It’s always intimidating and also flattering when another photographer
asks you to take pictures of their family! Jennifer Radack with OGrace Photography saw
that I was doing Pictures in the Pines pictures and thought it was a
great way for their family to get pictures done out of the heat. They
are from Colorado and miss the pine trees and cool weather so they
decided to make the weekend a camping trip for the kids and also family
picture time.

I love that they allowed me to take them back roading to find some
really fun and different locations for the pictures! We got some great
ones!

I Love this series…. their little girl was sneaking up behind them and we got some great reactions:)

Fun and Crazy family!!!

Thanks Jennifer… I had a great time!!!!

I have known the Hummer family for as long as I can remember. David and
I went to High School together and I used to hang out with him and
Robert all the time playing basketball. I also worked for the Hummers
in their Restaurant during High School so I have lots of memories!

A few years ago Nancy asked me to photograph Robert and Crystal’s
wedding and I was thrilled! When she called me up and said she heard I
was doing Pictures in the Pines and wanted to set up a family picture I
was so excited. All the kids were in town and it was the perfect
weekend to do it!

It’s so crazy when you see your friends having families and watch
families that you’ve known forever grow…. we got a good mix of
everything, including the dog (she was feeling left out).

Thanks Hummers!!!!

Aren’t
they all so sweet… it’s crazy that my friends can have 3 kids already
and one is a 7 year old!!! I feel so old!!! But they are beautiful!

This is Robert and Crystal and their little Guy.. I love this picture because he was not wanting to get pictures taken!

The Whole Gang!

They wanted to skip!!! I thought it was fun!

This
week I am up in Pinetop and doing a few sessions for families who want
to get out of the heat!!! This is one of my favorite families, the
Gonzalez family. I photographed their wedding and also their little boy
Reece’s first pictures at 8 weeks. Well Reece is now 8 months old so we
met up again to take more pictures. Since Randy and Michele come up to
Pinetop a lot we thought it was a great idea to take pictures up here.
I’m so glad we did! We got some very cute shots of the family and of
Reece.

Look at how cute this little guy is!!!

I Love his hair!!!

We also were able to get pictures with Grandma and Grandpa!

I
love this one of Randy and Reece… we were trying to calm Reece down
with some food and he totally fell asleep so we weren’t able to do too
much more.

Right as I was about to leave he woke up and was ready to go again, so we got a few more shots!

Love this!

Look at those eyes!

Thanks
Michele and Randy for letting me come up and take pictures. I had a
great time and it was wonderful seeing how big Reece is getting… I
can’t wait until next time.

I just posted pictures up of little Landon DeWall and now I get to post
pictures up of his entire family!!! Katie called me up and told me that
her entire family was going to be in town and they wanted pictures of
the whole gang, so we set up a time and place to take the pictures.

The day that we were supposed to take the pictures it poured… do you
all remember that crazy weird weekend in May where it rained the entire
time and was so out of the blue… yea, that was the weekend. I was so
hoping that the rain would stop because I knew that this was not
something that we could easily reschedule considering they are all from
out of town. Well we decided to try to brave it the next day and go for
it rain or shine!

Luckily it wasn’t pouring the next day and we had some good light. It
did sprinkle on us and right after we did these pictures it poured, so
i’m glad we tried to do the pictures because we had a blast.

A lot of people ask me if taking pictures of weddings is hard… and I
have to say yes and no at the same time. I love photographing weddings
and I’ve been doing it so long that they  aren’t really that difficult
for me; however, when it comes to family pictures sometimes those are
much harder than a wedding… the reason why…. whenever you add a lot
of people to a picture and then you add 4 kids all under the age of
2… you never know what will happen!

Katie and I were laughing because it was so chaotic and crazy, but we had a blast!

We have a ton of pictures so get ready!!

The Cousins – both about the same age (2)

The entire fam!!

Grandma and Grandpa…. you can tell they love these little ones…

Like
I said, you never know what is going to happen when working with
kids… we were trying to get a shot of all the kids with Grandma and
Grandpa and it just wasn’t going to happen.

Katie
and her sister both have 2 boys and the funny thing is they are all so
close in age… the two older boys are about a month apart and so are
the younger ones… how fun that must have been to be pregnant at the
same time and now they have cousins that are the same age!

Little Aiden

The DeWall Family.

Little Landon DeWall, he was 2 weeks old here!!

The Guthmiller Family!

I Love this one! I don’t think the little guys cared for it to much, but it was fun!

So sweet… Daddy and son.

Daddy and his 2 boys!

I Love the Daddy shots.

This
little guy was too funny! He hated anything on his hands or feet and
kept asking grandma to get them off… he would freeze where he was and
make someone come get him! What a cutie!

Grandma’s are always a lot of fun!

Love this one of them marching around the place!

His feet were wet here…Love it!

And then daddy rescued him and he was happy!

And of course you can’t forget about the ones who started the whole thing, Grandma and Grandpa!!!!

Thanks to all of you… I had a blast and can’t wait until next time!!!

Above and below are some old pictures of my dad when he was younger.

His 9th grade and Senior Year.

This
is where it gets special to me… that is me on his chest. Looking back
at these, this is one of my favorite pictures of all times.

My
dad holding my sister in the hospital and standing back watching his 2
girls show off their new easter dresses. He has always been there for
us through thick and thin.

Daddy’s little girl….. and helping to show off my new roller skates.

On
my wedding day dancing with my daddy was such an important thing. I
love these two pictures. I am so blessed to have pictures of my dad and
I growing up throughout the years… this is why I think photography is
soooo important because it captures those memories that 29 years later
mean more than anything else.

He has been an amazing husband….

And an amazing Bopa (Grandpa).

Truly
dad, you mean the world to me. Thank you for sticking around all these
years, thank you for loving your family, thank you for raising 2 girls
even when it wasn’t easy, thank you for loving us, your wife, your
family, and GOD. Thank you for showing us true love and for being an
amazing man of God. Thank you for being you.

I couldn’t say it better than one of my other favorite pictures of all time…..

I
think this is about the 7th session I have done for the DeWall family
and I love it every time they call me!! About 4 weeks ago they welcomed
their 2nd little guy into the world, Landon. He is so adorable and I
had a wonderful time taking pictures of him!

I did things a little differently this time and I hope that I really
captured this little guy! He was so different than his brother at this
age and it was so funny. Aiden, his brother was asleep the entire time
we did his newborn session but Landon was wide awake and not sure if he
was too happy about pictures… but we got some great ones and I love
it!!!

Little Baby behinds are just soo cute!

This is a new favorite of mine, just so beautiful and intimate!

Babies are not always happy getting their pictures taken, but it’s ok, it’s who they are:)

Such a beautiful little boy!

Details!!!!

Thanks DeWall family!!! I love helping to capture these memories for you! You are such an amazing family!!!

We got some great shots… very corporate! We pulled out the lighting
and did some basic set up shots that they could use on their website.

I thought I would share a few!