wow! i’ve been a bad blogger this week. it seems life tends to sometimes dictate my schedule for me, leaving me unable to do it ALL.  this wonderful session has been waiting to be blogged for a week now. i love getting to shoot families repeatedly, it’s cool to see notice the changes in everyone from previous sessions. the kruckenberg kiddos are changing so much and only getting cuter and smarter by the minute.

i love this family. brian and gina are great friends of mine and my husbands and faith, eli and bella are all great friends with our kids…works out nicely.

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and yep, it’s another hodgepodge (i think i’ve exhausted my comfort level on using that word)… but wow, these things are time-savers! which is super terrific since time is something i’m pretty sure is getting more and more scarce these days. anyone else notice that? funny thing too, because this is loooong one. i know i’ve said that before, but i do believe this one takes the cake.  so, grab a snack and a pillow and enjoy. 

this post is filled with some of my very favorite people in the entire world. being able to photograph them has been an absolute gift.

this is a perfect representation of this mother/daughter pair!

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again, simply out of a desire to show off all of my beautiful, wonderful and simply divine friends and clients, well, actually, if i met you as a client…chances are, you’re now a friend…so let’s just go with “friends”, i’m posting another mishmash, miscellany…hodgepodge. however, you may certainly find your lovely face, feet, hat, hands…etc on the blog again over the next few days. so, if you’ve only gotten a tiny glimpse… keep checking. one more thing, i have found myself out of words today and since i’m a firm believer in that whole “a picture is worth a thousand words” thing…i’ll let them do the talking for me. about 18,000 words comin’ at ya.

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hey, does this cup make me look weird? confused? that’s actually an inside joke between my family and the kelley family and since inside jokes aren’t nice when everyone listening, or in this case, reading, isn’t on the “inside”…i’ll explain. we were having dinner at the kelley’s home a few years ago when my then, very tiny gabe, was drinking out of an ordinary, solid color plastic cup, spotted some way better cups with characters on them and decided he’d rather have one of those. i suppose in an effort to avoid seeming too needy he decided to find fault in the plain old ordinary cup. that fault was, apparently, that it actually made him look “weird”. hysterical laughter broke out when he stood in the kitchen and asked “does this cup make me look weird?”. 

this is corey and cameron, the youngest of the kelley clan. i have to give thanks to these two super, extra-special kids for always hanging with my two oldest kids, who are younger and probably sort of well, you know how it is when “little” kids wanna hang with you. cameron actually holds a very special place in my claudia’s heart…claudia would have never made it through her first summer at camp without cameron. i have the sweetest and at the same time, saddest picture of the girls on the last day. cameron has a sweet little smile and claudia’s poor face is swollen and red from sobbing all day long because it was time to say goodbye to cameron and hop a flight back to phx.

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while i’ve been plowing through the edits for the okc sessions, i’ve had little time to blog any of the images. it actually takes more time than one might think to get the images ready to blog, load them onto the blog and write the blog copy…so, just for the sake of giving my lovely clients a little something to look at, i think i’ll try a couple of these posts with random client and miscellaneous images all together. sorta feels like i’m introducing people to each other…

this first one really made my day. it was early the first full day of shooting and i was having a hard time getting motivated, until, my natty was so delighted by these amazing “robots” at panera. something about her seeing robots in newspaper dispensers was seriously magical to me. i’ll never look at newspaper dispensers the same way again, they’ll forever be robots. of course, getting to start the day with panera was also a treat.

oh boy, big sigh. this is adrianne, she’s been my friend longer than anyone in the world. we met in 4th grade when she sauntered into school wearing a purple barret and  a huge attitude. my heart just loves her. (obviously, i didn’t take this shot…my dear husband did.)

and this is adrianne’s stunning, amazing, funny, witty, precious and wonderful daughter Darian. i witnessed this young woman come into the world, she’ll forever have part of my heart.

this is perfection. love is messy, gooey, ragged, sometimes withered…beautiful.

fall. i had almost forgotten what it looked like.

this is duff, along with my babiest girl and boy.

this is duffs mom and dad. my heart loves aubra too. i’m pretty sure that she’s the prettiest person i’ve ever met in real life (now, fake life…sorry aubs, i’ve met prettier). i think colby agrees, but for him, if he knows whats good for him, she’d better be the prettiest in fake life too. now, all of my other friends who are also amazingly beautiful, i’m sorry, but just look at her. i know you agree. guess what else? you’ll never find a more precious soul.

this is kelley and her boys

and her girl

this is my girl, one of them…loving her dad on the tram at the best zoo in the history of best zoos, The OKC Zoo.

this is my gabe, checking out some badgers at the zoo.

and two of the most photogenic, precious, polite and best dressed children you’ll find. gabby and gavin.

this, well, this beauty belongs to gabby and gavin’s dad, john, and may get it’s very own blog post.

here’s a litte more of it, along with john, the proud owner and his stunning wife, angel “fearless” fairless.
big sigh…so much love.

…i had great fun doing just that on mill avenue last night with these sweet boys and their family. it seems that the weekend is going to get the best of me…so, before that happens i want to get a sneak peek posted for sweet little brendan and gavin’s family.  i’m giddy to post more after the weekend.

so what do you do after slaving over books, essays and projects to finally don that cap and gown, walk across the stage and claim your degree?  you throw a party that’s what! and that’s exactly what carol did last weekend. she surrounded herself with great food, friends and all of her loved one’s to celebrate the closing of one chapter and the beginning of the next. congrats carol!

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my birthday began this morning as a beautiful ending to a wonderful weekend. my family, along with my dearest friend, mary and the oldest of her brood, Luke, enjoyed breakfast at The Coffee Shop bright and early this morning. one last hoorah before mary and luke headed to the airport to fly home to oklahoma. to consider that someone who isn’t even a member of my immediate family loves me enough to leave behind her husband and her two littlest of boys, then fly a thousand miles across the country to wish me a happy birthday, makes my heart swell immeasurably with love. it seems undeserved. never-the-less, that’s what she did and i adore her for it.

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