Sara, Aubrey & Alivia

Sara's mom, Cheryl, and my mom were best friends when we lived in Carthage.  It was so awesome to see Sara and her two little girls (not to mention Cheryl!!).  I was honored when she asked if we could do a family portrait session while I was in town.

Aubrey and Alivia are adorable, awesome, and hilarious!!  Aubrey is at the age that she loves to pose it up for the camera, and Alivia is at the age that she likes to be ornery.  One thing I love about the ornery little ones is that they give me some awesome personality shots.  When she's older, it'll be fun to look back on these and see exactly what she was like.  ;-)

Zack, Amy, & Blaker

I grew up living about 30 minutes away from my cousins.  There were two of us (my brother and I), and four of them.   The 6 of us were so close growing up - we went to the same church, and at least every other Sunday we all ate Sunday Dinner at Nana and Papa's.  I hate to guess how often we spent the night at each other's houses!!

We have all grown up, and we live all over - Tennessee, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa - but when we have the opportunity to get together it just feels right.  It feels like we still live close together - though we'd probably have way too much fun if we did! ;-)  I love that my family is like that!!!

While in Keokuk, I got to shoot Zack's family (Zack is the youngest of the 6 of us - I'm the oldest).  Zack is married to the wonderful Amy (Zack married himself a winner.  The complement each other perfectly, and I LOVE seeing them together!) and they have a son name Blake.  Blake is awesome, hilarious, and adorable at the same time.

Sure do love you guys!!

Blake playing indians with his cousin

Another Indian cousin ;-)

Blake showing me his bull ridin' moves!

The Lane Frost wave

The Murray's and the Palmer's

I think I've said this before, but one of my favorite things about being a family portrait photographer is getting to see the same people every year.  It is SO fun to see how each family grows and changes.

The first time I shot these families, Melissa and Cory were pregnant, then I got to shoot Bailey as a baby, and this year as a toddler!!

I also had a personal first on this photoshoot - Snaps, Bailey's pony came to the park for pictures!!  Bailey loves her pony and it was so fun to take photographs of the two of them - not to mention the rest of the fam (David, Teresa and Andrew!!).

Lowery's

The Lowery's have made my blog a few times...I'm pretty sure I did a wedding blog of them... and then I got to take their family portraits when sweet Eden was less than a year old.

Brian, Sarah, and Eden have moved to Indiana, but it worked out perfectly to take their family portraits on my last sojourn in that State.

They moved to Indiana to plant a church, which officially launched just a few weeks ago (Reunion Church)  If you live near Plainfield, IN, you should really check it out!

Eden is a bundle of energy these days and she is such a sweetheart.  She had a GREAT time picking flowers (which we only let her do b/c it was the end of September and they were still the summer flowers), running around, and playing at the park.  I had a wonderful time catching up with all of them.  Thanks you guys!