My precious, precious niece. She has been checking the blog diligently for the past couple weeks, because well, frankly I made her wait just like everyone else. Bad Aunt! She yelled at me Thursday night about her photos…but it just so happened she was next in line. :)

We had a lot of fun going around and exploring new territory together. Lately I find that I am really enjoying finding new locations on the fly, just being completely spontaneous. This is completely unlike me but I found myself inspired by the fabulous Brianna Graham. She said that she prefers not to check out her locations ahead of time because then she has no expectations or preconceived ideas about lighting conditions, where it will fall, etc. Some of my most favorite sessions lately are ones where I just start driving and stop when I feel like something looks right. We found some super rad locations doing this. We also found some scary locations doing this, but we hurried and moved on.

Kate, you are so stinkin’ adorable. This is when all those people were outside watching us like you were a celebrity or something.

LOOOOVVVEE this shot!!!!

I see me. :)

Ok, this shot- something about Kate’s shadow makes me all giddy like a little kid. Doesn’t it look like Peter Pan’s shadow??

off. the. chain.

L to the O to the V -E.

makes us all so happy.

Oh…good times. good times.

you pretty thing you.

proof that I can be “normal” too. :)

LOVE YOU k-k!!!!

You happy now Kate?? You better still be checking your Aunt’s blog!!
Love YOU.
:)

Little Luke is not so little anymore. He turned 1 at the end of June and he is such a cutie!! I can’t believe I have been taking his photos for a year now. Time really goes by so quickly.

He is running (not walking) around everywhere. Like, he sits still for about .02 seconds, and then he is on to something new. So we spent most of the session running around after Luke, and trying to get him to chill for a moment! :) Check out this guy. Is he ALLLL boy or what???

with his mama….

with Daddy…

I love this shot. :)

I love this too!

he was off exploring in the flowers. :)

Then we decided to go over by the water. Luke’s Mama brought some cute rain boots and an umbrella. :)

He wasn’t sure what to think about the water, but two boots were one to many.

Back to dry clothes and heading out with Mama and Daddy.

Bye little Luke!! :)