With the start of a new year I thought it would be fun to go through and post my favorite pictures from the year.

I’m a sucker for adorable babies, so I had to post a few more.

Yep, he stuck his tongue out at me, how cute is that. 🙂

I just love baby toes, so cute. 😀

I think this was my favorite.

As promised I managed some time to get Crystal out for her school pictures. My other favorite munchkin Jade (my cousin’s daughter) came along for some pictures too. We headed out to Vandaveer park, and lucked out on the gorgeous autumn weather. I was really loving the bright colors both of the girls had on. Crystal’s obsessed with Hannah Montana right now, so we had to have both the Hannah Montana outfits for the shoot. Jade and her mom love horses, so she’s got cute little horses all over her pink sweatshirt. Love it.

This shot was so difficult Crystal didn’t want to lay down for some reason (found out on the car ride out that there was a really weird bug flying overhead, poor kid)

My favorite picture of Crystal.

She was just chewing on her bracelet, and I thought it was cute.

Isnt’ she a cutie.

This just reminds me of playing in the leaves as a kid (or yesterday, whatever). Too fun

This is the Jade we all know and love, hands on the hips & lots of attitude. 🙂

The whole time they just wanted to make funny faces, these were some of my favorites.

Jade and her mom had places to go, so after we split up after Vandaveer and I took Crystal downtown for some “Rock Star” pictures. I pretty much just let her be her for these pictures.

No guitars were actually harmed in the making of this shot. She just wanted to fake it.

It’s that time of year again. Cory and I took Anakin out to Vandaveer park to take his school pictures. I know the school does them every year, and the ones the school takes are fine for the yearbook or whatever, but they don’t really capture personality that well, so I’ve been taking the kids out for my own version of school pictures each fall. I probably posted way more than I should have, but I’m a mom and I’m biased this time. Crystal was at Grandma’s this weekend when we did Anakin’s, so stay tuned for her pictures in a few weeks. 🙂

I love this one, I think he was trying to eat the flowers, but still cute.

He’s totally in love with that huge fountain, he’d be swimming if we let him.

I really love his “far off visionary” look. Anakin always seems like he knows some deep meaningful secret.

You probably can’t tell it, but she climbed into the plants just so I could get the lovely cherry frame going. Awesomeness!

Gorgeous smile!

My little sister Faith and her friend Rachael are both seniors this year. I was pretty excited to get to shoot their senior portraits. We’ve gotten to know Rachael pretty well over the last year, she’s gone on camping trips with the family and they both come over to swim all summer. My daughter really looks up to both of them. She has a little plastic cell phone that she runs around with “texting people like Faith & Rachael do.” Since that’s all these girls do we had to take some pictures with their cell phones. Unfortunately my new favorite spot for portraits was loaded with bugs this time, not sure if it’s the time of year or because we arrived later in the evening, but it was pretty awful. They still managed to look gorgeous, thanks for being such good sports about it. Anyways, we had a lot of fun and I think we got some really great photos.

My favorite picture of Faith.

One of my favorite shots of Rachael, Cory took this one and I think it looks really natural.

Another great shot from Cory.

This one is probably my favorite from the whole shoot, I love how pretty Rachael looks in that dress and the lovely sunset lighting.

Sunday I had the pleasure of photographing Nikki, a beautiful mom and teacher. I think I was a bit nervous, it was my first maternity session, but I couldn’t have asked for a better family to work with. 🙂 Tim and Anna you two were such good sports. Now I just have to wait for adorable newborn pictures!

Sometimes I get a super creative kick at 3am when I’m editing photos. 🙂