Adorability

On the docket for today: the obligatory results of my yearly kid portraiture.

Alex looks so grown up all of a sudden.

He loved getting to go out to the Pinnacles and climb rocks to have his pictures taken. Even if it was only 42 degrees outside, and he had to keep taking off his hoodie and putting it back on while I fiddled with aperture and shutter speed and ISO.

But in the end, wouldn’t you know it? One of the test shots won, and for the second year straight Alex will grace our wall not in a nice bright sweater, but the same hoodie he wears every single day. How tween of him. ;)

Julianna, in the meantime, gave me about two hundred shots of this….

…and this…

….so in the end we asked permission to use and share photos from the Children’s Miracle Network Glamourazzi event this summer (all photos taken by Creative Photo):

We had the mommy-daughter shot…

…and the fun shot with a deejay at the local pop-rock station…

But the one we’re opting with for the walls this year is the one that captures Miss Feisty Pants to a T:

Nicholas, of course, is a ham who needs no commentary:

But it’s Michael who steals the show this year, as far as I’m concerned. If you’re on Facebook you probably already saw these, but…are you ready? Guard your heart, folks:

Move over, Jack Sparrow. You’ve been replaced.

Have a great weekend, everybody!