Happy 1st Birthday Easton!!!

{With Love - Ash}

It will be one year in September that we were celebrating with Jan and Mike at Lola's first birthday party.   Jan pulled me aside and told me the news, they were expecting baby #2!!   No one really knew yet, but she had to let me know that they were definitely doing a birthstory.     Fast-forward nine months and one year and VOILA~Here is Easton.   Easton and his entire family (yes there is one more on the way) have become an extension of my own heart.   Watching these guys grow as a family and grow up is one of the best perks of my job.    Easton is having a farm themed birthday party, so I went out to scout locations and find the perfect barn setting.   Mike and Jan even made the super cute cow cake themselves!!   Very crafty, you two!   :)    

 I just love this family.   More and more each time.  

The wind was in full force that day!!!!   We rocked it to our advantage the best we could!   

And time for a little walk down memory lane.....
Here is the last year in a nutshell:

Happy BirthDay Tilly: Sunshine

"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine."    

Big personalities come in little packages.   Standing less than 3 feet tall, little Tilly packs the punch.   Energy, sense of humor, a laugh that can make you melt, and an inquisitive fascination with the world around her.  She radiates love.  She shares this sunshine and happiness with everyone around her.   When I think of her, I smile.   What a beautiful quality to encompass.     On behalf of everyone, thank you Tilly for bringing so much sunshine into my life.  :)

I met Tilly last year after several chats with her mom about setting up her 18 month photo session.  (Here is that session.)   This was a session I had been looking forward to.  Her mom, Jill, was totally down with making the session special, creative and perfectly fit to the personality that exudes from little Tilly.   She was no different when it came to Tilly's 2 year Happy BirthDay session.  She took the time to check out my Pinterest ideas and even added in some ideas of her own.   We set up a full styled shoot in my loft.   When I was choosing a space to live, I specifically chose this space because the abundance of natural light and open space....would make made a set-up like this possible.   This is going to go down as one of my favorite shoots ever.   Everything that we had talked about, planned up, and wanted was visually conveyed.   :)  

Happy Birthday miss TIlly!!!

     And some Behind the Lens fun......

 View Tilly's Slideshow HERE.

Lola is One! : Sneak Peek

Another day, another LeLe baby turning one.   Lola is no stranger to LeLe modeling.  We have taken her Itty Bitty pics, 3 Month Pics, Baptism Pics, 6 month, 9 month, and now one year.   She is a pro at the modeling stuff by now.   We made her one year session extra special and headed to one of their favorite places to go as a family, The Sugar Shack in Kirkwood.   This is one of my favoriteeeeeee places!!!  Aside from having a slight obsession, some may call it borderline addiction to fruity candy, there is an abundance of color, natural light and they are always playing John Mayer!   I enter my own personal photography mecca as soon as I walk in the doors of this place.  Sometimes it takes a little sugar rush to get that creativity flowing...... 

 BEAUTIFUL family!

 I flipping flopping LOVE this one!!!!!

 And wait wait wait until you see the rest of her smash the cake session!!!!!!!!  AHHHHHH......

And a little AshLeLe lovin........