The Watts...

Thank goodness my sister-in-law-in-law, Wende, broke her camera or I would never had met the Watt family.

This next one is my FAVORITE...

Such a doll!

Thanks, Watt Family!

Blackners kids...

The Blackners are the cutest, smallest, most red-headed people I know...

and they're lots of fun to snap pictures of!I love doing pics for CHRISTMAS because it's pretty much play time for everyone involved. I've always wanted to do this (see below) and FINALLY I was able to.... see you've got to have 3 kids to make it work... (for obvious reasons.) AND a husband that works with WOOD for a living. (thanks, honey!)
These kids were such good sports... just going along with all my crazy ideas.

Thank you, Blackners!

I hope you enjoyed the SPIRIT of Halloween...

The Shraders...

I had a lot of fun the other day shooting the Shrader Family! They were so easy going... my only request from them was to make sure they look skinny. (Don't need help from ME, sister!) I thought they looked FANTASTIC! and even though the bright leaves are about gone, I LOVE LOVE LOVE the colors in these fall pictures. Check 'em out...

K, so all the Shrader kids were blessed with INCREDIBLE eyes! I LOVE staring at them... maybe MY eyes will miraculously change into something similar.

Thanks, Shrader Family!

The Brents...

Meet Karli, Jason and their kids... SO CUTE!! These are the kind of people who look good in every picture... that's why this is such a big post. I couldn't CHOOSE! I love that BUILDING!! (see above.) Plus, I'm sure it's haunted so I love it even MORE! :)

These were some STINKY dumpsters (below)... but WORTH the reek, I think.

Are you kidding me? Get DOWN from there!!

Thank you so much, Jason and Karli! I can't wait to play with you again soon!

HOT SHOT party.

I got an email the other day from one of my most FAVORITE people EVER... my dear friend, Sarah. I've known Sarah since French class in 8th grade (16 years?!), where we stapled licorice to the wall, wrote our own alphabet and constantly quoted the movie HOT SHOTS. Needless to say, we laughed a LOT in that class. I remember SEVERAL times I laughed until TEARS flowed down my face... then I'd get my name on the board. It was WORTH it...we had an absolute BLAST! I will write the rest of this post in the FRENCH I learned in that class.

Ici is her darling family...

It's not really fair that so many good looks are all in ONE family.He's already taking after his funny mother...C'est my favorite picture... maybe EVER!!

Merci so much, Sarah! It was tres fun to see you again... now I can update my shrine. ;)

The Smiths...

When Wende asked me to take pictures of her entire family, I felt like doing this...

Wende is a FANTASTIC photographer... I love her work. So for her to ask me... made me feel pretty awesome.

Just look at this happy family...

I actually have a picture where EVERYONE is looking at the camera... but where's the fun in that?

I love this pic of 2 sisters...

And here are the 2 that started this handsome family...

Thanks so much Smith family!

Tim, Michelle and Co.

I love love love the colors in these pictures...

Michelle, you did a FANTASTIC job picking outfits!

Such cute kids! We had a lot of fun.

Oh my goodness... when we were setting up our picture, this old man came down to the family and told them to have their kids stand on him! WHAT?!!! I'm sure Tim and Michelle would LOVE to have a gigantic 16x20 picture framed and hanging on their living room wall with their entire family looking so lovely and happy... but when you look a little closer you see a strange old man lying down underneath the kids' feet! "No thanks", we politely said. I took a picture, because I know no one would believe me if I told them!

The look on Michelle's face is PRICELESS!!

I leave you with one more... this is my FAVORITE picture of the bunch...

What a darling family! Thanks you guys!!

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

~George Bernard Shaw

Shooting TWINKLES...

The other day I got to shoot (I'm still uncomfortable using the word SHOOT. You all know this is a photography blog, right? And anytime I say SHOOT or SHOT, I'm takling in PHOTO LANGUAGE. I would never murder anyone... and when I stubb my toe or spill my drink on my computer, I won't say SHOOT... There are plenty of other words I'd choose. SHOOT is strictly for PHOTOS on this blog! Clear?)my sweet cousin and her cute family. Let's be honest... sorry Katie and Jared,

but the REAL star of this SHOOT was your baby girl...

She is soooooooo adorable.

Have you noticed them?... noticed those TWINKLEY eyes?
I'm sure you have... they're hard to miss.

Ohhhhhhh what I wouldn't give to have those TWINKLEY eyes!

There's only ONE other person I've ever seen with such a TWINKLE. My sweet Grandpa, Par.

I cannot believe how much this little girl's eyes remind me of his!!

Such a lucky girl!

I loved, loved, loved SHOOTING this family!

Thanks Katie, Jared and Baby Twinkle!!

I'll leave you with one more... it always makes me laugh.

She's saying... "STOP! DON'T SHOOT!" :)