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In celebration of the wonderful cooler weather, I’ve decided to offer a special. Any session booked thru the end of Sept. will be a free session. No session fee! Woohoo! The session must take place in Sept. and be at an outside location. There are many great locations to use, and I’m always up for trying new ones. Don’t hesitate, book now!! Christmas is coming and photos make great presents. Email me  melissa@melissadphotos.com or call 817-915-3689 I’ll leave you with a not so great image of my boys enjoying the cooler weather today. These days I’m very lucky to get them both sitting still next to each other. Much less both looking and smiling. But since there’re mine, I love it anyways.

My oldest son’s imagination is really starting to expand these days. He wanted to borrow one of my boxes to play with and this is what he did with it. He turned it into his “new tv”. He set it up and put his best buddy behind it and was laying there watching his tv. We asked him what show he was watching, he said it’s called Monkey Travel and then told us what the show was all about. He kept moving it to different places and adding different toys for new shows. Brax even joined in lining up cars to go on next. It was fun to watch and got me to remember when I was little and the things I would do and imagine.

My niece and nephew in my version of Alice in Wonderland. I’ve had this idea for awhile and finally got to make it happen. My sister wanted some updated pictures of her kids and I suggested the idea and she said sure, sounds like fun. And fun it was. Devon was much more into it than Miles, but what can you expect from a 19mo old. But we did get a few cute shots with him. I had so much fun shooting this session and then editing the images. If anyone else is interested in a themed shoot let me know. I would love to do it again.

My weekend was photoshoot free, so we decided to head back to my mom’s lake house again. The water was up pretty high and the beach that we normally play at was covered. But there was a little spot of sand that we found for the kids to dig in. And while my youngest napped we went exploring with the big kids. They collected quite a few shells and I took pics of the scenery. It was a nice little weekend getaway.

Heather and Mohan invited me to their beautiful home to capture their kids birthday party. Carson was turning 3 and Arlie was turning 1. They put up a cool bouncy house in the backyard. Carson was alittle scared at first and it was really hot, so went spent most of the party inside. I have to give major props to Heather, she actually made those awesome cakes from scratch.  Very cool. All the kids had a great time and really enjoyed their new toys.  Thanks for inviting me, it was a great way to spend my morning. Enjoy your sneak peek, there are many, many more.

Here are my boys again. Just a few playing and a few with their new buzz lightyear water toy. Which they love! It’s fun to watch and a nice way to cool off outside.

On the last few days of my hubby’s vacation we decided on a whim to go to Oklahoma and take the kids to Turner Falls. The water was freezing, we only put our feet in. We hiked alittle, saw a ton of creepy daddy long leg spiders, a long wierd centiped, a cave and a castle. I meant to take a pic of the actual falls, but forgot. But did get a few good ones of the boys. We hope to go back and actually camp there, someday.

I need your votes again. I’ve made it into the top 5 for Best Family Photographer and now I need your help to win. Go here http://www.parentsconnect.com/parents-picks/dallas-tx-usa/best-dallas-fort-worth-family-photographer  and vote for me. You will need to create an account. I know its a pain, but please for me. If you have one, just log in and vote. You can vote once per day for the next 55 days. And here’s 2 more pictures from the lake.