Family Photography: The Segerbloms

I have absolutely fallen in love with this fam­ily. The Segerbloms won our fam­ily ses­sion give­away and you can read about their story here. After our own fam­ily tragedy, I find myself drawn towards peo­ple who also suf­fer. God has just changed my heart in that way — it breaks and wants to help those who also hurt. I long to share our story to bring encour­age­ment. But to be quite hon­est with you, I often hope for the suf­fer­ing to share their lives with me to encour­age me as well. After learn­ing how painful this life can be, I some­times find myself wait­ing for the next tragedy to come around the cor­ner. I love to see other fam­i­lies find joy in the midst of their pain to remind myself that no mat­ter what comes, you can still find joy. The Segerbloms are that exam­ple, that reminder, for me.

Dominic is such a trooper in the midst of the dif­fi­cul­ties he faces at such a young age and I know that it is due to the peace and secu­rity his par­ents give him. They are his advo­cate, his strength, and they sup­ply a plethora of joy and hap­pi­ness in their home. After our ses­sion, Adri­enne and Scott invited us over for din­ner. In case you haven’t been read­ing the blog that long, Vitaliy and I do not pass up free food. But all jok­ing aside, we were thrilled to be invited into their home and get to expe­ri­ence a lit­tle of what their daily life looks like. I’m always curi­ous how fam­i­lies live their lives. What is their fam­ily rou­tine? What makes them laugh together? What do they find causes ten­sion? I just have a crazy love affair with humans in gen­eral and am con­stantly hop­ing to get glimpses into the lives of oth­ers. The Segerbloms gave us that peek into their life and I am eter­nally grate­ful. I will never for­get the things I saw. Things things I felt. Or the things I learned.

Adri­enne and Scott — your strength and your faith is both con­vict­ing and inspir­ing. Thank you for open­ing up your home to us and even more so for open­ing up your life to us. We are sin­cerely thank­ful for your hon­esty and authen­tic­ity. Thank you for not hid­ing but for shar­ing your life story. We love that about you! God has used it and will con­tinue to. Give Dominic and Max big hugs from their new friends. We love you all!

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Meet The Segerbloms! San Mateo’s Cen­tral Park is one of our favorite places for fam­ily photos.

Meet the youngest Segerblom — Max. I’m so in love with this pic­ture but really with this cutie. Don’t you just want to give him a big kiss??

And let me intro­duce you to Mr. Dominic — the star of this show. Vitaliy cap­tured some­thing spe­cial in this image. What strength.

A wanna be Vitaliy. He might be intern­ing with us in the near future.

And this is how they are capa­ble of hav­ing joy through the pain. Gotta fight for it! Gotta let go and have fun in the midst! Adri­enne, you are incredible.

I’ll end with this broth­erly moment. One of our favorites!