It’s the busy season for me right now (photography and real estate), so I haven’t had a chance to post some of our own family pics from this summer.  Here are a few that caught my eye.

Katie does such a great job with Carson.  Here she is planning some new activities to keep Carson from getting bored.

He’s recently discovered the camera on Katie’s cell.  And text messaging.  If you get message from Katie’s number and it has the alphabet, the numbers 20 to 1, or the word rhino (his favorite), I’m gonna go ahead and bet that it’s really from Carson.  Thank goodness he hasn’t figured out how to text the photos he’s taking.

One of the best things we keep downstairs is a Carson’s easel, drawing paper and markers.  If you haven’t noticed it before, Carson always opens his mouth wide when concentrating.

If you have kiddos and don’t already have one of these Display and Storage Frames from Target, do it.  Get a few of them and put them in a series somewhere in your home.  The frame opens like a book almost, so that you can easily change out new artwork.  Where to put the artwork being replaced?  How about in the handy little pocket inside?  Cool idea.

Here’s a hippo, tree, grass and sun.  I might be biased, but I think it’s pretty dang awesome.

Carson took this picture of Katie and me.  I dialed in the settings, but he was the one sighting us up in the viewfinder and pushing the shutter release.  I put the camera body on the floor to make things easier.  Pretty nice shot, eh?

A few weeks ago, we spent a few days in Cincinnati taking in the Newport Aquarium and the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal.  In the absence of having  a tripod, the old wide-angle camera-on-the-ground self portrait is a good call.

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It means alot to me that Kelly and Darin hired me as the photographer for their son Jacob’s second birthday party.  They had their house packed with friends and family.  Jacob’s lucky to have so much love around him.

Brandi Romines at Happy As A Lark Cakes created an airplane cake for the party.  I can assure you that this cake tasted just as awesome as it looked.  Brandi is amazing.

Is Jacob handsome or what?

Love this shot.

Okay, so maybe Dad had to help out with the candle-blowing a bit, but hey—it’s all good.

Kisses from mommy go great with ice cream and cake.

We tried to get Jacob to sit with his parents for this shot, but as an independent 2-year-old, I guess he figured it was time to create some space. Ha!

What a sweet family.

What a refreshing session.  When I asked Whitney where she wanted to go for the shoot, she said that her last session was in a garden with her and Evie wearing white.  She was ready for something different and suggested that we go somewhere with graffiti.  I hope you enjoy what we came up with.  Not your typical family shoot, but it was a blast.

Whitney—After being around you and Evie for just a few minutes, I could already tell that you’re an amazing mommy.  How did I know?  The way you are with your daughter is really similar to the way Katie is with our Carson.  Evie has a healthy self-esteem and a sweet spirit.  That doesn’t happen by accident.  It’s from you!

As a reward for doing such a good job during the shoot, Evie got to take a pic with my camera.  Nice shot of me and Whitney, right?

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