Amy and Jason's Family

It's no secret that I love doing shoots for family and friends! The images are very special to me!

Amy is a counselor at the middle school where I work as a part time School Social Worker--we work very closely together and I am blessed to be a part of a great counseling staff! And, as life usually does, things have come around full circle--as I went to high school with her husband Jason! (Go Trojans!)

Enjoy!

Check out this cute little chunky monkey!

Some sisterly love

Big Sis Smilin'

The perfect family portrait

Two Year Old!

If you look hard enough, you will find this big two year old as a one year old on my blog! What a fun little guy--and an honor to watch him grow!!

He tried to take me out! ;)

My friend Laura!

I've known Laura for years and years--she is a great friend--she brought her two little ones for some photos!

4th of July!

What a great day the Fourth was!

We started the day out with family at the blueberry patch and then headed to Don's parents' home north of Kansas City. We ended the night in Parkville with the big fireworks show!

It was truly an awesome day!

I have so many favorites.....I'll post a few, but here is a slideshow with the whole day too!

Gorgeous day to pick blueberries!

Carly

Emma

At Don's parents....most handsome 'farmer' ever!

We took the tractor to see Don's sister's horses!

Don and I snuck away where I did a different kind of shooting! ;)
Poor cans!

Tractor riding! Carly drove!
Lighting snakes with Don's nieces and nephews

SICK

Hi all--I am sick. I had about a minute between coming down from the weekend and becoming really, really sick. I'll spare you the details. I'm on some good meds now though, so fingers are crossed for feeling better QUICKLY. I will catch up.

Baby Anna!

Introducing Baby Anna!

Anna is a new baby planner, so you will get to watch her grow with me--one of the greatest parts of this job!

She was pretty darn tired during her first shoot--but we did pretty well, nonetheless! She showed off those pretty big eyes, for sure!

This is probably more accurate of what she thought of the shoot, however! Ha, ha!

Snuggling with Grandma

Snuggling with Mom and about to fall asleep

And I captured some great baby bits after she fell asleep!

She might be......

.....the most beautiful thing ever. :)

I love how parents can see something in their kids that absolutely no one else in the universe can see. I see that 'thing' in this photograph of my oldest.

FYI

Just a quick message to give everyone the head's up how crazy busy I am this week--In addition to my normally nutty life, my sister and I are hosting about 65 people for my Mom's 60th Birthday Party and I have out of town relatives in town, staying with me. In other words, I'm a couple days behind on emails.

Thanks for your patience!!

Attention sbcglobal.net and att.net email users!!

If you use an email account with sbcglobal.net or att.net, and are looking for a reply back from me from the inquiry form on my website or otherwise, please check your spam folder! However, it may not even be there as I continue to get fatal error responses that my email has been blocked by individuals using these accounts.

This is a continual issue for me--one that drives me CRAZY! So, always check your spam folders, but especially if you use one of these email addresses. Hotmail (and other generic mass email hosts) accounts often bounce too.

I try to send an email to those who I know bounce using a personal, generic gmail account, but I'm sure that I don't know every email that bounces or goes into spam folders.

:)

Saturday's Wedding

I can't help it--I'm posting a pre-preview!

What a gorgeous wedding and amazing people--so much fun--and I can't keep myself from going ahead and posting a few favorites!

Much more to come......

You may have noticed....

.....my new website!

www.kdgphotography.com

I'm not quite ready for the official announcement, but I have the 'bones' up and running. I hope to fill it in with new work over the next couple of weeks and finalize all of the wording, policies, etc.

It's complete with a new shopping cart too!! Each client will receive their own gallery after each session, and be able to use a fully functional shopping cart!

As you are going through it, if you see any glaring errors, send me an email! I appreciate the proof-reading!

It's looonnnng overdue--but I'm feeling like I have my head on a bit better these days (after a few years of personal trauma) and am ready to get it going.

So exciting!!!

Callie's Twins

I didn't have a session today, but my good friend Callie brought over her four kids to play with my two......and I snapped some shots of the twins! 15 months old now--they are growing so fast!!

Can't decide if I like the first one in color or black & white better!

Have a great Memorial Day!

Taken by Don this weekend at a family event in Salina, KS......

Quintessential Emma--cleaning mud off her feet!

My little Pinky-the-Pig!

It's hard to believe, but the school year is just about over--and very soon, instead of a 'big kindergartener', I'm going to have a 'big-1st-grader'! Sigh!

Last night was the Kindergarten Musical and Emma had one of the lead character roles! She was Pinky the Pig. Prior to last night, I really had little to no idea that she had one of the 'big' parts. I had sort of assumed that all of the kids had roles like what she was coming home and describing. You can imagine my nervousness for her when I realized that she was one of few with solos and duets, and out in front the entire time! :) I could tell she was nervous, but she did a great job and made me so proud.


One of her duets!
One of her solos!
Another solo!
Giving Don one of her quirky smiles!

Family fun this weekend

Something fun to do this weekend!

The Kansas City Lit Fest--being held on The Plaza. There is a kid's stage with performers and authors--see the website for more!

http://www.kansascitylitfest.org/