Have a Holly Jolly Christmas!

I know it might seem a bit early to be talking Christmas, but it's not to early to be thinking about having your Christmas cards custom made by Jessica Hollis Photography! I have 20 custom designed cards that you can choose from. All you have to do is choose your favorite photo(s) from your session and choose your favorite card template, and let me do the rest!
(If you see someone you know...or even yourself...on a card or two, not to worry! That doesn't mean they have purchased the card, it just means I used a photo from their session as an example! That's what those "model releases" that I have you sign when I do your session are for! :)
Here are the Christmas card choices:

Cards in 5x5
Cards in 4x8:

Cards in 5x7:
All the words are customizable, so we can make it say whatever you want it to say, and it can be personalized with your family name, or whatever you want!

You must purchase a minimum of 25 cards, and they are $35.00 a set. After that you may purchase additional cards for $1.50 each. They come complete with envelopes!

These will also be available to purchase from the PTO fundraiser that is coming up this weekend. The sales day from that is December 6th, but we will still have plenty of time to get your cards done for Christmas!
Just give me a call (#618-625-6787) or send me an email (info@jessicahollisphotography.com) if you are interested in purchasing Christmas cards from your session!

Thanks!

One for Alexis and one for Kacey!

Laina's Senior Pictures

Laina is one of my Senior Reps, and I must say, I think she and her mom have been the best representatives that I had this year! Thanks you guys, I really appreciate it! :)
We did her rep pictures back in May, you might remember her from then, not to mention I have recently done photos of her with her mom and sisters. So she's been on here a lot...and she should be, she is so photogenic! I met up with them in Mt. Vernon after Laina got out of school, and before cheer practice...it was the only way to get it done! :)
First we did fall leafy pictures (believe it or not, at a cemetery) and then at the park:
Had to have a little fun freaking out the geese:
We ended up taking photos in the high school gym, but we weren't technically supposed to be there! There was volleyball practice going on, so we had to stick to the edges. But I thought we got some cute ones anyway!Who knew the seats were so reflective? Love this one!
Thanks Laina, for choosing me for your senior pics and doing the rep thing for me!

Haydon the Pirate

This session was for a little boy whom Ava currently says is her "boyfriend"! Until very recently her "boyfriends" have been a few of the high school boys in our youth group, but just in the last few weeks it has been Haydon! (Sorry Tyler and Kendall!) Last Friday night they were jumping in the big bouncer we had rented for our Trunk or Treat and Ava started yelling that Haydon was hitting her. It turned out that he was defending himself because she was trying to kiss him! :) Anyway, this was a fun session because Haydon's mom is a friend of mine, and Haydon and Ava are friends. Not to mention all you had to say was "booty" or "booger" and Haydon would give beautiful smiles!
Here's Haydon:I love the pirate pictures! He was quite the swashbuckler! :) You can't get an almost-4-year-old boy to stand still, especially in costume, so you just gotta go with it!
Thanks for letting me take Haydon's pictures, he was loads of fun!

The rest of Michelle's Senior Session

We started Michelle's pictures back in August, and just did a mini-session because she was waiting on her new cheerleading outfit. We finally got to finish her up in October! This was a really fun session! Michelle and her mom had great ideas for locations at and around their house, such as their barn and pond, and Michelle's old tree house. We also went inside the Opera House here in Sesser (which was really dark, because we couldn't turn all the lights on!), and we did bubbles with the studio! which turned out really cute!
Here's Michelle:
This is my first attempt to put together a backflip onto one photo! :)
And here is her bubble storyboard, which I just love!
Thanks Michelle for letting me do your senior pictures! It was fun!

We have had a crazy time around our house the last week or so! Well, it's always nuts, but this was worse than usual I think! Johnny's dad had to have a procedure done in St. Louis early Wednesday morning and Johnny went to be there with his parents. My mom came to stay with me because I don't like to be home alone at night! :) Mom and I worked on all kinds of things! I have been teaching her to eBay, because I used to do it all the time before my business took off like it has, and I don't have time to do it anymore! She helped me get some stuff figured out for the PTO fundraiser that I have coming up this weekend (which there are still time slots available if any of you are interested!) and helped me choose and order packaging materials (no more delivering my prints in the cardboard boxes that they get mailed to me in...yeah!) and she babysat while I ran errands, took Maddie Kate to school and gymnastics, took our youth group to Judgment House on Thursday, and got things ready for our church's Trunk or Treat that we had on Friday night! Wow, I'm glad I don't have to organize that stuff on my own all the time (not that I did it all alone, several people pitched in to make it happen!) Johnny was very missed!! He didn't get home until Friday night in the middle of our Trunk of Treat. And his dad is home and doing better....pray for him though, he's not good at sitting still and he needs to! :) Then Saturday night was my Grand Opening Gala at the Mitchell Museum in Mt. Vernon, which was a big deal for me!
So like I said, a bit crazy around here. Please forgive me if I haven't gotten you emailed or called back from the weekend! :) I will do my best to get caught up some before this next big weekend!