Showing posts with label Cousins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cousins. Show all posts

Friday, January 2, 2015

Aurelia & Tyler // Engagement Session

{Aurelia&Tyler}


A beautiful redhead, tall handsome man, and a gorgeous Arizona day.
Thus was my Christmas Day.
Seriously.  I was giddy.

My gorgeous cousin got engaged a couple of months ago and I immediately offered to do an engagement session for her and her fiancĂ©.  Since we all met in Arizona for Christmas this year we decided to fit in a session over the holiday week.  Luckily our house rental had a large yard (with orange and grapefruit trees! eee!) and we were able to just walk outside into loveliness.














It was so much fun.  
I've always enjoyed people watching, and being a photographer is really just that.

  You get to hide behind a lens and stop time momentarily.  
You are the record keeper, a poet with pictures.  

You get to capture how she stands on her tiptoes to kiss him.  
How she playfully laughs as he glances softly at her.  
The way his hands look wrapped around her waist.  

It's lovely to witness :-)














 Engagement sessions are good for my heart.  
It is such a privilege to be able to capture love on film.  
It truly makes my heart so happy.  

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Crabapples and Cousins

    My sister in law is a former montessori teacher and a bit of genius when it comes to entertaining kids.  When the cousins were starting to get tired and hungry (waaaayyy before dinner was ready) she rustled up some buckets and gave them the very important job of crab apple picking.  

Picking crabapples from the lawn = best kid activity ever!

They were occupied for well over an hour!


(I think Ella was perplexed as to why SHE didn't get a bucket,
poor girl wishes she was a big kid....)

 (Isn't my niece the cutest?!?!  I just want to eat her up!!





    Question for ya'll:  These aren't your normal crabapples.  They are small like cherries and not edible (not poisonous, just really sour)   However, my mom says that the deer do eat them.  
Any ideas on what they might be?