February 25th, 2010
This is a long picture post! I had forgotten that I hadn’t posted about it yet, they were married the first weekend in January, and it’s almost March, that’s how far behind I am on this, oops!
I had a really good time at this wedding, albeit the FREEZING COLD WEATHER! There went all our plans to take pictures outside! It was really just too cold and windy, but thankfully the inside of the church was nice and cozy, full of excitement 
Deborah had such a quiet joy, it was so fun to watch her and be with her while she prepared to get ready to marry her future husband. Ken was almost bubbling over with energy when I first saw him! So despite the frigid temperatures outside, it was such a lovely January wedding!
Here’s a few details:
Deborah getting her hair worked on:
Putting on the dress! Yay!
A quick smooch from mom
I don’t know why, but I love this one of the flower girl, “Come on, guys!!”
I love the glances that the fathers give their daughters as they are walking down the aisle. Deborah is clearly not paying attention to her father, but to her groom. And Dad didn’t take his eyes off his daughter until the reception was over.
First kisses are so fun
Love this one, complete adoration,
Yay! Marriage!
Some quiet time for the bride and groom,
Another favorite of mine The reception was at Maggiano’s in Tysons Corner, one of my favorite restaurants. And let me tell you, the food did not disappoint! And the dessert… mmm….
Because their wedding was so close to Christmas, there were still Christmas trees and lights everywhere! So of course I had to add a little bokeh for their collection
The flower girls were SO CUTE!
First dance -
I like their faces in this one, they seem to have finally relaxed
Yeah, cake!
The faces of the little girls kill me, “please, please, come to me!”
The bride and her girls. Ya gotta have some jump shots!
Thanks, Ken and Deborah for allowing me to be a part of your day! I had so much fun getting to know you and watch you enter into this new phase of your life!
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February 20th, 2010
She’s finally here! Baby Eva, you have been long awaited in the Payne family that is full of boys Eva is actually Dave and Lauren’s first, but everyone (myself included) thought that Lauren was going to have a boy. Needless to say, Eva was a surprise! And what a cute little surprise she is, take a look for yourself:
oh the baby yawns, they get me every time!
This kid seriously had the best faces! She is definitely her father’s child,
This scale used to be the scale that they weighed Dave’s sister on, I love family stuff that’s handed down like that:
Again with the faces
Dave and Lauren are big missions people and have travelled all over the world. On their last trip to Africa, they picked up a few baskets and Dave thought we should try Eva out in one of them. Let me say, before you see this next picture, that Eva is 10 days old when I took these pictures. Ten. The child had a stronger neck than most 2 month olds that I’ve met! Her head was up for most of the pictures, and she was awake almost the whole session! Dave and Lauren certainly have their work cut out for them!
She was hungry at this point It takes a lot of energy to keep your head up for that long!
Along with baby yawns, baby feet also get me, I mean just look at the cute little piggies
The diaper bag is courtesy of Lauren’s mom, so we had to put it to good use
Thought we’d end with the baby feet ’cause I love them so much!
Dave and Lauren, congratulations to you both! I can’t wait to see baby Eva grow and what she will become. I have no doubt that you two will be the best of parents and that Eva will grow up in a house full of love. Can’t wait to do some family pictures with you all!
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January 26th, 2010
Oh my gosh.. bad blogger! So far behind!
Photographed a beautiful, small wedding in December (I know, it’s almost February…). It’s fun watching two people get married who are honestly made for each other. I didn’t know Nicole and Adam very well before the wedding, but just watching their interactions with one another and seeing how much they were supported by their friends and family, it’s clear that they are truly supposed to be with the other
There’s a lot of photos ahead, so buckle up!
I don’t know what it is about makeup brushes, but I sure do love them! Surprisingly, I have none at home…
I love a bride who wears different shoes! Nicole had some rocking-white Puma’s that she wore! Way to be comfortable, it’s the only way to go
On the way to the ceremony:
I love these moments, right before the bride walks down the aisle, the nervous, and giddy smile behind the closed doors
The church was beautiful! They were married at Our Lady of Hope in Potomac Falls, which was right across the street from where they got ready at her brother’s house.
A little fun in the elevator at the church. I loooove mirrored elevators, so much fun!
Nicole is busting on the maid of honor because she forgot to unbustle Nicole’s train before she walked down the aisle
The cake! Sadly, another wedding where I didn’t get any cake.. I heard it was good though! Sure was pretty.
The pianist:
Nicole’s maid of honor memorizing (and posing with) her speech:
CHEERS!
Fun ring shot Thanks to one of the groomsmen for the fantastic idea, I think it came out great!
Congrats Nicole and Adam! Thanks for letting me be a part of your day, it was so fun and special
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December 22nd, 2009
I know the people in Minnesota are probably laughing at us (I’m talking about you, Culbertsons), but we just had the most massive dump of snow in 24 hours that I ever remember! I know that back in ‘93, ‘96 and one other year where we also had copious amounts of snow, but it wasn’t in that short amount of time. Personally, I loved it Now it’s getting kind of cold and dreary, but those two days were awwwesome!
The snow started Friday night and went until late Saturday night. We originally had planned on going to our friends house for a “family dinner” that night, but it was semi-canceled because no one could go anywhere, BUT we had Wes’ four-wheel drive Wrangler and we went anyway! Oh boy am I glad that we went! We had prime-rib, potato pie, asparagus, and just deliciousness all around. Mmmmm…. Too bad there are no pictures. I was too busy eating. We probably had about 2 feet of snow total. The pictures I took are from when we had maybe 8 – 10 inches. So we’re not even close in these pictures to what we really got.
But here are some pictures of the snow before that face-stuffing evening -
Here’s Bryce before she decided that she was not a huge fan of the snow:
Some pretty scenery shots,
Wes making a snow angel! WOO!
This kind of reminds me of Narnia
*Kissing snowflakes*
“DONE PLEASE!”
She was totally much happier in the jeep watching dad clear off the car than she was in the snow.
Our awesome Christmas wreath We have the best Realtor! His name is Will Gaskins, we also worked a lot with Andy Biggers who is equally as incredible, they work for Weichert. They sent us this wreath for our front door for our new home. Seriously, that’s just one of the many things that they have done for us, if you are in the DC Metro area I highly recommend them! You can find them here. Give ‘em a call!
Bryce wondering why I am a crazy woman hanging out outside in the cold, white, wet stuff.
This is one of my favorites of the day:
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November 29th, 2009
Here are some pictures of another family session I had a few weeks ago. I *loved* the older kid, Charlie, and how accommodating and easy he was! He was super helpful with his little brother and as one of few kids his age who actually enjoyed having pictures taken.
I also loved his shoes:
Here’s the whole fam, they were simply awesome
There were plenty of kisses to go around, it was so sweet
Seriously, these two were awesome! I’ve never met two brothers more loving..
*Love* this moment! Love it!
Here are some of just the boys
Of course it wouldn’t be a fun photo session without being allowed to throw leaves at your dad
Just the boys:
Mom and her two little men,
Thanks Schutz family! I had such fun, and I hope to see you all again sometime soon!
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November 20th, 2009
This might be a quick post because I have a very important (and delicious) coconut tart that is waiting to be made. Also, the kid is asleep but I think I hear her waking up (ENTIRELY TOO EARLY, CHILD) so this will now be even quicker. Weee!
Aaron and Brandon are three year old twins who really did not care about their picture being taken I think they are wonderful and fun boys, they just didn’t really want to do what we wanted them to do. Which really, they are three years old. You don’t get a lot of cooperative ones that age But still, there are some cute pictures of them anyway..
This is one of my favorites:
I think this may also be one of the few times that they are both looking at the camera at the same time!
I won’t lie…I can’t tell them apart unless they are in their jackets (Brandon in Brown and Aaron in Blue). But this next one is in black and white, so it’s not helping me out
What a beautiful setting we had! We went to Morven Park in Leesburg. We had to stay on the other side of the property because there was a wedding going on. No matter though, I think we got the better end of the deal!
Brandon!
Searching for sticks and places to dig. This went on for most of the session
I have no idea what kind of fruit/thing these are, but they were SO COOL, to me at least. The boys were a little weary of them.
The leaf throwing was supposed to be a fun idea. But only Aaron really got into it
Awww… too bad my shadow is totally on their jeans, it’s still pretty cute
Mama liked this one, me too
Um, can we go play?
We started to play a game of Red Light, Green Light and that totally got them to stand still for 2 seconds! Gotta put that trick in my pocket for next time!
Thanks boys for a fun shoot! Hope to see you all in the spring or summer when it’s a bit warmer and we can see your cute shirts!
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November 19th, 2009
Oh boy have I been busy the past month! Wow! Everyone has wanted some family pictures for the Holiday season that is quickly and rapidly approaching. Don’t misunderstand me though, I have had a ton of fun with these family sessions. I love meeting new families and it is tons of getting to know these kids
There will be a few family sessions coming up in the next few days, but here are the Cosgriffs. They kicked off the family session season in October (side note: It’s MID-NOVEMBER?! Where did the time go?! Woah!) We had our session at Walney Park, which seems to be a popular place for all my families this season, I’ve got several more to go there.
Here’s a cute one of brother and sister hugging it out
Oh man, those eyes are killer! He’s gonna be a trouble maker!
Well, so is this little princess
We found this awesome yellow/orange tree which made for great pictures! I came back a few days later to do another family and they were ALL GONE! I can’t believe how quickly the seasons start to change so suddenly.
Aww, father-daughter bonding time
Both kids had brought their halloween costumes with them. Finley was a lion and SO CUTE
Noelle was a princess
Just throwing some rocks in the river,
And then they walk off into the sunset, awww…
What a fun time and a perfect day weather wise and leaf wise. More families to come! Thanks Cosgriff family for all the referrals
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October 21st, 2009
Bryce and I went to this little place off of 15 called Pumpkinville with Keri and Hailey. I had such a good time! Bryce was having a great time until she fell down the slide backwards and Keri had to catch her. Then the rest of the day was really hit or miss with her sparkling attitude
Anyway, we saw tons of baby animals, and were allowed to pet a few, even though the girls wanted nothing to do with them. I bet next year they’ll be chasing them around. This is a long one, so hang on to your hats!:
This is Bryce staring down a turtle that is like 28 times her size. It’s hard to tell the turtle’s size in this picture, but really… 28 times is not much of an exaggeration. The thing was ENORMOUS!
Here’s one of the cute little goats (and a picture of it’s CUTE FEET) that the girls wanted nothing to do with…
Some scary emu’s,
a cute little ladybug! I put it on Hailey, but she was not as excited about it as I was…
This llama kept following us around. And I swear it wanted to step on all the kids but never did because it knew that it probably wouldn’t get fed anymore after that.
Chickens! They were playing in the sandbox that the girls wanted to play in. Awesome.
Seriously, all these fun animals to play with, and all these neat things to do and they want to play in the dirt. Bryce cried when I picked her up and we moved on. Mom of the year…
We went on an awesome hayride. We were the only ones on, which was nice. Although at one point I swear I thought we were going to tip into the pond. Not so awesome.
We found a moon-bounce! Which was also not so much fun to drag them away from..
What a looker
Sharing time in the wagon. Well, I guess not so much sharing was going on. It was more “you can look but if you touch it I’ll hit you.”
“My preeeciouuus…” (oh man, those lips are killing me!)
Some goose gourds, or whatever they’re called.
The inspiration for the name of the place:
Cute little bugger:
Awww, she’s smiling!
Fun times had by all! Can’t wait till next year when they are big enough to not whine every 5 seconds. Yay!
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