Meet Kiara and Beast

Earlier this year, my little little Shih-tzu puppies had to be put to sleep. One had cancer and the other had skin, eye and ear problems that over the years grew to be very uncomfortable for her. They were both 10, almost 11 years old. Since then, I have been researching puppies to find the perfect fit for our family. I grew up with big dogs and kinda wanted another big dog after having 2 little puppies. Well, I guess when I go big, I go real big! I found the Great Pyrenees Breed online a few months ago and fell in love! After seeing the "save the polar bears" commercial, I joked about getting a polar bear ... I guess in a sense I did! Great Pyrenees can grow anywhere from 80 to 150lbs! They are like like huge, white snowballs or polar bears. I found a Great Pyrenees Rescue right here in Michigan and it just so happened, they had puppies! The mom and the dad were handed over to the rescue a week before the mom gave birth to 10 completely adorable puppies ... 5 boys and 5 girls. I went there with the intent of getting one puppy. However, after seeing them I couldn't pick ... I wanted them all!! I did use a bit of restraint and didn't take all 10. So, meet our new additions ... the all white one is Beast (From Beauty and the Beast 1 of my Fav Disney movies) and Kiara (from Lion King my other fav Disney movie). They made themselves quite at home...:-)










This is the puppies mama. She's the sweetest thing and such a good mama. She's only 2 years old and this is her 4th litter of puppies! Neededless to say, as soon as she's all healed up she's going to be spayed. 4 litters of 10ish puppies ... this poor mama's had quite enough!

Courtney and Crew

Meet Courtney and her crew ... an adorable little crew for sure!! We had lots of fun just running around and having fun. I even let the kids set up some of their own shots ... I'm thinking a few of them might have a future career in photography!

Leasa, Kayla and Jaida

I have so say, I thought this session was going to be on the harder side. Not for any reason other than ... this is my sister and my 2 neices. My 2 little adorable neices are not only my neices, I have taken care of them pretty much since they were born so they are more like part time children of mine. Any of us who have kids all know, our kids are much worse for US than for anyone else. I was totally expecting a little rebellion from the little angels but nope ... they proved me wrong and were perfect!

Deacon 1 year old

A few weeks ago (yes, very behind on posts ... I was without internet for almost a month!!) Deacon and his mom and dad meet up with me at Spring Groove Park in Hudsonville. Deacon's mom wanted to have some fun pictures taken of Deacon for his 1st birtday. Let me say, he is not a hard child to take pictures of. Everytime I pointed the camera in his direction and said "boo" he laughed and gave us the most beautiful smiles. I can't wait to get together with the family again soon for some fun Christmas photos!!

Olivia - 2 years old!

Yesterday I was so excited to be doing Olivia's 2 year old pictures! Last year I photographed Olivia for her 1 year session so it was great seeing how much she grew!! Olivia is actually the beautiful little blue-eyed baby in my header! She still has those amazing blue eyes. Only now, she has little blond, beautiful curls to go with them. We had much fun running around and playing in the leaves during her session. Although, people must have wondered what I was doing when I walked through Family Fare after the session pulling leaves out of the hood on my jacket..:-)






Shhhh ... she's in her thoughtful spot.