The U Family | Spokane Family Portraits

Spokane is such a fun place!  It's a dry heat, can be breezy at times and there is always a source of water nearby.  For my parents, they not only have a creek within a few minutes walk of their back yard, they also have created a pond where my siblings and I used to make mud holes.  

 

Mrs. U has made this a great welcome spot, shady and easy to relax.  The grandkids and dog like to dip their feet, chase the fish and toss in their play fishingpoles. 

Since we try to always take a picture of the grandkids together each summer, this year we decided to do it right here at Grandma's Pond.  I asked each of them to test out my spot, a shady rock on the far side of the pond.  I let them pose themselves and this is what they chose to do...

 

Yessir, we have quite the variety among 8 grandkids!  

 We also managed to get all the girl cousins together.

We even had time for my brother.

 

 

Wait, Mr. & Mrs. U should get a chance too, right?

Thanks so much for visiting with The U Family and grandkids!

For more information on family portraits both in Spokane and the greater Puyallup area contact me with your ideas! 

The A Family | Spokane Family Portraits

Spokane is my hometown and I love to take my kids there to visit with my family.  My sister lives there with her family (you may remember them from this post).  Usually I take pictures of just the girls or just her, but this time we got the whole family involved!  Mrs. A wanted lots of green and something on the north side of town.  We kicked around a few location ideas and settled on Whitworth University.  They were married at the church near campus and we have family ties to the school and church. 
It was a really hot evening!  I was baking as I drove around campus looking for the best shade, the most green and some brick.  Ha ha, Whitworth is full of brick buildings!  We decided on this lawn in front of Weyerhauser Hall. 

Meet my oldest neice, Ms. H!  She's a spunky girl with lots of imagination and amazing blue eyes.
Next is the darling Ms. T.  She holds has a taste for fashion, flare and enjoys finally begin a big sister.  And to add to the fun there is a new addition - Ms. C.  The youngest little lady likes to walk, talk on the phone and give "big smiles."

 To see any of the photos larger simply click on a group and you can scroll through them all.

We got so many adorable photos it was hard to narrow it down for this blog post.  Please leave them a little love in the comments!

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Thanks for visiting!

 

A Family | Tacoma Family Portraits

Now this was a surprise, there was only ONE family in all of 2012 with the first name beginning with A!  Please join me for their chilly but adorable family portraits taken in Tacoma near the UW buildings.  We were so lucky to find fall colors even through the wind and rain had begun to rip them away in most other locations.

Boy how cute is this family?!  I thought it was so sweet that the older girls wanted pictures with their parents.

Then we got a little time with just the Mrs. and Ms. A's.  Little Miss A was good at smiling, but she was even better at jumping and smiling at the same time!

And little Mr. A was so good and agreeable. 

I Heart Faces | Favorite Face of 2010

I've blogged this session before, but as I looked through the entire year of pictures, this one always stands out in my head. His face is completely natural, there was NO direction from me other than for his parents to put their hands on his head. He is a full of energy, full of spunk little boy. My boys are the same way and that's probably why I love this one so much!