the perfect response

Growing up I always hated when my parents would bump into people that they didn't see all that often as I dreaded the "Lauren, I cannot believe how old you have gotten" comment. I would always try to think of an appropriate response, but saying "Thank you" didnt really make sense and if I replied "I know" I would have been lectured for 30 minutes on being a polite young lady yadda yadda, so I always ended up just awkwardly smiling back.

When I saw the C family the first thing out of my mouth was "I cannot believe how much B&R have changed since last fall!" I turned to each of them and told them how much older they looked, and R who doesn't miss a beat reassured me that I looked so much older too. At age 4 she had come up with the perfect response to the comment I always hated. There is never a dull moment with B&R which is why I look forward to seeing them each fall. Without further ado, meet the C Family...

more to come...

All four "L" kids will appear on my blog after their family shoot in a couple of weeks, but I wanted to share these to hold their mama over until then!

back in session.

My blog took a summer break. While I am so disappointed that I didn't share photos of the wonderful families I photographed between Memorial Day and Labor Day, I feel so great that I took the time to truly get settled and organized in our new town. I couldn't be happier that I finally have an actual home office that makes editing photos a breeze. After taking an entire summer off, I am so excited to be back in session.

sweet little "d"

I was so excited when "d"'s monogramming mama emailed me about taking his 6 month photos - "d's" dad's family and my family are great friends (gotta love Cathedral High School) so I obviously couldn't wait to meet him, and catch up with his parents.  Our shoot was on an awesome spring evening, "d" was a perfect model (are you kidding me with that smile and those dimples?), and it was so great to see his parents!