Kelsey

Not many seniors are as cute as this girl! Seems like she has everything - cute, athletic, so kind, responsible. Just what you want in a kid. Her friends came along for the shoot too. We had a good time out in the ghetto.

Henry

Check out this cutie! He was giving his mom a run for her money I'll tell you what. He would fall asleep, we'd get him ready for a picture and then he'd start crying again! We did get some good shots of her sweet little Henry. What a cute name! And what great hair. All in all I had a great time. It is always special to be around babies.

Beautiful neighbors

This is our wonderful neighbors. I've had the opportunity to take pictures of these guys 3 times and every time I'm so impressed with the cute outfits this mom pics out. So darling. This was the first time I've done a family photo shoot inside. It worked out really well. I can't figure out why a few of these look pixelated on the blog. I'll see what I can figure out.

fun mom and son shots

Aren't these fun shots of this mom and her little guy? I love them because it shows the fun that they have together. Had to post a few more of this shoot. The one of this little guy looking up at his mom is an image that I have in my mind from my kids, which is where I got the idea from. When I was pregnant with Boston especially, I loved my kids looking up at my belly in wonderment. our kids really do look up to us so much. That is one of my most favorite from this shoot.

My new backdrops

While in Vegas at the WPPI conference I splurged and bought these beautiful new backdrops! You've seen a few of them on my blog. I'm excited to use these for my upcoming photo shoots!

China trip Day #7 Beijing

Summers Palace. Brody and I went there on the last day by ourselves while most people went home in the group. We were really glad to see this huge palace and property.

China trip Day #6 Beijing

I went with Brody to the business meeting for the morning. A wind energy company. I loved it.

The Great Wall of China. I'd like to say I got some great images there. It was what I thought would be the highlight of the trip. But because of all the smog and humidity it was not a clear day. It was amazing to walk on the Great Wall of China!

Randomly many Chinese wanted their picture taken with Americans. Especially blondes.

The whole MBA tour group on the last night all dressed up for our Imperial Chinese farewell dinner at Fangshan restaurant.

Walking into the restaurant had a beautiful view

These girls put on a dance for all of us before dinner and then we mingled for a while before dinner began. This was the best dinner of the whole trip.

China trip Day #5 Beijing

Beijing Olympics. The birds nest, the watercube, and the Olympic torch. I really looked forward to going to all of these venues. I can't imagine how all the athletes performed during the Summer Olympics a few years ago with the heat and humidity we felt there. And the air quality was very poor. They were amazing structures and I was so glad to have the opportunity to be there!

Where Michael Phelps got all those gold medals! I will never forget that.

I had to buy one of these kites for my kids after seeing this little girl having so much fun!

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Inside the birds nest
After the Olympic morning we headed to Dr. Tea for a tea party which is very popular in China. I enjoyed watching. Then we went to the old courtyard village, the hutongs, via ricksaw. We went throughout the city, visited a chinese family to see how they live, went to the old drum tower where they used to beat the drum every two hours to let people know the time.


We also got to end the day by visiting a Chinese Olympic athlete school where children go to live and then go home on the weekends. We saw 6-8 year olds learning gymnastics (swinging from the bars, jumping on the balance beam). They reminded me of Alliyah and I had such a hard time knowing these kids live away from home at such a young age. But to each his own.
We saw many young kids playing table tennis in a small tournament, and volleyball kids. This was a unique opportunity for all of us.

China trip Day #4 Beijing

We flew to Beijing and went straight to Tianemen square and the Forbidden city. I didn't know a lot of the history before I went there. Thankful for Darrel, our historian friend there that filled us in on all the crazy things that happened there. Forbidden city palace is the one from Mulan!! I knew that much just by seeing it.

All the girls on our tour - most MBA students too. And then below all the boys on the tour. We got to know most of these people and were thankful to make such great new friends.

The "in" thing in China for men is to lift up their shirts to be cool. It was Soooo hot and humid in Beijing.

And I took this because I thought it was so quaint.