Lara Family Portraits, 2014

 Lara Family Portraits

November 9, 2014

 Valette likes to pose. It's too bad she generally not very good at it...

 This is one of my two favorites of the whole family.

 Sunburst. The girls are both looking back.  It's just genuine.

 Daddy had fun with the little ladies.

 And this is the money shot. These are hard to capture.

 Kisses.

Tender. 

 And this is my other favorite.  I love my family.

I love my sweet girls.

 And I love my sweet husband. I am blessed.

Thank you to Celeste for braving the big camera. I would set up a shot and the camera settings and she composed and hit the shutter.

Halloween 2014

Abigail, 19 months

Friday, October 31, 2014

 My darling beauty. who wouldn't sit still for a mini photoshoot.

I love this portrait.  I think it's dang good, if I do say so myself.

Here was the comparison. I did this when Abbi was a baby, so we recreated and here is the side-by-side of her growth.

 Here is Minnie Mouse and Snow White.

Cute girls.

I asked Valette the beginning of August what she wanted to be for Halloween. She came up with Snow White (which she had never seen) in about five minutes and would not change her mind. So that is what I made. 

The little girls love to play dress up.

 Grandma collecting our cousin, Tyler/Buzz Lightyear.

 This is Dylan, he and Valette have been best buds since birth.  Too bad he is moving away in two weeks.

 Woody and Snow White...

with guns. 

All the little cousins. 

Alice, Tyler, Abbi, Dylan, Valette, and Eden. 

 See? Here father's daughter.

Abbi always wants to hold their hands.

Here is Halloween 2013.

Lara Family Portraits 2014

Saturday, September 21, 2014

Lara Family Portraits 

 Valette loves her cousins.

 Eden, Grandma Julie, Alice, Valette Grandpa Greg, Emmeline, Abigail

All the grand babies are girls in our family.

 So. I curled my hair for 45 minutes just before this. All gone by the time we arrived. So unfair.

I have now finally learned what products and tools make curls stay in my hair.  It is glorious.

 Abbi, 18 months; Valette, 3 1/2

 Desiree, Justin, and Emme (6 months). Justin and Desiree live in Utah, so our family pictures are planned around their visits.

 Chris, Eden (2) Kaylee, and Alice (5 months).

 Michael and Elise. Baby Laurel was three months away.

 Cousin Love.

Cute cousins. Abbi, Emme, Valette, Eden, Alice.

In the Yard

We had a two+ year backyard project of filling in the backyard with dirt. And dirt. And dirt.

 Valette and Abbi wanted desperately to help Daddy shovel the dirt. Daddy gave them the job of seeking out the rocks instead.

Monday, September 1, 2014

 My two sweet girls. Abbi, 18 months; Valette, 3 1/2

Valette on her first day of preschool. She would't look up because of the sun.

Thursday, September 4, 2014