The Twins

My twin nephews turned a year old on June 11th... I just can't believe it! Time flies!!

Here's Landon...



And here's Peyton...

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...

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.

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!

Mr. Landon

Okay, this little guy is SUCH a sweetheart! He just makes my heart melt... {and yes, his brother and sister do, too}. It's amazing how three kids can be so similar and also so different! Landon has a completely unique personality, which is totally obvious~ even at 9 months old. Even my husband comments all the time on the adorable faces he makes, and you know guys~ they don't always notice stuff like that! But it's true, Landon has some awesome faces.

I took these pictures of him last Sunday and I think he's just adorable, so I had to share...





And this last one's pretty great, and literally makes my husband giggle out loud EVERY time he sees it...!! Don't you love it!?!?

Guess Who Was Here?

The twins were at my house today!!





I will definitely post more pictures of them.... soon!! I have a LONG line of pictures waiting to be processed, so they'll have to wait their turn :)

{And by the way, I will never get sick of super-close close ups!!}

Grandma's Birthday

A few weeks ago, we got together at Katie's to celebrate my mother-in-law's birthday. I took some pictures of the twins, who were of course there to celebrate Grandma's birthday and wow us all with how big they're getting! When these were taken, they were just a week or two shy of being 9 months old.











And Katie posted a few more of the pictures I took on her family blog, too. Click here to check out her blog!

P.S.

Just want to share a recent photo of Peyton, one of my favorite people to take pictures of!!

Never Blogged {Nieces & Nephews}

I'm really not taking very many pictures right now, and although I had hoped to avoid a "I don't have much to post" post.... no such luck. I mentioned in my last post that it's a slow time of year for pictures, and for the most part, it really is. Don't worry~ there's some good stuff coming up and I cannot WAIT for the winter to be gone and to start taking pictures in full swing again!

But in the meantime, I grabbed a picture of each of my nieces and nephews that I hadn't ever posted, and I thought I'd post those so that no one thinks I've disappeared!! And... because they're cute (although these were all taken BEFORE I really knew anything about taking pictures...).

Fun in the Sun (And Snow)

On Saturday, Andy's family met us at the cabin for a day of outside fun with the little kiddos...

They got pulled around on sleds~



And looked cute for Auntie's camera~









And got hung upside down when we went inside for a little break~



And then got to go back outside to build a snowman, which I haven't seen anyone do in a long, long time~







And then hitched a ride back to the cabin~



Such a fun day! And I'm not really an outside person during the winter, and I've DEFINITELY never thought about taking my camera outside during the winter before, either. But, I talked myself into it and I'm so glad I did. And here's my favorite pic from the day:

Miss Natalie~