Family Pictures in the Forest {2013}

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I love having beautiful images of my adorable family and I'm spoiled and SO lucky to have a good friend, Jen of Jen CYK Photography to take amazing pictures for us. The girls grow so fast and time flies by so it's so important for me as a mom to have photos like these... Of course, it's not easy photographing kids... moodiness, hunger, boredom, and eventually exhaustion set in quickly this time around but it was all worth it!

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You may have seen last year's tea party family pictures {here} that turned out so colorful and fun! This year, I knew I wanted to bring in lots of color in a new way... and I wanted to "style" the shoot with things that are meaningful to us as a family. So I thought about how much my girls and I love flowers. And I knew I wanted to a location in the midst of nature (Vivi's favorite thing!) I chose all white for our clothing and picked super bright colored flowers that looked like what you would find growing wild in a meadow. I also brought along a bold, bright floral print quilt for us to sit on and some containers to hold the flowers.

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I love how it all turned out... the gorgeous natural setting, the neutral and casual feel to our clothes, the pops of color from the florals... and best of all, the sweet smiling faces of my favorite people in the world!

Jen CYK Photography

Jen CYK Photography

Jen CYK Photography

Jen CYK Photography

Jen CYK Photography

Jen CYK Photography

Jen CYK Photography

Jen CYK Photography