Cookie Palooza!

Okay every year the Saturday after thanksgiving we head over to my Aunt's house with all of my cousins and all the grandkids to make about 10,000 cookies. You read that correctly. It is not 1000 cookies it is a ton more then that (okay 10,000 might be a bit much) but at least 3200 cookies. There was only 500 cut out cookies that we had to frost this year and that was down from last year! We absolutely love going there and being with family and Ava gets to play with all of her cousins. This was the first year that I think she actually got the purpose of the whole thing! COOKIES! My aunt works weeks and days before with prepping dough and baking some things ahead of time and then we start at about 8:00 am and we finished this year at about 7:00 pm. It has become such a family tradition for us with Ava and Matt (who is an only child and does not come from a large family) that it is what we like best about Thanksgiving weekend. Well the cookies we get to take home aren't bad either. Plus I get to put little tins together and share the wealth of cookies wit friends and neighbors (if Matt doesn't eat all the good ones first!). The lighting was a little harsh but you get the picture. (this is just a small sample).

What a great day and Mr. Adorable

Okay so get ready for a whole lot of cuteness. I meet up with a former co-worker of mine and her family to capture some pictures of Ezra (he is in quite a few pics on my website). He is about 10 months old now and still as cute as he was at 5 months. If we ever have a boy I hope he is as adorable and good natured as Ezra.

BRRRRRR it was cold...

I had a great time with Ben and Grace and of course Mom and Dad on Saturday. While it was a little chilly everybody was really great sports about it and we got some really awesome images at the Mills Museum. Thank you guys for braving the cold!!

One of my favorites from the session! I love Grace's boots with the hearts!

Grace has beautiful Hazel eyes!

Just love this one! She did such a great job considering it was COLD!!

I love the texture of the building here and again a favorite one of mine of Ben.

Love this Family one and the awesome background, I love how both Ben and Grace are in the picture! They were seriously the best behaved kids ever!

Love this one and her sweet smile and again those eyes!!

I think Grace got a little more air on her then Ben in this one.

The serious side of Ben!

Of course Ben showed me some moves and we captured some really great action shots!

Apple Orchard!!

Okay so the weather here has been so COLD and yucky out I thought I share a few warmer ones. Now granted the day we went to the Apple orchard it was a little chilly in the morning but at least we had the sun. We went with some friends are ours, Ava best friend from daycare and her fabulous sister and awesome Mom and Dad.

Waiting for their turn and picking out which horses they were going to ride!


Sophie peaking thru the fence!


Mia loved the white horse!


What can I say I love this kid!



Two best friends off to pick apples (we found out later we were not suppose to pick them off the trees.)


The girls enjoying their apples (notice they are two fisting them!)


Ava decided to join their family when I said let's do a family walking pic thru the orchard!


This is what I was trying to capture!


Here is a little storyboard of the day. We also enjoyed some apple donuts!!!

18 months and moving fast

Saturday our friends Jason and Amy came over with their daughter, Nico. I took pictures of her earlier this summer when she was a slower on her feet. Not anymore!! She can move and move fast. She is so adorable and very smart. Nico is now 18 months old and knows about 24 different signs in sign language, which is extremely helpful at this age. We had a great time and hope to do it more often

Pink, pink and more pink

This weekend I got the chance to to photograph two special girls whose Mom let me practice on them earlier this year when I was building my portfolio. Sarah Kate was 10 weeks old last time I saw her and now she is close to 8 months! Her bigger sister Cora loves her swing and I of course had to get a few of her in the pink tutu on the swing. Thanks again Mom and Dad for the great session. Special thanks to Dad for moving the red couch outside!!