Family of 3

I think that I could just make this blog about the daily escapades of my 4-year-old, Dennis, I mean Drew the Menace. His teacher — which happens to be a really good friend of mine — told me that every time she would say something today that she would hear a slight echo of her words. Really softly…almost like she was hearing things but yet she could hear someone lowly repeating what she had just said. She tried and tried the entire time to figure out who was mimicking her. Finally, she said she just decided she must be going crazy, hearing voices and such:) Anyway, at the end of the day she finally catches Drew doing it. We go to get in the van and I ask him if he was repeating her today. He smiles this huge I’m-so-proud-of-myself smile and answers yes. I ask him why, expecting some great insightful answer. And he says, “Because it’s fun.”

So, a little while later I relay this to his dad and do you want to know what his reaction was? A hearty laugh and a “Well, that does sound like fun”. I wonder where he gets this???? It’s a mini dad in the making!

Onto the family of 3 that I photographed last week.

I just love the way this picture turned out. I love mother/daughter pictures and it reminds me of one that my mother-in-law captured of me and Mackenzie at her 2-year-old birthday party. I didn’t even know that she was taking it but it shows Mackenzie laying on my shoulder looking straight into the camera. We were both exhausted from her party and it just captured a moment of us time.

And she’s a quick little one. This was as she ran by me. The pictures right before and right after were a blur…glad that this one came out.

Sibling #2

I think it’s pretty cool that I did newborn shots of her big brother and now her. It’s so fun to capture a family as it grows.

Mom brought some flowers to incorporate; little Miss thought it was fun to wiggle them off.

Got the couch back out

The leaves you see in the background is sadly about as good as it gets around here.
Their oldest is a nature buff so the 4th picture down is soooo him.

Senior 2010

It was so nice to work with her. She just smiled and went along with anything. We went to this new urban-y (bear with me…I don’t know any other way to describe it)location that I love. I’m sure it will be torn down soon because that seems to be what happens every.single.time I find a new exciting run-down location but I love that we got to use it for some of her shots.

Maternity Pics

This is my husband’s good friend and his wife. They are expecting their first baby and I am SO excited for them! Hope you enjoy guys:)

Marla & Family….

and her mom and dad and her sister and her family. We waited to see what the rain was going to do right up until the point of leaving. I’m so glad we went ahead with the pictures because we didn’t end up with any rain. Hope you enjoy your sneak peek:)

Opposite Day

I think these 2 had a plan of attack against their mom and I. It was quite comical because they consistently did the opposite of each other. One would look…the other would look away. One would smile…the other would not. One would stay still…the other would move. At times I was laughing so hard because I couldn’t believe that we couldn’t time 2 little girls to do the same thing at the same time.
We had fun though and I hope you guys enjoy the sneak peek:)

Ok, so this one makes a liar out of me:)

Love her dimples

One would make a silly face and the other would try and get away! I told their mom that this was THE picture for their Christmas card. It was so her girls this day:)

Attack of the cockaburrs

I have no idea if I spelled cockaburrs correctly but that is besides the point. I know that I’ve written several times about the attack from ants that I’ve had at photo shoots but this time we were attacked while walking a couple of feet from our vehicles to the cement. Just.a.few.feet and we looked down and OUCH! these things covered our shoes, legs, clothes, everything…and there were hundreds of them…and they hurt! And we were running out of light. The kiddos mom had the brilliant idea to knock them off with her brush and it really worked. So if you’re ever in that situation (cockaburrs all over you) and you happen to have a hairbrush on you then you’re good. Just brush them off:) Hope you enjoy your peek. Sorry that it’s so late.

Out of the …

5 gazillion pictures from this session I have no idea how I ended up with only landscape oriented pictures for this sneak peek??!!

Miss H

Drew just walked in a few minutes ago and said,
“Mom, you’re on the naughty list.”
“Why? Well, what list are you on Drew?”
“Aww Mom, I’ll be on the naughty list with you.”

Great. Anyone want to join us? I’m guessing this is a Santa thing…and I’ve gotta figure out how to change lists because I need a new lens:)

Little Miss H is in the “quick” category but a ton of fun. Extremely photogenic…I mean look at those blue eyes.