Elise!

This is Elise.  She is soooooo cute!  I had the privilege of photographing her last summer.  She loves water, airplanes, the chicken dance, and playing peek-a-boo on Mommy's phone.  She is so smart already and she is only 1 1/2.  The world better be ready for this awesome, beautiful girl :)

She found the water and loved it.  Lots of splashing going on :)

 

A quick second where she took a short break :)

We found a sand pit :)

She was done and this is her mad face.

A fellow photographer was walking by and helped out with her bubble machine.  *Thank you fellow photographer!  My bubble machine is currently on order!*

Hello cutie! :)

Mommy had a bottle of bubbles, I guess they taste pretty good ;)

Then it was snack time. 

Cynthia and Gerardo's FOREVER!

I don't really think anyone cared that it was one of the hottest days of the year.  At one point I looked at my phone and it said 101 degrees.  She was amazingly beautiful, and he cleaned up spectacularly.  I was honored to know them before they started dating, and on this day I was thrilled to capture their happily ever after :)

Mom helping get her all ready to go.

Hello Beautiful!

He looks dapper all cleaned up.

She made all these things herself, and they were all BEAUTIFUL!

Gorgeous!

OH YEAH BABY!  The first kiss!  ;)

The first introduction of the new Mr. & Mrs.

I am sorry Gerardo, but I adore this :)  I love taking pictures of other people taking pictures and this one is awesome!

So him, and totally her!

Love this!

I personally feel, this is the best way to start FOREVER!

Sibling Rivalry ;)

These are the Gutierrez siblings.  

They contacted me to get pictures done while they were all home at the same time.

 We had soooooooooo much fun, well at least I did.

I think anytime you get siblings together they ultimate goal is to just annoy the others.

I could not help, but laugh and enjoy them picking on each other :)

I don't care how old you are, its just fun to dangle the feet :)

Good looking kids.  I know they are adults, but they were a fun and good looking bunch!

They were just all giggles.

with Mom :)

Grandkids are FUN!

This is the Cook Family!

Patty told me she wanted me to take photos of her all of her grand kids together.

My first thought, "How am I going to get nine kids to look at me at the same time?"

I took the challenge!  

Just to so you know, the kids were AWESOME!!!

I now have a Kindergartener!

I did it!  Oops, I mean Grace did it!

We did it together and graduated PreSchool!

This is a huge milestone in any parents lives, the school years now begin!

Here come, ice cream socials, sporting events, sleepovers, conferences, parent teacher association meetings, field trips and talent shows. 

Okay, maybe I went a little overboard on some of these ideas, but I am ready.  Or, I think I am!

When Grace left her last day of preschool, I opened her backpack.  Inside was a book titled "I knew you could".  It is about a train finding it's track, staying on course and believing it itself.  Now, that book might not make sense to her now, but I will continue to read it to her so that she knows she can go her own way! :)

A little pre-celebration before entering the building.

Where she will sit, right along side her BFF <3

Clearly, they are besties :)

She may have just been the best singer there, but I am no Simon Cowell ;)

Her AMAZING teacher, Mrs. Phelan.  How do you ever pay them back??

Her first day and her last!

Besties For Life

This is my oldest daughter and her bestie!  I know they are only 5 years old, but I think they have known each other FOREVER.  They met last year in their preschool class, they are both older sisters with a younger sister at home AND their Birthday's are only 3 days apart.  Hello, they were totally meant to be besties, RIGHT?

They will always have each others back!

 I think this quote fit just perfectly!

I am grateful my daughter picked an amazing girl to be her friend!

I love watching them giggle.

The best secret ever!

They are going to different schools for kindergarten :(

But, we will keep close and have lots of dates, we Mom's promised!