Bright and Early Beauty::1 Year Old Cali and Family

Avery and her family were a wonderful referral to me.  She contacted me wanting a session at their home with their one year old daughter Cali.  I would never not do photos in someone's home, but not seeing it, I don't know what the lighting is like, furniture, decor...all that.  I arrived at their home on a slightly wet Saturday morning at 8am.  I was welcomed by about 4 dogs (Grandma and Grandpa were visiting too with their pets) and shown to their back yard.  WOW what an oasis!  I do NOT have a green thumb at all, this was spectacular.  I never would have guessed all of that was hidden behind their home.  Cali was such a bubbly little thing, so full of personality.  Grandpa help get some smiles and giggles out of her (I should have snapped a few of his antics) and dad Ryan was so in love with BOTH of his girls.  What a pleasant way to start my weekend!

She really wanted her special little lovey!

Screaming with glee! Haha!

We shot a few with Grandma and Grandpa as well!

And not to be ignored, we threw the dogs in there as well.  Of COURSE they're part of the family! :)

Thank you for a wonderful morning.  I look forward to working with you all in the future!!! 

Father's Day Gift::The Woods' Ladies

Kim wanted to get some photos done of her and her girls as a gift for her husband for Father's Day (don't worry he won't see this, he's not FB much, or so I'm told:)).  Apparently they haven't had any family photos done since the youngest, Colleen, was a baby.  For shame. :)  Let's remedy that!  

The night of our shoot, we were cutting it REALLY close.  There was a huge, and unexpected, thunderstorm rolling in!  We met up anyway, and thankfully in that part of town the skies were clear.  As the session progressed (and I was zipping through things a bit faster than normal) the cloud cover increased quickly.  By the end, and you can see in the photos, the sky was quite dark, but wow, the lighting was awesome.  So as not to get struck by lightning, we fled to our cars JUST as the rain started to pour!  Nick of Time!!!!  Thanks for a wonderful evening ladies, Dad'll love it!

 I really enjoy working with "older" kids (well they were clearly young ladies).  They take direction so well, they're not distracted by the tiniest little thing and so photogenic!  Here's beautiful Colleen!

 And older sis, Lauren.  I see senior photos in our future! :)  The wind turned out to be an asset!

 The woman behind the beautiful daughters, mom Kim! 

 Now you can see the dark skies, it was quite threatening!  But wow, love the color!

Yee haw, we're done and we made it without getting wet!  Hope Dad enjoys his gift, girls!