jacqueline

this girl's laugh and smile are contagious!!! my husband and i shot her moms wedding in april (which was way more fun then working should be). and jacqueline and her mom wanted me to do her senior portraits. so jaqueline brought along her friend (dominique) and some more family (stephen & ashley) and we did one ginormous photo shoot at the botanical gardens. it was nice to always have someone ready to take pictures of (and i'm sure everyone else enjoyed having a little break every now and then from having their pictures taken, hahaha)

it was a fun morning. and i love the pictures.

dominique

senior portraits
location: botanical gardens

i'm so lucky i got to meet dominique, she was so sweet (and quiet) but i had lots of fun taking pictures of her. she was so natural in front of the camera (i need to learn her little head tilt maybe if i mastered that pictures of me would come out good too!!!)

stephen & ashley

soon to be married this summer, i hope i get to see them again. they were so much fun and so easy to work with. i'd say let's try this and they would just jump up on that not so sturdy looking fence and hope it wouldn't fall down (and if it did then we'd have some fun pictures!!!)

location: botanical gardens

the pack's

i'm always amazed how many pictures i take in such a short amount of time. it's a good thing i've got a large memory card (especially when you're around fun, active, amazingly good looking kids like these). we had a fun time filled with lots of marshmellows, dancing, climbing, and wrestling. i'm so lucky that such wonderful people let me into their homes to take pictures of them. thank you!!!

the turner's

i was too excited to share these photos. i haven't done anything else all morning (except read while my pictures were loading). i had so much fun this weekend. i'm already planning a trip back to old town to hand out with my kids there and take some pictures of them. i've been so busy taking everyone else's pictures lately i don't have any REALLY recent ones of ashleigh and elijah.

how incredibly cute and perfect is this family!?!?! i've watched them go from 2 kids to 4 and when they all walked up together i was surprised by how big a family with 4 kids looked. yikes!!! but they were so much fun and i was afraid they were going to get us kicked out the whole time (climbing on all the art). but i'm glad they weren't afraid!!!

things we learned at the nm state fair...

1. mario had never been in the dairy barn.



2. my kids don't really like cotton candy, thus $5.00 spent on cotton candy was way too much and i still have a sugar headache from eating all that cotton candy.



3. being a theif at old mcdonalds farm is ok.




4. elijah and dad look way too much alike (and act too much alike)


5. mario should of never been allowed in old mcdonalds farm.


6. elijah may have a little cowboy in him after all

7. ashleigh's cute (we already knew that)

the most important thing we learned...
8. not all carnies are scary (cross that out) not all carnies are mean money hungry cheaters. (they are all scary). the nice lady at the fishing game cheated so both kids could win a small prize

it was fun and not the money spending pit it usually is. thanks for ditching work to hang out with us dad. now i'm getting excited for the balloon fiesta (which also happens to fall on my birthday!!!)

some randomness...

all of our cousins (like 16 kids!!!) at our family reunion/vacation in durango. it was so much fun can't wait to all get together again!!!




my spiders in my garden on my tomato plant. i think the big fat spider ate the skinny long spider because now there's only one spider.



elijah's favorite park by my mom's house. isn't it awesome? elijah freaks me out by the thing he does here. he's getting so big!!!











elijha's first day of school. he's doing so good and loves it.
yesterday he told me
"mom you go home and i'll stay here, you pick me up later, ok"
seriously he's so big!!!







and ashleigh. she's the reason why we only have 2 kids and aren't thinking of having another one anytime soon. i think the pictures explain why (and she does this everyday - make a mess that is)

polk cheerleaders

so we all now how cute cheerleaders are and how we all wanted to or still want to be able to dress in a cute/short little skirt and jump around and get tons of attention. but these girls are espcially cute!!! i just randomly picked pictures because they were all so cute.

can't wait to see them all again.

i love old town

second thought, i think i just love this family. they are so beautiful, and fun, and cute, and silly, and girly and cute, and did i mention cute?

makes me wish my ashleigh had a little sister don't get me wrong we love her brother, but how fun are sisters?!

thanks for taking pictures with me i had a hard time choosing which to post, i loved them all!!!

the butler's

i had so much fun with these pictures (i have fun with all my pictures!) but all these new babies, they're sooo cute. can't wait to take more pictures of this adorable family in november.