Lacey is a family photographer located in Kansas City and the surrounding areas. To inquire about your own you can contact Lacey here or by emailing her at: laceyrene.studios@yahoo.com. Be sure to follow along on Instagram @laceyrene.studios to see behind the scenes from our latest shoots or get inspired by seeing past shoots here.

Arms full, yet the presence left void of the precious boy who also once filled them. Grief mingled with such joy and happiness. Both emotions can be true, can be present. The gift of knowing your son. The parents he needed. The brothers he had love him. A family always of five, yet four to […]

A whole year of knowing him.A whole year of knowing all his smiles. The one right after waking up.The one that thinks something is funny.The one reserved just for you when your matching blue eyes lock. A year of watching you grow.Three hundred and sixty five days of intently learning you. What you love, how […]

There is just something about their curiosity, about watching them wonder at the small things hidden in plain view within the big world around them. There is something about observing them learn, witnessing them crawl and grow and become the boy you were certain just moments before was a baby. And then there is something […]

There was something about just holding him. Keeping him in your arms, closing your eyes and breathing out the newness of life you call your son. Perfect fingers. Perfect toes. Looking down at his chest rise and fall as you settle into the wonder of it all. It’s the moment you realize in a breath, […]

There is nothing quite like watching your child grow. Grow in curiosity and marvel at the most simple, everyday things….things that to their precious eyes, seem profound. And they draw us in and slow us down and teach us to see those same things again. To hear the birds. See the planes. To stop and […]