flower children • the z girls • birthday portraits • spring 2010

little ones, outdoors, personal, we are family

We are neck-deep in birthday season here at the Shippee household! The spring is when we celebrate birthdays for both my parents (& their anniversary) & for my husband Max & both our daughters. I love doing “official” portraits for the girls every year, because, well, I can. Zara turned two on April 19th, & Zoë turned four on May 13th. As our Auntie Murphy noted, it’s the only time they’ll be exactly half & twice each other’s ages…As you can see from the pictures, quite a bit of hamming goes on when Mommy is the photographer. {Hmm…I still need to take ONE picture of me with the girls for Mother’s Day…}

ingrid & beth • celebrating mother’s day 2010

holidays, little ones, outdoors, we are family

We celebrated Mother’s Day last Sunday with my cousins & their two beautiful families. The spring flowers have been exploding in the backyard, so I was so excited to use them as a backdrop for a few quick portraits. We ran outside just before sunset, & gathered the mamas with their getting-too-big-too-fast children, ranging from age 9 months to 13 years…How quickly it all goes by!

Ingrid, Paul, & their kids Cassandra, Theo, Evangeline, & Zach Beth and her son Kyle