From last night’s session.

Tonight was a blast.  Plain and simple.  I love getting to hang out with fun, interesting people.  And when you throw in the ambiance of downtown Austin, it just doesn’t get any cooler than this.

K and N, I’d say it was totally worth a few pesky ants and a drunken photographer groper. A wonderful, wonderful session, you two!

For too many reasons to list here.  But one thing in particular struck me the other day.  I love being able to take snapshots again…to click away without having to think about shutter speed, or ISO, or aperture, or white balance, or worrying about any of the technical aspects of photography.  I can just be creative.  And take a shot just because I feel like it.  No need to perform.  No need for perfection.  It just is what it is (well, with a little Photoshop fun).  Ah, refreshing.

ETA: Another iPhone snappy

Family Portrait – we’re all in it!

I don’t do so good with the rain.  And when you add the cold, I really don’t do so good (see today’s Twitter updates for all the gory details). So, in a desperate attempt to bring a little sunshine into our day, I let the boys paint.  Definitely a rare event in my household simply because it takes way more effort to clean everything up than what actually goes into the painting.

But it turned out okay. T made me this rainbow.  I love it.

L made…well, I don’t really know what L made.  When I asked him, he said very matter of factly, “It’s art, Mama.” Okay.  I’ll buy that.

This is my other little ray of sunshine. Cute as a cupcake from her cupcake Taggie (thanks to the girls from PT4P), down to her cupcake Robeez (thank YOU, Tina),  and all the way down to the little drool bomb she saved up for Daddy (you have to look really closely).  Man, this chick has just rocked my world!

Hi.

I’m sure you remember these two.  So many favs, I’m practically going to blog the whole session.  Since the session was actually in honor of the little miss at age 5, here’s more of her:

Of course, little bro was JUST adorable as can be, too:

Thanks again to you all for braving the chilly weather to get some wonderful images!

Truly.

Also, this made me feel special.

[Note to self: Be less verbose this year. ;-)]

Just a few snaps from today. I love that you can see a little of her elbow dimple in these. She often looks worried or concerned, unless she’s sticking her tongue out at me. Then she’s just danged cute.

She’s the caboose in a family of 8 (well, 10 if you count momma and dad).

She’s been walking since she was 9 (8?) months old.

She’s a go-getter.

She’s absolutely ADORABLE.

He’s always so focused.  His task for this week has been to write the numbers from 1-100 on the window.  It takes him a long time because if it doesn’t look just right, he has to erase it and try again. He absolutely fascinates me.