Sunday, November 22, 2009

Before the next major holiday....

Here are some photos from Halloween.

My two boys.

Stewie

Stewie's family

My brother and sister-in-law starting the pig-demic


Don't ask.



Same comment as above.




Yep.





Thank goodness for someone normal in my family.

This one is going to Facebook.






Even he knows his family is odd.



A trip to Rowe's Pumpkin Patch with our friends.










Anyone seen this famous mom on a Lansing billboard? (don't kill me Sara)












My son took this picture...not bad little man!

Our pumpkin masterpieces this year!


Saturday, November 14, 2009

The Anglin Family

It was so fun to see a high-school friend and her beautiful family! We had to deal with bright mid-day sun, but I didn't want to complain since it wasn't raining and freezing cold!

This is exactly the kind of family portrait I LOVE!

See if you can stand the cuteness!








Thursday, November 5, 2009

Bjorn + Freddie

The third time is the charm I guess! Every time we scheduled this session, we had to reschedule due to terrible weather. I was thrilled it was not raining today but I was worried because most of the leaves have fallen since we originally booked the session, it was chilly outside, and we only had about an hour of good light (I forgot about daylight savings this week)...but we forged ahead and we got some adorable shots of these handsome brothers! It was so fun to see them both again. Yep, they were even cuter than last time!

Big brother Bjorn

Little brother Freddie (check out those dimples!)

Bjorn was totally into this long grass, I didn't think we would be able to get him out of it.


Those cheeks! Those dimples! Those curls!


What kid doesn't want to be buried in leaves?






Freddie wasn't as crazy about the long grass but since his big brother went in, he had to give it a try too.

This NEVER happens for me!

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Jessica + Bart

She's my sister-in-law, but more like my sister + she's engaged to the nicest guy + it's my blog....so....this will be the longest engagement post ever!

I almost broke my hip and both of my main cameras today and Jessie almost froze to death, but I do love the pictures we got!

Congrats you guys!





































Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The Garrett Family

Another simply wonderful family I am blessed to have met and been invited to photograph several times over the last year. This little one would smile if I held my camera in front of my face, and would turn off the smile as a put the camera down, camera up...smile, camera down...no smile. I wish I could get my own son to do that!


Cutie number two!


Beautiful family of four with two young children...all smiling, looking and the camera and I didn't miss the shot fiddling with my settings....score!





Yes, I have a thing with balloons and children lately ;-) Credit to mom for getting ones that match the girls outfits! Who knew brown balloons could be so cute!


Look who learned to walk since I saw her just a few months ago? Go Zoe go!


Sunday, October 25, 2009

The Weissman Family

Finally a break from the rain and I am so glad since this wonderful family made the trip over from the east side of the state. I am sure I sound like a broken record but this family has been so wonderful to document over the last several years. Rachel is such a beautiful, smart, curious little girl and it is obvious that her parents adore her. She wasn't in much of a 'smile at' or 'look at' the camera mood today, but really, I'd rather my images capture her just the way she is at this stage in her life and this particular day in her life....and she did sneak in a few smiles.










Somehow there is always one father-daughter image from each session that makes me smile from ear to ear...this one is it this time...leaf on dad's head makes it even better for me!









Thursday, October 22, 2009

The Barczak Family

I hope one of these counts Nicole!

The mini-est mini session in the drizzling rain attempting to get one good family shot.



















Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Jennifer + Brad - The Slideshow

I hope you enjoy your slideshow Jennifer and Brad! Click here or the title of the post to see the show.


Saturday, September 26, 2009

Braeden

How can you resist this sweetness?

This little angel and his parents made the trip all the way from Chicago to visit. I didn't think we would ever get him asleep but 2.5 hours later it happened and as fast as I could, I got these.








Thanks for making the trip you guys, I hope you enjoy your sneak peek!

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Canvas Collage

I just purchased this template and wanted to test it out so I pulled some recent images from a family session. It was a bit more time consuming to create than I thought it would be, but I think it turned out super cute.