smith family

a friend of mine asked me to take pictures for her and her family, as well as a 1-year-old pics of her daughter. i nervously said i'd do it, but that this would be my first real session, so not to expect much, lol. she was very open for whatever, and i don't do indoors, so we'd have to fight the rain and cold for an outdoor session. well, we waited awhile for a decent day, and even got lucky with a little sun! i had high hopes and was pretty excited, but rookie me...went to a location i wasn't really comfortable with and we started too early in the afternoon - the sun was still way too high, and everyone was freezing their butts off! so, to spare the boring details, the session didn't last too long, kids were cold, and we were done by the time the light was getting perfect. 

ughh. i left wanting to cry, thinking i'd be lucky if i got one decent shot... 

well, i surprisingly got 2 or 3 keepers, and i did my best to save a few others. oh well...a learning experience for sure!

so, this is janessa's gorgeous family! she is a friend from nursing school & just moved to washington this summer! so awesome! we love having play dates together - our boys are good buds. and of course now we are moving back to south dakota. i will sure miss them!  :(

Sami's cake smash!
i felt bad after the family session, so i wanted to try again to take some decent pictures of at least sami. so offered to do a cake smash session.
this was way more fun anyway!

and big brother devon

 devon and grady couldn't wait for sami to be done! they were going to get a cake of their own to frost, decorate & eat all themselves, but when we walked away to clean up sami, i turn around to find this!

guess they didn't want to wait one more minute! they dug in and kept busy stuffing their mouths for  a good ten minutes, haha.

cute boys!