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The boys had to flex their muscles for the camera.

Jake and Brooke were in town and called for pictures! They had another addition to the family and needed some family pictures. We headed out to on a Sunday afternoon to two locations. One is Windmont Park and the other is one of my secret locations. Here are a few from the afternoon:

The family:

9 kids total and each of them have an awesome and upbeat personality. None were camera shy and had no problem getting up close and personal with the camera (as you’ll see below). Overall it was a great photo shoot and we all had tons of fun!

Someone in the middle isn’t very happy with the whole group hug idea…

But once freed from the clenches of the group hug, he is better!

I took these photos for Shelbi and her mom, Sarah. Shelbi wanted to be in the running for the Henry County Beauty Pageant but the organizers of the event said they already had the max amount of girls entered for the pageant for her age group. That stinks because Shelbi would have won for sure! She can just win for 2010.

Here is the competition for 2010. The 2009 winner might as well give up her crown now!

**Update 05/07/09** Shelbi’s Mom called and spoke with the organizers of the event and they allowed her to enter the pageant. Good luck Shelbi!

Here are a few more from Gunner tearing into his first birthday cake!

He knows how to take enjoying a sweet treat to the next level.

I shot pictures last night of Gunner for his first birthday. His mom got him is own little cake and let him tear into it with no worries about mess. Let me tell you….as soon as that cake was set on the floor for him, he went hog wild and tore it apart! Cake was everywhere and he was loving it!

Here are two sneak peak pictures of last night’s cake eating event:

With news of some very cold weather, as in -7 at night with up to -30 with wind chills, coming at the end of this week I am really reallllly starting to miss summer and warm weather. I decided that I should post up some pictures from summer to make us remember what warmer weather is like.

I shot the photos for JR and Angela. We met out at Johnson’s State Park which is just a few miles north of Kewanee, IL. It is a great park and I have camped there a few times. We met up around 530PM and got the family group pictures out of the way. Then the kids were let loose and I snapped away. These were a couple of my favorites.