Playing Photographer Again...

Our neighbors asked me to do their family pictures again this year (I did them last year too) - mainly for their Christmas cards.  But last year they liked them so much, they had one of the pictures of their girls blown up to a canvas...I'd be lying if I said I didn't kind of get excited when I learned that!  So off we went again this year - new location and hopefully some improved photography skills...

I love that Megan snapped this photo of me taking pictures of the girls!  Nice action shot!

Keep Practicing - Photog Skills

It's no secret that I'm a wannabe photographer!  I love taking pictures of my own kids and even enjoy taking pictures of my friends and their kids.  I always feel a mix of anxiety and excitement when a friend asks if I'll take family pictures for them.  I'm not a professional and they know that, but they are nice enough to let me practice and maybe, just maybe in the end they get 1 or 2 pictures (out of over 200, ha) that they actually like!  And besides, I'm cheap...what else can you ask for?!

A few weeks ago my friend Lisa asked if I'd take family photos for her - I was happy to oblige! Turns out, she liked a few of them - win, win!  I had a great time with them and was so happy that Josh came along to be my make shift assistant!  He has a way with getting the kids to smile - although Andrew was a tough code to crack at times, but regardless, both kids are adorable and heck - the whole family is adorable!

Kabota Gardens {Photoshoot}

One of my good friends asked me if I'd take family photos for her and I never pass up the chance to do a "Wannabe Photographer Photoshoot" - so we set a date and crossed our fingers for good weather! Apparently we crossed them just enough, because the weather was gorgeous this past weekend!  I picked Kabota Gardens for the location.  Zane's 18 mos pictures were done there and I remembered it being gorgeous.  It was very nice this past weekend, but I know in a month or two it will even be more beautiful once everything is in bloom.  This place is huge...we walked around for a long time and didn't even see half of it.  I highly suggest checking it out!

I purposely got there a little early so I could scope out some good spots to take photos...thankfully I had my own personal models there with me to practice on before the real photoshoot.  I'm so thankful that my boys are such good sports about my endless picture taking.  It takes some bribing at times and more often than not it takes me allowing them to say gross bodily function type words to get them to smile/laugh - but it is usually worth it in the end!

I couldn't chose a favorite of them, so you get to see a few - you're welcome!

After the family had all of their shots taken - I took a couple of Zane & Brooklyn together...

{Three} Year Pics

We finally got around to getting Landon's 3 year pictures done today - (don't mention the fact we still haven't done Zane's 6 year ones - I debated on doing them since he now gets school pictures...but after Landon's today - I decided that I DO want to have some of Zane done...).

Its really hard to get Landon to not say "cheese" and to stay in a "cute" pose - definitely a toddler!  But I think a few turned out pretty cute - what do you think?