brooke, riley & sadie

met with these cute girlios on another chilly saturday morning!  i looooove that they wore bright colors!  not everyone has to match for photos!  they do have a plaid theme i guess :)  how fun!  we took a quick tour of downtown flandreau and then headed to the city park.  

huddled close.....i'm sure its just because they love each other so much and has really nothing to do with the fact that they were chilly :)

single shots in the park.  raise your hand if you think these photos are way more fun than school pictures......

AND i could not let them get away without throwing a few leaves (quickly becoming one of my fav photo "poses" for this fall)    :)   hehe, i love the different expressions

back to the downtown scene....i guess i went a little out of order :)

and the following photo definitely needed to be included, although i think i went a little overboard with this post...sadie had no problem with "smiling pretty for the camera" as long as she was allowed to do a few wacky ones ;)

peace, love, and happy photography!

:)saralynn

jade & mia

lucky lucky me! these girls were just a couple of cuddle bunnies!  such sweet sisters :)  AND these photos are a fine testament that you can take amazing portraits right in the backyard somewhere.  (i spose it doesn't hurt to have super cute subjects either though...)

miss jade did all of her own posing :) 

it was a little chilly and a little windy --but i love it anyway :)

little miss mia with her pinkie in her mouth--how adorable is this?

sister love.

and the next two are just kind of awesome :)

these girls are actually all the way from california.  at the last minute, grandma decided it would be great to have their photos done before they went home, so we squeezed them in just a few hours before they had to leave for their flight!  what a great idea! if you can't have them near you, at least you can have some great photos of them :)  soooo of course we had to have just a few with grandma too!  

peace, love, and happy photography!

:)saralynn

the d fam

i met up with the d family in sioux falls at sertoma park and that place is awesome!  i had no idea that they had a pretty trail that went behind the park near the butterfly house.  this photo shoot was also especially fun for me because i went to school with cassie, and it was so neat to see how big her boys were getting!

 fave :)

 these boys were certainly busy, so we had to make up a "frozen alien" game (it made perfect sense at the time!) in order for me to get these shots of them--ha!

 quite the serious fella :)

 and freeze!  hehe

 i love natural photos of families interacting

 wooohoo, we're all smiles here!

 owen got pretty tuckered out from the shoot as you can see

 however, declan wasn't too tired to play in the leaves :)

ready? 1...2....3....weeeee!

have you thrown some leaves this fall yet?  don't forget before it's too late-- i promise, it will only take a few moments out of your busy day and it is well worth it as you can see here :)

peace, love, and happy photography

:)saralynn

the s fam

lucky for me and the s family, the weather cooperated so we were able to bounce around to a few different spots and have some fun with various backdrops!  you will be surprised at what you can find in the small town of flandreau.  see if you can guess where we are in these, i bet we stump you in a few :)

so this photo is a little on the funky side, and i really like it! i also especially like the little smile on james here :)

sometimes its nice to have some of just mom and dad :)

just holding hands--so simple and so sweet   :)

another favorite right here (okay, well i guess they are all favorites...), we had to battle the sun a bit for this one, but it was all worth it.  how awesome is this?!

when the lighting is just right....   

:)

aaaaannndddd, i had to catch a few of the brothers rockin' it on their skateboards!

check it yo. (said in my cool skater voice)

*sigh* wish i could do stuff like that, but i'm not brave enough. and with my family history of crashing and burning whilst trying to pull off various stunts, i probably better steer clear and just take photographs of the awesomeness instead. because i need my legs to function. both of them.  :)

peace, love, and happy photography!

:)saralynn