The Chapman Crew :: Sweetwater Photographer, Abilene Family Photographer

Cutie-Patootie!



Beautiful Big-Sis!!!















Miss Thang!!















As I said, I loved the colors so much in this session... but I figured I should post at least one black and white!!! What beautiful babies you have guys!!! :)



Love it, Dad actually requested this shot... he loved the "Bus Shot" from the EFC Youth session and wanted to try to mimic it.. minus the bus!! :)



Mara brought her favorite, well-loved bear along and wanted to be sure to get some pictures of him!!!



I think the image on the right should be on their Christmas card this year!!! :) HA!

Ok so this session has been a long time coming!! The Chapman family are some of my favorite people in Sweetwater... Jaci (mom) was one of my buddies in the 1 year old class last year at Cornerstone and I consider her to be one of my "peeps!" :) I've enjoyed getting to know her hubby and kids over the last year or so... and was way excited to get them out for a session! We drove out to the spot where Jaci & Stewart did their engagement shots many years ago, it's out in the middle of no where... save one house that is diagonal to this old abandoned bank building that we shot at. Upon our arrival, we were greeted with a menagerie of large dogs... I'm talkin' like 6 or 7 big mutts surrounding the vehicles... checking us out! I could tell they were friendly dogs just by the dopy, curious grins on their faces... so we call got out and proceeded to get to know one another! There was this one curious black lab who had the terrible habit of jumping up to say hello.. very sweet pup... but sort of annoying! It took a little while for the greetings to get themselves over with and the dogs to lose interest... but our curious black lab stuck around for a bit. Apparently he didn't appreciate being ignored very much... and as I was setting up the standing family shots that you see here... I saw Stewart and Jaci's jaws drop to the ground and look of horror come over them! I immediately looked the direction they were facing and saw our black lab friend so kindly lifting his leg on my camera bag!!!!!! True story!!! THANK GOODNESS I had zipped it up completely and had an old towel in my car to clean up the mess before it soaked into the material!! What could you do but just laugh!!?? At this point, it just felt like a scene that should have been on a hidden camera comedy... and certainly, "the incident" made this an extra memorable session!!!

I'm loving the warm, fall feel to these photos!! Of course, today we had a cold front blow through so we had to jacket-up everyone for a few minutes to warm them up, then shed the layers and go for it! I had 3 little Popsicles on my hands... so I tried to keep it as simple as possible! They were great sports and managed to have a little fun too! Hope you've enjoyed this preview!! Stay tuned for the Ward family tomorrow evening!!