Esther Photo Shoot 1 Year

My friend has a nice camera (and lens!) and was so kind to let me borrow it for Esther's pictures. It too me a month to finally get everything together (then we didn't even end up using the pvc pipe backdrop Jay made- oh well!) Esther was sick for 2 weeks, then teething CRAZY last week so she is 13 months in these but she pretty much looks the same as 12 months! (I was so stressing out that I wasn't going to be able to capture her exactly the way she is at 1 year- once they grow- that same exact look is gone- you know- her hair falls a little different, her teeth a little different- everything is just so constantly changing!)

After everything I'm so glad we got some cute photos of this angel.

I had to get her a cat for the big day! She's always meowing.

Not too keen on smashing...

She loves bubbles!

I had fun with the color editing on this one- just look at those lips! 

sweet curls

an always will smile for daddy- even when she's done and grumpy.

Family Pictures 2014

Family Pictures turned out to be pretty painless this time around....other than berries on my new shorts! It came out though so it's all good. Here are some of my favorites:

Jay's socks...*sigh*

Mandi and Patrick

Yay! I love love. These two were just married and we got to be a part of their happy day!!! (see post below).
Now that I know I won't spoil any photos Mandi wanted to use, here is the rest of my favs that we (because it was a team effort: Jay held the baby in the Ergo for the duration of the photo-shoot)  took for their engagements:

Fall

I love fall.