I met Tiana and Jason about a year ago when they were pregnant with little Wyatt and today I finally got to meet him…yeah!  He was so cute, with this precious little giggle and the best smile.  He is on the verge of walking and it was really fun to see him trying to work out how to stay on his feet!  Thank you so much for coming in guys, here are some of my favorites from today!

I usually try not to shoot early in the morning the day after a wedding, but I just couldn’t resist these kids, so I woke up early Sunday morning and got to the house at 8:00 to start this adorable session. I’m so glad I didn’t miss this one.  The de Guzmans are an amazing family, I could have spent the whole day there.  Thank you so much for inviting me into your home and letting me goof around with the kids for a couple of hours – I had a blast!

The Farm (aka The Sanders House) was a great trip. My little sister Anna and her husband Ashton live on this great property just off Flathead Lake in Montana so we just had to go visit. We arrived at the farm on a rather warm day and were greated by their adorable dog, chickens, ducks, Mustangs, cat, various other horses, and probably some other wildlife I am forgetting right now like the cool dragonfly. Who needs a petting zoo for the kids, this was perfect.

On top of all the animals being there, there were fun rocks to throw from the path into Anna’s flower beds…great…and the best – dandelions to blow…sorry Ashton! I swear dandelions aren’t weeds, they are really pretty yellow flowers that turn into fun blowy things, you just HAVE to love em, you have no choice! Anyway, we had a great time hanging out and enjoyed seeing how the locals live. A nice quite life with plenty of nature and neighbors that don’t live a stone’s throw from your front door…pretty cool.

Ok so first adventure…cherry picking. We thought, hey this sounds fun, an outing we can take the kids on, rows of luscious cherry trees, buckets and fist fulls of yummy sweet fruit. This will be great and I was thinking this will provide some really great backgrounds for shots of the kids. Not so much!!!

We turn off the two lane “main” highway onto an unpaved road and drive for quite awhile until the signs stop, clue one. We hit a dead end and when we turn around a very unkempt girl steps out into the road and says to pull over for the cherries, clue two. We picked up metal pails and set out…quit a ways for the little ones. We came to a clearing where there were two cherry trees and some seriously scary looking ladders, clue 3. Then we were educated as to how much wasps like cherries!! Geeze could this get any better we are all thinking. On a sidenote, my sister is allergic to bees so this was great news…riiiiiight!!!!

I have never seen the movie Deliverance but apparently this outing was beginning to feel a bit like that movie. After a brief description of it I start to see why, it was a creepy little place. After half an hour or so of dodging wasps and swatting Maddie off the fruit buckets, we took our spoils back to get weighed. It wasn’t quite what we imagined it would be, but all in all is was a pretty funny little adventure, the views were amazing, the fruit was great, and we got some cute shots!

The adventurers: left to right in the group shot – Camilla, Jamie, Jon, (second row) Josh, Morgan, (bottom row) Jace, and Maddie.

I have been waiting so long to get my camera on this little one. I photographed Rita and Paul pregnant 8 or 9 months ago and here is Olivia…finally! We had such a great day, I just wanted you all to see the many faces and outfits of this little one. Mom and Dad are very fashion forward and I’m sure Liv won’t have any trouble joining the family trend! Isn’t she cute!