Spring is in the air!

Cute as a button, you are! 

The Acorn Family!

I always look so forward to spending time with this beautiful family.   

Our photo sessions always include lots of laughter and giggles.

Treasured times, they are!

Heart. Breaker.

♥

Cuteness runs in the family!

I had such a nice time with Jennifer, Sandy and Lily.  

Lily was so much fun and such a trooper, it was a cold December day and you wouldn't even know it!  

I'm  happy to share some of the fun with you by showcasing a few of the photos from our time together. 

You can plainly see no two photo sessions are the same, this is what I love about being an on-location photographer.

Everything's new and fresh!

For the teacher in all of us, this image speaks volumes...

Beautiful Kathy and those fantastic kids!

It has to be a nice position to be in.

You know, when your kids aren't yet grown up,

but when you can see, and others can see,  that you've done a lot of things right. 

When you can stand back, watch your kids interact and know, for sure, that you've made a lot of right choices along the way.  

I'm not wishing my kids to grow up faster, that's not it.

It's just that I got a glimpse of 

what's to come,

what I hope is to come,

and it makes me less apt to panic

in those moments when I plunge myself forward into

the oft described ominous 

teenage 

years.

These are great kids.

You see it, and you feel it right away.

With any luck at all...

 

 

Baby William!

This little guy is

just 

so 

cute!

Hope to get to photograph him again soon!

What a blessing!

Introducing the fabulous baby Paige!

Nothing like the excitement of first time parents!  Shanda and Tyler were a beautiful couple to spend time with!

I couldn't wait to get the news of the arrival of their little girl...and you get to take a peek at the little doll right away!

:) 

Enjoy!

She is simply beautiful. 

                                           

                                             

Dad is looking forward to meeting his little girl!

Introducing the fabulous baby Paige!

Eek, look  how beautiful she is!

                         

Sweet. Heart. 

♥

Peace and Love

Peace and love, 

my friends....

which is all well and good...

but for the new year 

I'm coming up with a concrete plan.   

Say what you mean, and mean what you say.

 ♥  

We only have one go at this life, 

embrace it.

Memories of Summer!

The little girl cousins out in Grammie and Grampie's backyard, 

with the trees that just seem to know.

Hope they are best friends forever.






They'll always have each other and memories of campfires, beach days and picking berries till their bellies were round.


Plump blueberries most treasured.


Running through the well worn paths even their great- great grandparents treaded.  


Trees whispering, "All is well."




I am grateful.

Peace and love, little woman...peace and love...

Love you wee one.

xo mom

Keeping it real.

Usually my patience isn't as great when photographing my own children as it is with other children.

Today was different.

I took what I got.

And I was happy.

It felt nice.

This was Lola, plain and simple, that moment in time.

{nap time}

This shot is worth more to me than a hundred forced smiles.

This is real, life is real, and I'm big into keeping it real.

Just saw the movie The Help.

Thanks to that {wonderful} movie, I will tell this little girl everyday,

"You're kind, you're smart and you're important."

Plain and simple.