Fun Updates!
We’ve been busy this week! Chad and I finally took a vacation… for ourselves this week. We’ve returned from a short ski trip in Taos, NM, but more on that in another post. I’m here to talk about some of my newlywed couples!
On January 1st I shot a wedding of some long-time lovers… they’d been together for over 12 years! Tanya and John had a wonderful little ceremony in a charming church and Tanya’s cousin, Dawn, put a wedding announcement in Houston Chronicle.
In fact, I even received a phone call while on vacation from one of the editors of the Chron wanted to verify that those were really their names… (Keep a look out on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno!)
While I was also out, I received another call from the videography company that filmed Teresa and Rick’s wedding, and they used my photos to create a slide show set to music for the couple.
http://www.teresaandrick.com/slideshow.html
You can also click on “Love Story” to see the video of their wedding and to see some of me “in action” (as Rob from “Don’t Get Married Without Me” explained). I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing… I seem to be laying on the ground, standing on furniture, or holding the camera high above my head in most of the video I’m in. :p
More blog posts coming soon! I’ve got 19 in the queue!
Burson Family – Mercer Arboretum – Houston, TX
Chad and I met the Burson family out at Mercer Arboretum in Spring, Texas for their uber fantastic and totally awesome family lifestyle session. But we didn’t meet them at the pretty and frilly side with all the flowers and what-not. We traversed through a half-mile of trails finding the murkiest swamps, knobbiest cypress tree roots, Tarzan-ian vines, and we spied on some sunbathing turtles.
Here are a few of my favorites:
The family chose a photo very close to this one for their photo Christmas cards.
Hanging around…
This little guy was a hoot to photograph…
This is one of my favorite family photos ever!
The kids were checking out something in the water…
So I slid under the bench, hovered my head over the water, held out the camera at arm’s length, and captured this little gem. 
This family was so much fun to photograph! 
Finally, Dad and his boys.
Thanks Burson family!
Pam and Max’s Family Session – Spring Creek Park, Tomball, TX
I was blessed with the opportunity to photograph this fun and close-knit family earlier this month. It was a cool, crisp afternoon, the sun was shining, the trees were turning orange and yellow, and the ground was covered with a beautiful carpet of brown oak leaves. When this gorgeous mother and son were the fabulous duo I was to photograph, my job was instantly a cinch!
Max knows I’m up to something. He’s on to me… 
Check out this cutie pie!
He has the most precious expressions:
A perfect backdrop…
I love playful families!
Little Max was ready to go home and ride his bike at this point, but I had to capture his pouting face. When I showed Chad the photo, he said, “That’s how I looked in most of the photos I took as a kid.” Of course… :p
Thank you, Pam and Max, for playing in the leaves with me!
Santo Family – Helen’s Garden – League City, Texas
Whew! So I’m begining to catch up on all my editing and album designing from the last few months, and now I need to catch up on some blogs!
I hope everyone had a great Christmas, New Year’s, and holiday season! Here’s another awesome family photo session from Thanksgiving weekend, when the entire family was in Houston and traveled from Florida and Pennsylvania.
We drove down to League City for the photography shoot and went to the beautiful Helen’s Garden. We arrived early and had free range of the park. By the time we left over an hour later, there were at least 8 other photographers shooting various kids and families there!
Below are some of my favorites from the session…
Grandma and Grandpa w/ the grandkids
A fun aerial shot (sometimes I don’t know how I keep my feet out of the photos when I hold the wide angle lens over my head…) :p
Tickle time (always brings the cutest smiles)!
These two were getting a little chilly… so they put on their parent’s shirts!
Soooooo adorable!
