Family

Last weekend we got together to celebrate the February birthdays in my family. My mom and her fiance came up from Lakeland to visit my sister and I in the Gainesville area. Out of the six of us, my husband is the only one that isn't born in February. But don't worry. He shares August with the rest of my family (except my uncle, who is the odd-ball in November).

We spent some time in Alachua (and took some engagement pictures of my sister and her fiance James, and tried to get a few of my mom and Danny, but they weren't very willing subjects - keep an eye out for these). And stopped by Lacrosse at the largest live oak in Florida. Bill and I visited it last summer

(http://dawndegraw.blogspot.com/2007/09/really-big-tree.html). Needless to say, this visit was a bit more comfortable, since it wasn't 100+ degrees out.

Here's just a few of my favorites already of the short engagement session with Jodi and James.

They were laughing at me here because earlier in the day, James had said that he felt like he was in Austin Powers where he starts yelling at the models "yes, yes, YES! NO! NO!" So I started doing that here, and they just lost it.

And here's the famous family head tilt. Jodi and I aren't really sure why we do this, but we both do it, and it's usually subconscious. But it's still one of my favorite portraits of the day of her.