This wonderful woman is one of my very first clients and also really the crux of all my early and ongoing business- not to mention she takes my scrapbook class and is a good friend, too! She has so many friends and family and she sent them all my way- so we just love her! She was also the boys sports coach a long while ago and they still love her too! The earlier session today (the gil family) is her sister (see what I mean about the business??) and the next shoot I am posting is her husband’s family. We are kinda doing her Christmas mini session in pieces. A few today, a few at her house later in the week.

Her daughter is so sweet and shy and serious. But I did get a few real smiles out of her while discussing the water/sand/rice table at nursery school. She’s a toughie, but oh so cute!

Oh boy, it was a coooooooold one this morning. The car thermometer read about 29 degrees. But we all sucked it up and headed over to Tanglewood for a mini session. If this family looks familiar to you, I did their pictures over the summer at the beach. It was a lot warmer then!

The little boy did great considering the temperature. He was in a somewhat cranky mood today, but I think we coaxed a few good ones out of him. All the poor kid wanted to do was to go swimming in the ponds. But since he couldn’t, he threw his pacifier into the water instead! His dad did his best to rescue it, but it wasn’t meant to be. A small sacrifice to the park gods.

Another sweet and photogenic family. Another super perfect one for the turkey hangover. The only real challenge was getting both girls to look at the same time. The older girl was so patient and great. The baby, is a baby! She was super sweet and quiet but was more interested in the leaves than looking at the camera. We finally bribed her by holding a bottle up on my head. It worked until it made her mad cause she WANTED the botlle! And she seemed to think the leaves were chips- yum!

Funny story on this one. They live in the same house that our friends moved out of. Actually, two sets of friends lived there in the past few years. The address seemed awfully familiar when I was writing it down when we booked the session, but I didn’t add it up. When I drove up, it was the same house. And the funniest part (if two of our friends living in the house wasn’t enough) John did their closing. The dad in this family knew John’s car when I drove up in it!

Got some great shots in the pretty yellow leaves in the backyard. And that old weathered fence looked so "barn-ish". I loved it! The colors were perfect.

So even though I had the turkey hangover, this morning’s shoot went very well. Such a sweet family- I felt so welcome in their home (which was so beautiful by the way). The kids were all so sweet and helpful, and very easy going. Perfect family for my first one after Thanksgiving! We were running back and forth into the house because it was pretty chilly out. But everyone toughed it out and we got some great shots. Hope we got the xmas card one!