i actually did TWO baby sessions last week.  i don't do a whole lot of baby or family sessions, but do take them on here and there.  i had such a good time hanging out with the moneyhun's and taking photos of their sweet, sweet, sweet, baby boy. 

i have been dying to get this blog post up but have been so busy catching up on emails, weddings, meetings, going on fun trips, blah, blah, blah....i just haven't had time.  but man, do i love these people.  mandy is one of my best friends in the entire world.  we have been best friends for pretty much as long as i can remember....well.....except for when i first met her and i wouldn't invite her to my babysitter's club meetings.....i don't remember doing that, but she insists it's true.  i hope through the years i have made it up to her, because not only is she an amazing friend, she is also an amazing sister and mother.  last week, i got to do something that i hadn't gotten to do in a long long time and that was spend some good, quality, one on one time with mandy's oldest daughter analyn.  she had fall break so we got to hang out for a couple days.  we went out to lunch, watched hannah montana, colored, played with rex, went to the zoo, and of course played in our hammock.  she is, by far, one of the most intelligent, inquisitive, little girls i have ever met.  she has such a sweet heart and i love her so very much.  i have pretty much been obessessed with her since the moment i laid eyes on her.....and then her sister was born....oh boy.  this girl.  she is something else.  she is so freaking cute its sick.  she is stinkin' HILARIOUS and absolutely crazy.  you will definitely be able to see their personality differences in these pics.  its actually sort of unbelievable.  no matter what addy does, you can't help but love her.  her voice can melt my heart.  her sweet dimples are just to die for.  and she better be thankful, cause boy, she is a handful!  we had this session planned for quite some time, but don't worry, addy decided to give herself a nice little hair cut a week before our session.  she cut a cute mowhawky lookin' thing right down the center of her head, and you'll see in a minute her next fun little trick but before i tell you about that, i have one more little girl to talk about....well, she's not that little anymore.  mandy's little sister abby.  i have known abby since she was just a little girl, probably analyn's age.  abby has always been a little spit-fire and i love that about her.  she is  cute as can be and so much fun to be around.  i still do this day have a card that she made me for my sixteenth birthday.  on the front it said, "for your sixteenth birthday i am going to give you 16 dollars."  and then you open it up and she had drawn the 5 dollar bills and a 1 dollar bill.  and of course, signed it happy birthday, love abby.  it was so cute i have kept it all these years....

i had sort of a bad day yesterday.  one thing after another went wrong.  the carpet shampooer that i rented exploded water and shampoo all over a rug on my hardwood floor.  after over an hour of cleaning that up i went to hang up some of justin's clean laundry.  when hung his last clean, nicely ironed shirt, the entire closet decided to come right out of the wall and fall on me.  with clothes, and gosh knows what else i had on the closet shelves now scattered all over the place i decided if i didn't clean it up now, it wasn't going to happen, so i spent an hour cleaning that up.  i looked at the clock and ran out the door to sunny skies and was so excited to head out to a photo session with the crook family.  i got there early to scout out some new places and grabbed my camera to take some test shots.  and that's when it hit me.  i wanted to throw up and kick myself at the same time.  yea, its really embarrassing.....i forgot my batteries at home. i can't believe i am admitting this, but it happened.  please don't judge me. it will never happen again!  but luckily, andy and jennifer were running a little late and were my saving graces in meeting justin to grab my batteries for me.  i mean, that is like the cardinal rule for a photographer.  always have fully charged batteries. ( and lots of memory cards)  and lots of them!!!  and i always do!  i wanted to cry but instead said a prayer, thanking the lord for blessing me with a sweet husband who deals with me in these crazy, over the top, dramatic, stressful moments of mine, and for andy and jennifer who were kind enough to understand i was just having a bad day.  well, needless to say they made it all better by allowing me to capture their sweet love for the son ian.  it was the first time i had met ian, although i felt i already knew him because jennifer is quite the photographer herself, and does such a great job documenting him and his precious life and then letting people like me see him on facebook.  :)  when the crook family first got there, my blue skies were looking more like gray clouds and my sun was hiding, but the sun came back and i took full advantage of it!  here are some of my favs from our session.