Meghan & Matt recently came to us with a complaint about their wedding photos.  There were so many photos that they loved that they had a hard time choosing which ones to display in their home.  So they kind of ended up EVERYWHERE, to the point where their family and friends started to give them a hard time about it!  (Terrible problem to have, right? Too many adorable photos of yourselves! LOL!)  So to help remedy this very issue they decided that they needed to get some updated family photos done.  Enter their favorite husband & wife photography team – US!  So last Sunday we met Matt, Meghan and her sisters Erryn, Molly & Lydia at the Mesa Center for the Arts for a super fun photo session!  It’s not too often that OUR sides hurt after shooting a portrait session, but this was definitely one of those times.  Talk about a fun group!  Lots and lots of laugher and love in this very special family.

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Don’t forget to “love” on your favorite images along the way!

Training for the silly face championships is a lot of work, but sometimes a family’s gotta do, what a family’s gotta do.

Great lines + adorable subjects = awesome photo

Every time we’d tell the girls to put their hands on their hips, Matt would do it to and we kept giving him a hard time about it.  It’s fun to make Matt feel silly :-)  We love that guy!

Time for some sisterly love :-)

How cute are they?  I just love all the interactions happening in this one.

We said “fierce” and they pulled it off, big time.  Ryan mentioned that this shot could work for their album cover and suddenly . . .

… a pretty serious “Air Guitar” band was born!  HILLARIOUS!

They came up with the super cute idea to do a bunch of “Brady Bunch” themed headshots.  It was a bit of a challenge since we were about 3 family members short of a traditional “bunch”, but the results are pretty fun regardless.

This is one group that can laugh their way through anything.

The Beatles fans of the world will appreciate our little Abbey Road throwback :-)

Love the colors in this next one :-)

Meghan & Matt also wanted to do some updated shots of them.  How cute are they?  Just as adorable and in love as their wedding day (sigh).  Man, we’ve got an awesome job.

It doesn’t get much better than shooting these two.

Showing off a little rawr on the catwalk!

Thanks Matt, Meghan, Erryn, Molly & Lydia for such a fun time!  We had a blast hanging out and laughing with you guys.  Can’t wait to see lots of these up on your walls :-)

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Last Saturday we got to hang out with my awesome cousin Allison to shoot her senior portraits.  It was so much fun and I am so proud of her for turning into the beautiful person that she is both inside and out.

Just to show you how much she’s changed over the years we thought we would throw in this picture that was taken a long time ago.  Here’s on old school shot of my Aunt Linda and her kids (my cousins) Jeff, Steven and little tiny Allison.  Even back then, Allison kinda ran the show.  Good lookin’ family huh?  (Yeah, that’s right . . . we’re related.)  Over the years, we’ve had so much fun hangin’ with the cousins.  We did a lot of running around in their backyard swimming, fencing, and jumping on the trampoline while singing/yelling the theme song to friends at 11:00 at night. 

Now my little tiny cousin is all grown up.  On top of the good looks, she’s is so much fun  :-)

We love this little alley.  It’s so funny to shoot there because every time we come out from between the buildings we get the strangest looks from people.

Allison totally rocked the serious face.

Aunt Linda came along too for some photos of mom and daughter.  They are so cute together and have such a wonderful relationship.

The cousin’s have always been big into their extra curricular activities.  For Allison, it’s always been dance.  The things that she can do are incredible.  We saw her at a show one time and she stood on the very tips of her toes for like, a really long time.  We were amazed!

Showing off her hip-hop kicks :-)

Ok, ::laughing:: so I just googled “gangster names” and the first site that came up was The Original Gangsta Name Generator.  I typed in Allison to see what would come up . . .

everyone, I’d like you to meet “Head Monkey Smuggla”!  (I also tried our names and came up with “No Pants Indian” for me and “Old Killa” for Denise.  Awesome.)

Love her eyelashes in this next one.

We absolutely LOVE the contrast of taking someone gorgesous and putting them in front of something that is so not gorgeous.  In this case Allison and a dumpster.

Absolutely love this next shot.  One of my favorites for sure.

As we were walking around, we passed by this dirty, grungy alley.  Almost simultaneously, all four of us stopped and thought that it would be a great place to shoot.  Loved both of these – just couldn’t decide between them so I had to post them both.

Here’s the sassy side of Allison.

One of my favorites.  Love how the background really brings out her eyes.

I don’t know which of the next two I like better.  Both good.  Both favorites.

Loved the purple hat.  Adorable.

Now there’s the Allison I know.  Silly little “Head Monkey Smuggla”.

One more of Mom and Daughter.

Thanks Aunt Linda and Allison!  We had so much fun with you guys.  Hope we can do it again soon!  Lot’s of love!

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On Sunday, we met up with Carrie and her daughter Lindsay at Mesa Center for the Arts for some family photos.  Carrie & I worked together a long, long time ago, so it was so much fun to catch up with her.  And the last time I saw Lindsay, she was just a kid.  Now she’s a gorgeous (almost 17-year-old) woman!  It was so much fun observing their relationship during their time together.  You can tell just by looking at them that they’re much more than mother and daughter . . . their also best friends :-)  It’s all very “Gilmore Girls” if you ask me.  Ha ha ha!

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Here are some of our favorites from their session.

We discovered right away that making these two laugh was going to be pretty easy :-)

They had some very interesting posing ideas.  Both of these just make me laugh!

Adorable!

So many great laughs!  You just can’t help but laugh along with them!

And what mother/daughter combo doesn’t walk down the street together while skipping?

Love it!

Peak-a-boo!

They joked with us about how people always think they’re sad or mad when they’re not smiling because they both tend to stand with their arms crossed.  Of course, we had to test the theory.  Not quite as easy to be serious when you’ve got two cameras pointed at you, huh?

What a cute pair!  Love the colors in these next two.

Carrie said that the last time they had photos taken Lindsay was about 10 and this was their favorite pose.  You’re never too grown up for a piggy back ride, right?

So at the end of our session, we attempted to do one of our notorious jumping shots, but we quickly discovered that there was going to be a little wardrobe issue.  Every time they jumped the neck of their sweaters would fly up and totally cover their faces.  So we went with this instead.  Love it!

Thanks for the fun session you guys!  And happy almost birthday Lindsay :-)

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