{ appreciate }

i’m lucky that my job and my life fit so well together.  its by design, i realize, but i still feel lucky…

its my last year with S before she goes to school.  and with C being 2 years older, i have an understanding of what that means… so many changes come with starting school.  so i’m trying hard to drink up my time with S home.  But last monday, i worked a bit on the only weekday that S has off of school.  She decided that she’d play with chalk on our side patio while i worked.  When i saw what she created, it almost made me cry.  reminded me to ‘step away from the computer’ and go have a drink of her.  So i asked if i could take a picture of her creation.   Here it is….

after i snapped a couple of her with the patio, i asked her to take a couple of face shots.  she said no.  i bribed her with Pirate Booty.  asked if i could take 3 shots.  and this shot was one of them….. gaaaahhhh i love her.

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Later last week, i had the pleasure of working with the G family!  We played hard and got silly, and our session really reflects that!  But in the spirit of the title of this post {appreciate} i wanted to share a couple of ‘moments’ from their session.  those everyday moments, that carry so much beauty.  first is of their son simply walking on a path… buy you can almost hear him talking to himself.. making plans as to what he, and his stick will conquer next…

and then of his little sister.  simply eating a banana sitting on the kitchen table.  but she is so beautiful in this moment, i just had to share.  banana and all

{ lara }