Little Miss Giggly

Meet Miss E, she was so silly and giggly all smiles. Very fun.

Well I guess you can see from where she gets her beautiful smile.

Let the previews begin!

This past Sunday was my second day at Wilbraham & Monson Academy. What a difference two weeks makes. Most of the leaves were off the trees, so we went out to discover some totally new locations.

You know the session is going to be fun when this is the very first picture that I took. In fact I almost missed it because I wasn't quite set up yet.

I think this is one of my new favorite family pictures.

Here is Mr. A. Who knew 2 years ago when he cried every time Mom dropped him off at my house that he would be all smiles the entire time (well, up until the point he walked off and headed back to the car).
Miss A, totally cute.
But of course they are both so cute, when your parents are this good looking who could be surprised?

Last of the morning

I love Miss I. Her grandparents are my next door neighbors and so she comes over to play a lot. She has a smile that lights up her whole face. As soon as I lift my camera though she gives one of those canned smiles. So we had to work to get her real smile- but I think this one is pretty good...

Here is the newest addition to the family, Mr M...

Ok, folks I am taking a break from sneak peeks right now, or else the ones I put up this morning will be bumped. Hope you enjoy my very busy day.

I feel my blog is being stalked

Well I have 11 sessions from this past weekend that I need to get up here. My goal today is to try to get at least half of them up. Without further ado... here is Mr J.

Mr J has two twin brothers Mr Z- playing peek-a-boo behind a tree...
and Mr A. Mr A had surgery on his eyelid recently but I like to think he is winking at me because I am so cute. I think you are cute too Mr A!
The whole beautiful family.
One down 10 to go!

Last but not least

Mr L didn't think he wanted to be photographed, but he did want to play hide and seek with me!

Here is his adorable one year old brother who has started walking but was kind enough to stay still for me.

And the whole beautiful gang...

That wraps up Stanley Park day!

Another big family group

Well the grandmothers in Western Massachusetts are happy with me now! Check out this beautiful group shot!


and this one...And here is a small sampling of the most beautiful blue eyes in town...

The shoot I feared the most...

Becky has been begging me for months to take a specific picture. She wanted all 10 grandchildren from age 16 years to 4 months. For months I put my fingers in my ears and hummed loudly every time she brought it up. But see, she is clever, she signed up for a Stanley Park time! Well much to my surprise we were very successful. All 10 children looked at the camera and smiled. Then I decided to really push my luck and put the parents in the picture.... Voila!

With 10 children I can't show you each child individually but here is Mr B, the latest addition.
2 cuties...
How about this one Bec?

A total character

This is Mr M, and he is total character. I am glad I finally got to meet him- we have had a few attempts and finally made it work! He kept me entertained the whole time.


I have to say that for ALL of the family groups on Sunday the parents happily jumped into the pictures too. I love that!

Day at Stanley Park

We got rained out from our original Stanley Park picture day. We rescheduled to today and none of us were complaining. We could not have asked for more beautiful weather! There were five different family groups today and I took over 1,000 frames, so bare with me it will take a few days probably to get the sneak peeks up here. First up was little Miss M. When I first met Miss M in January she was not very thrilled with me. What a difference 10 months make. She was cute as could be and loved exploring the park. Here are just a few...


Here she is with her beautiful parents!

Oh My Cuteness

So I went over to this house tonight to take some famiy pictures. And I promise I did take them, like this one...

and this one...
But truth be told, my camera could not stay away from Mr M. He is so cute and smiley- even with his runny nose.


You see how it would be tough not to take his picture, right?

One sweet family

First of all meet Miss K, she is the smiliest little one year old. Big smiles all the time.

Here she is with her big brother Mr C

Not to be outdone in the smiles department, Mr C was a little shy at first but then he started throwing the smiles around too.

Here is the whole beautiful family- guess you can see where they got those smiles from huh?
A sweet one of Mr C with his mama.

Fabulous Foursome!

Spent some time with these four cuties today. Everytime you add another child it gets tougher and tougher to get good group shots. These four were so great and cooperative. Don't you agree?

Love this one of Miss S holding Miss R (patiently waiting while Dad rearranged the entire garden for me).

Miss R has just turned 2 so we made sure to get some pics of just her, I dare you to look at this picture without smiling.

Here is the whole beautiful gang, even the dog!

1st of three today!

Just to shake things up a little I am starting with Mom and Dad. So here are Mom and Dad, they have 3 children and one foster child. You will only see their three children here due to Foster Care policies, but trust me that she is pretty cute too.

Mr. N, their oldest is suffering from allergies so unfortunately it was a little hard for him to sit, open his eyes and look happy about it- totally understand. Here is Mr. Z- humoring me.

Now little Miss M is a bundle of energy. She made me work for my money today. She was so excited to chase bubbles around the yard. I finally caught her when she was showing us how she could walk on my wall.

um, anyone guess who they are routing for this fall?

I have been showing a lot of Mommy and child pictures so I decided it was time for a Daddy pic.

This is not the first family I have met that have foster children. I am always so impressed with their loving inclusion of these children. Every time I think, "wow this child is so lucky to have found this family". I know in my heart I do not have it in me to take in foster children myself, but yet I would like to help in some way. It has been shown that the better the picture of the foster child the more likely they are to be chosen. I have tried to see if the Springfield area has any sort of program for volunteer photographers and haven't had much luck. So I am putting this out to you, my blog readers. If anyone knows who I need to get in touch with in order to volunteer my services please let me know.