Today

My kids are getting to be at a completely exhausting and incredibly fun stage of life. They are both all over the place trying to do everything themselves, playing, fighting, making messes and having opinions about everything. My favorite thing about our family is how close our kids are in age; it wasn’t my favorite thing when Autumn was nursing throughout the night and Josiah was learning to walk, but it is now. 🙂 They share a room and talk to each other every night when the go to bed and every morning when they wake up and they laugh at each other constantly. They are best friends. But they are still siblings. This was taken today during our pool time.

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Shane and Family

Yesterday we braved the heat and went out to get some pictures of Shane. Shane is five years old boy does he like to pose!

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Black and White Bride

Yesterday we got out in the summer heat for some bridals. I blog primarily and almost exclusively in color, but some of these images were meant to be black and white, so I decided to make the whole post black and white to change it up a bit.

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Peach Festival Time!

First of all I would like to congratulate those of you who submitted photos to the Peach Fest Baby Photo Contest and placed! I thought all of your kids should have one first, but sadly I was not a judge :). While Ruston is scorching in 100 degree heat we are celebrating the annual Ruston Peach Festival, which began with a parade this morning followed by the annual Diaper Derby.  Last year Josiah did the Diaper Derby and got half way down the run way and stop, but this year Autumn rocked her first round and got to go on to round two where she decided to smile at the judges instead of crawl. It is always so much fun to watch what all the babies do! The little boy who beat Autumn crawled right to me, while I was trying to lure her in with Josiah’s toy laptop.

Anyways, it was great seeing many of you there today, and I am pleased to say that I was in good spirits as Brian is coming home from 16 days in Kenya tonight! Yay, I made it! Here are some pictures of the kids getting ready for Autumn’s big race. Her shirt was too plain and boyish so we sassed it up a bit and made I made Josiah a shirt to cheer her on.

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Saying “Monna”- his word for Autumn.

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A little pre-race strategizing.

Paxton

This evening I got to photograph Paxton’s newborns! Paxton is the youngest of four boys in his family, and as you can see, a sweet little addition. His mom, Amy is Brian’s cousin and we haven’t spent much time together so I had fun getting to know some family a little better 🙂 .Thanks Jill and Amy for a fun afternoon!

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“Muah!” Paxton loves the camera!

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Tried to get him to lay on daddy’s hand and he decided to eat his finger instead, I love it!

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He’s a big smiler!

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