a teenager!

We have a lot of birthdays in the fall and winter in our family, which means lots of birthday photo shoots! Yesterday I took our almost TEENager(!) to Murray's parents' farm for some pictures. It was so much fun to spend some one-on-one time with this boy of mine. He makes me a proud and happy Mom. He is a hard worker, a good leader in our family, talented (I LOVE hearing him play the piano and watching him play soccer), a good friend, and tries his best to do what is right. We really lucked out to have him be our first born because he eased us into this parenting thing. I love Kasen with all my heart and am privileged to be his mother.

Enough with the sappiness! I took SOOO many photos and I love them all, so brace yourselves!

 

 

 No, Kasen didn't turn into a horse mid-way through his photo shoot :-) This is Blue, the pony. He is the most patient and mild tempered animal on the planet.

 

our october birthdays!

A yearly birthday photo shoot is now a tradition! I kick-started this idea last year in October when these two boys had their birthdays' and here we are on year two! 

A friend of mine asked me to take their family photos at Murray's parents' farm this year and I decided I would "practice" with my own kids. We made an afternoon of it. I packed a picnic, my camera, a change of clothes, and a comb and we headed to Gradma's straight away after I picked up Corbin from preschool. The weather was GORGEOUS. The boys had a ball playing outside, having our picnic, and saying hi to gradma. I changed their clothes, freshened up their hair, and took pictures one handed while holding baby Charlotte :-) You have to do what you have to do, right?! I imagined getting more of the scenery in the background, but the boys were wanting to stand by this tree trunk so that is what we did! I absolutely love these. And I LOVE my BIG "little" boys.

I am planning on playing around with different scenery options when I do Kasen's THIRTEEN (!) year old photo shoot hopefully this weekend. And we can do it when the lighting is more ideal (right before sunset). 

I have to say, even though we took these photos during the worst possible time of day for lighting (mid-day), I really think they turned out great!

Pierce is 2 year old photos:

Corbin's 4 year old photos:

charlie girl is seven months

I really can't believe my baby is seven months. She is the sweetest thing! She is a rock star sleeper and a very happy and content baby. Her recent trick is clapping her hands! She can roll all over the place now and says "da da da da". She had her first haircut this week, too! Just a little trim. 

These next pictures were taken a couple of weeks ago on a cloudy day. The lighting is a little more muted, but I love them still. Home girl wouldn't nap, so I took pictures instead! Ha!