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Posted on July 28, 2009
I love the colors and fun of a carnival! Check it out…
After we found the cotton candy there was no turning back. Every shot I took after that looked something like this:
Posted on July 27, 2009
I’ve done a couple sessions with this duo now and love that they are ready for anything. Thanks for surviving the Arizona heat with me…you girls are troopers!
Posted on July 19, 2009
More on this later but just wanted to share a pic of a new favorite location. Isn’t this just the coolest background?
Posted on July 17, 2009
It’s obvious that we love costumes and dress up around here. I think it’s great for a child’s imagination and playtime. My favorite shopping day is the day after halloween. Forget black Friday. I am in line with the early birds November 1 hoping to score a handful of costumes for 75% off. What a deal to find a year-round dress up play outfit for $4.
Last years Halloween clearance brought in this cute Minnie Mouse dress. When I bought it I thought for sure it would be a couple years before it would be used (it looked so big at the time and it was a size 4-6). I was quite surprised when I dug it out with some of the other discount costumes the other day and it fit my little ‘M’ perfectly. What a happy occassion for her (she is sooooo into Minnie right now).
Posted on July 15, 2009
I walked into my daughter’s bedroom the other day and saw this. You’d think I would have put a stop to it immediately. My response? ‘Oh, cute! Your jumping on your bed….let me get my camera…okay, keep jumping!’
Can’t help it. I love the perfect photog moments.
Posted on July 14, 2009
A preview from last night’s photo session with this very fun mommy/daughter duo. These girls were sooo great to photograph! Sweet, fun and ready for anything. Many thanks for the fun!
It was sooooo hot so we had a lemon-lime soda break in the middle of our session. I had to keep these two refreshed (and the cute glass bottles make a fun prop at the same time).
When you live in AZ you must plan for good cold refreshments wherever you go!
And then there’s this great B&W – I just love the expressions here…
now that is some perfect summer fun!
This below was something we just had to do (just for fun)…
just silly stuffAnd some more closeness…
Reading books is a favorite activity for the 2 of them…
(the favorite books)
When all else fails….do headstands!
‘A’ liked the mommy’s heels pics (see previous post) and requested to do the same….
Dressing up is always fun for 3 year olds! Especially when it includes mom’s favorite heels.
She’s a supermodel…just check out that walk! Work it, girl…
Favorite shot of the day:
I love the closeness here…
Thanks for the fun girls!
p.s. There is a slideshow featuring these gals under ‘videos’ on the menu bar – happy clicking!
Posted on July 7, 2009
Miss M is such a fashionista. She is always dressing up and my heels are her favorite accessory. She uses them much more than I do!
Posted on July 7, 2009
An American classic photo session. Here’s sweet little ‘L’ – celebrating her 4th birthday and the 4th of july. Isn’t this dress perfect? I have had this site in mind for something fun and when L’s mom showed me this dress I knew it was finally time to shoot at this location. I love how they turned out. ‘L’ is just amazing – you can just see her energy+beauty full out in these images.
‘L’ was totally into taking pictures but she kept giving me the cheesy smiles and posing with her head tilted (very princess like but not the great natural shots I strive for). It took some good tunes and engaging conversation between the two of us but I finally cracked her out of the posing and scored some awesome images…
I always hesitate to convert great color like this but like to see the BW option too…
great expression here…
And here we have pure delight!
Thank you for the great energy and fun, sweet girl!
Posted on July 6, 2009
M. noticed this VW bus sitting alongside the road as we were driving to Target (where else?) the other day. She just loved the novelty of a duo colored car and asked if we could take a picture. Ummm, yeah we can! I will never turn down a request to photograph. And, yes, I had my camera right there with me (always do – hey, you never know what we may come across)…
So we pulled over and she just started jumping around. I think she was happy to construct her own little on-the-spot photo session and I was just loving it.
Posted on July 3, 2009
Last day of summer swimming lesssons! The next step is child only classes (no more classes with mom in the pool).
Happy for the accomplishment…sad that I won’t be in the water with her next time.
I suppose parenting is all about this. Letting go a little at a time. Preschool is up next in that regard - only a couple weeks away. Is it just me or does this all happen in rapid succession? Once you hit age 3 it seems it’s all about letting go.