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Welcome!

Blessed Life Photography specializes in modern lifestyle portraiture of newborns, babies, children, siblings and family photography sessions.

Blessed Life Photography features the work of Abby Benedict and serves the Greater Kansas City, MO Metro Area - including but not limited to the Northland, Liberty, Parkville, Zona Rosa and Briarcliff Villiage. Other areas provided with portrait photography include but not limited to Overland Park, Shawnee Mission, Prairie Village, Roeland Park, Fairway, the Plaza and Downtown KC. 

Contact Blessed Life Photography at 816-213-3045 or email info@blessedlifephotography.com to inquire or schedule your newborn, baby, child, sibling or family custom photography session. We create heirloom portraits of fine art quality.

Let Blessed Life Photography capture YOUR blessed life - in pictures!


Baby Drew | Liberty, Missouri Newborn & Baby Photographer

This precious and staggeringly adorable sweetpea is extra special for me. He’s the little brother of Annabelle’s BFF, and his mom is a super great friend of mine. I have fallen head over heels for Drew’s sweetness, as there is just something so endearing about his perfect wittle face and mellow personality. He even laughs at my jokes! Sort of. A smile from him just warms my heart. And those expressive blue eyes – could he be any more gorgeous?

Drew came over and I was super excited to capture his four-month-old chub. He’s just the most content little guy I’ve ever met.

LOVE him.

He must have the yummiest hands ever. Slurp.

There are cute baby bottoms, and then there is Drew’s baby bottom. The Cutest Baby Bottom Ever.

Isn’t he just the chunkiest lump of love? He dozed off for one second. This is the ONLY capture I have of him asleep – because the shutter click woke him up! But he was still happy as ever, one-second-nap or not.

Yes, hi, you’re adorable.

I love this one.


Ha. LOVE!

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Vanessa German, Portrait Photographer - I can't decide if I want to stare at his blue eyes or pinch his chubby butt. lol. He's just adorable. You captured him so well.September 1, 2010 - 9:35 PM

Cheyenne Wyoming Photographer - What a cutie! Beautiful baby portraits - great variety!August 29, 2010 - 9:03 AM

Lisa Adams - Oh my gosh what sweet images! Those expressions are priceless!! Brought a huge smile to my face...love them!August 25, 2010 - 11:43 PM

Sandra Lemin - newborn photographer Dallas - Oh My GOsh look at all of his expressions. I love these beautiful work!August 25, 2010 - 10:22 AM

willowdawn - Whidbey Island Photographer - What a beautiful image of Drew and his momma on the grey (?) background. Just lovely.August 23, 2010 - 5:07 PM

New Alabny Ohio Photographer | Danielle Neil Photography - What a sweetie - and those eyes!! Beautiful!August 18, 2010 - 1:20 PM

Jessica Epley - Oh my goodness he is SO precious! I love his hair, it gives off a vintagey feel, lol.August 17, 2010 - 8:58 PM

Shallyse Gastelum | Raleigh Baby Photographer - Drew is such a handsome little man. I love the variety of expressions you captured for his baby portraits. His baby blues are so beautiful!August 17, 2010 - 3:41 PM

Stacey Potter - These are such perfect photos! I love every one! Such a cute baby!August 17, 2010 - 12:28 PM

Simplicity By Christy- Huntsville Newborn Photographer - So so cute! Love them all!August 17, 2010 - 11:10 AM

Petra King - He's gorgeous for sure and stunning images of him. Love all those expressionsAugust 15, 2010 - 10:28 AM

Kara - So, so cute! Thanks so much Abby!!August 13, 2010 - 9:57 AM

A day at the library | Kansas City Children’s Photographer

So, we went to the Kansas City Plaza library today. Because it’s hot and disgusting outside, and how many times per week can anyone really go to the pool?

We read several books.

And we colored. A lot.

(She’s pretty intense about coloring. And I totally get it.)


Those eyelashes kill me every time. Even in 100+ degree weather.

We walked across the street to our favorite lunch spot, The Mixx. And they have gluten-free vegan cupcakes nowadays… which makes Annabelle a happy camper.

Oh, so exciting.

I love our summer days together!

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Stacey Potter - So sweet, love these!August 17, 2010 - 12:28 PM

Mom | Liberty, Missouri Children’s Photographer

My little artist’s rendition of “Mom.”

M
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I love it.

I love her.

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Stacey Potter l Boulder CO Photographer - Oops, meant to comment on a different post:)August 29, 2010 - 9:34 AM

Stacey Potter l Boulder CO Photographer - These are just PERFECT! you really captured his personality!August 29, 2010 - 9:33 AM

Heather Georger, Round Rock, TX Photographer - She is beautiful! Loved her drawing too!August 11, 2010 - 2:41 PM

Lisa Adams - I love this!! It made me laugh out loud when I saw it!!! Don't you love seeing life through their eyes!!!! ha ha ha haAugust 9, 2010 - 8:54 PM

willowdawn - Whidbey Island Photographer - Those are to die for! I love them and I'm not even her mom! Though I'm thinking that maybe you are due for a visit to your hair dresser, based on your "portrait"!August 8, 2010 - 6:40 PM

Oh, how I love babies! | Liberty, Missouri Newborn Photographer

My friend Peggy is the new mommy of this precious little guy!

I went to go meet him this past week and of course I had to take along my camera and sneak a few captures! He was 15 days old, and I think that’s the oldest I’ve ever attempted when curling sleepy newborn babies. I tried to restrain myself from bringing my entire newborn studio along for our visit, ahem, and just brought a few things since this was more of a playdate then anything else. I’ve known Peggy for the last ten years – she used to be my supervisor in another life, long before I discovered photography – and her older kids are really special to Annabelle. (Here’s a picture of her with the two of them from last summer!) Aren’t they the cutest? The three of them got to play while I caught up with Peggy and held this gorgeously adorable little guy! Dimples!!!!! From his mama. It was so nice to meet you, sweet baby boy. blogged at http://www.blessedlifephotography.com/blog

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Ellen {Kalamazoo MI newborn photographer} - So beautiful- love all the texture you used in these!August 10, 2010 - 12:59 PM

Blacklick Portrait Photographer | Danielle Neil Photography - Love the processing and the texture! Nice work!!August 4, 2010 - 3:17 PM

Blessed Life Photography on Facebook! | Liberty, Missouri & Kansas City, Missouri Photographer

Come “like” us on facebook! Upcoming special events, giveaways and other fun details will be posted on there! Feel free to tag yourself when photographs are uploaded, too.

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two little girls in the fading sunset | Liberty, Missouri Photographer & Kansas City Child Photographer

I met up with Parker and her little sister Paxton at the edge of a pretty field in South Kansas City last week. I quickly learned all sorts of fun facts about the two – Parker is an excellent negotiator, offering to trade an invite to her birthday party for my purple hairbrush – and Paxton is suspicious of anyone wielding a zoom lens, but pick her a flower and she just might be charmed.

These two little pretties were so fun and such troopers, letting me play with the gorgeous sunset light shining off their golden hair and sweet smiles.

Before we even got started, I was checking my white balance in the parking lot, when Parker came into my viewfinder and said, “HI! I’m ready for my pictures!!!!” and then gave me this squeezably adorable smile.

And yes, she was ready! She sat right down and gave me one expression after another, asking to see the results each time. So cute!

I just love her dimples.

Paxton’s turn! I think her favorite word is “no,” but she says it awfully cute. Funnily enough, whenever I repeated it for her, she’d look right at the camera or start smiling. (Ha.)

And then… SO quickly, since the light was just beginning to fade… we threw their sweet mommy into the mix!

Love this! Paxton’s like, “Are you still here? With that monstrous lens of yours?”

I just love the last one. Makes me happy! Thanks for playing, ladies!

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Sonja - LOVE these pictures!! I particularly love your black and white conversions. The color is gorgeous too.August 3, 2010 - 12:30 PM

Sandra Lemin dallas portrait photographer - I love the soft vintage feel of these images. I really can't choose a favorite one either!August 2, 2010 - 5:13 PM

Heather Georger, Round Rock, TX Photographer - These are PERFECT! Awesome field, beautiful girls, killer chair! I'm jealous of it all! :)July 25, 2010 - 2:50 PM

Ellen {Kalamazoo MI newborn photographer} - The girls, the light, the location and your processing are all gorgeous and come together beautifully in these!July 24, 2010 - 12:07 PM

Petra King - Haaa aweee I love that last one but seriously I LOVE them all. Can't pic a favorite. What beautiful girls and awesome images!July 23, 2010 - 8:26 PM

Contemporary Captures Tampa Children's Photographer - All three girls are gorgeous! I LOVE your location!! That last one is priceless!July 23, 2010 - 6:33 PM

Scott Walter Dallas Portrait Photographer - Such beautiful captures! Your client will be very happy.July 22, 2010 - 8:43 AM

A love letter. | Liberty, Missouri & Kansas City Photographer

Dear Waldo Pizza,

Have I ever told you how scrumptiously yummy I find you to be? The last time I saw you, I found myself so distracted by your intoxicating scent that I lost all my words and “mmmm” was about all I could muster. Even my husband – who rejects midwestern pizza most of the time – says you are just simply irresistible.

You and I have lived all these years in the same Kansas City and yet somehow our paths didn’t cross until one day, I realized my severely allergic child had never tried pizza before, and magically – there you were! – much to her delight.

So, thank you, Waldo Pizza. Thank you for being so sizzling hot and mostly, offering a gluten-free and dairy-free option for those of us with little ones who deserve to experience a night out at the pizza parlor with Mom and Dad, just like every other kid. And thanks for the wait staff who doesn’t mind when Annabelle stands up in our booth to signal the server and ask for “another macaroni pizza, please.” (Somehow, they always know she means pepperoni.)

With lots of little love bites,

Abby

(To read more about Annabelle’s allergies, click here.)

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Captures by Erin - Fort Worth Family Photographer - Ok ya that does nothing for my diet. LOL Looks really good!!July 21, 2010 - 7:08 PM

Bexley Photographer | Danielle Neil Photography - Darn you Abby! Now I'm hungry! Looks and sounds great!July 20, 2010 - 6:44 PM

her new hobby | Kansas City Photographer & Liberty, Missouri Children’s Photography

Something momentous happened this weekend:

Annabelle asked and learned to vacuum.

You can imagine how much I protested her newfound hobby.

She balanced out all that responsibility with plenty of fun, though.

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Ellen {Kalamazoo MI newborn photographer} - I love this series of images! You do such a wonderful job of capturing vignettes of your life!July 20, 2010 - 11:03 AM

Things I Love Thursday: Chaos | Liberty, Missouri Photographer

Today is a good day to count my blessings. Because I’ve been feeling bothered and not sleeping well and mostly, ripping up carpet. I know, my life is so hard. I don’t DO WELL with a mess, and my house is messy at the moment. BUT, tomorrow is Friday, which means it’s nearly the weekend, and my husband is home on the weekend, and he, in his infinite organization and practicality, always puts right what is wrong around here.

So, that’s the first thing I love.

It’s almost Friday. And my husband is a white knight organizer. (Okay, two things.)

The third thing I love is bruschetta. Because it’s summer, and as I mentioned, my house is a mess, and I don’t feel like cooking. But I do feel like chopping up juicy tomatoes and fresh basil and dousing them with olive oil and maybe a drop or two of balsamic vinegar. And sea salt. And pepper. And slicing up Kansas City’s Farm to Market sourdough bread, smearing with butter (I don’t care if I’m supposed to use olive oil, we like butter) and cripsing it in the oven until it’s time to smother that unsuspecting bread with oodles of tomato goodness, topping with REAL parmesean cheese – grated with love.

Slurpingly yummy. I didn’t spend too much time trying to capture this plate, since my husband was reaching for it and attempting to thwart my efforts. (It’s a good thing he made the Things I Love list already.)

The fourth thing I love is that every cloud has a silver lining. I was attempting to make sense of this carpet-plucking mess when I spotted the pilfering Annabelle’s cute but grubby little fingers pawing through my wallet. Given her penchant for collecting and hiding debit cards, I thought it best to go rescue my belongings. I was just about to make my move when I saw her slip out my driver’s license and say to herself, “This is my mama! She is the best in the whole world and I love her SO much!” Which pretty much stopped me in my tracks and guess who got to play with my wallet all afternoon? (Sidenote: you kind of have to know Annabelle to know that she really does talk like that – as if every sentence must end in an exclamation mark. It’s cute. Especially when she’s exclaiming about how much she loves me.)

The fifth thing I love is that yesterday, I was driving down 71 highway and thinking about the craziness of this week. One thing in particular was just bugging me, and I knew I had to put it out of my mind. I looked up, intending to switch lanes, and what did I see? A  truck bearing Psalm 23 and the words, “Fear Not.” Loved it!

The sixth thing I love is………..Christmas in July. For my clients. But you’ll have to keep checking back to read about that!

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Petra King - OH...a girl after my own heart! Being married to a chef it's HARD to keep light with a diet. However we are pretty simple and love comfort food when at home. Can't wait for my tomatoes. Funny you never forget the pure joy of a ripe tomato, some basil and lots and lots of cheese! :DJuly 18, 2010 - 7:50 PM

Pink. | Kansas City & Liberty, Missouri Photographer

I’m a nutcase about color. It’s an endearing little quirk of mine, unless you happen to live with me. Thennnn it can get messy. I remember living in our newlywed apartment with boring walls, telling my husband it felt like a white-walled prison. (He’s used to me saying this stuff now, but back then he’d look at me like, “Who ARE you?”) I have definite thoughts about every shade. It translates into my photography, for SURE – I prefer to edit each and every image individually and painstakingly, rather than batch ANYthing, making sure the color saturation is exactly the shade I want it to be in each and every portrait. But, I’m also color sensitive in my daily life, too. When we moved into this house, the living room had an ugly, dark green accent wall. It was such a depressing color to me. I think it was a flat finish, which made it even worse, but I felt trapped in a cave each time I looked at it, too. The kitchen had a burnt orange accent wall and that too was ugggggly. Actually, MOST of the colors the previous owners picked – and no, I don’t feel bad for shamelessly bashing their color choices – just… made me ill.

Their child’s room was a pale sickly green. There is nothing pale or sickly about Annabelle, and it just didn’t fit. That room eventually became my newborn studio and it’s now a neutral color that thankfully doesn’t make me sick just by looking at it. We painted Annabelle’s new room this weekend, and she picked a princess pink. (Of course.) We talked a LOT about colors beforehand and she repeatedly said that her favorites are blue, green and purple, but that her room should be pink – specifically, the shade of Princess Aurora’s dress. Okay, then.

Now, I felt nervous about this because, well, I’m a nutcase about color, as I said above. The wrong shade and I’m all but shivering with revulsion. So we went to the paint store and I picked a few princess-y hues, allowing her to make the final selection. At the last minute, in a rare moment of thoughtlessness, I threw in a warm pink shade that resembles bubble gum, and not surprisingly, she picked that one. I think I immediately broke out in a regretful, cold sweat. But no, she was sure. This one.

Gah.

My husband, well aware that when it comes to color choices, my opinion isn’t just an opinion but a life-altering, emotionally-charged EVENT, resolutely stayed out of the color selection process. He was merely the slave labor…er, “talent.” So… this weekend we (well, he) painted her new room, and of course I made the mistake of viewing it after dark and with the garish light of an overhead fixture.

Bad idea.

I resolved that we HAD to pick a new color and repaint the next day. My husband, the “talent,” said no way. After gnashing my teeth and obsessing about how Annabelle would feel about the color, I asked her what she thought the next morning. “I LOOOOOOVE IT!” Hmm. Outvoted. Still, I kept discussing with my husband that Annabelle might feel uncomfortable in a room with so much bright….bubblegum…pepto-bismal…pink. And he finally said, “Honey, I’m pretty sure our four-year-old doesn’t have any PTSD concerning the shade of pink that SHE picked out.” Oh. Fine. Throw around medical terms.

However, I took another look. This time with natural light, and giving it a little time to dry. And I guess it’s not so bad. I kinda like it. I actually LOVE pink… but, of course, it has to be the right shade. Ahem. :)

You get to see this random and ever so pink angle because it’s the only part of the room where the painter’s tape has been taken off so far – we’re still letting it dry! And now I get to obsess about the new color of OUR bedroom… and the hallway bathroom… and the rest of the kitchen… even the kitchen cabinets. Oh, and my new office. It’s a good thing my husband is a patient, patient man.

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Contemporary Captures Tampa Children's Photographer - I so get you! we are alike in more ways than just daughters named Annabelle!! I love the new Pink and I am sure my Annabelle would concur! :)July 6, 2010 - 3:28 PM