A soft vintage look for these first two:

These next few are CLASSIC Will faces.  I love that I caught so many of his key expressions in one burst!

Jack is Cute.

SUPER CUTE.

Meet Lauren. She’s one!

She had a high chair in her room just like the one my photographer pal Lisa uses to make adorable pictures!

Together, Jack and Lauren are AMAZINGLY CUTE.

And when you add in their mom, Anna, the cuteness starts to get a little ridiculous.

And when Jack wears a hat, the cuteness DEFINITELY gets ridiculous.

(I have been wanting to get a kid to play in the leaves since I saw the brilliant Maria Grace’s fall shots.  I was all about stealing prop ideas yesterday, apparently!)

And when the hat comes off, he’s still just plain cute!

I spent a wonderful afternoon with these three and captured a mountain of adorable portraits.  It was a joy to meet them, and I’m so thrilled with the pictures it’s all I can do not to blog them all!

It thrills me to get a shot that I immediately want to paste my own family’s heads into:

Poor Ben arrived not quite ready for pictures and only ready for his mom’s lap.  I loved it.  If reminded me of my Will!

We switched settings and the boys took turns telling their mom jokes:

A funny one that I love because it happens to me so often.  All part of being a mom!

Jack rolled up his jeans so he could get his feet in the water and I knew we needed some Huck Finn style shots!  I asked the boys to tell each other three things they liked about their brother and their answers were so cute.!  Jack was all “I like that you play with me” and Ben [the younger brother] had the hero worship “you are funny” “you are smart” “you are cool” answers.

Shifting back to 2008, I had the whole crew sit in the grass for some family chat time.

The boys love talking about football with their grandpa!

Ben is such a serious little guy–I love his quiet thoughtfulness!

I got him to show me his clover treasures that he collected:

Jack has the most impressive knowledge of football!

Some people use telephoto lenses to sneak up on birds and animals.  I use them to sneak up on boys!

There’s nothing cuter than two brothers on an adventure!

Thanks for a wonderful afternoon!  I hope you love the sneak peek!

Thankfully the credit card company was on top of it…although instead of contacting me, they let me stand there telling the guy at Barnes and Noble–”Seriously? I really don’t think it could possibly be declined. Run it again. There must be something wrong with the machine!” and I had to call THEM to find out what was going on. Will be watching the rest of my accounts even more carefully (as if poor Nic doesn’t already get enough calls with me freaking out “OMG! Someone stole our info! There’s a $70 charge from yesterday and I didn’t go anywhere!” only to be reminded that I went to Target and bought whatever it is that one spends money on at Target).

That would be Nic!

We had friends over to celebrate last night. Helping us celebrate? Cheese, wine, chocolate, and more cheese! We had cheese fondue, raclette, and chocolate fondue for dessert. We watched Evan Almighty (super cute movie) and enjoyed the company of good friends and their good dog. Happy 28, Nicolas!