Family in Chicago

This weekend, we were in Chicago visiting family. I did a handfull of shoots and here are some of my favorites.

My cousin Yasmin, due in mid-April




My cousin, Lisa's kids: Grace, Roger and Frankie, who all have been my subjects many times in the past



And my cousin, Dori with her son Griffin, who just yesterday was a toddler!

Evan and Trent

I can't explain how sweet these two boys are. First of all, I never heard one of them cry in the two hours I was there. And we certainly were deserving of it since we moved them all around and definitely interrupted naptime (which is most of the time at this age.)
Evan and Trent came very early and weighed in at 2 lbs. each at birth. After two months of being in the world they've hit 6 lbs...much less than my own boy at birth. I think their mom's due date is coming up soon, but has not even happened yet. It's always a miracle to have a new life brought into the world, but to see such tiny fragile babies be healthy after arriving so early, it deserves an extra "Thanks" to God, in my opinion.
Shelly and Jonathan are their parents and I see again and again that mellow, laid-back parents really do tend to have mellow, laid-back kids. (Of course those sweet kids can sometimes make us not so mellow too!) I had so much fun meeting this family and spending some time with them. I stayed and hung out for a while and loved hearing all their stories. Enjoy these photos. Believe it or not, this is an edit of my favorites because there were many more cute ones.

Flying with Grandpa Doug

Owen had his first ride in Grandpa Doug's airplane. Since he's no novice to flying, he didn't get scared at all. We took off and landed a couple times. He got very excited when he saw other planes taking off and landing and got to see skydivers jumping out of planes as well. I loved taking pictures of him running around at the airport. His toy du jour seems to be airplanes and he makes quite a good plane sound too.