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Talk about a BIG, BEAUTIFUL family! Ya know, every photo shoot is different, and you never really know what you’re in for til you get going. This extended family shoot was a whole other animal-LITERALLY… in broad daylight a skunk showed up on the scene hoping for a cameo??? Aside from that… things went pretty darn smoothly seeing as how I was shooting my biggest group to date, with SO MANY littles!! Although I do my best to hide it, all photo shoots involving small children are somewhat chaotic. Having said that, when you shoot a large family, it’s sort of a “controlled chaos” if you will. My aesthetic is typically a bit more candid but with larger groups you really just have to wrangle em’ in and pose em’ 😉 . I mean, if I just let 11 small children run free around Busse Woods I can pretty much guarantee I wouldn’t have ever had all 11 in the same shot (not to mention chances are good at least one would’ve been skunked) !?!? 😛

Anywho… shooting all of these peeps was a pleasure. Big families are the best, so much love going around, and with the Petermanns it truly shows! Thanks guys for letting me be a small part of your big, beautiful world!

I have been anxious to get back to shooting the beautiful Pastalaniecs since I walked out the door after our last shoot. Life was making it super hard for us to come together but finally the stars aligned and we made it happen. Although Amy and Brady said the littles were up at the crack of dawn and not their usual giggly, playful selves I still thoroughly enjoyed chasing them around. I mean, for one, do they not look like they all belong in a catalogue!? That sure makes things real easy. Two… Although multiples are more common nowadays than they ever used to be, you still don’t run into all that many fellow twin mamas. I hold a special place for all of you in my heart. Just keep on keepin’ on… 😉 But really, it’s just fun to watch twins from the outside looking in (while thinking to myself, we made it through that!?!)

Thank you guys for letting me be the one to capture these memories for you. Now I can’t wait to see ya in October and actually get a real conversation in! 😉

To say editing this shoot has been a breeze would be a serious understatement. Three beautiful girls, three beautiful smiles, SO much love between them.. easy peasy 🙂 We rescheduled this shoot once in hopes of getting some beautiful evening light peeking thru the trees, but ended up with another cloudy day the second time around. We decided to just go for it and ya know what, it was perfect. The soft, diffused light turned out to be a perfect backdrop for these beautiful ladies. Now I know, when shooting Emily and her sweet girls, little things like uncooperative weather, missed naps and empty bags of gummy bears are irrelevant. The love between these three was palpable and that’s truly what makes for a successful photoshoot 🙂