the other day, my friend and i were tasked with creating the perfect christmas card photo containing her, her husband, and their two high energy boys (ages 4 and 2)

we knew that the session would be very short {due to the lack of attention spans of said high energy boys} and the main goal was to have everyone looking at the camera…smiles were bonuses

let’s just say that i can be pretty crazy at a photo session….if i have to.  lots of jumping, high energy, strange noises and sounds….all to keep the attention of small childrens so that they don’t go running off to play in the leaves

which leads me to playing in the leaves….

we managed to get that perfect christmas card photo….pretty quickly, i might add {because i’m super awesome and amazing} and while me and momma were taking a break…her hubs started piling up the leaves…

which led to this

sometimes the grown ups just want to act like kids and jump in a big, huge, pile of leaves

and   i . love . it .

i encourage you to jump in a big pile of leaves before the cold of winter gets here and you just don’t even want to leave the house!

this was my third session of two days worth of running around and i couldn’t have been happier to shoot this family….they are so beautiful…..i want to say thank you to “rhoda” for calling me up to schedule and thank you to megan and jared allowing me to have a fantastic shoot with their BEAUTIFUL girls

can we just all agree that this mom looks friggin AMAZING!!!!

i love this little set-up that rhoda helped me create, and the birdcage my sister found for $5 at a yardsale just finished the whole look….  perfect!

love love love her blue eyes…..when i saw them before the shoot, i just couldn’t wait to get a close up of them….beautiful

love her little curls

there are soooooo many pictures that i just love from this shoot….i would love for you to check out the album over at my facebook page…………………and you could go on and “like” j. photography while you are there…you know you want to….just do it…lol

i work with this little one’s momma and i was super excited when she asked if I wanted to do a session with her baby…..  here are just a few of my favorites….

i just loved this location!  i can’t wait to do another session out there.

she was playing with the leaves here

and this was her letting us know that she was done for the day

if you would like to see more from this session, please check out my facebook page

until next time…..