Rosalie’s Third Watch Me Grow Session

When we first started shooting professionally, we never imagined we would become anyone’s family photographer, but that’s exactly what’s happened with Heather and Brad and their darling little girls. Heather and Brad married seven years ago and we were there to document it. It’s been playgrounds, making cookies, eating (and wearing) lunch, licking popsicles, and of course blowing bubbles ever since, and I’ve loved every second of it.

Today was spent with Rosalie and her older sister Opal for Rosalie’s third Watch Me Grow session. In case you’re  itching to see past sessions, check out Rosalie #1 here and #2 here. Opal’s most recent can be found here. Go check out the complete gallery from all sessions when you’re ready.

Starting out the morning with a little playground action.

Both grandmas made an appearance for the weekend’s festivities. Does that mean double the ice cream? I’m pretty sure it does.

A quiet, pensive moment with mom.

A bubble! She sure did try hard to make such a beautiful bubble.

Her big sister was a bit more well practiced.

Gimme that popsicle! (Opal did share, btw.)

Opal was not fond of the news that her daddy had to go to work, but Rosalie was right there to comfort her big sister.

Heather and Brad, it’s been so much fun coming out to see you and to document your family’s growth. Thank you so much for the opportunity. It’s been a blast.

 

An Afternoon with Bobby

We not-so-recently got together with Anne’s brother Andy, his wife Jen, and their little boy Bobby for a (hot!) afternoon of wine tasting (except for the 3 year olds) at Pippin Hill and hanging out by the Lake Reynovia dock. In a classic case of the cobbler’s kids (or in this case, nephews) having no shoes, we just now were able to get to posting a few images from the day’s fun festivities. Ah, life in the middle of wedding season. But better late than never, right? So here are a few of our favorite images of His Cuteness.

Oh, in case this isn’t enough Bobby adorableness for you (and really how could it possibly be?) you can see some of our favorite photo shoots with him here, here, here and his debut, here! Oh, my gosh, he’s getting SO big!

 

 

An Afternoon with Matthew

Regular readers will remember an adorable little boy named Matthew whose portraits we created a few weeks after his birth. We returned recently to our dear friends’ Stefanie and Karl’s home to take some more pics of this little cherub and his crazy-long eye lashes. The girls in pre-school are going to be completely smitten. We know we are! This time around he welcomed us with open arms and decided he didn’t want to sleep through it! Here are just a few of our favorites…

Yea, he was a bit happier with us this time around.

Such. A. Cutie!

Sweet Max is such a trooper!

 

An afternoon with Colin : A&W+C

Oh, how lucky we are. First, we get to celebrate Angela & Webster’s wedding back in 2008 at beautiful Veritas Vineyards. A year and a half later finds the four of us in New Zealand while they were living there for Webster’s work (and Angela is, by the way, one of the most generous and informative tour guides around!). Finally, back here in Virginia, they celebrate the birth of their firstborn, a cutie-pie little redhead by the name of Colin.

Angela, an accomplished photographer in her own right, has taken a host of wonderful shots of him already, but we couldn’t let them take off for their new adventures out West without first doing a session with the three of them as well. He was a great subject, as you can see and we’re awfully sad to see them leave our little ‘ville once again. Guess we’ll just need to make a trip out to AZ again. Durn.

So how lucky are you? Why, you get a cuteness overload today. You’re welcome. Enjoy!

 

A fun afternoon with Sam & her parents

Back in 2004, on a beautiful  Sunday afternoon in August (no kidding, it was something like 74 degrees), we shot the wedding of Julie and Scott. They’ve been dear friends of ours ever since, and while we don’t get to see them as often as we’d like (really, who does?), it was so much fun spending an equally beautiful Spring afternoon with them and their darling little girl Samantha. We walked, ran and played all around the U.S. Capitol grounds before retiring with j&s for a dinner of excellent Belgian beer with moules & frites. It was the perfect way to spend a day, and we loved seeing them all again. We hope you enjoy perusing a few of our favorite images as much as we enjoyed creating them. Careful: Major Cuteness Alert!

Ready to see the entire gallery? The password is Samantha’s last name.

But why can’t I drink it?

No pictures, please.

Too cute!

You know you’ve established trust with your subject when…

Amazing, we didn’t have any tulip casualties!

And we’re done.

Almost. 

Thanks so much, j&s+s!! We had a blast with you all and look forward to seeing you again soon!

xoxo,
…a&b