6 months.
4382 hours.
262,974 minutes.
15,778,463 seconds.

However you measure it, it’s been the best time of my life. I love my little guy and I though I had known I’d love being a mother, I had no idea how much I’d actually, truly enjoy it. The cuddles, the smiles. Even the not so fun times (crying instead of napping) are made up for ten fold by the joy Ephram brings to our little family.

My cute niece and nephew visited last weekend. Dressed all summery, we took a few pictures out at the park quick. I can’t believe how old they are getting!

It’s so fun to see families grow. Just over a year ago I took this family’s photos, as a family of three. At the time, little Zachary wasn’t even born! If you’d like to look back, here are their family pictures from last year. It was so great to be able to photograph them again, now as a family of 4!  The little girl, Shania is now 3 years old and Zachary is turning 1!

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Working on: A photoshoot of very cute family, also known as my sister in law, brother in law, and adorable niece and nephew! (see picture below)

Listening to: Rockabye Baby Lullaby Renditions of Coldplay. It really calmed Ephram down Saturday night after a family get together in which he decided there was too much going on and a nap was unnecessary.

Loving: The recent rainy weather. Though I enjoy seeing the sun as well.

Just had to share a few family photos from a couple weeks ago, when I was visiting my brother and sister in law. I’m so excited for my little baby E to meet his cousin, Hayden. He’s such a cutie. And honestly, if my little boy ends up smiling and making me laugh as much as Hayden does, I will have a very sore face.

Here he is, playing with his mommy:

And his Halloween pumpkin!

Hugs from daddy:

And something about this one, I just love:

Can’t wait to do a whole series of these types of “everyday photos” with my own son soon.

A few weeks ago, my uncle asked me if I would take some photos of his family.  My answer? Absolutely!  And it was a wonderful day.  Seems like every post I mention the colors, but seriously, these colors couldn’t be any better and I’m going to continue to say it until next fall. 

I love having an excuse to photograph beautiful people in beautiful fall colors on a beautiful day!

My sister in law (I know, I’ve been posting about sister in law’s and nephews and kids tons, but I just have a big family!), Amy has awesome kids. Just plain awesome. Adeline and Grant have grown up so much just in the few years I’ve been a part of Beau’s family.

We headed down to visit them out of the blue one day after I was recovering from a week of overnights. Beau woke me up at about 10am, (I’d gone to bed about 7am) and told me we were heading down to Amy’s place for awhile. It’s a couple hours drive, so luckily I was able to sleep again in the car. And playing with the kids, hanging out and having hamburgers on the grill on a nice summer day woke me up perfectly.

My coworker, Ron’s adorable little boy, Dylan. He’s so sweet. Especially when he told Beau and I that we didn’t need to leave that night after we had dinner with them. “We have plenty of beds,” he said. Seriously, adorable.

More pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dayzeecloud/sets/72157619466994877/