The Lindsay's: Love Operation Session

Before I left for Guam, I got to meet up with The Lindsay's to do a Love Operation Session. Lisa heard about me through one of her friends and checked out my blog + was excited to know that I do Love Operation Sessions. Lisa's husband who is in the Navy had been out to sea for some time now and was home for 2 weeks so we squeezed in a quick session. I really love doing these sessions!! Now with Joe in the Air Force and being stationed in Guam, I now know how hard it is to have someone who you love in the military be gone for periods of time. It touches my heart to see the love in their eyes to finally have that moment together and not want it to ever go away.
I met The Lindsay's in Pomfret, Ct to do their session. Thank you guys! I had a blast working with you all! Best of Luck and talk to you soon!

I am now booking Pre-deployment, Reuniting + Deployment Sessions in Ct + in Guam.
Please contact us via email stacey@staceymphotography.com for times + locations.

Here are a few of my favs..

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Meet Sage + Riley




Daddy's Girls

Love their facial expressions in this one.

The Buckles: Love Operation

I got an email from Katrina last week asking me if I would be interested in coming over to do a Love Operation Session before her husband leaves for a 6 month deployment with the Navy. I really love doing these sessions, we always have so much fun playing and trying on daddy's uniforms, hats + boots. I feel so honored to capture these moments of these families together. My heart goes out to theses families having to see your loved one leave for a long period of time due to his or her job. Best of luck and see you in 6 months!!!!

Here are some of my favs and be sure to check out the Slide show!!

The Zitos

I got a call back a few weeks ago from Jen asking me to come over and do a Operation Love Session. I went over on Saturday to meet The Zitos + do some pics. When I showed up Zoe and Emma were ready full of energy and ready to play!! We started off with a lil tea party having the family interact with one another. Then Ray got out some of his gear and the the girls got to try them on.

I always enjoy photographing these sessions because they are soo meaningful to these families in a time like this. Its hard to say See you soon to a loved one who has to be gone for a long period of time. My heart and thoughts go out to all militaries families. While editing this session I found myself weeping like tears rolling down my cheeks weeping, over my computer not being able to see what I was doing. As I'm listening to the words of the song. Here are some from our session...

Be sure to check out our Slide show as well!!
Get the tissues out cuz everytime I look at this one it brings tears to my eyes! Good Luck Ray, Take Care and see you when you come home!!!





One my my favs

Air Force Graduation

For those of you who didn't know I just returned back from taking a trip to Texas to go see Joe graduate from Boot camp. Joe left for the Air Force in November and has been working hard the past 2.5 months.
We surprised him with having his Dad, Debbie and his 2 brothers to join us for the weekend. It was an emotional one that day. Here are a few images of the weekend and a quick Slide show. Guess you can say this was one of my Love Operation Reunited!! Congrats Joe- We are all so proud of you and wish you the best!!

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Conroy:: Love Operation ReUnited

Its that time of year again.... Christmas movie-a-thons, holiday gatherings, Families getting together over the holidays. Baking lots and lots of baked goods with cheer!! Its the most wonderful time of the year.....
Hope everyone had a great and safe holiday and Santa was good to everyone!!

Next I just want to apologize for being soooo behind on my blogging. The holidays sure take a toll on everyone.Ok. So here's a touching story I wanted to share with everyone.

As some of you know earlier this year I signed up with this program call Operation Love ReUnited. Its such an awesome program for photographers + military families to be part of.
So before Christmas I got an email for a young gal named Nikki. Here's a lil part of her email to me....

Hi
I do not even know where to start...First of all, thank you for being a part of such a wonderful operation. I love that site and think it is a wonderful thing to be a part of. Families often do not get enough pictures captured of those important moments and I was very excited to see something like that. Thank you very much, I really appreciate the entire website and details.

My husband left in March of this year, our son was 2 1/2 weeks old. That was one of the hardest moments of my life. Especially when they were letting another member of his unit stay a few extra weeks behind because him and his wife had a baby girl two days after we did and my husband had to leave with everyone else. But that is over with and we are trying to get through this time and anxiously await June when he will be home. So much has happened in our son, Kristjan, is growing up so fast and I hate that his Daddy is not here to see him. Not because he is in jail, not because he doesn't want to be a part of his life, simply because his job called him away. I think that is the hardest part about it. He wanted nothing more than to stay home with his family, to see his little boy. Its very hard. This is the second deployment he has been in. The first being to Afghanistan for a year. This time is a lot harder not only because of the length but because of all that has changed. But I am up here in CT receiving the support of our families which is better than being alone in our home in NC.........

My heart just melted after reading her emails and feeling her pain of not having Lucas in such an important time in thier lives. We went back and forth emailing and planning our session together, and we finally got together. Kristjan was a lil ham to work with. Crawling, playing around, and dancing for me!!
Nikki- thank you for having me over to capture some moments of Kristjan to send over to Lucas! You hang in there girl. You are surrounded by family and friends who will always be there for you. Im sure your counting the months down to finally see Lucas home safe. This is going to be the best gift he will get from you!! Nikki and I are going to be send over a custom book of these images to send over to Lucas in Iraq.
God bless all of our troops and bring them all home safely.

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Love these 2 shots. Typical child digging through the shelves, pulling anything they can get their hands on.

"Can't wait to see you Daddy! Miss and Love you lots!! Stay safe!-Kristjan