Happy Birthday Allie!

This week I spent an hour with Allie and her family for Allie's one year photos.  I met mom, Kristin, last year when she started bringing Allie to the same daycare provider I was using.  Oh, Allie was so cute with her big blue eyes!  She still is adorable and looks more like her momma every day.  Originally we were going to do the pictures at Allerton but then I got strep, and then we had bad weather so we ended up at my favorite Champaign location: the U of I arboretum.  I will just let everyone know that right now the arboretum is beautiful.  All of the flowers in the large center garden are in full bloom; I felt like I was on color-overload!  Allie, like any toddler, loooved the woodchips, dirt, and rocks.  Who can blame her?  It's always fun to get messy!!  I hope I managed to catch this little girl's sparkling personality and unending curiosity.

 

Beautiful Family!!

Blair is 2!

It's so hard to believe a year ago I was taking Blair's one-year photos and now she is so big!  As far as sessions with 2-year olds, this one was pretty much perfect.  Blair came ready to pose!  And I got to try a new location for pictures: the Boneyard Creek in downtown Champaign.  Sadly, all of the wildflowers that were blooming over the summer are now dead and brown, but it was still very pretty.  Blair loved climbing the rocks, although we had a bit of excitement when she accidentally got too near a wasps' nest (yes Lauryl, I'm positive those were wasps!) and a few started crawling up her leg- eep!

First picture of the shoot- like I said, ready to work!

Not too sure about the giant 2

Playing peek-a-boo with the geese

That's right Blair- you're two!

Now before we even started the session, Lauryl told me they had some exciting news to share; Blair is going to be a big sister!  It's so funny because this is the umpteenth time I've had a premonition about someone's pregnancy.  Before I left my house, I grabbed my giant sidewalk chalk thinking "I might need this in case Lauryl is pregnant and wants to do that picture seen all over Pinterest with the 2 + 2=4"  I am so excited for the McKenry family and can't wait to meet Baby M in the spring!