Norah | Six Months

This baby girl melts my heart! I hope that her parents approve because I have already decided she is going to marry my son. Sigh. If only I believed in arranged marriages.Seriously though, Norah is one of the most joyful babies I have ever seen. I missed her three month session so I hadn't seen her since she was two weeks old. What a sweetheart! I have to tell you about the location because it is kind of special. When we were planning her beautiful mama's maternity session, we talked about taking them in a place where we could bring the baby once she was born. This month it was warm enough to venture back to Cooper Mountain Nature park. Click here to see the full maternity post and get an idea of how much her parents anticipated her arrival! Chris, Trista and Norah, we can't wait to see you guys again soon! Leah

Ok, I'm sorry but I just have to include these next two because they make me laugh. As you can see, Norah is always smiling. However, she got a bit concerned when she flopped over in the grass: once backward. . .

. . .and once forward!

On a final note, be sure that we can identify you from your comments because I'm planning on doing another drawing next week (it's been awhile). Your name will be entered once for every time you've commented so far in April and May. Now I just have to search for something lovely to give away.

Malori & Jon | Engagement

Silver Falls State Park is a really important place to Malori and Jon, it's the place they went on their first date, the place where they got engaged and (most importantly ;)) the place where we took their engagement photos. Western Oregon gave us a beautiful evening to explore and some gorgeous evening sunlight to take pictures in. I love that Malori and Jon chose a really meaningful place to take their photos and think that that will make their pictures even more special to them. I've done a few different sessions at Silver Falls now, and being in a familiar setting I always try to challenge myself to see and use the surroundings differently. Here's what we came up with...

It definitely wasn't warm while we were at Silver Falls, and Malori and Jon had told me that they were planning on playing in the water towards the end of the session. As we neared the end of the session and the temperature continued dropping, I figured they'd change their minds, but they decided to go for it. Jon picked Malori up in the freezing cold water and Malori's flip flops promptly headed down stream. Jon, who has now been named the hero of the session, dove into the water in an attempt to rescue the flip flops. Jon managed to rescue one of the flip flops, which explains the last photo below.

Malori and Jon, thank you for being so much fun and adventurous and being willing to do anything I asked and even more! I had a great evening with you guys and really enjoyed capturing the beautiful connection that you two share.

Happy Monday!

Bryan

The B Family | Guest Appearance by "Baaa" the sheep

We got to spend a lovely evening with this family at Rood Bridge Park last weekend. We're skipping them to the head of the blog post line because they're headed off on vacation this weekend and are holding their breath, hoping to see these before they leave. I'm a sucker for that kind of enthusiasm about your pictures. It gets me every time! This family is a joy to be around. Mom and Dad were laid back and let the kids be kids in the pictures and the kiddos were really well behaved and easy to work with, but still spunky! What more could you ask for? As you can see, nobody is lacking in personality and they did a great job of showing it. Thanks so much you guys. Have a wonderful trip! Now if you'll excuse me, I have some serious graduating to do!!!!!!!!!

Leah