It love it when families ask to bring their dog to their family session.  It can be challenging if the pups are a little excitable, but yet is so much fun!  This beautiful puppy was only a couple months old and did an amazing job sitting for a couple photos with the family.  I didn't even have to hold treats up to get his attention!  It worked out perfectly to do a 5 minute shoot with him, and then he could hang out in the car for the rest of the family's shoot.  

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As much as I love my job, sometimes I'm just am not in the mood to leave my family and go to a shoot (doesn't happen often though!).  But once I show up to my shoot I'm always better and ready to go.  On the day of this family's shoot, I had an extra hard time leaving home because my girls were super snuggly and we were enjoying a lazy afternoon.  But once this family walked up, little {E} immediately pulled me out of the funk I was in.  She has SO much personality and still so sweet!  We had a lot of fun together, from skipping down the path hand in hand, to me running after her tickling her.  She was so funny, my cheeks hurt by the end of the shoot.  If her little sister is anything like she is, their parents are in for an entertaining life!

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I don't know how many times we have tried to do a session for this amazing family.  A couple years ago, we had a session on the books but had to reschedule because of crazy weather and a make up date wasn't working since they were so busy and then it got too cold.  This year, we had to reschedule once in the summer because of the family's schedule had something pop up that they had to go to, then we had a super rainy day and had to reschedule again!  When the following weekend showed rain again, I was very worried we'd never get to do their session.  We prayed and prayed the rain would hold off, and then stop once it started and thankfully we were able to sneak in a quick session within a 1/2 hour time that the rain stopped!  Our feet were all soaked by the end of the session, but it didn't' rain on us!  It's amazing how fast you can get a session done when the kids are older, haha!  

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