SHANNA MCCANN

| a lifestyle photographer, filmmaker, & modern motherhood blogger |

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  • Would ya believe this is the best shot we got from @mcsean17 & @matty_michael’s wedding last weekend? Lol. Neeson was literally the ring bearer in those @allstate commercials, but I guess everyone thought it was super cute? I dunno. He’s lucky the novelty of his rambunctious defiance hasn’t worn off for everyone else yet. He was laying on the ground and yelling for YouTube Kids during the vows. I was like “who’s kid is that, yo?” #proudmommoment
  • These two and this day. I can’t wait to get settled back in CO this week so I can share more!🖤 📷: @exploreyourstory
  • Marriage during parenthood. What a beast. Today, specifically, it looked like a blessed 1.5 hours of car ride naps that felt like half a day, talking to each other like fellow humans and like husband and wife. About what? I don’t even know. It didn’t matter. Then it looked like stopping to eat and faintly listening to the couple at the table next to us laughing and sharing stories, while we wrangled two emotional boys, passing one set of tears and wiggles for the other. Realizing halfway through that I hadn’t even touched my burger yet. Realizing again, later, that I wasn’t even sure what it tasted like. Realizing that the money we spend on meals that Neeson won’t eat could probably buy us a vacation. Realizing that we’ve sure been drinking a lot of beer this summer. Realizing that you do what you gotta do. This season is a hard one, but still so sweet. From where I sit in the backseat of our Kia Sorento, squished between two oversized car seats, swapping my attention between a crabby 10 month old who won’t stop crying unless I’m looking at him and a 3 year old who won’t stop touching me, I see my husband. I see a completely different man from the one I married nearly 5 years ago. One softened (and exhausted) by the love and responsibility of two little boys. One who excels daily at things I never fathomed him doing. One who remembers my favorite snacks, reminds me to think of myself sometimes, and still sees ME through all the avocado stained clothes, tired eyes, and 5 day hair. Somewhere, in the midst of this insanity, we’re still here. It’s so far from easy, but being able to say with absolute certainty that I love him infinitely more now than I did when we got married nearly 5 years assures me that we’re not doing so bad. That this fog will lift and these sweet and frustrating and exhausting and beautiful years will be ones we’ll look back on fondly and thank God that we didn’t forget each other in them. • Photo: @bricowan_
  • So grateful for this crazy life.🖤 We’ve got the best announcement happening over at @exploreyourstory later this week. You guys, we are SO EXCITED about it! Better follow along so you don’t miss it. Okay, but also - how freaking amazing is Colorado?⛰ #exploreyourstory
  • I think, sometimes, all we really need is a day outside. A day where we set responsibility aside and skip through the woods, pick wildflowers (or leaves), rest our legs on fallen trees, and stare, with child like wonder, at the beauty all around us. That was today and I am grateful. • Families of Colorado! I’m booking late summer sessions over on the western slope (guys, it’s SO pretty over here) and fall sessions back in the Springs! I wanna take your picture so email me k?🖤
  • A look back at May’s first coats of green cabinet paint!🙌🏼 We’re sure missing our little home but when we see her next she’ll be a few steps closer with custom countertops by @rustictradescolorado, cabinet doors and drawers, and a new fresh water tank and AC! Why does so close still feel so far away?
  • When making design choices for #maymccannthecaravan, I knew I wanted a big farmhouse sink in the kitchen. IKEA came through on that one and I am so excited to see it all finished! Until then, Grandpa Ron’s sink will have to do.🖤 #copelandgene
  • MOTHERHOOD || where insanity and joy mingle hand in hand. This job is such an intoxicating mix of reward, love, and pride, tossed together with a hell of a lot of wondering why anyone in their right mind would sign up for this. It’s nonstop and often thankless - until those sweet moments where C takes the iPhone cord out of his mouth and pauses to reach up for me with chubby fingers and a two-toothed grin or when N stops running in circles like a lunatic and uses his inside voice just long enough for a kiss and a “Mama I love you.” The switch from gulping tears for the iPad to breathless giggles as N and I dance to Chicken Fried and the neck nuzzles and cheek strokes as C gets ready to nurse for a nap. I wouldn’t say I’m a natural at motherhood - I’m often too quick to lose patience and find myself distracted instead of present. What I WOULD say, though, is that everyday I wake up thankful and every night, as they fall asleep wrapped up in my arms and I replay the moments of the day, I know that I was and am the mama they need, and I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that they spent another day feeling loved. #neesonandcopeland

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