The importance of FAMILY

My 89 year old grandmother passed away a week ago. Actually, she would have been 89 on our shared birthday in August. We are rejoicing that she is in heaven now, but also wanting to remember her life. The day after she was put on hospice, two of my cousins and I went through book after book, carousel after carousel of slides, and put together a slideshow of her life. That slideshow, that collection of the moments in her life, has brought me to tears almost every time I've watched it.

Some of the pictures that I love the most are the group shots of the 19 of us cousins with our grandparents throughout the years. It couldn't have alwasy been fun to make us take those pictures, but I'm so thankful that they did.

This family below was gathered together for a special occasion, celebrating the graduation of one its members. I truly hope that they will treasure these pictures someday like I treasure those of my family!

It's hard for me to believe...

that Amy is a senior!

Amy was a freshman on the cross country team I coached the year that Xavier was born in the middle of the season. At the beginning of the season, I was 8 1/2 months pregnant and no longer running and Amy was sidelined with an injury so we went on quite a few long walks together while the rest of the team was running...and I got to know her very well!

Amy is such a sweet girl and the biggest lover of baseball out there, so we made sure to incorporate that into her senior session. In fact, Amy loves baseball (and Matt Holliday) so much that I think she should have been born in our baseball loving town of St. Louis instead of Denver! Oh well...

I hope you love your pictures, Amy!


Amy agreed to start EARLY and that's why we had such beautiful light! Oh, and almost all of these are in her own yard! You might recognize some of the spots from her brother Chris' senior photos last year!











And now for one of the biggest baseball fans I know...



This one is one of my favorites!

Just a couple for tonight...

Here's Amy, one of the biggest baseball fans I've ever met! I'll be back with more from this FUN session!

Guess

Can you guess from this picture where I'm at??



Yep, I'm back in Colorado for a few days. I have, if I'm counting correctly, 11 photoshoots in 6 days, so check back in the next week or so for pictures!

Yesterday, I photographed Lutheran High School Parker's graduation...congratulations to the class of 2010!


And I also photographed this extended family who was gathered to celebrate the accomplishments of one of those graduates!

I love their idea to color coordinate their outfits by family!

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Madeline is almost one!

This cute little girl has a birthday in just a couple of days! We met last Saturday for her one year photoshoot and she was all smiles and waves. Such a sweet little girl! Here's a few from our morning session...


This one is definitely one of my favorites!

Such long eyelashes...

Hey, I don't need their help to walk, you know!


I LOVE this one.




Climbing trees with Daddy!






Happy Birthday, Madeline!

It took me all weekend...

...to post this one picture!

So I had a bit of a computer mishap. Thank goodness I had almost everything backed up on an external hard drive. But I spend the weekend researching and purchasing a new computer and getting everything all set up, so I'm finally back with sweet Madeline's sneak peek from Saturday morning.

Almost one!