Gabe is sure to be a lady killer with those beautiful blue eyes

What a beautiful home!

For a beautiful family

Gabe loves to look at mom and dad’s wedding photos.

Happy Birthday, Gabe.  Have a great time on your way to 2!

Kenny is learning how to walk.  Appropriately, he is sporting his “zombie walk” just before Halloween.  

Getting some help from mom and dad.

Here we are at the George Westinghouse monument.

A near miss–Kenny coming right for my lens!  Kat was protecting me (and my equipment) from little hands, but I was quick on my feet too.

With his beautiful mom, Kat.

Our final stop was in the outdoor garden at Phipps.  Kenny chased his shadow for a bit.  Adorable!

Thanks, Kat and Kenny for letting me capture some memories for you.

Nicki was nice enough to come with me to organize the large group.  After we were done shooting the portraits, we got to take a few photos of that adorable 4th generation, Kayla and Leslie.

At first it was hard to get their attention due to the presence of grapes.

But toys will fix that.  Photo by Nicki.

My favorite photo by Nicki.

As it sometimes happens, I was all packed up and ready to go when Leslie started playing on the stairs.  So cute!

More shoots coming soon.  Now that it’s April, people are starting to feel like being photographed again.  Good news for me!

Reading

These are my favorites from the day.  So simple and cool.

Happy little family!

Silas lives on the Southside with an incredible view of Pittsburgh (and Oakland too!)

That wind blowing in their hair.

Silas loves to play on the bed. 

Here he is a tiger!

We beat the rain and spent some more time at Schenley Park for part two of the session.

Dad throwing some leaves.

Silas with mom, probably checking out dad being goofy.

Nice to meet you, Silas!  Happy 1st!

Cole and beautiful mom, Jennifer.

The escape!

Cole LOVES to play in the driver’s seat of the car.

I think he could have spent hours in there.

See you next time, Cole!

Unofficial, official babysitter, Mary (bottom right) organized this shot and let me know that I should take a photo.  These kids were wearing Halloween makeup and crazy colored hair.

My new neighbor, Hadley.  She may or may not have chalk on her lips.

Hadley with her brother, Kenton, in the background.  Hadley’s mom, Tiffany is yelling “yucky, yucky” to stop Hadley from eating the chalk.

Diving into the leaves (the pile had decreased significantly in size, but nobody was hurt…today).

Another photo setup by Mary.

Dogpile!

And this is a oil pastel piece by one of my neighbors, HS senior Maddi Mclaughlin.  Awesome colors, better in person, of course.

Cousins!  So cute with those little blue eyes.

Brothers Brian and Jake.  Climbing a tree, of course.

Their dad, Mike is an officer in South Park, and he rides horses as part of his job.  We visited the horses in the unique round barn.  These kids LOVE the horses.

Patty and her beautiful mom, Katie.

Kaylee and Jake visit “Old Henry.”  This is hilarious to me.

Brian gets a kiss from Old Henry

And then Kaylee

I had a really great time on this shoot and was so happy that we got to visit the horses.  I think the kids love it too!

Here are my top 3 of the kids.

While Lauren and Josh were waiting for Dave and Kelly to change, we went outside and made Another photo in the beautiful lighting.

Family pic at South Park

Kelly and Dave

After we got all of the required shots, the silliness began…..and never ended.

After a few attempts, we got in a few quality jumps. Thank you, Philippe Halsman.