Does anybody remember last winter when I had a photo shoot up for auction at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art’s annual fundraising gala? I lucked out to have the very coolest family possible to bid on us and win. Oh, and to top it off, the winner’s name is BETSY, she has the cutest kids and just so happens to know the majority of my clients from the last year. (We just kept finding people we both knew. We were even shooting at a home that one of my previous clients used to own! Such a small world.) Oh, and Betsy and I are both the same as we HATE to wear shoes and I seriously felt like I could have chatted with her all night long. We will be having coffee soon to get caught up on the things we couldn’t fit in between shots.
Let’s start off with Betsy and her husband Jim’s kids. This is literally the first family of four that makes me ponder possibly having a large family someday. They definitely made me ponder living in the country. This was one of those shoots where John and I were overstimulated with the 8 million possibly locations for photos.
We got a little meditative….
and a little nutty…Tom NAILED the nutty look. 
I’m usually AWFUL with names, especially when I’m shooting, but I tried reallllly hard to get them down for this shoot. Here’s Sara, Lucy, Tom and Grace. Just thinking back at how sweet and easy going they were for their shoot just makes me smile. Speaking of smiles, Lucy’s smile here is PERFECT.
I heard from Betsy that a certain little Grace was feeling like a star after the shoot. Wonder why? She is the baby of the family and it’s ADORABLE to see those kids carry her around and dote on her. Oh and did you see that adorable Lizzy Anne dress that daddy just picked out for her? So cute! Oh and look at Sarah’s pigtails in this photo. Again, love it!
I never forget mom and dad. These two were great and so laid back. I kept thinking that I wanted them to sit us down and teach us everything we should know about raising kids. I mean, we only have our little Miles and they have four so we have LOTS we can learn from these two. (Betsy, just add that to the 5 million things we can chat about when we meet for coffee.) By the way, Betsy and I NEVER have to deal with anybody else having our name so we were both confused all night long as someone would say our name. It never ceased to make me laugh.
This is only supposed to be a sneak peek, but I got a little carried away. (The debates tonight had me all fired up and hyper!)
Since I really need to wrap this sneak peek up and save some for later, I’ll leave this photo as a little foreshadowing of what’s to come….
