I almost thought of throwing up a photo from 1992 when my 2 BFF’s from 6th grade and I were doing what we called our “modeling shoots.” This mainly consisted of throwing our most recently purchased clothes on and then photographing each other with our 110 mm camera’s! (Maybe those days made me a photographer?!) Whatever the case may be, I have spent many a day with this beautiful family. They saw me through my grade school years as a Brownie in Girl Scouts, to my very ugly adolescent years ( remember those hideous red glasses? ) up until we graduated high school together. Cassie and I were able to stay in contact a bit through college, but life eventually got busy and we just recently reconnected this past summer to have our kids play together. It was just one of those cool circle of life things. Crazy that we were playing together in kindergarten and then to have OUR kiddos playing together at almost the same age we were when we met was almost surreal for me!
Many years passed and I STILL laughed a lot with the Smith family. 
My second set of parents while growing up.
Cassie and her awesome husband Kiley
Henry had been practicing his funny face, so I thought it best to end this blog post with a smile!
Karen the pictures are wonderful!! thank you so much for doing them that day, it was so nice to see you again!
[…] We reconnected recently and I am so glad we did. Last year I did an extended family session (see here) and this year again I was able to see them again to do their family shoot. She brought great […]