Prosper TX Family Photo Shoot

This family was such fun to photograph!! So laid back and happy to do what ever I asked!! Which was really nice because there were so many of them!! LOL! Aside from families groupings at weddings this was one of the largest I have shot and they all cooperated beautifully!! Even the babies!! We met at a beautiful location in a Prosper Neighborhood that I had actually had the pleasure of shooting at before,  It really pretty there and has very lovely scenery for a backdrop which was perfect for this family of 13!! I LOVE the grasses that I shot against in the individual pics! Take a look and see what you think,  I know you will enjoy them as much I as did!! Click on the top pic to proceed to the gallery!

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Oh How I LOVE little girls!

This sweet girl is sooo yummy! She came over to my...ahem...."home studio" with my mommy, daddy, her big sisters and  GiGi! Generally I do newborn shoots in the newborns home but since this momma was going to travel to GiGi's for the shoot anyway,  she was kind enough to come a little farther to my house! It was great because I travel with A LOT a stuff for my shoot and no other shoot requires the amount of "stuff" that a new born shoot does! Generally it takes about 30 min to set everything up and then another 30 to tear it down again,  not that I ever mind but wow it was nice to have it here! Poor Gigi was totally here to help entertain her grandchildren and my sweet girl was all over tying to get her attention and monopolizing her time....geez you would think I NEVER gave her any of my time the way she latched! Whew...I swear, my daughter sure knows when to ask for stuff...she knows when I'm busy with a client I'm much more likely to say yes to just about anything to keep her busy and this day was no exception!  Good grief! Total back fire on my part when I told her she could help keep the little girls entertained! But this grandma was sooo very patient with her and I really appreciated it and in the end my sweet girl actually saved the day when this little tiny mover and shaker tried to roll off my bean bag! Never good when that happens! I love it when I'm able to get both sleepy pics and awake pics of a newborn! This little little angel really delivered!! At one point point I got to really snuggle with her and OH MY GOODNESS!! Melt my heart! What is it about these precious babies that just makes you feel sooo goood when you love on them?!?! I love these pics of he,  and I love the sweet ones we got with her big sisters! Enjoy!

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Gorgeous Family at Grapevine Botanical Gardens!

I had SUCH a good time getting to know this family!! What a beautiful family they are! And this location never fails to disappoint when it comes to great scenery, everywhere you look there is something new! Gorgeous foliage,  rustic fences....you name it, it has it!! And this family made my job so very easy,  they are simply stunning and so much fun,  the older "kids" were soooo helpful grabbing my stuff and carrying it for me and in the end searching the grounds for things I had left behind.  It is no surprise to those who know me well how engrossed I can get doing something I love, and that usually leads to me setting things down like lens caps, props and equipment to get the great shot and then walking off to capture the next one and forgetting I left something behind! I really should figure out a better system...sigh! But no worries,  this sweet family had me covered!! The little ones were such characters, we had a lot of fun with them putting them up form for some fun poses! I absolutely LOVE the shots I got of the three of them looking at the fish! This place has one of the most beautiful koi ponds I have EVER seen!! Its totally worth a drive just to see those fish!! This was one of the larger family shoots I have done and its always fun to have a new challenge with posing and the extra folks always add a fun dynamic to the shoot!! Enjoy!! And don't forget to click on the pic to proceed to the gallery!

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Sweet Little Sister!!!

Once again I just about missed this special delivery! Really folks,  I AM a Labor and Delivery nurse, AND I didn't become one just last Tues!  I should know by now that these little bundles of joy come when they are ready and that i don't REALLY have plenty of time to get there like I think I do....geez!!! But I guess when I get to take off my nurse hat and just put on my photog gear I forget.  Anyway,  apparently I was getting updated through grandma "Gigi" who was getting updates from her daughter who wasn't even the one in labor!! Whew, confused yet?!? Well no worries,  I got there just in time!!! YAY!! This delivery was truly special to see as this was baby girl number three for this family and as I am from a family of three girls and my momma was also one of three girls it was so much fun to see that in this family too.  You see THIS momma is one of three girls too!! I happen to have it on good authority that this baby was a bit of a surprise which also made this kinda fun too....because MY family knows an awful lot about surprises. See my parents waited patiently for a baby for many years and when the Lord answered their prayers he did it a bit unconventionally,  first with the adoption of my big sister and then about 6 years later with the adoption of me.. But that's not really the surprise I'm talking about, you see the VERY DAY AFTER my parents brought me home,  a tiny three week old baby, my mom got a phone call from her Dr telling he had finally figured out why she hadn't been feeling very well. Turns out she was perfectly fine,  and would be totally back to normal in about 8 months time when she delivered the baby she was carrying!!!! You read that right she was PREGNANT!!! Now that folks is a SURPRISE!!! So fast forward 8 months later and my parents welcomed baby girl number three just like this sweet family did! See, God always has the very BEST of surprises!!! Congrats to this sweet family,  I know this is just the beginning of all the sweet surprises they have in store for them with a house full of girls!! Y'all stay tuned for the newborn shoot,  its coming up next and one of my favs!!!

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Sunflowers and Sunshine!!!

My sweet friend, who is also an amazing photog,  let me borrow her kiddos to give my new camera a spin and to do some shooting into the sun practice! We often trade out shooting each others kiddos, because let me tell you shooting your own can be a BEATING!!! I'm not kidding,  those kids know how to push their parents buttons, and no offence to dads, in general its the moms they know best how to annoy! Take for example my two, ANY OTHER TIME, my daughter wants to be a mommy to my son,  bossing him around, telling him what to do EVERY chance she gets,  enter a camera into the mix along with a mom whose two hands are busy working it and suddenly she has no idea how to do either.  She becomes a whining mess and I become mommy dearest. Yall think I'm joking but I'm not! One day I'm gonna post all my out takes, just you wait! SO with all that being said, my friend was sweet enough to go to the trouble of getting her kids all pretty and getting them on location.  Once again I will say, no sunflowers were harmed during the shooting of these pics, and we only sorta ignored the no trespassing signs,  I mean we weren't walking all in the fields or anything, just creatively shooting beside them! ANYWAY the sun was low and made for great sun-flare to play with so play I did,  the little miss littlest did NOT want to pose but relented in the end and I might have even ended up with more good ones of her, go figure! However both of them in the same pic was totally NOT on the littlest's agenda so we had to be content with shots of the two of them separately! Enjoy these gorgeous girls!! I know I did!! And totally take the time to look through the galleries, you will be glad you did! 

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