Grant | Senior Session | Wheaton

Hello! Hello! It has been a minute since the last blog post! Back again with another Senior Session to share!

Grant is a Senior at Bartlett HS, he is friends with Dylan who I featured a few posts back.
I was so excited to have more seniors in front of my camera this year! And Grant, well… he hit it out of the park! 😉

We met at the beautiful Danada House in Wheaton, and if you’ve never been, it offers so many wonderful photo locations all in one place. Needless to say, I was very excited when his family chose this beautiful spot for his senior session!

Grant was such a kind, fun, hardworking kid—and his parents were equally wonderful. They were a real pleasure to get to know as we walked the grounds together.

Grant has committed himself to a club baseball team, plays for Bartlett High School, and you could also find him on deck duty at his local pool this past summer. Fun fact: I learned that Grant has been playing summer ball since he was just six years old!

Now that is commitment!

And now, you have to add enjoying every minute of senior year to the list.

The last season.
The last tournament.
The last school dance.
The last year surrounded by the friends you’ve collected over the past four years.

The time is here.

Embrace it. Enjoy it. Soak it all in. And get ready for all that life will “throw” your way!

But those “lasts” are hard on the people who have shared them with you, too.

Grant’s dad wrote him the sweetest note about his final baseball season, and I think it perfectly captures just how much these years have meant to their family:

Grant,

It was hard to pack away Legos and action figures. Pirate ships and Cars toys that you played with so passionately.

It was hard to take down Star Wars and Harry Potter pictures hanging in your room and replace them with decor that is more fitting for a dorm room atmosphere.

But it’s damn near impossible to say goodbye to baseball. It bonded our whole family. Our ultimate connection. The thing we can always strike up a conversation about. The game we played together for your whole life. It’s been the best time just being there with you, especially in dugouts. Cheering. Yelling. Swearing. Laughing. What a ride.

Thankfully, I know that wherever you are and whenever you’re around, we will always have baseball.

We love you bud! Keep making us proud! ❤️

Wow.

The love shared by Grant’s family is so incredibly evident. You can feel the investment they have made in the things Grant loves, the years they have spent cheering him on, and all of the memories they have created along the way.

That is priceless.

And isn’t that what these senior years are really about? The person they are becoming, the people who helped them get there, and all of the memories that brought them to this moment.

I really enjoy capturing seniors because this is such an exciting season of life. There is so much ahead of them, and so much worth remembering about who they are right now.

Grant was so much fun to capture, and I hope his family looks back on these images years from now and remembers not just what he looked like at 17 or 18, but who he was in this moment—the baseball player, the hardworking kid, the kind heart, the son they are so incredibly proud of.

Go get ’em, Grant! ⚾️

I have a feeling you’re going to accomplish some pretty great things.

Renee