This session was our 2nd visit from Miss A, and her mom brings her all the way from San Jose! We love seeing them and are so thankful that they’re happy to make the trip here. A wasn’t quite sitting up on her own, but you’d never know if from these red chair images! She did great! We also attempted capturing her in her darling ladybug Halloween costume, but she was NOT happy about it; luckily they were here in town for our Costumes & Cans event and we got the cutest photograph of her in the costume there! Can’t wait to see her in December for her 9-month portraits!
One of the unfortunate side effects of being really busy is that from time to time, certain academic activities for the girls get well…forgotten. Fortunately, Reilly is wonderful about reminding me of these projects with plenty of time…yeah right.
“Dad, you haven’t started decorating my turkey”
“No problem sweetie, when is it due?”
“Tomorrow.”
Gulp.
Now, I was in between sessions, and with a full plate that evening, it was now or never. I had about an hour.
Hmmm…Colored pens? Not enough time. Painting? No time for cleanup. Cotton balls and paper cutouts? No way.
…
(bell sound) “Reilly, grab the glue stick, we are going outside!”
Ten minutes later and a couple handfulls of leaves & we were in business. I ran the gluestick, Reilly worked the leaves. Total time invested-about 40 minutes. And hey, it didn’t look half bad!
We even had time to eat a hard boiled egg…not from a turkey.
Another fun family session where the kids were just amazing! They both did great, but little brother was quite the ham. I just love the one of them in the red chair…what a great big sis!
Meet Katie, class of 09. We first met her when her family came to us for portraits a while back, and talked with us about her senior portraits. It was a perfect day for them and we took a walk around the neighborhood looking for interesting places and lovely light. We found both! Wish I could take credit for the tree but that was all Katie…thanks for not falling! Here are some of my faves.
What can I say about the Cochran family, other than that they were just wonderful to work with? That about sums it up! The Cochran kids were especially easy, given their young ages. Miss K is only three! (going on thirteen, I believe..) The kids pretty much did whatever we wanted them to, which is usually unheard of at these ages. Mom and dad weren’t too difficult either :-). This first family image is own of our new fav’s…in fact, it’s now hanging in our gallery. Thanks so much for giving us such a great experience!
Miss R. is one of our most recent Bebe Collection graduates. She has always had so much personality, from the very first time we met her. This little girl was always ready for the next milestone, long before her time it seemed. She crawled early, and it seems like she skipped the wobbly walking altogether! She’s such a delightful kid and exudes that in her portraits. Mom and Dad wanted to mark her first birthday with a family portrait, as by her next birthday, she’ll have a baby sister! Congratulations you guys! 🙂
Teagan and I took a walk today while Stef was out running errands. Clouds had rolled in and things began to look a bit…different.
We got a few blocks away and noticed we hadn’t seen a car since we left. Things were strangely quiet. No birds chirping, no dogs barking, and no people anywhere. Teagan however seemed unaware of the silence and was fixated on a striped cat sitting in front of a house. She waved and called to it but the cat did not move.
“Teagan, let’s go” I said and started walking. Only she wasn’t following. She wasn’t moving. Just standing there frozen with a blank stare at the cat.
“Teagan! We need to go NOW!” It was then I saw several other cats appear all moving towards us.
That was it. I grabbed miss T and ran. As I was huffing around corners, more cats were arriving. They seemed to be everywhere but I kept running. As I rounded the corner to the driveway I stopped dead in my tracks. Must have been fifty cats sitting there just staring at us, including the striped one we saw earlier.
“Put me down daddy, I need to talk to my friends” Teagan calmly said. I gently let her down and she walked slowly to the group. She said a few things in a soft voice then looked up. “We can go in now daddy” she said. Teagan took my hand and we went inside, locked the door and sat down. “Can we go for another walk?” she said.
Happy Halloween!
We were invited to a Halloween get together at Stef’s dad’s house the other day and he & Kim pulled out all the stops. Food and treats everywhere and the place was decorated to the hilt. Kim had several games planned including a popcorn relay (which my team won) and pin the nose on the pumpkin. The girls were of course thrilled and went home with many bags of tooth deteriorating sweets….um…thanks?
Really, it was a very nice time, thanks Ed & Kim!
A couple weekends ago we held our 2nd annual Costumes & Cans event, but this was the first time we held it at The Silver Spoon children’s boutique in Granite Bay. It was meant to be a fun way for families to get cute Halloween portraits of their kids, and for us to collect canned food to donate to the food bank. It was a huge success, and we extend our heartfelt thanks to all of the parents who dressed their kids up and brought them out with their food donations. We especially want to thank the wonderful owners of the Silver Spoon who let us take over their store! In the end, we collected over 400 cans of food. What an awesome show of support from the community! We’ve posted a few of our favorites from the event here. Hats off to the parents who made such a great effort on these amazing costumes!
