Up Close and Personal

 
After we sent Daddy off to Austin for his college roommate's wedding, we headed to Gigi's for a few photos.  I wanted to get a few Halloween shots and I'm starting to learn how hard it's going to be now that I have two smiles to coordinate.  These kids can sure wear a mommy-photographer out!

 But then...even though Alaina isn't looking, I'll capture a shot like this one with Joseph's sweet expression and it's all right.

I fell in love with Josh's eyes when he smiles back when we started dating.  I can tell he is going to smile before his mouth even curves into one.  That little puffy wrinkle under his eyes starts to form it's own smile first and is so endearing to me.  Joseph inherited that same little puffy eye-wrinkle smile and this picture totally captured it.

Gigi's backyard is always such a fun place to wander around, with her love of gardening.  We like to scope out all the flower beds and see what there is to see.  And the colorful jingling suncatchers and chimes are fun too.

 I can never pass up a good profile shot.  It's one of my favorite photos to capture.

But then Joseph gets tried of having the camera in his face and starts giving me photos like this.  I can't tell you how many pictures I have through the years of him holding a berry, or flower, or stick, or some other found object right in the lens.  Thank goodness he's as tolerant as he is...and I have a great collection of fun little treasure pictures!