Sweet Payton

I have watched Payton grow from a sweet little walking 9 month old to an almost 2 year old now. She is adventurous, sweet, smart, and a little bit defiant. Not your typical two year old. She was so good about me taking her picture and we had a blast playing on the farm. When I see her I actually see Lizzy in a year and that makes me excited and sad that my little girl is growing up. They grow up too fast. Enjoy it. Payton is adorable and she makes taking pictures easy. Thanks girl.

The McNutt Family

I can totally see my family being similar to the McNutt family some day. Not only does Keely have 2 under 2 years old but she actually has 3 under 3! And she also has two older girls which makes the McNutt family of 7. What an amazing mom! You could feel the love they share and the love the girls had for each other. It was so much fun watching them interact and getting to know each of them better. Did I also mention the girls favorite subject is math? I need to take some parenting tips from this family, happiness and intelligence. They have it all. I have to admit though my favorite to shoot was their youngest daughter Emma. She was a crack up. Saying cheese and then ooohhh as if she was looking at how pretty she is in the camera. So funny. Thanks for letting me share a day with you.

The Hannum Family

4 kids under 6, sounds like a nightmare to me but Danielle makes it look easy. Her wonderful family were so great and the girls loved smiling for the camera. We had to compete for a spot with 4 other photographers but it was worth it because the trees look beautiful. Thank you for being such good sports Hannum family and for allowing me to shoot your family pictures this year. I really enjoyed editing them and watching your family interact together. You can tell it is a home full of love.

New Friends

One of the things I love about photography is that you can meet all types of people who love what you love. This week I met a new family and they were amazing to photograph. Jamie, her husband Scott and their two adorable, smiley children were wonderful. Even though we had to work around the large family that was also shooting at the same location they didn't worry. This is every family photographers dream, shooting people that make you look good.

The Riccobono Family

I just love her face in this one.

I had the pleasure of taking pictures of one of my favorite families on Sat. Heather had become such a good friend of mine and her daughter Gabriella is best buds with Jackson and Elizabeth. It was nice to spend time with their family and not have to worry about watching my kids. They are a sweet little family that just built a new house in Gilbert. Heather had this great idea to take pictures at a park in their neighborhood. The park is AMAZING for pictures. There is a pond, and this really cool stone castle and amphitheater. The only problem was a larger family (about 30!) decided it was a great place to take pictures as well. We worked around them but I was really disappointed because they were there for like 2 hours taking up all the good spots. (Don't people have a little awareness that maybe they shouldn't hog the whole place? Especially during the holidays) Anyways, we still got some really cute shots and Gabriella even had a red sucker to match their outfits. No toddler is complete without a sucker in their hand.

The Flannery Family

On Saturday I had a busy day full of picture taking. I ended the day with a wonderful family at Schnepf farms. They were so great, willing to do anything including taking some "illegal" pictures by the Schnepf buildings :). Kristi has triplets and a 2 year old which would usually make for some difficult circumstances but let me tell you, those kids were made to have their pictures taken. They were smiling and posing the whole time. I had a blast and the pictures turned out really great.