Ashley and David's 1 year Anniversary!

So I had the priviledge to spend the day with Ashley and David on their one year anniversary.  I have know Ashley since she was a wee little girl, and now she is all grown up.  I had such a wonderful time with both of them, and they were both fair game to do anything I asked.  We started the photo shoot at their house, and after some photos in the front of the house, Ashley told me about her antique bike she had.  Stuff like that is a photographer's dream.  We had so much fun using the bike, and we appreciate the neighbor letting us use his barn.  Then later we headed up to the small town down the street from them, and then Ashley and David told me about the train, once again a photographer's dream.  Then Ashley shared that they never got any engagment pictures when they got married, so we threw a few of those in there as well, even though it was there one year anniversary.  It was great having such variety in our pictures in one photo shoot.  Thank you Ashley and David for a great day!   I hope you had a great anniversary, inspite of spending some of it with me.

I Heart Faces - Autumn Beauty

So this is a great theme this week!  I love capturing the changes of seasons with my kids through pictures.  The only problem with getting enough leaves for my kids to play in at our home, is that we built a house 6 years ago, and all our trees are still to small to produce enough leaves to make worth jumping in.  So we did the next best thing, and grabbed our rake, and headed to the park by our house.  The crazy thing was, while my daughter was raking the leaves, she found a snake.  So I spent a few minutes trying to get this snake far away from us, so it wouldn't bother the kids while they played.  I'm surprised my daughter was even okay to play in the leaves after that.  I love this picture so much, because you can see the expression on my son's face without seeing the front of his face.  This is the first year that he got the point of playing in the leaves, and it was so much fun!!!!!  Be sure to check out the other great pictures at I Heart Faces.

I once again was thrilled to have found my picture chosen as one of the top ten picks of the weekly challenge of I Heart Faces.  This week I got the number five pick.  I absolutely love challenging myself with the weekly contest with the unique themes.  There are some absolutely amazing pictures on there every week, and I'm honored to even fall in a category with some of these photographers.

The Bond of Sisters!

So a family at my church approached me awhile ago about doing a photo shoot for them at their home, and a few weeks ago I had the priviledge to do that.  This family was so much fun.  They cracked me up most of the time, and I would have to stop taking pictures for a bit so I could just laugh with them.  This family is so close and it was fun capturing that in pictures. 

So after we got some family shots, the rest of the family came out to join them.  This was a tough thing to pull off, as well as funny, but I think we got a pretty good shot of all of them.

So I decided to get some couple pictures and lets just say the dogs were getting a bit jealous.  Check out the next photo with the dog between them.  It just cracked me up!!!!!

These two sisters are just gourgeous!!!!

So after a bunch of serious pictures we decided to go with something completely different!!!

Okay, back to serious again!

So towards the end of the photo shoot I asked if anyone had anything else they wanted me to take, and the two sisters said they wanted me to recreate two pictures from their childhood.  So they described what the pictures were, and the next two shots were specially for them.

Then I asked the girls if they like to wrestle and the next thing I new they were wrestling for me.

And then we ended with a nice picture of the two of them.  After this photo shoot I was wishing I had a sister when I was growing up.  The two of them seem to have so much fun together.  I have two brothers, but after this photo shoot I realized it just isn't the same.  We ended our time together with some wonderful hot chocolate.  What a fun afternoon!