My friend has sweet kids…I believe it’s rooted in good parenting and a good marriage.  Every time these two love birds snuggled up to one another, their kids whispered, “Sarah!” and pointed, hinting that I should get a cute picture.  I loved this because it showed that they are used to seeing Mom and Dad so affectionate with one another and it helped me get cute pictures!

These are a couple of the “on the sly” shots:

And when they were expecting it…..

And some individual shots….

 

A couple of final family ones:

A few years ago my friend asked me to photograph her family.  I have been blessed to be able to get together with them each year and take new family pictures.  The kids grow and change so much, but it is when I take their pictures and begin editing them that I realize how much they have changed.  This beautiful young lady is a prime example!  (Click here to see last year’s pictures)

I love her adorable expression in this one:

Daddy’s girl:

We tried to get pictures of each parent with each kid (this was mom’s great idea–how fun for each kid to have these pictures to look back on someday!):

What a good sport, taking some affection from mom!  (These kids are so sweet, if you can’t tell by their pictures):

Some fun family and sibling ones:

And couple of the little men:

I could post pictures of these guys forever!  More of Mom & Dad to come soon….

I spent last weekend in Brainerd photographing two families.  The first family I took pictures of lives in a beautiful new home on a cool old farmstead.  It made for fun photography!  Here are some of pictures from the day:

  

Do pictures from April count as archives?  I’m not sure.  These pictures were taken for a Father’s Day gift for a friend in Iraq.  His wife arranged to have the pictures taken and mailed to him in time for Father’s Day.  I never posted any of them on here for the slight chance that he might come across my blog and have the surprise ruined!  So here they are, even if “archived” already.

This first picture cracks me up…..can you just feel the sibling love?  I can relate to this all too well!

 

I know that my favorites may not always be a client’s favorites, so I am admitting that I am posting these only selfishly as my favorites!  These kids are so gorgeous–it makes it so easy to get fun ones!  The first one of the little guy makes me smile…..

Here are those three adorable siblings again.  These are a couple of the family pictures from our rainy photo shoot this last week.  We are giving it another go next week and hoping for better weather!

I look forward to seeing you all again soon!

Doesn’t it seem like this has been a gloomy summer in Grand Rapids?  I had a family session scheduled this last week and of course we encountered thunderstorms!  We tried to squeeze in as many pictures as we could under the circumstances.  This family is incredibly photogenic….look at the great smiles and laughs from these kids!  I don’t think I have ever taken pictures of kids who are so good at sitting and smiling for the camera!

I had to “ask” them to be silly, which of course they were good at, too!

A few individual pictures:

I have some family pictures, too, which I will post soon!

Aren’t these looks priceless?

 

Is with a fun family!  I had the opportunity to meet and spend a little time with this cute family last weekend.  Their little guy is 2 years old and was so adorable that I couldn’t stop taking pictures of him! 

 

He did a lot of this:

Isn’t he SOOOOO handsome?!

And here is one of Mom & Dad (the little guy was content in a swing while we snapped a few of these!):

 

Thank you so much for the opportunity to capture your family! 

 

My beautiful friend whose maternity pictures were recently posted (see previous post) just had her baby a little over a week ago!  I had the privilege of taking some pictures of the sweet little girl.

    

I love this last one where she is “smiling”!  (I have to admit, I think I got lucky for this shot.)