rhonda stark photography: minneapolis children’s photographer

the girls and i headed out on wednesday afternoon to the pumpkin patch to pick some pumpkins and we decided to take e’s 10-year portraits while we were there. it was perfect .. weather was gorgeous and we found some pumpkins too!

so nice they had this chair there for us to use

ok .. i’m a bit biased but isn’t she just gorgeous? and yes her father already has the guns ready!

my new favorite of my two girls .. cracks me up

and i had to show this cute lil’ guy .. erin was all over him .. and unfortunately his brother was all over me giving me 3 long gashes on my hand!

my middle child turned 10 today .. and now she says she’s a tweenager! egads .. a soon to be teenager (her brother in january) and a tweenager .. am i really that old :{

anyway .. here’s a shot from the other day .. i was practicing with bounced flash .. hopefully if it warms up this week i’ll get going on her birthday portraits

and a drawing she did .. completely from her head .. not looking at anything .. she definitely has my mother’s artistic abilities

i had the pleasure of meeting this family on saturday .. they were so sweet and kind .. and you could tell they just thought the world of “U” their little guy! he was a typical 2 year old .. all over the place and following his own agenda .. and just full of cuteness!

we started inside .. found some great light in mom & dad’s bedroom .. unfortunately i forgot to mention to her that i will scope out the house for the light, and i mean all of the house! so just a point to keep in mind if you are scheduling a session .. you might want to make sure all rooms are presentable! but if you forget .. don’t worry .. i have a teenage son so i’ve seen way worse when it comes to bedrooms!

here is “U” .. love his curls!

afterwards we headed outside. It was a bit chilly but I don’t think “U” noticed .. he was having too much fun running from dad .. who just wanted a hug ..

and then tearing up some leaves!

mom and dad finally corralled him for some family images together .. here’s one that i just love ..

i’m glad we scheduled it for yesterday .. considering that it actually snowed today!

thanks for a fun morning!

it’s a proud day when a boy kills his first rooster

at least that’s what him and his Dad says .. and as long as I don’t have to skin the darn thing I’m okay with it!

the kids and i headed over to apple jack’s to finally experience a corn maze and do some apple pickin’. turned out that about everyone else had the same idea!

the maze wasn’t very amazing .. i think we ended up taking some shortcuts thus reducing the amount of time running around getting lost .. which was fine with me. and then after the maze we headed out with some empty bags and came back with them full of apples and even some raspberries too! the next day we made a pie .. i should have taken some pictures of that it turned out really good .. but we had our neighbors over for dessert and it didn’t last long

Can you see T up there in the tree .. white shirt peeking out of the left side of the tree. He was loving it .. and even helped out some families who also wanted some!

This is so *them* .. E looking so sweet and then S trying to grab the spotlight! One of these days they’ll both realize I love them for who they each are