Preston Family

 Meet Grace!  Grace brought her parents up for a weekend at our house in early December.  :-)  You may recognize her, or at least her mother from her mother's blog, Humble Beginnings.  Jenny first came to our house about a year and a half ago and we had a blast.  This time we got to meet her husband and cute little baby!

 And of course, we had to take pictures. :-)  They were only here for a weekend and we had lots of activities planned so all of these shots are just around or in our house.  Enjoy!

Gracie, you are gorgeous. 

Check out the above dress!  Gracie's grandma made it all by hand. :-)  Isn't it gorgeous? 

 I love the expressions we got out of Gracie.

Thanks so much for letting me take your pictures!

Stevenson Family

This is the Stevenson family.  They have got to be the cutest family ever!  Wow.  I almost died of over-exposure to cuteness that weekend.  They have 6 kids and another on the way!  Mr. Stevenson came to speak at our church and the family stayed at our house.  On Sunday afternoon (before lunch, which was not a good idea :-)  those will little siblings will understand) we stopped by a field on the way home and took some pictures for their Christmas cards etc.  Enjoy!

 Father/Daughter sweetness!  It was a bit windy.

It's Coco!

 It was windy.  Otherwise they wouldn't have been facing the sun.... Oh well.  

Grace!

Caleb!  All the girls want the new baby to be another boy. :-)

Kels!  So cute!  I got some terrific smiles out of her just in our home.  I shall have to share those sometime...

Hope!  Now the big responsible sister, but I knew her when she was Kelsey's age!

Did I mention it was windy?!  

How can you resist so much red hair and freckles?  Thankfully the girls didn't ask me to do to much, because it would have been SO hard to say no!

Lesko Family

The Lesko Family!  These guys. are. fun.  I met them just slightly over 10 years ago.  Back when Shawn and I were the same height. :-)  Mr. Lesko works with my Dad and the family goes to church with us.  Shannen and I have grown close over the years and you'll probably be seeing her sewing projects on here at some time.  She has been learning so much, and her last dress is just gorgeous!  I'll have to have her model it for us. :-)  Shawn actually is my older brother Jamie's roommate at Mich Tech and brought him back to us for Thanksgiving, which was so nice.  We got some family pictures of our own while they were here.  There may be a blog post on that to follow...   

 Shawn and Shannen

Mr. and Mrs.

This is probably my favorite all day.  Such real smiles!

 Pretty much. ;-)

Thanks so much Leskos!  I had a blast! and thank you Shannen for coordinating the outfits, they worked out beautifully. :-)  It makes a big difference.

PWP 2: Day 4

Well, here we are at the second to last day of class.  These weeks have just blown by; it feels we just arrived and got acquainted, but now we're about to say goodbye.

Today we learned about some more equipment and then geared up to go do our client shoot.  Anntonette and I were paired together to shoot the E children's portraits.  This family is SO much fun and they are all adorable, which make my job pretty easy. :-)  Here are a couple.

Vanessa

 Memphis

 Abby

Rayden

 Robby

Scotty

Thank you so much for letting me take your portraits!

After our big shoot we got to meet Christa Taylor and watch her organize a fashion shoot.  THAT was cool, and I got to meet Christa!

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