All The Pieces Together...Form a Family

Family. What does it mean? Is it the people you are related to? Is it the people who take care of you? Family....is the people who love you. This family is creating their own family. They asked me to do their holiday fotos and I was excited about getting to know all of them a little better. Both the girls and the boy are Mom's...but the baby-on-the-way is theirs together. The girls personalities remind me of my sister & I when we were young...just because we were sooooo different! Just the ways they stood together showed their own attitudes. And I had to ask them to stand closer together....I received the typical teenage eye-rolling. Go figure. I loved the fotos with mom & the girls, "The Boys" and the 3 kids together. But, I think my favorites were the ones with Dad & Mom together, arms wrapped around her tummy, cradling the new family member with love's embrace.

Kids and Ice Cream

Have you ever just walked right into the perfect situation and you were at exactly the right place at the most opportune moment? That happened to me this past Wednesday. My office mates decided to host an end of summer ice cream sundae social for our residents. No better opportunity to Foto than kids & ice cream!!!! So, I packed up my camera and that spiffy new lens of mine and went to work. I love the fact that I had so many beautiful and different faces to capture. I could have easily taken hundreds of Fotos and I didn't even get the chance to catch all the faces I wanted! In the Foto showcased above, yes, those are her natural color eyes. No color editing there! I love the fact that kids are so natural and their smiles can light up a whole afternoon. From the amount of smiles I got Wednesday, I should be brightened for the next 3 weeks. They have the most beautiful faces and I'm so blessed to have been given the oppotunity on Wednesday to immortalize them. It feels good to have such a gift to share with their parents. And the parents...what a wonderful group of people. Each one I have called and told that I have Fotos for them...they have been so excited and happy!!!