Patrick ~ Pewaukee High School Class of 2018

Happy Friday everyone!  Earlier this week I met Patrick at Naga-Waukee Park for his senior session. I've been doing this new thing this year where I highlight a client for 24 hours on my Facebook and Instagram (jessicalaurenpics) accounts with pictures, behind the scenes and some little videos.  It's been fun and so far everyone's been great sports!  Patrick was so fun to work with, he even picked out the location for that last shot.  It was run down little building and it turned out to be one of my favorites from the night!  Good eye!  

Jessica ~ Pewaukee Class of 2018

Last week I met up with Jess at Frame Park in Waukesha for her senior session.  It was supposed to be overcast all day but that sun was a blazing all evening.  If finally started to cool down at the very end of the session of course!  Jess is a complete natural in front of the camera!  And can we take a second to talk about that hair?!  Gorgeous!  Best of luck Jess on your upcoming pageant!  I know you'll do great!

June Photo Journal

I'm a little late on this post...summer has been busy with weddings and vacations and I haven't even started "busy season" at work yet.  But, here we are none the less.  

I just love watching my little guys draw and create and I love seeing what comes out of that brain of theres.  I love the imagination of kids and sometimes I just love watching them draw.  Their playroom was actually clean enough on this particular day for me to snap a few pics of my youngest Grant thinking on pondering away at his pad of paper....

"C" Family ~ Naga-Waukee Park

I kicked off this season with Tom and Page and their kids TJ, Becca, Susan and her fiancé Ian.  I met them last year when I took their middle child Becca's Senior Portraits.   I was thrilled to be able to work with them again! It was a great evening considering last week was filled with rain and storms.  Here is a sampling from the evening.

May ~ Photo Journal ~ Baby Robins

For the past few years we've had a robin's nest on our pergola in the backyard.  This year for whatever reason I was obsessed with watching the babies.  The first two photos I watched the little alien babies beg mom for food and then watched mom hunt for worms around the backyard and bring them back to feed them.  Then just 6 days later after dropping my oldest off at school my little guy Grant noticed the bird in the nest and wanted to watch it.  I couldn't believe how different the birds looked in just that short amount of time.  But, sure enough there she was (I'm calling it a she) getting the nerve to take her first flight.  I quickly noticed the other bird had already left the nest and was hanging around the yard waiting for her (he's the one by the tire).  He (I'm calling it a he) flew up and give her a little nudge of encouragement and quickly flew away.  She then hopped just out of the nest. She waited A LONG while (at this point Grant was beyond bored and wanted to go in) but I had to see it through.  Brother came back to rough her up again and then she flew just enough to get to the next board up.  I watched her sit there AWHILE longer and then she slowly walked all the way to the end of the board like she was getting ready to walk the plank.  Then, just like that she was off!  It was so cool, it all took about 40 minutes and I almost gave up on her twice but I'm so glad I was able to see it.  I was in such awe of God and his creation.  The instincts he gives all his creatures is amazing to me.  I thought this was super cool, my family thinks I'm crazy, but, I don't really care! 

March Photo Journal

My boys love their stuffed animals!  It's absolutely ridiculous how many they have.  I wish I could say this was all of them.  I know, I know, we need a bigger house just to fit all their stuff!  Or, have a huge purging party.  But I digress, they had them all out the other night so I thought it would fitting to catch them in their element amongst all their pals.  

February Photo Journal

Earlier this month my Kindergartner amazed me when he picked this book up off his bookcase, sat down in this chair and read the entire thing for the first time by himself!  I cannot believe what these kids are learning these days.  I was just learning my letters in K5!  

 And then there's this guy who is going through the "surprise egg" phase that my oldest went though around this age too.  I don't know how they even discovered them but he is obsessed with the surprise egg toy videos on YouTube.  If you're kids haven't discovered them yet consider yourself lucky!  He is also very much into Dude Perfect, so between those two he keeps himself very occupied during Mommy's morning workouts!