Little Addison was such a joy to photograph, besides the fact that I love this age (18 months) of exploration. From the moment we set foot in the park she was on the go, checking out everything in site. I was impressed with her knowledge and her vocabulary was amazing! She is such a smart little girl and those eyes will have you staring!
Being that my birthday falls nearly on Halloween, I have grown up celebrating the day with a big birthday blowout/ Halloween Party. This year we are having a black and white ghouls and glam party and along with our black and white food, drinks, decor, and favors, I wanted to decorate the walls with some wicked looking imagery. So we took the girls out to the sticks, literally because the area had been burnt badly, and did some photos. I tried to emulate the vintage look, ever notice how no one seemed to smile or show facial expression in old photos? Maybe it’s just me!
Doing this today with kids is HARD, especially yours because A: they aren’t going to listen to mom and dad and B: they’ve been trained to “SMILE”. You would think they would be good at pouting and not smiling, but I guess at 20months old and 5 yrs you can’t expect them to do anything you actually want them to. Brooke however did better than I expected! She has several different “faces” she likes to do when the camera comes out, she calls this here her “mad/angry or sassy” look and I’d have to agree on the mad/angry! Grace on the other hand was more interested in all the burnt things (a hammer amongst other things) and this cool tree tunnel that she darted off to (and fell on the way back) hence the leaves all over her.
So after a whopping 10 mins the kids were DONE with photos, Grace had thrown herself on the the nice black burnt ground because Brooke wanted to hold her hand and have her stand beside her “like I’m doing” (oh yes in her pretty white top and skirt). And Brooke was upset that Grace was “ruining” the photos! kids 
love em!!!!… well these were my favorites, some outtakes too.
Brookes spooktacular look!
This is Gracie’s surprise look she does on command or when she’s actually surprise or excited about something!
The fall
Checking her bunny over, “you ok?”
Checking herself out, yep- all dirty!
Celebrating Fathers Day, Grace and her friends and their daddy’s were all lined up for their close up. I had approximately 1 minute to get the shot (for fear of tee tee and tears, and the dads!), but I am happy with the shot!
So lately little Gracie has been a little naughty, but all in fun and learning. This is her playing in “her” cabinet which is full of things that are unopened or things that can’t hurt her, however climbing in as you will see could very well put her in the danger zone and she knows she’s not supposed to do it. This time I caught her in action.
This is the look, that you know she is going to do something she’s not supposed to!
She got it!
So it’s been a while since I have posted any photos of the girls (we’ve been really busy which is always a good thing!). O I thought I should post a few over the next few weeks.
Here are some of my favorites from March and April (I know- bad mommy 
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Her “sassy” look, she always says, “I like her mommy she looks sassy”- too cute!
Those baby blues…
Finally there is sun, I feel like it’s been rainy and cold for months now, but it’s actually only been about a week. So since the sun has finally returned I thought I would post some photos of the girls taken last month. Gracie loves licking the salt water off the rocks-I know it’s gross, but see her face when I took it away! Pray for sunny skies to stick around.
she’s so sassy with those glasses!
Check out the poor little goby she caught.
Enjoying the salty rocks
Mad because I took it out of her mouth.
If I didn’t know any better I’d say she’s eyeing up those rocks.
I can’t believe I am writing this, but today Gracie is one! It has been a wonderful year welcoming her into our lives. She is spunky, silly, determined, and is very agile and quick to catch on for her age. She loves the water, dancing, music, outdoors, the beach, exploring, baby dolls, the kitchen (she has a special cabinet) and anything her sister is doing she wants to be a part of. I have several friends who are on the fence about having a second child, and to be honest we were too for a while, but we are so glad that we chose to have two! Watching the girls together, Brooklyn and Gracie chasing each other around, their laughter and giggles, Gracie’s excitement when she hears Brooke come home from school and Brooklyn’s excitement to see her baby sister- it’s just something you can’t explain, but have to experience yourself as a parent!
For her party we are doing a LOST theme. Not that she knows it, but we are all excited about it! So of course we had to do some photos for the party of Gracie dressed up as baby Aaron (with a blanket ).
Going over some older photos that I just never got around to posting… a cute series of the girls eating an apple (well Grace was not really eating it but Brooke let her think so!)
Gimmie!!!!
What is it?
MMMMM….
Eeew the slobber!
Little Bella, wow, it seems like just yesterday I was taking photos of your first breath and here you are ears pierced and crawling around now! Man how they grow so fast! I can’t stress enough to parents to take TONS of photos of your little ones, before you know it there not little anymore. Even I feel like I don’t have enough photos of the girls!
I love the middle shot of her amazement with the bobble doll!
Long overdue….being the 3rd baby he should have came early right? NOPE- late again! We thought that Bryler was just not going to come, he like every baby was stubborn and only coming when he was good and ready! But low and behold he finally gave it up! Welcome little one, were all glad your here!! Congrats to the Nguyen Family on their 3rd baby boy-he’s beautiful! And thank you for allowing me to be there to capture the memories for you!
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