Meet Kyra ~ She's new to this whole "life" thing.

Kyra was born a week ago! Becky and Sanford are so excited to finally have her here! She is such a beautiful little baby. And she sure has good set of lungs!




Sanford is soooo cute when he's around her! He has that new daddy super proud/happy face. It's absolutely adorable!





They make such a gorgeous family!


Tiny fingers and toes!



OK... I know this is WAAAAY more photos than I normally post, but she's so cute! How can I NOT post all these photos! Look at her!



This one's for her grandma... she wanted a picture of Kyra in her bath robe. It's HUGE on her!










Love!



I can't wait to see Kyra grow! She's such a beautiful baby. I told Sanford that he better watch out... she's gonna break some boy's hearts with those big beautiful eyes! It was so great seeing you guys. Enjoy your new baby! She's such a doll!

p.s. Doesn't Becky look GREAT for just having a baby!

Marching Band State Finals

This past weekend I went and watched my little brother perform in the RCA Dome one last time. Concord did an awesome job, as did all the other bands there. This year was a GREAT competition! It was fairly bittersweet though. My brothers and I combined have put 12 years into the CHS marching band.(we're definately a music family) I was so proud of him though. It was a great finish to all the work we've done. I am really sad though... because now if I go to the state finals... I REALLY am a band geek. At least when he was marching I had an excuse to go down and fulfill my needs to see 150 kids marching in sync to classic band music while waving around pretty flags. I suppose I'll still go now and then... even though I get made fun of. Haha!

Thats my little brother conducting! GO SPARKY!



This isn't my brother... I just like the picture.


Shout out to Northridge also! My cousin is the flutist in the middle of the photo.


When all was said and done Concord walked away with 3rd place. Not too shabby! Good job guys!




OK... one last time. GO SPARKY!!!!!

Meet Cory ~ He's Graduating

Cory has played soccer with my little brother for years. I'm not used to seeing these kids being so big! He's not that much of a kid anymore. Cory and I started out our session at the High School then moved on to downtown Elkhart.




The next two are my favorites! I think he looks like a model!



Cory's session was so much fun! I hadn't seen him in forever so that was really nice to catch up for a bit. The only problem we had was that it took EVERYTHING he had to make a serious not smiling face. This kid smiles like it's going out of style!




Hope you like them Cory! It was GREAT seeing you!

Meet CJ ~ He's Graduating

CJ plays soccer with my little brother so it was fun seeing him... he's much bigger than I remember him! We had such a fun time during our shoot! We went to downtown Elkhart and braved the crazy homeless people for a while. It was so worth it!




This is where things got REALLY interesting... CJ suggested that he hang from this thing in the plaza...


So as we're trying to take this photo a lady sitting at a bench nearby tells us that we should take pictures of her daughter. I laugh it off and try to continue with the session...


At this point the woman comes back up and tells us that when she got married some random person took her photos. She says "I don't know why the girl took our photos... but she did and we had fun" HOW WEIRD IS THAT! So she goes on to tell me how I should have CJ hang on the edge of this HUGE art fountain thingy in the plaza. Now if CJ would even try to climb that far on it he would fall off and break both of his legs. The lady however thought this was a BRILLIANT idea. So we eventually just started ignoring her as she continued to interupt the session and tell me what photos I should take... all of which were absolutely insane.

As CJ peeked through this part of the fountain we were DYING laughing about this crazy lady!


AND THEN!!! As we're trying to walk away the woman explains that we can take pictures of her daughter if we want... as long as we get her permission. So at this point we're really kind of freaked out... because we realize she's talking about her DOG! The woman says "You can take her picture if you want... she'll pose however you want and smile really nice for you!". So I look at CJ and he looks back at me with the funniest face! So we just mumbled goodbye and walked away as fast as we possibly could. And then a bum asked us for money. What a crazy night!