Best Face

Here is my next weeks entry for iheartfaces.com.This week is their 1st Birthday and the theme this week is "Best Face Photo." I am loving this new challenge : ) This is my sweet 2 1/2 year old giving me her best cheese face. I took it today, striving to meet this week's theme! I think "Cheeseface" here did a good job : ) Love this little girl

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Fall + Boys = dirt

I met the Agar family at Bass Lake - the boys loved the leaves, but who know the park bench would be the thing to bring the I'm-done-with-pictures 2 year back to life?!?!? The boys jumped on and off of that for 10 minutes : ) My favorite moment was at the end when Jackson said he wanted "one more picture of the whole family and I have the PERFECT spot!" So we followed, and boy was he right (and yeah for photoshop to get the dirt off the knees after a full photoshoot :)

"I am done!"

Fall leaves, Legos and friends

A New location! We went to Yate Mill - a historic mill that actually grinds corn once a month - and makes the BEST cornbread! It is now the end of October and the fall leaves are just starting to change. I drove down with our good friends: Mr. Max, Ms Laurie and their great kids . It is such a joy to draw out the best smiles - from even reluctant smilers - cuz when you do their face just shines! The kids warmed up to the camera and to my surprise even voluntarily jumped into several pictures I was trying to take of just their mom and dad and that turned into one of my favorites ; ) (And if you know Mr. Max - as the kids call him, you will understand why I had to put Legos in my title.)

A Full House

Back to the Raulston Arboretum we go! Can you tell I like this location? This time it was with one of the first families I meet when we moved here to Raleigh, 2 1/2 years ago, when Brook brought me dinner- a very southern chicken casserole with frosted cornflakes - oh so good! Don't think lightly about the dinner you bring people, one day it too might be blogged about ; )
Anywho, we got some great shots, here are my favorites:
My new favorite family shot!Grant picked out this background and I just love it! Camden has such a great smile here!

Pile on Daddy!

Helper gone wild!!! Who is that kid anyway - he sure knows how to smile for the camera - His mom MUST take too many pictures, lol!

For fun:)

So what do you think - glitter on the wings or no glitter?

Butterfly wing brush provided by http://www.obsidiandawn.com/

Glitter provided by Mandymade http://www.scrapbookingmania.com/

My Inspiration

These three are the reason I take pictures! I love them to pieces. Can't get enough of them. They don't always let mom take their picture, but I usually try anyway. And sometime they surprise me with a great picture! We took a fieldtrip to the Raleigh Arboretum and had some fun!

All boy...

I had the pleasure of photographing my favorite little 2 year old boy. He likes trucks, balls and is all boy!! He has a handsome smile and will break some hearts, I am sure ; )