{the "w" family}

Can I tell you just how much I LOVED photographing these kids?  They were so good and so sweet.  What I loved most was watching how they interacted with each other.  They just oozed affection for each other.  Each of these pictures just melts my heart.

Lifestyle

 Are you familiar with lifestyle photography?  I'm currently taking a class from Brooke Snow about how to really capture the "story" in your images and be able to portray emotion better.  This week, my homework assignment was to choose a character (my son) and take "detail" pictures of him that give us some information about who he is and his personality.  He just finished up first grade and has developed a true love for reading...ESPECIALLY Calvin and Hobbes.  His books are tattered and worn, missing pages, and one is even missing the cover. As a mother, I often overlook moments like this to photograph.  He's been reading well for over a year now and this is the first time I've taken out the camera and really tried to capture the details of this amazing time in my son's life right now.  I snapped many more pictures that what you see on the blog (the assignment limited me to 4), and every one of them makes my heart melt.  I will always treasure these images. 

fun with photoshop

I saw this idea on pinterest and had to try it!  My kids each drew a picture and then we combined those pictures and pictures of my kids to create these fun images!

The "F" family

Have you ever had one of those days when your kids just aren't cooperating?  Sadly, that  was what happened with this sweet family on PHOTO day.  The baby was soooo tired and the five-year-old just wanted to play.  But that's life, right?  We all tried super hard and were able to coax some smiles out of the kids. I think we got some really cute ones!

New newborn pose!

I finally figured out how to do this pose SAFELY (i.e. without actually hanging a baby from a tree branch) and had to try it out with my daughter!  She's obviously not a newborn anymore, but the ending result was SOOO cute!!  I'm so excited to try this pose with a new baby.  I just can't decide which I like more, the black and white or the color?

Sweet Lilly

Can I tell you how much I loved this baby?  She was SOOO good.  My baby cries all the time.  Unless she's sleeping, of course, but she doesn't do much of that because she's too busy crying.  What a breath of fresh air to step into this newborn session with a baby that cry once.  I can't help but that that Heavenly Father knew that this mom needed a sweet and easy baby....her brothers are three and a half year old twins! 

Grumpy Grumpy!

My daughter loves being a goofball in front of the camera.  It makes me angry.  And she gets upset when I'm angry (funny how that works, isn't it?)  You know how you always want pictures of your kids to be "perfect" and they have their own idea of what perfect is.  She had picked this flower and kept either holding it on her head, trying to eat it, smelling it while going cross-eyed...you get the point.  She got grumpier and grumpier the more I tried to tell her what to do.  Finally I just snapped these, even though she was practically gouging her cheek with stem. And wow!  Maybe she knew what she was doing after all!  What do you think about the texture on the bottom picture?  I think it's pretty cool, personally.