Bluebonnets galore!

The bluebonnets are beautiful this year so a group a friends decided to hire me for a two hour block of time to do some mini sessions in the bluebonnets. I had been scooping out some areas that might work for our session. Did you know bluebonnet fields don't come with their own attached parking lots? We had to do some creative thinking as far as parking was concerned, but I found a nice corner on Westover Hills Blvd that was covered in flowers. I have loads of favorites from this session. It's so difficult to convince myself to turn beautiful colors into black and white, but I couldn't resist on some of these shots. Take a look!

First Tooth Lost....Check!

D'arcy lost her first tooth last week. It was loose, then she bumped into a girl at church and it became really loose. I took her to school on Monday morning knowing she wouldn't come home the same. I told the teacher that her tooth was on the verge of coming out. I realized, though, that I was speaking to a kindergarten teacher who has probably handled more than one lost tooth. I didn't need to give him any instructions.
When I picked D'arcy up from school, she was proudly wearing a tooth necklace with her tiny little tooth inside. She had been told by her fellow classmates that a lost tooth might inspire the tooth fairy to come and give her a present. We discussed that the tooth fairy was just me and daddy, but that we might decide to bring her something that night. She put her tooth in the pillow GG had given her that hangs from her doorknob, and mommy decided to put $5 in there. I know, I know, $5 is a ridiculous amount for a tooth, but she had mentioned a week or two ago that she wanted us to go to Whataburger to get a strawberry shake like we did the day before she started school and Whataburger is expensive! That was a run on sentence and these are pictures of her smile sans tiny tooth.

Hannah

Hannah is a fun, silly first grader. I first had the opportunity to photograph her basketball team a couple of weeks ago. Her family lives down the street from me so her mom picked me up yesterday and we headed to a local park to take some photos just of her. On the way home, we stopped at a little hill full of Texas bluebonnets. Bluebonnets are one of the things I love about Texas, and this year they are blooming wonderfully. I have my fingers crossed that they stay around for a couple more weeks. Hannah is just as pretty as those flowers, though. Take a look!

Schroeder

This photo shoot was very near and dear to my heart. Schroeder is my baby boy, and he turned one yesterday. We went to Barnes and Noble's Children's section to take these photos. I wanted to try a little bit of a different background. After about an hour of photographing, an employee came over to tell us we weren't allowed to do this due to security concerns. Oh well, I already had plenty of good shots so we packed up and headed out without a fuss. Yep, this boy is cute, and, yep, he looks like me ;).

Happy Birthday Schroeder!

Duren Schroeder Vonnegut Williams was born at 6:04 in the morning on the 27th of March 2009. Unlike his long and complicated name, this little guy has proven himself to be a simple, laid-back kind of fellow. He's a great sleeper, a versatile eater, and he sure does tolerate his older siblings well even though he's been squeezed, dropped, bonked, kissed and hugged to death by them this year. At one, he's standing confidently, walking tentatively, climbing like a two year old, and babbling up a storm. He fully understands the word no (or at least the tone that no is delivered) and is happy to please his mommy and daddy by moving away from cords. He loves cords, though, along with toilets, toilet paper, and the dogs food and water bowls, all banned, of course. He very much enjoys opening every cabinet door within reach, and is eager to pull out everything behind the doors. I'm trying to focus his attention on the tupperware cabinet which I'm totally fine with him throwing into chaos. He shares a room with his older sister and brother who quite frequently get him giggling in his crib. He is soon to be an older brother himself to miss Maggie Lu. I was concerned at first that he wouldn't get his full share of attention with another baby coming so quickly. Now I'm convinced that he might enjoy a little bit of personal space that this new baby might afford him. He has four little teeth that make him look a bit like a hippo, a thin mass of strawberry blond hair, and, of course, the signature blue eyes that all of those Williams kids inherited from their daddy. Most mornings before I take D'arcy to school, I plop him in bed with Stephen where he is content to snuggle. This is a sweet picture. Content, of course, until I return at which time he makes it known that he is hungry. He's happy to go to anyone, but he knows who mommy is which all the mommies in the world can imagine, makes me one very happy lady.
Happy Birthday Schroeder! You were delivered so quickly, it felt like an alien was being expelled from my body. You've turned from that crazy alien Sprocket to a wonderful little boy with lots of spunk.

The Jackson Family

After having to postpone a couple of times, I finally had the chance to meet the Jackson family on a very sunny Sunday afternoon. We met at a local park and spent some time walking into the wooded area to find shady spots. We had the pleasure of seeing some deer not too far from us as we took photographs. It's always nice to take pictures of a loving, light-hearted family. Little Elijah made us all laugh at his silly faces. Take a look at some of the moments I captured.