspires me to be better in so many ways.

To cherish the good...

And embrace the not so good...

To teach them to explore...

and to play...

and to love...

And, I made her pose for some maternity shots...because we are friends and I can do that!

Loved seeing you! You are beautiful in every way!

waiting for will - salt lake city maternity and family photographer

I was so lucky to take my friend Julie's maternity pictures last Saturday!

She is just as adoreable pregnant as she is normally and I had such a great time capturing

the excitement, anticipation and love that is waiting for little baby Will when he meets his parents!

We made her husband suffer through the cheesiness of the pictures,

but he is a PRO at making a heart with his hands!

Julie is just darling pregnant, as she always is, and I can't wait to meet little Will!

It's a...? - salt lake city maternity and family photographer

I took these maternity pictures for my sweet friend a few weeks ago.

She is just such a beautiful pregnant woman!

Plus, she didn't find out what she was having! Boy? Girl?

Pretty unusual to hear about that these days (I know I am not patient enough to wait...hehe)!

Her little one came last weekend and, I just heard that it's a...

GIRL!

Congrats S family! Can't wait to meet her!

WELCOME!

Hi! I am Jen Tate and I am so excited to welcome you to the
smileabunch photography blog!

I have been a picture fanatic forever.

I love that I can look at a picture and transport right back to that

place and time and remember it all!

And when I became a mom, I realized that I no longer just loved pictures,

I needed them!

Baby stages, childhood and life all fly by so quickly,

and I just didn't want to forget a single second

(if you are a parent I bet you can relate, unless you have teenagers.

But even then, I bet you wish they were still little...haha, I'm kidding, mostly)!

Well, I decided if I was going to take all these gazillions of pictures,

I wanted them to be AMAZING.

Because, well, I am kind of a perfectionist! 

So I learned how to REALLY take pictures

...

and now I have a permanent growth on my face that has a striking resemblance to a camera!

I am all about fun and capturing the adventure of life just as it is,

so, if you're up for an adventure,

come along for the ride!