Happy Birthday Henry

While babysitting my only nephew yesterday, I pulled off a quick (and surprise) photo shoot.  Happy Birthday, Baby!

I am rather impressed with myself given that I had 3-kids-against-1 and not a single adult to help me keep the attention of this high energy 1 year old.  Here's the best I could do, and there are dozens of others on disc for his parents to remember his many facial expressions.  So glad to be your Aunt, Henry Rex!

If this face doesn't make you melt, well, you are beyond hope.  My heart strings felt a little tug every single time it came up in editing.

And Baby Makes Three

Jeremy and Cindy had a fabulous winter wedding last year (see here, here and here), and I was overjoyed to celebrate their new family with pictures to ring in the new year and new baby Easton!  He is a doll, and I was delighted to see his eyes wide with curiosity toward the end of the shoot (once we escaped the cold to my living-room-makeshift-studio.)  Congratulations to this beautiful family!

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Finally!

It seems like Jacque and I moved this shoot dozens of times - sick kids, poor weather, work schedule, poor weather again.  I'm so glad she kept coming back to make it happen - the result was worth it!  What beautiful people.

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Sunny Winter Mini Shoot

We thanked our lucky stars for sunny and [relatively] warm weather today - the forecasted 20's turned mid-30's and we were grateful!  There's a great smile on the little miss near the end; still she was a doll for all of them.

3 Mini Shoots

I've fallen behind on my blogging for mini shoots, so here's a quick catchup of some darling families and the Christmas card shots we got.  I love 20 minute sessions when it's cold outside!  They make it so easy; all of these kids were fabulously behaved and made our job pretty simple [and fun!].

Arizona

Gorgeous weather necessitates photos.  It just does.  And after freezing in my Utah mini shoots, this session was downright balmy.  Mary is the cousin I idolized for my entire growing up, and still do in so many ways.  It was so much fun to catch some quick pictures!  I especially love seeing every hair color represented.

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Little Boys

This has become an annual tradition, since Ty was six months old.  It has been so fun to watch your family grow, and to *try* to capture that energy on camera!  I think we got the energy for sure... just maybe not 3 consecutive smiles.  Truth be told, I love group candids perhaps more than anything.

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