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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Children's Portrait Session :: Definitely Unique

I love this family. I bet if you've been following this blog for any amount of time, you are probably thinking "she says that about every family!" That is probably true, but I can't help it! Our family has been truly blessed with incredible friends, and amazing people who start out as clients and become our friends. As I spend time getting to know them and learn the stories of their lives, they all just melt my heart into a big mush of goo. And as I work on their images, I am thinking 'wow, if I adore them this much, imagine how much God loves each of one of these precious people??'

The short story with this family is that Tony and Wendy graduated with my husband and we have loosely kept in touch over the years through the adoptions and births of our children. We had originally planned this portrait session for May, but changed plans once they found their dream property and rescheduled for the fall~ and am I ever glad we did! Tony is a professional chef, and mom Wendy is a nurse by day and blogger by night with her family's heart-warming blog, Relatively Unique (if you enjoy family stories, decorating and repurposing items, and/or cooking, you absolutely need to check it out!)

They have three amazing kids who were simply a dream to work with for their children's portrait session. As a family they are caring, down-to-earth, and a little bit silly. Add in a beautiful fall evening with yummy sunset lighting and, there you have it~ the perfect recipe for amazing images to fall in love with~ so much so that I had a really hard time choosing! So here are a few of my faves~ more than I normally post, but can you blame me??


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3 comments:

  1. WendyOctober 12, 2010 at 8:09 PM

    We love love love them!!!

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  2. ~*~ saskia ~*~October 14, 2010 at 9:44 AM

    I love the settings, gorgeous pictures! xx

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  3. ~marciOctober 22, 2010 at 7:21 AM

    Yay, Wendy I am so glad you are loving them, me too!! and thank you Saskia for your kind words! This session was a simply a blessing with the location and the light.

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