Portraits by Angie Lane Celebrate Life Blog

I can’t believe my little man is five today (and will be starting kindergarten in another week and a half!) (snif!) I took some pictures of him a few weeks ago to celebrate turning five, and when I saw the pictures on the computer, I couldn’t believe how tall and skinny he looked! I mean, I see him every day, but for some reason he looked so much more like a big kid in the pictures. Oh, how I love this boy!

Back in April when we went out to Utah, I took some pictures of Kayla and my nieces. It’s taken me forever to get to these pictures, but I finally did it (thanks for being so patient Min!) Kayla had so much fun with her cousins! She talks about them often.

When we were loading the kids into the car, I turned around and Kayla and Avery were doing little twirls. It isn’t the greatest portrait in the world, but I thought it was cute.

I meant to post these pictures FOREVER ago, but I just got busy. I took my kids to my hometown of Petaluma over spring break to take some new portraits of them together. I wish Petaluma was closer! (sigh). There are so many amazing places to shoot there. I always loved all of the old buildings when I lived there, but when I went back and looked at the town through a photographer’s eye, I couldn’t believe all the spots that I had never noticed before!

Anyway, here are a few of my kiddos:

Well, technically, he turned three 3 1/2 months ago — but this was the first chance we had to take pictures of him. I know I’m a little biased, but I think he’s the cutest little guy in the world!

I’m not sure what he was pouting for in this picture, but whatever it was . . .I’m sure he got it.

So a couple of months ago I thought it might be a good idea to give Kayla a haircut before she started kindergarten. Her hair was almost down to her waist and was pretty much messy all of the time — she wouldn’t let me do anything cute with it (or barely even brush it!) So we took her to Zoopaloop for her first “real” haircut. She did fine — I was the one who had to try not to hyperventilate as they took the scissors to her 11-inch ponytail. But I love it! (and a funny little story — we decided to give her hair to Locks of Love. So I was explaining to her a few weeks before we cut her hair that we were going to send her hair to a place where they would make it into a wig for a little girl who is sick and doesn’t have any hair. She seemed fine with that until a week or so later, we were practicing her letters and talking about kindergarten and she said, “Mommy, I don’t want to go to kindergarten and cut my hair and wear a wig!” )  :)

So here are a few pictures from a little mini shoot we did to celebrate her new haircut. (and a couple of Kaden since for once in his life he wanted me to take some pictures of him.)