This weekend I was feeling a bit like a mopey-dope, but then I had Aubree and Zack’s engagement shoot and everything got awesome really quickly. The weather was perfect, Aubree and Zack wore fantastic colors, we met the grown up’s equivalent of Santa and his sleigh (more on this in a minute), and I got a couple of New Favorite Pictures:

colorado springs engagement portrait

colorado springs outdoor engagement photo

I warmed them up with a little exercise–piggy back rides, jumping, and spinning each other.  It’s really not an engagement shoot if you’re not sweating 10 minutes into it.  ;)

engagement portrait piggy back

colorado springs engagement portrait

colorado springs engagement

engagement portrait

After all that piggy backing and swinging around, it was a good thing we spotted the Red Bull car (excuse my crappy snapshot–I was so excited to see such coolness that I’m lucky I even remembered where the shutter release button is).

We were all talking about how awesome it was when the Red Bull Guy asked if we’d like some free Red Bull.  As if that’s even a question!  Umm, yes–I definitely want some Mommy Crack (as it is called in the Turchin household)!  Of course, at 2am when I was still powering through work at my desk that night and wondering why I wasn’t tired, it seemed like a less good idea…but free Red Bull is a gift you don’t turn down.

After our Red Bull break, we stopped at this bridge that I’d always wanted to play at:

colorado springs engagement photo

And then went back to awesome colorful pictures and landscapes

colorado springs engagement portrait

colorado springs engagement pictures

Posted in Engagement Portrait Photographer

 

I met Cyndi and Niko at a stables in Castle Rock to take some family pictures with their horse. It was so much fun to do something a little different and I can’t wait to photograph Cyndi’s horse show next weekend!

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(Did you catch the horse sticking out his tongue at me?!)

colorado springs family photographer

colorado springs family photographer

colorado springs family photographer

colorado springs family photographer

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Remember this belly?  This is who was in there:

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Those people who say newborn smiles are just gas?  I don’t believe it.  I didn’t believe it when Will was a baby, and I don’t believe it now that I get to photograph newborns!  They definitely smile for their mommas.  He was smiling at Sheri like this right after I arrived.

Baby Chase is just as sweet as can be, and totally fits in with his wonderful family!

We used the power of heat to get him into a blissful slumber (a nice deep sleep…right up until he peed in his own ear, which I sadly didn’t capture):

colorado springs baby photographer

colorado springs baby photographer

Chase was holding on to his daddy’s hand in this pose (with a powerful little grip), and it totally smooshed up my heart!

colorado springs newborn photographer

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