Shaffer {children}

Ok, so I think this is one of the most adorable families in existence!  Mom & Dad are both my fellow alumni of ESU, and Mom & I used to play softball against each other.  It's always nice to see people you know start a family together, and even better when they ask you to photograph them. 

As soon as they arrived, Miss K was polite & social, saying "hi," calling me by name and thanking me for complimenting her church dress.  Little Mr. S pretty much smiled the entire time too.  We were capturing his 6-month milestone - sitting up - and getting in some Christmas shots.  First we did some shots in what was my father's rocking chair as a boy.

 

 I had to bribe Miss K with a present because she wasn't too interested in sitting there!

 

Little mister was sitting up so good!  His mom & dad - who both have great voices by the way - sang to him to get these grins:

Little miss was being super adorable while she was talking to & laughing with her daddy.

And here, she figured out that there were not actually princesses in my camera lens as we had told her there were before:

 

 

We moved on to the Christmas photos.  The little guy didn't want to just sit there - he was after that tree!

 

And the ornament...

 

 

This series of shots was an afterthought.  It just popped in my head as we were about to call it quits and it turned out so cute!  Little man must've been getting tired - here's a time lapse of he & the bear toppling over.

 

Finally, we got a couple shots of these two cuties together.  Most of the time, Miss K was holding Mister S so tightly she was covering up both of their faces, but we did manage to get these two adorable images: