The Ryan family and I had our second session yesterday and Nolan was definitely in a much better mood this time :) He was awake for the first half of the session and then he fell asleep and let us pretty much do whatever we wanted after that, pose his feet, have him hold props, etc. Hope you enjoy!

Kisses from Momma

Daddy Time

So Peaceful

Dreaming about the Bears' next superbowl win :)

Afternoon in the Country

Jeff went out to his Mom & Dad's house to mow yesterday and since they have blackberries growing out behind their house I went along to pick a bunch and make a couple of cobblers later on.
As you can see in the picture below, it wasn't exactly a bumper crop. I'm not sure what has happened but there used to be waaaay more blackberries out there in years past. I just barely scraped together enough to make my cobbler (and even then I had to supplement with some frozen from the grocery store). So what else did I do but run around with my camera taking pictures of anything and everything that caught my eye. All in all, the weather was perfect, there was a nice breeze blowing, and it made for a very relaxing afternoon.

My overload of blackberries

This is Ace, the neighbors' horse. He's pretty much not interested in anyone if they don't have apples or some other treat to feed him.

Here he is looking slightly annoyed that I kept sticking a camera in his face while he was trying to munch on some grass. I did toss him a few blackberries for his time.

I guess the occupants were done with this one.











Kicking back on the front porch. I love the country.

Thunderbirds

Yesterday we climbed up on the roof of the hardware store to watch the USAF Thunderbirds perform for the air show. V.I.P. seating rocks.

Mr. Nolan

A few months ago I took maternity pictures for my friend Sonya and her husband Greg. Well their baby boy Nolan finally decided to join the rest of us on the outside last Saturday, the 20th. He was a week and a few days overdue and put his poor mom through two days of labor. But he was well worth the wait. I got to go over last night and take a few pics for his announcements. Unfortunately he wasn't in the greatest of moods but I was able to get a couple of good shots. There will be more to come when we have our next session but here are a few just to introduce the little guy :)