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The Ingram family. Love them. We met through baseball – and those of you with kids involved in sports know that you learn a lot about people A LOT when you play on the same team. Jackson and Evan have been together for 3 seasons now and Brent (dad) has coached for 2. Could not ask for better coaching. Wouldn’t be on a travel team driving all over creation with 3 kids (one of which is named DANE) if it weren’t for Jackson’s coaches. No tempers. No screaming. Everything is positive. Lots of work. Love it.  Period.

So Jen and I started initially chit chatting because she studied photography. Like I think she has a degree with the word photography on it. TRAINED. Imagine that. Scares me. But she has become one of my biggest fans and blabbers and commenters. I love commenters. Comment. Please.

So when it came time to plan a session Jen picked the best spot ever. It is the farm that her mom grew up on. How cool is that? I know it’s all about the showing the relationships in photography blah blah blah – but sometimes the location adds so much, especially when it’s personal. So this property/farm is called Thorn-Mar. It  has 5ish super charming little buildings and barns anchored by this big Gone with the Wind farmhouse. Glenn who was married to Jen’s grandma still lives there. It was magic:)

Here is one of the barns…doesn’t it look fake? It looks like part of a miniature movie set to me. Needs a plastic horse on it, lol.

Evan. He cute. Super cute. Super fine. He is a Kennedy to me with his tussled hair and big smile. Can’t imagine the hearts he is going to squash in high school. This needs to be big somewhere.

Below are Danielle and Casey. Adorable. Casey and Dane always have about 15 layers of food around their mouths at baseball games and Danielle always has her head in a book.

And it all began with these two. Together since high school. One of my favorite couple shots – there is something different about it. Big in your room please.

The property went as far as you could see. There was a hill way off that I wanted to walk out to but it was a little far. So glad we did. Hills that have nothing behind them to clutter up my shots make me so happy. The light was perfect Brent:)

Thank you Ingrams:) Thank you for worrying so much ahead of time (Jen is type A) and planning and caring and then rolling and jumping and swinging and smooching. I can’t wait for you to see the rest!

I know Kristin through my bf Susan. Susan gets her hair done at Kristin’s salon and has only said the nicest nicest NICEST things about her. Kristin owns the Salon at Polaris. They met because their boys play together. Kristin has twin boys. Twin boys. I often think of mothers with twin boys. I don’t know how they come out okay on the other side. If I had 2 Jackson’s or Dane’s I would need lotsolotsotherapy. Even tonight when we were playing Uno I couldn’t handle Jackson’s constant stupid ridiculous noises and sound effects. We told him 5 or 6 times to chill. But, boys don’t listen. They wait until your voice is raised and your blood is boiling, and then they’re like what? I can’t imagine how twin boys must bounce off each other. So Kristin and John – I seriously have the highest respect for you 🙂

But back to the session. When they all piled out of their car I wanted to kiss Kristin. She never asked me what they should wear because this family has their own style, with their own look, with the coolest shoes and they brought it and I loved it.

These two have been together since high school???  I think I have that right – anyway a looong time:) Love that.

Their 3 fabulous children Gregory, Alexis and Jonathan….I think it is so cool when twins look nothing alike and this would be a good example:)

I love it when kids are their own person. Alexis is without a doubt. I’m not good at noticing details when I shoot but as I’m editing I noticed her silver sparkly eyeliner. Simple yet different. Her boots too. Now they scared me at first because I am boring and traditional. But. I have been obsessed with the new Gap campaign. I have watched the commercial online over and over and over. Love it. After the 10th time I watched it I noticed that all the girls in the commercial have the same boot on as Alexis. So she has got it going ON.

Poor Jonathan. He does not love the camera, lol. He made the session so funny because he would look everywhere but at me, and he didn’t exactly know how to stand and then everyone starting watching him to see what he would do which added more pressure… To me it was very funny. He held his ground though. We had to resort to making him say the names of inappropriate body pieces and parts to get him to crack a smile:) Right after I took this shot he told me he couldn’t wait to get home to “take off his size 20 shirt and mess up his hair”.

Gregory. Adorable. Sweet. Has a great look about him. Comfy in front of a camera. LOVE his crooked smile. They might not be now but girls are going to be all over that in high school and college, lol.

I would love to thank the man that designed this little city building. Perfect gray door with chipping paint. Symmetrical. Glass block. Chicken wire encased in the glass. This family in particular looked really really amazing in front of it:)

I love it when I catch moms looking over at their kids. I really enjoy watching parents being parents. It was interesting to watch Kristin and Michael talk to their kids. It was like they were talking to their friends yet they were clearly the parents. Loved the way Kristin talked to Alexis.

the end.

Thank you Larkin family:)