This Weekend...

This weekend I am headed to Dallas, Texas, with my friend April to attend The Secret Photography Workshop. It is a two-day workshop put together by some amazing photographers who specialize in children's portrait photography. Words cannot express how unbelievably excited I am to go, and to learn and play and laugh... I just feel so blessed for the opportunity to attend something like this, and of course~ I will post lots and lots of pictures from the workshop when I get back!

So, I wish everyone a very happy and safe weekend! I'll definitely be having fun, and I can't wait to share stories and pictures next week. In the meantime, here is a picture I took this last weekend of Peyton and Landon, two of the sweetest boys in the world.

Rugrats

Spent this past weekend with three of the cutest rugrats ever...

A Saturday Session

Last weekend I got to go hang out for a while with this little guy...



It's such a small world~ I went to elementary school with his mom (until we moved in 3rd grade), and then as adults she now works with my hubby...





Photo sessions aren't any fun without a little play time! We let the little man take some time to blow bubbles, which is always a hit with kids (and hey~ adults can love them too! If I hadn't been 'on the job' I would have totally joined in!).





One of the best things about this session was the absolutely awesome location... The family lives near the neatest barn, which is actually set up for weddings and wedding receptions, and makes an awesome spot for photos. I would loooove to go back there again sometime!







And even though the primary goal of the session was to get pictures of just the little guy, his older brother was a total ham for the camera, which I loved! I would love to get to take more of him sometime... what photographer doesn't adore a completely willing and smiley subject!?!?



And here are two plays of the same picture~ I generally prefer color pictures {at least in my own photography}, but once in a while I try to throw in a non-color version. In this case, I actually can't decide which one I prefer! He's adorable, so he looks cute either way...





So, thank you sooooo much to the parents of the little man for asking me to take pictures!! He's a cutie!

Sunday

Sunday we got together to celebrate my father-in-law's birthday. I definitely love being with everyone, and the kids are just so cute... of course I love to take pictures of them! Here's a little 'picture recap' of our Sunday.

This is a picture of the little girls singing "Happy Birthday to Papa"... it was so cute! It looks like they're frowning in the picture, but they're not~ they were totally happy. I think they were probably right in the middle of the "you" part of "...birthday to you."



The babies played with each other, put lots of toys in their mouths, and crawled all over the place~ it's just a matter of time until they're walking!







Landon has an incredibly sweet disposition {usually!}, and smiles almost all the time.





Peyton is super sweet too, I just don't catch his smiles on camera quite as often lately...





When I went to take this picture of Natalie, I forgot I had my external flash tilted to the side, so it ended up lighting her face from a completely different direction than I had planned, but I kind of like how it ended up! Very dramatic.



And she had on the CUTEST outfit, seriously!





Katie is such a good mom~ it's really amazing. I was glad to capture a little cuddle time on camera...





And I especially love this picture of Katie with both of her boys... they are so loved.

Reruns

Was looking through some older pictures tonight and thought I'd post some reruns... all of these have been on my blog before, but I don't mind posting them again, just because.













Have a nice weekend!

Bubbles

On Easter Sunday I got to watch some of the cutest kids {ever} play outside with bubbles... just an FYI~ admittedly these aren't the most amazing pictures I've ever taken. On one hand I love the sun and I'm very thankful for the nice weather, but on the other hand, bright sun is hard for shooting outdoor pictures. Sure, you can do things to try to fight harsh shadows and you can spend a lot of time making adjustments to get the correct exposure when the light conditions change all the time, but that isn't that easy to do with two- and three-year-olds~ you kind of have to fly by the seat of your pants!

So, these "are what they are"... just pictures of two sweet girls playing outside, blowing bubbles on a very sunny Easter Sunday.

The Paw...

The paw... Okay, when I first noticed it, I thought it was weird. And uncomfortable-looking.



I thought for sure he wouldn't lay like that on purpose! But then I noticed him doing it again!!



So then I thought maybe it was just something he liked to do with that one paw, but then I noticed he does it with the other paw too!!



Strange, I know. But we love him anyway...

Hanging Out with the Twins

I wanted to post a few more pictures from when the twins were at my house a few weekends ago... They're just so cute!







Landon has this funny way of laying on his side, like he's posing...



And then he says, "What Auntie? More pictures?"









Peyton has the cutest little chompers on the bottom :)



And Andy got some face time with Landon...





If only they could come play ALL the time!