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{Cousins at the Manistee Ranch}

Here are photos of my second cousins at the Manistee Ranch in Glendale. 

They wanted photos to give as a gift to their grandparents (my aunt and uncle) and so I never posted these before, just in case my aunt and uncle would see my blog and see their gift before they got it. My mom and my uncle actually lived on the Manistee Ranch when they were little kids, because their dad was a foreman for the ranch. They didn't live in the house pictured, but in a smaller house that is no longer there.

The palm trees and the boys wearing ties makes me think of the TV show Lost.

One with Becky.

Thanks Cousins for having us take your photos! We should do it again! :)

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{Our Farm Portraits}

Around Christmas time, Brenda and I (Becky) hosted holiday portrait sessions on our property while the leaves on the trees were still golden and hadn't yet fallen.

Here are some of the pictures we took. These two little cousins and their families had a blast!

This session was so much fun. I can't wait for Arizona's desert to start rioting with wild poppies and daisies, so we can do our Wildflower Portrait sessions. We are also planning on doing more photo sessions on our property as soon as the apple trees are in bloom, and also a series of city sessions. If you would like us to photograph your family, then click here to contact us!

♥♥♥ Baby K♥♥♥

Baby K came over and we had a fun time exploring and getting images of her underneath the pecan tree, from which I had hung a bunch of Christmas ornaments. 

 

Thanks Sweet Miss Baby K!

And thanks Baby K's momma and daddy.

We had a blast with you guys and your adorable daughter. 

{Kim and family}

Christmas portraits on the ASU campus for Kim and her cute family. :)

{Kelly + Bill underneath the trees}

Kelly and Bill underneath the trees, just as it was getting dark, not long after this the sun completely set, so I was getting dreamy-end-of-the-day light, which I love. I love how they are looking at each other in that second one---ahhh!

I was taking these photos of them, while Becky and their beautiful curly-haired baby boy were in the grass running around, playing and getting more photos of just him.

More photos of Kelly + Bill to come! 

((Side note story: Years and years ago we went to Hume Lake with Kelly and a bunch of other people from our college group. Bill might have been there (I'm not sure, sorry Bill!)  One story I remember from that trip is that Becky and Kelly and some other girls got up in the middle of the night and TP'ed the building the guys were sleeping in and later on Becky would talk about how much fun Kelly was. Do you remember that Kelly?! It was kinda a long time ago!))

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Becky and I went over to the S. family house and took pictures of all eleven of the family members (plus two on the way). Annie wanted some pictures to give her parents and siblings before her little family moves to China.

Here's Auntie Helen getting the kids ready for their pictures.

Ali with her grandma and grandpa. (Except she doesn't call them that, but I don't know the name for grandma and grandpa in Chinese!)

 

Okay is everybody looking at the camera? Oh wait! Drewby is looking off to the side. No matter! He's still so cute!

Okay, whew, everyone is looking at the camera!

Okay, everyone, show us silly!

  

Here we have David and his lovely dog Zelda.

 We took a bunch of pictures with each sibling with their spouse and parents. Here's Neil, his beautiful wife Janet and the parents.

   

Then we got a bunch in the backyard. To get the kids' attention Becky stood right behind me and started talking about the fairies and gnomes and magical ladybugs the kids had "seen" when we took their pictures last week. The funny thing is, I think all the crazy talk got the attention of the adults too!

Okay the kids can only take so much! They are ready to jump down and play now....

For fun we had all of them link arms & walk across the yard. Zelda thought this was a simply spectacular idea and wondered why everyone doesn't do this more often! :-)

I'm so excited about the new babies that will be arriving soon for this family.

I love this picture Beck got of me photographing David and Zelda.

Zelda, could you be any more stunning, girl?!! David, you're looking good too! ;-)

We had so much fun taking their pictures. I love this family so much---this whole family has been through so much.. It was so cool to get to see them all in one place at the same time. After taking pictures, Becky and I stayed over for dinner, for the best Chinese food ever! :-)

(I notice that when I put these pictures on the website, they are kinda fragmented. I think that might have to do with the way I am saving them. Luckily my camera raw and photoshop book came in the mail today, so I am really looking forward to reading it. Maybe the book will give me an idea how to save pictures for websites, otherwise I will read around elsewhere and try new stuff to see what I can figure out. Also, I am using typepad's new beta site and they have recently made it easier to show bigger images, so maybe I need to read more about that too.) 

andrea & jessica & baby girl on her way~baby shower

Andrea making a toast to Jessica.

Sweet girl listening to the baby.

 

~annie & aaron's family pictures~

Annie and Aaron and their kids are moving to China this month, to a city by the ocean called Dalian, population 6.2 million. I definitely hope & plan to visit them some time in the next three years while they are living and working there. Oh man, I can hardly wait!

Becky and I took some pictures of them on Sunday. We all ran around for a couple hours with a short break for icecream & root beer floats and then we were back at it until it got too dark. There were some clouds (some from the fires burning in the Salt River, making the sky all white), and the wind picked up for a while, kind of a very slight Arizona-style monsoon dust storm, so we didn't completely die from the heat.

We had so much fun! Here are some of the pictures:

  

Alison, you are such a amazing, wonderful girl. I hope the most fantastic adventures await you in China.

I was calling to Drew to turn around, never knowing that Becky was getting this adorable picture of him.

 

I kept trying to get shots of Annie's brand new blinged out, upgraded wedding ring. ;-)

It was getting super-hot at this point. Poor Alison.....soon after this I gave everyone frozen wash clothes that I had in my car. Hopefully that helped a little bit.

   

Drew's grin and Ali's bright eyes---I love this picture.

  The lying down didn't last long and we are off running again.

Oh my goodness, Andrew and Ali, you guys are so cute! Can I adopt you? Or at least come to come to China and be your nanny?

Finally! Ice cream!

After the icecream, we kinda thought we were done taking pictures, but then Becky saw the sunset and we had to get back out there. Becky photoshopped all these images, and I'm so glad she worked on this one, which was dark, but she made it really nice.

 

I was watching the grown-ups while Becky was watching the kids and taking them to search for fairies and elves and magical ladybugs in the corn rows. The cool thing is they found some!

Annie + Aaron, these are your kids' dance moves! Becky said show me your dance moves and apparently they have them!

~annie & nick~

Soon after we got our new camera, we went and took some pictures of Annie and Nick, who got married back in October last year. I first met Annie at ASU in an American Indian literature class. It turned out that Annie's major was photography too and we had some photo history classes together, taught by a very cool and extremely interesting professor named Bill Jay.

Annie and Nick, we loved taking pictures of you guys and hope to do so again before long!

    

~JoyLynn & Gypsie Momma and Baby~

We had so much fun at the Renaissance Festival taking pictures. Here is one of JoyLynn and another of a girl and her baby dressed up in the most beautiful costumes.