I’ve been MIA since early last week. I’ve been hanging out in a Tennessee cabin with my family, my parents, and my brothers family eating turkey. We always celebrate Thanksgiving prior to actual Thanksgiving week and I’m not sure why or when we started this tradition, but it works. We all go to a meet up — (usually near the Smokey Mountains National Park) and hang out for a few days. Its something we look forward to each year and I’ve just returned from this years trip. And while the weather was crummy with a capitol K, we had a blast (in part thanks to the TRICKED out cabin we stayed in — pool table, movie theater, hot tub — THANKS mom and dad!!!). I had to share a couple of snapshots from the trip that were taken during the 43.2 seconds it wasn’t raining!!
So the first picture shows how bill and i got our nicknames. We spend quite a bit of time looking for salamanders under rocks and old wood — and my clever nephew came up with “Aunt Sally” and “Uncle Mander” for us. So true to our names, we dug around in the national forest looking for sallymanders — but it had been WAY too dry and they were all tucked far underground– not a single salamander to be found on the surface! The second picture is of my parents and all their grand kids - they are all so darn cute. I did this shot at a session this summer and knew i wanted one of my parents! And finally the last shot– my boy and my girls. yum.
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And now i owe a sneak peek from the weekend before last! I met a super great family with their almost one year old daughter last Sunday. And, well, since we discussed the weather pertaining to my trip — i cannot leave it out how mean the weather was to us at this session! Well… it was dark. i don’t mean that it was cloudy, it was D.A.R.K and windy and dreary and cold. And well — look at the face on this sweet angel — you’d NEVER know it! She was all smiles and such a joy!!!!!!
i LOVE how it looks like she just told the punch line to a very funny joke!
and LOOK at those eyes. just wow, huh?
and smiling with her grandparents!
I hope everyone had a great week and weekend! I’m back full swing with lots of deliveries to make so if you are waiting, i’ll be in touch with your order 
{lara}
(ha — i make it sound like there isn’t chaos with 2 kids!).
These are absolutely beautiful!!!!! And I must say, they brought tears to my eyes!! Can’t wait to see the rest. Tell them they need to bring my niece back to Lincoln to visit more often!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great work!!