The Anderson Family take Sugarhouse by storm...

I love these people.

I am so glad that they are in my life.

"BUY ME A BATMAN SHIRT" or "3/4 The Radebaugh family'

I try not to play favorites, but who am I kidding, Rachel Radebaugh is my favorite. Plus her littles are adorbs, so I guess I'll adopt the whole family (even dad, though he had to work during our shoot). Forgive me for shortening adorable arbitrarily, but HAVE YOU SEEN THESE KIDS? 

They are pretty darn cute.

Amen and amen.

(Thank you for hanging out with me, Ms Thang. I love your family, but mostly because you are all photogenic. JK I love you for a billion other reasons. Thank you for the opportunity to take photos of your family!)

My Gracie Girl. (Yes, I'm quoting Ben Folds again.)

This is a love note to my sister Grace.

Here is Being from a big family has always been important to me. I love ALL ten of us, although and the youngest ones have felt like my "kids" from time to time during my stint as the 2nd eldest child. The babies of the family hold a special place in my heart.

So, stop being so adult and human and grown up all of the sudden.

(That is for ALL OF US, not just Miss Grace.)

Let's just stay little and go make a snowman.

Better yet, let's pull out the kiddie pool and march around the house with beach towels over our shoulders, pretending to be fancy lady cows, yes cows, chanting "We're fresh from the dairy, we're fresh from the dairy, we're fresh, we're fresh, we're fresh from the dairy." 

Yes, this happened.

Though Grace wasn't born yet for this type of childishness.

(Sorry, love.) 

(Whitney, Bonnie, Cousin Jeremy? Anyone remember this?)

There is something so delicate and fragile about this girl in front of a camera. I feel as if she has a way with conveying emotion that is beyond what normal mortals can do. She has such depth and then such beauty in that depth, that your breath catches and you wonder what happened to the little girl you used to chase around the yard in fancy fairy wings (who am I kidding, either of you could have had those one at any time).

 I adore my Grace, and I will always push her to do every thing.

Because I like making her live better than I did and am.

Amen and amen.

So... thank you for letting my push you into photo shoots, time and time again. You are just too good a this to not use time and time and time and time again.

Nieces. Nices. Nieces.

Madison Kate is growing up.

Quickly.

We did a little photoshoot to commemorate her 8th birthday...

last spring...

the point is that I am posting them now, and I adore this little lady.

She is smart as a whip and beautiful to boot.

I am so happy that she is in my family!

 I HAD to get a close up of those freckles.

Oh, those freckles. I'm jealous to the core of anyone with freckles.

Using our skills in covert operations, we semi-successfully tip-toed up to a nest of deer...

They rolled their big doe eyes at us and moved to find a more private area to hold their knitting club/Texas Hold Em/sewing circle.

P.S. Congratulations of the new little sister, Miss Madison!

And Happy Birthday, Miss Emmarie Claire.