1 Year has already passed!
Posted on June 20, 2011
I can’t believe it. I think about almost a year and a half ago when they were born and they would fit in one hand. They were just so SO tiny. I have thoroughly enjoyed watching these sweet, and most of time oh so serious and seriously funny. They have been so much fun to photograph and I will miss seeing them every three months! I will write more about these precious little monkey’s after I return from the dentist with my middle child who had a collision with my knee and knocked her front teeth backwards. For the love of drama. I shall return shortly and I will continue with the story of the Wiist Family. Until then, enjoy the sweetness that follows this line!
A Step Back In Time
Posted on June 13, 2011
So, I did this session with 4 vivacious children. Cute as cute gets, and eyes bluer than the sky. This was a super fun session, for me anyway. I think that Katie would disagree as I think her feathers were a little ruffled at her children “being children.” But I know she did have fun too. However, that’s when I get the most memorable pictures, it’s when I get the ones that will be looked back on time and time again with thoughts like, “Oh, I could have pinched your ears off that day! But this picture is a total picture of you inside and out at that age” or “Of all the days you choose to be in a grumpy-smug, you chose picture day?!” and “Yep, that is totally 100% Gabriel” or “Wow, look at how much fun they were having.” These are my favorite kind of pictures. And I know for most of you they will be yours years from now. They reflect childhood, the pickiness, the grumps, the giggles, the dirty faces and the pure happiness and silliness of being a kid. Not a care in the world, not even for sitting and smiling all at the same time when you’re told to. And on behalf of all the children I photograph, it is rather hard to smile naturally on command without looking all posed and un-child-like. These are fun fun kids! I could have watched them and snapped pictures all day
My title of this post, A Step Back in Time, yes it was. These children are the grandchildren of my sixth grade teacher, Mrs. Farmer. Funny thing is, to this day I still feel the need to call her Mrs. Farmer. I really didn’t call her anything though the other day. I was feeling all moobly about calling her Ann. It just doesn’t taste quite right. She still seems like my teacher even though that was oh twenty something years ago. That sounds funny. I still think of myself as a kid.
These kids are also the children of a childhood friend whom I kind of grew up with. I can’t say we got together for so called play-dates, but we had a mutual friend named Leigh Ann who I am still proud to call my friend even though I never see her and I haven’t talked to her in many years. Katie was very very dear friends with L. I always admired this group of girls whom I really didn’t hang out with except for Leigh Ann, as she was my neighbor growing up. These girls were always at Leigh Ann’s birthday parties and such. But all of these girls, Leigh Ann, Katie, Twila, and another girl named Amy, could all sing like nobody’s business. I SO wanted to be able to sing like they did. I LOVED hearing them sing, and to this day I still wish I could sing, but I am content with the gifts and talent that God blessed me with on the other end of the art spectrum from the musical end. The quiet, reserved, behind the lens photography end. That is the end I was blessed with, which is my passion and my God called mission all at the same time.
I hope that I captured Gabe, Grayson, Sophie, and Grady! (I think I got all their names right!?)
It is still a little bit funny to me that Mrs. Farmer is Katie’s mother-in-law. It’s just a small world. This is a beautiful family! They definitely have something extra special as such a beautiful family inside and out.
I could not decide on which pictures to post and I may still post more! They are all so cute!!
There maybe more coming!