Fall Family Pictures

I love taking family pictures in the fall.  The colors are so great.  I had so much fun with this family taking their pictures.  You can't tell but our biggest challenge was dodging the bike riders, walkers, and runners as we tried to capture these family shots. I know they look like they popped of the pages of a magazine. - so wonderfully color coordinated and I didn't have to work hard at all to get great poses and smile - a family of naturals in front of the camera.  But the best part is they are such great friends of mine and love being with them - we just had a great shoot with some fun great pictures for the holidays.  Happy Holidays!

Trucks & Dirt, shades of Blue - little boys are angels, even at 2

I met up with this little boy and his family to take his "2" year old pictures.  And he is a little angel - he made me smile and melted my heart the minute I met him.  I loved spending my morning with him.  He is 100 % boy and I love it!!!!  I don't even know how many rocks he collected today and had to have his chapstick in his pocket like his daddy.  But I to add a few pictures with him and his Mom, because that boy loves his momma!!  He has such a fun personality (but don't worry, he did throw in a couple of 2 year old "no's", so he is normal) - he is so much fun!  Thanks for a fun day!!!!

I know - Isn't he the cutest thing with that jacket and his shades!!!

Beautiful blue eyes and dimples in his cheeks when he smiles that will kill the ladies one day!

There is nothing like a mother's love!

What a GREAT age!!!  Thanks for letting me capture such a wonderful time in his life. The two's will test your patience, but love and cherish every minute of it.

Family Fun!

Fall days, families, dogs at the park - does it get any better than that?  We had a GREAT day taking family pictures with this family.  We could not have ordered a more perfect weather day.  We could have stayed all day.  I was so much fun.  I love these kids - what fun ages!!  I love the snaggle tooth smile.  Here are a few pictures of our fun photo shoot.

It's a Boy's Life !

Perfect fall day for pictures.  I admire this Mom so much.  She has done what I have not done with my boys and that is to have their pictures taken doing what they love to do and capturing them in this moment in time. As Mom's we all want to slow the clock down and bottle up this time with our kids.  Our oldest boys are the same age and will be going off to High School next year, so you really want to cherish that time with them.  It goes by so fast, but you wouldn't change a thing and you would do it all over again in a heart beat.  We had a really great day taking pictures - these boys did such a great job and were so much fun to take pictures of.  We had to re-schedule this shoot - and it was meant to be because we could not have ordered a more perfect day.  Here are a few pictures from their shoot.  These boys ROCK!  We got some awesome pictures that I know their parents will cherish forever.

And (unlike my boys these days), they did a great job taking a few together.  Isn't this the best picture?  I love it!

And Mom is so awesome, she says that their favorite thing to do all together is read.  They have been doing this since the kids were really little, so she brought their books and we captured this special time between a mother and her boys.  I love this picture.  You can tell these boys love their mom and I know that this picture will be very special to her.

I am so inspired now to take pictures of my boys and make sure that I am in some with them.  Special memories - thanks for letting me be the one to capture these memories and document this time in these boys' life.

More picture from Duke Gardens

I am working through the edits for my family photo shoot at Duke Gardens and I just love these pictures so much that I had to add a few more to the blog.
The cutest kids ever.....

And Mom and Dad, I am so proud that we finally were able to get a picture of both of them just by themselves.  You can't even imagine how may couples say they can't remember when they had their picture taken together - except for their wedding picture.  Wow - what a great looking couple!!