Think someone was a bit excited over this whole ‘trick-or-treat’ thing!?

Jackson was hysterical! He walked right up to all the doors in our building and knocked (with two hands!!) on the door and waited patiently until someone came. When they opened the door they got a big ‘ol Jackson smile and who could resist that face! So two hands into the candy basket and then off and running… oh and a half way sign of ‘thank you’ as he walked away too!

oh my little bear is growing up too fast!

what a funny little guy!!

Hope everyone had a safe and Happy Halloween!!

This was the first door we went to – our neighbors to the right – sweet elderly couple. Check out his face when he scores two pieces of candy!!!!! haha….

p.s. and yes, that is a sand bucket- hey we still have some left from his birthday party, alright!!!
Hugs,
K

Got a note from a mom today that made me smile.

This is what it said:

“Thanks Keri. You have brought me such joy with your camera lens. I can’t thank you enough. Our family dynamic is beginning to change and these photos are so special.”

That makes it all worth it.

I love my job and I’m so so so grateful that I get to share in such special memories of so many wonderful families. Not a day goes by that I don’t feel blessed to wake up everyday and give these gifts to people. As a mom I know what pictures of your family mean. As a photographer I know how you will appreciate these prints for years to come.

Thank YOU for taking the time to tell me how much it means to you. Sometimes it’s just nice to hear that people love what you do.

Go tell someone that you appreciate how much they mean in your life.

You’ll thank me later.

Hugs,
K

I am so far behind, I know. BUT I’m slowly digging out from this pile of work! I haven’t even had the chance to post some of the sessions I’ve done so please dont be mad if I haven’t got your images on the blog yet – I promise I will but it might be a little while longer! So just hang tight

In the mean time.. I have to share with you the two sweet pea’s I got to share my morning with — these two munchkins were just too cute! I couldn’t get over how little they were and hysterical it was to watch them play together! It also made me realize just how grateful I am to only have one right now! Erin – I have NO idea how you guys do it!! But you’re definitely doing something right with two beautiful little girls! I can’t wait to get your images to you – Until then, here’s your sneak peak!!

Thanks for sharing your family with me – I hope you had as much fun as I did!

Hugs,
Keri

okay seriously can you even stand this! They are butterflies for halloween and we had to put them in their costumes for at least a few shots! Although these were ‘outakes’ i had to do something with them so I thought i’d share them here.. they just cracked me up when I saw them!!

But seriously – how stinkin cute are these two!!!! **I’m not going to even try to pretend – I couldn’t tell these two apart all day! I don’t know how you guys keep them straight!!!! hehe…

We’ll be in touch guys!!! xoxo

Warning – Image overload below!

We are so excited Uncle Randy is visiting us for the next week and a half! We have been a little busy since he arrived on Friday and have a lot more stuff we’d like to do while he’s here! Jackson is especially happy to play with Uncle Randy. Yesterday morning we heard Jackson on the monitor talking away – then he got quiet. really quiet. sometimes he goes back to sleep (rarely!) so we thought he might have gone back to sleep – as I looked at the monitor (yes we have the video monitor which ROCKS and every parent should have it!) I noticed he wasn’t in there!! I said to Rick, Jackson wasn’t in his crib, not even THINKING that Uncle Randy might have got him up. We both JUMPED out of bed and went to open Jackson’s door. As we got to the hallway we saw two little piggies standing at the couch. As we looked closer we saw favorite Uncle Randy snuggled up with Jackson and a BRIGHT YELLOW BAG. thats right the BRIGHT YELLOW GERBER GRADUATE FRUIT SNACK BAG!!!! (we call these chewys in our house!) Jackson gave us this ear to ear grin as if he was saying ‘check this out guys – Uncle Randy is giving me CHEWYS before breakfast!!!’.. we totally busted them! Jackson jumped down and ran across the room with excitement – we all cracked up laughing. It was so funny – but WAY too early for pictures so you don’t get any from this story. I hadn’t even had my coffee yet!

So we headed to a different farm today (I still have a lot of images from the farm we went to last week when i took the image below) but we headed to brooksby farm where I have a session with our wonderful friends and their kiddos. We got there early enough and played around for a while and snapped some shots with Uncle Randy. Uncle Randy came to visit last year when Jackson was just 3.5 months old you can see here…

and now look at them!!!!

My favorite part about this image is that you can see his little shadow behind him. I love to play with shadows in images – i love that its just peaking through! Swinging 1-2-3- with Daddy and Uncle Randy!

Can’t go anywhere without a ball – luckily we found this football in the parking lot!

Pumpkins…

Pumpkins……

and MORE pumpkins!!! (can you believe we forgot to buy some!!)

This is my favorite!!

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That was all fun and good but earlier in the day we had quite a tramatic event! Jackson needed a haircut. We decided we’d try out ‘Snip-it’s” — you know the kids haircutting place? Well seeing as last time he screamed his bloody face off we decided hey, MAYBE he will like the the colors and toys……………. I’ll let you be the judge by the first picture what the outcome was like this time… (rick and i both took some of these – not sure who took what!)

**Notice: TWO lolipops which he has never had a single lolipop in his life! I was also holding Chewys and we had other snacks and drinks with us too…Why is it that I am wearing the cape and jackson isn’t wearing anything? haha!

the little kids snip-it’s tv show was on too!! but still.. no dice.

He decided as soon as he was done ‘I’m SO out of here.’

But then then dad gave him a NEW lolipop – seeing as the two he had before were now covered with hair! eeewww! he didn’t even realize the paper was still on… hehe…

okay so maybe he got two new ones. he was crying his eyes out!

sad or not couldn’t you just eat him up!!!

finally – the END. all smiles of course – lolipop in hand and the trama was over! haha…

Hope that caught ya up on the happenings around the household lately… there should be more to come over the next few weeks…

Thanks for checking in…

Hugs,
K