Your fix of adorableness!!!

One of my wonderful clients McKenzie hosted a portrait party last week. This means she had all of her friends come over to her house and I did mini photo shoots. By hosting, McKenzie had to organize the photo shoot shedule, endure the chaos of me taking over her living room, and keep me fed. Luckily, she knew that my favorite food was sandwiches and this one did not disapoint! :) In exchange McKenzie gets to spend the day in a whirlwind of visits from friends and get great new images of her kiddos. She also gets a special suprise gift (but even she doesn't know what that is)
Ok on to the pictures.... Starting with McKenzie's crew.
Karsyn, Emma & Preston




Payton has been on my blog several times before and she hams it up more and more each time I see her.

I love when she wears these little vintage looking dresses. Such a doll!

I also got a chance to meet a bunch of new kids which is always fun. Almost all of the rest of the kids in this post are new faces.

Such a beauty! Bethany, Bettina & Brianna are so sweet. They have a baby brother Corban that definetely rules the show but it was a little too chilly for him to come outside. We got some cute photos of him inside though.
Corban
next up; super cute, Avie, baby Henry & Nate

Karsyn got to visit with lots of friends that day!
Matthew and Conor are 2 little cuties that I photograph regularly

A few more new faces

Zach

Ethan
Alyssa


Noah was absolutely hysterical and full of endless energy!! He had me cracking up the whole time.

And one more to show that he can be a total sweetheart too!

These guys were really fun!! Most older kids don't want their photos taken because they think it's going to be boring or stuffy. So I tried a different take on their photo shoot to make it fit more with their fun personalities. I'm happy with how they turned out.

It was a great and exhausting day! Thanks for everything McKenzie! Enjoy your photos

BJ, Savannah & Broc

The last time I did photos for this family was when BJ was 6 months old and now he's 3 years old and they have TWO new babies. I LOVE this photo. I just like how BJ seems so comfortable with his new baby brother and sister even though Broc is crying in his ear.
Savannah is so tiny next to Broc.

Love that expression.

and a little storyboard example just for fun.

Avery & Alec in Downtown Annapolis

My cousin Josh was in town last week from Charlston SC with his wife Sharla and their adorable kids Alec and Avery. They were staying in Virginia with my aunt and uncle but made the drive to Annapolis to hang out for the afternoon. I had so much fun hanging out with their family, my mom and my aunt Laura. We just walked around downtown, went in a few shops and took a bunch of pictures. Nothing too overly exciting, but a great day all the same.
One of my favorite photos of the day is this one of Alec's legs with Josh and Sharla in the background. Alec and I entertained ourselves by taking jumping shadow pictures. That is until Alec hurt his ankle when I started asking him to jump off of things.
*Alec, next time we will have you stretch before we do photos.

Avery hammed it up for pictures once she woke up and warmed up to me. It must be really weird to wake up in a stroller walking around a strange city surrounded by people you hardly see.

We went out to eat next and Alec looked so small sitting at the bar. It was kinda funny. He's watching the baseball game but I think he might have been drinking too. He was kinda slurring his words as we were leaving.

I love this shot of Avery and Josh

Love you guys! I'll come visit soon!

Easter Extravaganza!

It's so great to be home in Maryland and so close to all my family. I love being able to make the family get-togethers, the baby showers, the birthday parties and the holiday fun. Sunday I headed out to Virginia to my cousin's house for the Easter Extravaganza and it was so nice to be surrounded by people who I love and who love me.
Here are a few photos that I got during the day.
Kaia and my Uncle Chuck This next photo is not very tecnically correct but I really like it, probably because I love the people in it so much. I just love the connection and comfortable familiarity between Kaia and great-grandmother "GG" Spotlight on all the kiddos
First up: Avery
And big brother Alec

Kaia
Gillian
And Sophie!
I was playing around with my wide angle lens and thought it was really funny how out of proportion Sophie looks. Its not a very flattering angle but she didn't really seem to mind.
A little mommy daughter love.

Usually it's only their girls that get plastered all over my blog but this time I snuck a photo of Elena and CD looking happy in love.


And lastly the droolworthy peanut butter eggs that are a tradition in my family. They are so delicious and I'm really sad that I already ate all the ones I stole to bring home.

Elena~ (*lip quivering*) if you love me at all please mail me more eggs!!! I can't possible wait until next Easter!

To all my family~ thanks for being so fantastically real, fun, quirky and genuinely full of love. I love you!!