Ridiculously Cute Rhett

This morning was all about Rhett. I had a fun time this morning hanging out with him and his mom, Ashley, while we took his pictures. Rhett just recently turned two so today was the day to document that milestone in pictures. He did soooooo good and kept me giggling. He is such a cutie and a smart one at that!

Ashley- Thank you so much for letting me take your babys pictures. I had such a fun time hanging out with you in the random places that we took pictures at. It was so nice getting to know you better in that short time frame. :) We need to get together again sometime. Here is your sneak peek and I hope you love them. I'll have your gallery up soon.

Have a good weekend. :)

Ashley


I LOVE this first picture. :)

Sweet Elise

I love this child. Isn't she just beautiful? This is my good friend Brandy's little girl and she is 3 weeks old. If you are a follower of my blog you will remember Brandys maternity pictures with her 2 little boys about a month and a half ago. Today we started Elise's pictures and will finish them on Saturday when we take her pictures with Daddy....and some with her big brothers too.

Brandy- I couldn't help it. When I got back from your house earlier Avery crashed and so I started peeking at the pictures and then one thing lead to another and I couldn't stop.....so here you go. Here is your sneak peek. I absolutely LOVE them and I hope you do to. Love you!

Mason, Mommy and Daddy!

It seems like it was just last week that I took Mason's 18month pictures. Now here he is on the verge of being 2 and so grown up looking. Six months sure does go by fast! I met Mason with his Mommy and Daddy in their neigborhood to do his 2 year session and get a few family pictures. We got some really good shots and I had such a good time taking them.

Andrea and Marcus- Thank you so much for allowing me to come and take pictures again. It was fun getting to see and visit with y'all. Y'all are such a cute little family and I am so excited for your new little one on the way. Little girls are so fun and Mason is going to be such a good big brother. Here is your sneak peek and I'll have your gallery up soon!

Thank you!

Sweet Ellie's Sneak Peek

Yesterday I got the chance to meet Ellie. She is 3 weeks old and absolutely precious. So itty bitty and so beautiful! Even though she didn't like taking pictures that much, we got some really good ones.

Matt and Cari, thank you so much for letting me come BACK and do Ellie's pictures. Seems like just yesterday that we were doing maternity pictures! Watching y'all with Ellie yesterday was so sweet. Parenthood looks good on the two of you. :) Congratulations, I wish you nothing but the best.

Your gallery will be up soon..

How cute are they?

I finished up their gallery last night but just had to post a few pictures from their "cowboy" segment of their session.

Whitney

There comes a point in life when someone can make you feel really old. Granted, I am only 32 but still....I'm not getting any younger. Ahhhh, the joys of life. Love it.

Here is my case and point. This is Whitney and she's my baby cousin. She's the baby of all of the Whitfield grandchildren. When my Aunt Kathy was pregnant I prayed and prayed that the baby would be a girl because she already had Matt and Kyle. On the day that my aunt went into labor I was a freshman in high school and I was in the middle of a volleyball game. Everyone on my team knew that my aunt was in labor and they were all hoping for a girl too....even though they had NO idea who I was talking about. Mom came in and we were on the floor and the other team was doing a subsitution. Then she yelled, "It's a girl" and my team and I went nuts. Everyone was probably wondering what in the world we were so happy about because if memory serves me correctly....we were losing. It was a girl and I had a new baby cousin. Yes, I know big age difference. ha! This year Whitney graduates from high school and I think I sprouted a few gray hairs. BUT I did get the pleasure of taking some of her senior pictures.

Whitney- You know I love you more than Whataburger Honey Butter Chicken Biscuits and I am so glad you let me snap a few pictures of you. You are such a beautiful person inside and out and I am so proud of you and all that you have done so far in your life. You make me proud....and will continue to do so for the rest of my life. Even though you make me feel as old as dirt, I still love you. :) It was good seeing you and I miss you already. Here are just a few pictures of yours and I'm sorry I didn't put them up before I went to the 'ville. I'll show you the rest as soon as I am done with them. Tell Elliott we said hello in our best ET voice.. "EEELLLLIIIOOOOTTTT"...ha ha ha. Tell him he was a big hit with the family.

Love you!

Jack and Sam

Aren't they cute? These two little precious people belong to my cousin, Matt, and his wife, Christine. While in Ft. Worth we got to hang out with Jack and Sam a lot thanks to my Aunt Kathy and Uncle Ray who let Heather and I stay at their house.

In the midst of my other photo shoots I was going to squeeze in a session with Jack and Sam. On most days time got away from us or we were having too much fun at the galleria in Dallas checking out the American Girl Store (which Macy loved)....to get back in time for pictures. On Saturday night we tried to get to the Stockyards before dark....we were too late. So we decided that we would go back after church on Sunday because I was leaving that day. Then after church all 9 of us were hungry so we went to Mercado Juarez...and it was good. So that meant we were taking pictures at roughly 2:30pm....in the heat of the day with full bellies. Let me tell you ....it was hot! It was 107 degrees. Ahhhhhhhhh, fun times!

Jack and Sam- Words can't tell you how much I love you and how happy I am that I got to take your picture...even if we were melting into puddles. You are growing so fast and I had so much fun hanging out with y'all and swimming. I miss you already and want you to come to my house........today. :)

Matt- You are beyond the worlds greatest dad (sorry BA, sorry Dad) and I am so proud of the man that you have become. You are a true inspiration and I love you so much. Your boys are precious and I hope that when they grow up, they are just like you. Love you. Tine- It was good to see you even though it was a short visit but I hope that you are feeling good today and I hope that you start feeling better and better everyday. We are praying for you.

Kathy- Thank you so much for letting Heather, the kids, and I stay at your house for 5 days. I miss you and your super comfy beds....oh, and your swimming pool too. I'm sure sad that we aren't there to keep you up till 1am every night but I'm sure Pokey was glad to see us go. I love you, Fafa.....you are beyond wonderful, loving, and giving......and the world's best Giggi. I'll have Whitneys pictures up later today before I leave for Smithville. Miss you already....

Here is the "sneak peek" and I'll have the other ones up next week.


:)






This picture below is on here because it cracks me up but it needs explaining... As stated it was blazing hot. We bribed Jack with a coke and ice cream to take one more picture with Sam. Sam didn't want to and Jack was determined to get his ice cream so he held on to Sam with all he had! ha ha!

Paul, Robyn and Avery

The Blog World is a funny thing. I've had a personal blog for a about 5 years and I enjoy blogging about my crazy life. When you blog you also read friends and family members blogs too. It's an easy way to keep in touch with people. Then you have the random strangers blog that you just happen to come across and kinda get sucked into their life. Then you bookmark their blog into your favorites and read it all the time but never leave that blogger a comment. It's called "Blog Stalking" and everyone does it. It's fun.

I've always said that one day I am going to adopt from China. Ask anyone in my family. I love to read peoples stories about their wait for their child in China and the journey to go there and bring their child home. It makes me cry a happy cry every time for those people. When I was pregnant with Avery I was surfing blogs about China adoptions and thats when I found Robyn. It was right then and there that I got sucked into her blog. I was going to have an Avery and she was going to China to get her Avery.....AND we were both from Texas. I loved reading all about their wait for Avery and reading about the crazy things that she does with her friends. When their referral for Avery came it was then that I had to quit stalking her blog and leave her a comment. I was excited for this stranger that I didn't know and I was excited to read about their journey to China for their child. Ever since then we occasionally comment on each others blog and we have a great stalking relationship. :)

When Robyn contacted me about taking their first family portrait as a family of 3.... I about fell over from excitement. I WANTED to do it. I felt like I knew these people in a crazy way and I just had to see that beautiful child of theirs in person. So this past Saturday they drove a couple of hours to meet me in Dallas for a beautiful photo shoot and I got to hug her neck and love on her Avery. It was great.

Paul and Robyn- Thank you so much for driving so far just so that little ole me, the coolest blog stalker ever, could photograph your family. It was so nice to finally meet the 3 of you. Avery did so good during the shoot and y'all did too....y'all are awesome parents and she is one lucky little girl! Here is your sneak peek and I hope you love them. I'll have your gallery up soon!

Keep on stalking,
Ashley :)

The Sweet "P" family

On the first day of shooting in the DFW area I got to shoot these sweet little brothers....with a little bit of Mom and Dad thrown in. Their mom, Lacie, is a very good friend of my sisters. It was fun stomping all over their cute little town taking pictures and finding neat little spots. It reminded me of home and exactly how I grew up. Gotta love the small Texas towns!

Okay, now I have to explain the flag picture posted below. While taking their pictures on the train tracks at an old abandoned depot we heard the sound of a fast approaching train. So we yanked the boys up and put them on the ledge of the old depot to watch it go by.... about 15 feet from the track. I don't think the boys have ever seen a train up that close and heard how LOUD it really is. They stood there still as could be and I snapped 2 pictures........one before the train got to them and the other right after. I did not plan it that way...I did not see what was on the side of the box car.... but I absolutely LOVE what my camera captured. I had no idea until after I had taken it because I was focusing on the boys and not the train. Pretty cool, huh? God Bless America. :)

Lacie- Thank you so much for wanting me to take your precious little boys pictures. I had so much fun and they did so good....and so did you! I hope you love your sneak peek and I'll have your gallery up soon. Oh, and thanks for the pizza and loving my sister as much as I do. It was good to see y'all. Take care!