Family Session/Northern Neck of Virginia/Morattico, Virginia

Earlier in the summer, I had the chance to reconnect with some friends I hadn't seen in 8 years!  We were amazed by the number of years it had been but yet how easy it was to pick up where we had left off.   It really felt to me like I had just seen them the week before at a baseball game after work playing on the National Mall.  You see, we all used to work together at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a law firm in D.C.  It was all the same...except, there were these kids running around now....  So that kind of brought us back to the present....  The last time I saw Kris her oldest girl was just a baby.  It was amazing to see this beautiful child, remembering the baby she had been.  She is so poised and very much into fashion.  So different from my little man, who was with us and only wanted to play with the Bakugan toys at the house.  But S, the little one, had an interest in the bakugan as well so they made fast friends.  

Now let me tell you a little about this family session.  I met up with this family at my other friend's river house on the Rappahannock River in Morattico, VA.  I love the Northern Neck!!!!!!!  To me, it is one of my favorite parts of Virginia.  The towns are historic and you will see so many of those historical markers along the byways up there.  I'm a nut about those historical markers, I have to read every one!  George Washington was born up in that area and lived on a farm there and many of the other important figures of early American history were born in that area, as well.  There are still so many farms and watermen that inhabit the area and it is still so authentic.  If you want some great seafood, a trip to the Northern Neck is a must!  Now, as a photographer, whenever I get to shoot in a new location I pretty much feel like a kid in a candy store.  But give me a new location and beautiful light and I pretty much think I've died and gone to heaven!  The light on the Northern Neck is different.  Maybe it's the sun touching the fields of wheat in the late afternoon, or the glimmering of rays bouncing off the river, I don't know.  It's just lovely though. 

I enjoyed my time up there so much that afternoon that I arranged with my friend to use his house for our summer vacation this year.  So, Sam, Maddox, Cullen (Maddox's first cousin) and I all spent about five days there in July and we couldn't have asked for a better time.  It was relaxing, peaceful, beautiful and invigorating. Thanks, David, for so warmly opening up your home to us.  It is truly a gem.  Finally, here are some of the pictures I took that afternoon of Kris and her girls.  I know these pictures only show a little of how lovely that area is, but I still hope you enjoy them.  

xoxo, Terri

Snow Day 2010

Hey everyone, 

I just wanted to share some of the pictures we took the weekend we had the snow storm.  Pretty much everyone who has kids on our block came out to hang out and enjoy the snow.  It certainly was exciting and there were some little ones for whom it was their first time in the snow (okay, really only Gypsy, our puppy, but she counts, too!).

I think Maddox is about to bomb me with a snowball here...thank goodness the snow wouldn't really compact too much!

This is our neighbors' great dane, Bella.  

Gypsy was pretty cold and unsure about the snow at this point.

Then we put her sweater on her:

Oh, I can dig in this stuff:

We made a sled run on the steps of the church across the street...

Baby J

This precious baby girl is probably the prettiest little thing I've seen in a long time.  At 2 weeks old, her skin was perfect and I loved all her thick, dark hair.  She stayed alert and awake for most of our session so her mom and I got together again (the last 2 pics) so I could capture some shots of her asleep...for half a second...before she started waking up again.  :)

-Terri