My Best Friend "Family"

My best friend from Wisconsin has been here for the last 3 weeks! So just before she was to leave I snuck out to her hometown to get photos of her family.

My Best Friend Family.

You see...I've known these folks for so long that they ARE family to me now.


This is Ben and Jack...her brother's boys


Hi, Ben!


All 4 of the grandkids holding onto each other for dear life.


This is her sister and brother-in-law. I LOVE Liz, but she should still only be, you know, 17 or so. Surely not old enough to be married with 2 beautiful boys.


This one stole my heart. I love Matt, her brother. I mean, and this picture...shesh!


And this little guy's faces cracked me up!

I love you all, Gorham family and am blessed to be a part of your lives after all these years.

The Smith Family

What a fun family this was! I love people who will just get goofy with me and have a blast taking pictures. And this family was right up my alley.


This was darling little Aspen. She thinks she is taking these pictures so that they can send them to Disney World so that Mickey will know she is before they get there.

Good job, Mom and Dad!


Speaking of Mom and Dad...


After we took some of Aspen's pictures on this mom asked if we thought it would hold her. Look what fun!


Sweet family


What good are leaves if we can't throw them?


This was artwork by Aspen!

Thank you for a fun afternoon, Smith Family! Tell Mickey I said hello.

Brothers

I have known these 2 boys since before they first batted their darling eyes to the world.

And Yes, they are brothers. Just one looks exactly like Momma and one exactly like Daddy.


See...brothers!


Oh my at the handsomeness of Ethan


Meet sweet Grayson




Santa's Helper is the cutest helper I've ever laid eyes on!


And what kind of friend would I be if I didn't give these boys their very own Billie Collage?!?!?

I love you boys and it has been a treasure to watch you grow. I love you!

Sweet Elise

This last weekend I had 3 sessions. The first one was sort of combined, but since they paid for 2, I'm working on them separately.

Meet Elise McKenzie!




She and her cousin had these matching Santa suits!






Wish my chubby face could rock a bomber jacket like this!


I wanted to kiss her sweet little arms in this dress!

It was a pleasure to meet you and your sweet family, Elise!

The Country and Best Friends

She is my best friend from High School. We have been together all these years thru thick and thin and have been with each other as we have raised our families.

As a result, our daughters are best friends. While they don't see each other often at all, they reconnect immediately upon seeing each other!

Just like their mothers do.

So it was my pleasure this weekend to get a session with them.




Capturing them just being them...is what I'm all about! We did get some good 'posed' family pictures, but this is my favorite.




Here are the BFFs. I brought my Baby Girl along for this exact reason. We got many good pics of them together. The City Girl and the Country Girl. (For more of these, you can go to my personal blog here.)


They even brought their puppies along for the trip.




'Dad' will kill me for this one, but I LOVED it! Look at 'Mom' in the back smiling at him.




Aren't her eyes beautiful?

Thank you guys for letting me document the beauty that is your family. I love y'all!

My Girl

This was from a birthday celebration for my girl and it took my breath.

God's Creation in Technicolor

I now can give you...this...