Five years. Five films. One family growing up right before our eyes.

Once my clients have a family film, they become repeat clients. Every year.

The Howard Family lives ten hours away. I make the drive every year to film them. Five years in a row now … and I'll do it again this fall.

Because they understand something most people only realize in hindsight: this season won't last.

I filmed them for the first time when their kids were 4 and 3. Now those kids are 9 and 8, and there are two more siblings in the mix. We spent a day together and captured all of it, the chaos, the tenderness, the ordinary moments that feel so unremarkable until suddenly they're gone.

Then they called me back the next year. And the year after that.

Now they have five films they watch regularly. Five chapters of their family's story. And when they watch them back to back, the way the kids' voices have changed, the way they move differently, the way the family has grown and shifted and settled into itself, it takes your breath away.

That's what a day-in-the-life film is. Not a posed photoshoot. Not a highlight reel of your best moments in matching outfits. It's your actual life, your toddler insisting on doing everything themselves, the way your family laughs together, the way you look at each other when no one is watching.

It is, without question, the most generous thing you can do for your future self.

Your kids won't remember being little. But you will, and so will they, when they watch this someday.

I'll let Sadiee tell you the rest. She's been a client for five years and she says it better than I ever could.

From Sadiee:

Fall means something specific in our house: it's time for our annual family film with Jennie. We're going on six years now, and it's easily one of my favorite things we do all year.

I had followed Jennie for years before I finally booked. When she started offering family films, I fell in love even more, her ability to capture a family's story in a way that was completely unique to them. I'd never seen anything like it. But I had a hang-up: we were living in a rental house I was honestly pretty salty about. I kept asking myself, am I really going to invest this much into a film set in a house I don't even love?

Eventually I had to work through that. At the end of the day, this was our kids' home. This was their childhood. And I wanted it preserved exactly as it was.

My husband was hesitant about the price, so we compromised, no gifts for holidays, birthdays, or anniversaries until we'd saved up. Jennie traveled to Tampa Bay that October and filmed us for the first time. My kids ended up in mismatched PJs. My son may or may not have been squatting on the table licking pancake batter. But it was them, raw and real.

The experience was incredibly laid back. No stress, no rushing, none of those classic parent fights you usually have on the way to a family photo session. Jennie just integrated like a fly on the wall. Even my husband, who I'd dragged to plenty of staged sessions, commented afterward on how different it felt.

"I never expected to be emotional watching that first film. Now, five years later, I pretty much expect to sob, but that first one really took me by surprise. It still gets me the most, because it represents the furthest my kids will ever be from being that little again."

Jennie has now captured five films for us, and we have another one booked. Each one holds such a massive place in my heart. My phone is filled with thousands of videos just sitting in the cloud, beautiful moments that don't tell our whole story. And since I'm the one usually filming, I'm hardly ever in any of them. These films changed that. I can't explain the gratitude I feel knowing I can pass them down to my kids someday.

Sessions for late 2026 are open and very limited. If you've been thinking about starting your family's collection, this is your sign.

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