The Stewart Family | Gilbert Family Photographer

The sessions with a 1 year old and a 3 year old are ranked up there with my favorites…I know call me crazy!  Those ages sounds like a recipe for high energy and chaos.  But here's the deal, what it comes down to is those ages make for a fun session with ALL personalities without forced smiles.  Then add parents that are chill and just let there kids be kids…and that is what gets this photographer all kinds of happy.

I'm mean seriously, if you could see HOW many pictures of this little man smiling and giggling you would agree with me that he can get anyone to smile just looking at him.

The Shorr Family | Scottsdale Family Photographer

Nothing better than getting to know a family since they welcomed their first son.  They're expecting their third baby boy in a couple weeks. Yep…she is itsy bitsy.  She was 36 weeks to be exact during their session.  

Their oldest son is too cute, during the session I kept thinking any minute he was going to start explaining to me aerodynamic science or something way over my head.  Aside from being one smart little guy, he quickly made himself the camera bag watcher and reminding me every time I walked away from it.  Seriously, THE cutest. And during my usual mixing up names routine from talking faster than I can think…he about had me laughing to the point of no return when he reminded me what his name was!  Again, THE cutest.

Adore, adore…ADORE!  

Favorite outtakes:

Dan…you nailed the classic 'this is going on the internet' look.

The Filion Family | Tami Proffitt Photography

After going through at least a dozen dates for my twin sister's session with her kids…we finally nailed down one and planned to make it a quick family session too.  My twin and her husband's schedule are wonkers…he has a hockey league and traveling tons and she's a doctor traveling/working loads.  On the day we scheduled it, he came home from the ice rink…showered up, threw on his clothes and got fun family pictures with their dogs before their next appointments.  Their session was smack dab in the middle of the day.   But even if it was crazy busy, it was AMAZING and she's been long over due for family pictures. 

My adorable niece and nephew!  Are they not the cutest EVER!  We laugh ever time we stop and think that Pam could easy pull off their nanny since they look nothing like her.  Their dad is a French Canadian and look every bit the part…except Isa did get our Spanish skin tone.

Gah!  Fantabulous and gorgeous boy my nephew is!

They have two Dobermans, they are getting ready to say good bye to their first baby Princess and their newest Lady is keeping them smiling in all her puppy glory.

Dobermans generally don't look like the friendliest dogs, but they sure are friendliest, gentle and most loving.  It's probably helped since both of them grew up with being man handled by the kids

Their sweet Princess…completely worth the chaos of organizing this last minute session to have her in the pictures between schedules. She really is the best dog. My heart goes out to my twin's family...