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I’m a suc­ker for good sur­pri­ses, par­ti­cu­larly of the birth­day variety. Love to plan them, love to be the inten­ded sur­pi­see, just love them. So when Jac­que called me to see about having some pho­tos taken of her chil­dren, for their father, for his birth­day, it was a resoun­ding YES!

When I arri­ved to my play date, Jakobi was all about sho­wing me the pho­tos from their recent pet­ting zoo visit — hor­sies! hor­sies! do YOU like horsies!?

Once the sli­deshow por­tion of the after­noon was over, we moved on to book club. We read, we chat­ted. The only thing mis­sing were the brow­nies

Jakobi just became a big brother! Miss Juni­per was an abso­lute peach and snoo­zed away the whole time.

I’m com­ple­tely ena­mo­red with this photo. I couldn’t really tell you why, but bet­ween the art­work, the lilt, and the pinky fin­ger it just melts my heart every time.

Juniper!

We’d hoped to get a few of the two of them together, but Jakobi’s ver­sion of being gentle and loving on her loo­ked eerily simi­lar to smothe­ring her and poking her in the eye.

And so we took our play­date outside to the back­yard where I got a com­plete tour of the swing set.

This is their sweet family dog. Such a love. My brain howe­ver, spat the name out and won’t let me recall it. Still deser­ves some blog lovin’ though!

Jac­que is an exce­llent mother. She reminds me of the per­fect 1^st grade teacher — just sweet and cal­ming, full of patience and love. She makes it look easy.

We pla­yed some base­ball. We tal­ked about the red sox (they were worth tal­king about then) and we coun­ted one, two. one, two.

a toe-​headed, striped-​button-​down wea­ring, blue-​eyed, little boy in crocs pla­ying in the dirt. what could be better?

patty cake patty cake, baker’s man, make me a carrot, as fast as you can!

Once the dirt was intro­du­ced I was quickly repla­ced. Mom snuck in there though and pla­yed trucks with him in the dirt. This may be on of my favo­rite ‘boy’ shots ever.

Thank you Jakobi for such a won­der­ful play­date! I enjo­yed mee­ting your mum, and Juni & gran (who was there hel­ping out) — and I’m so thri­lled your dad loved his sur­prise! .. Sorry about the Red Sox, Tim. Maybe next year!

Hi Melissa! I just wan­ted to let you know that we cele­bra­ted Tim’s birth­day a little early and he’s seen the pic­tu­res. He said it was the best birth­day pre­sent he’s ever been given! ALL of the pic­tu­res are ama­zing and beautiful…we’re going to have a REALLY hard time choo­sing which ones we want to purchase. I’ve sent the link to our family mem­bers, so they will be orde­ring pic­tu­res, too. I just wan­ted to let you know how ama­zing you are and how thank­ful I am to have wor­ked with you. I’m sure we’ll be in touch soon with ques­tions about orde­ring. ~ Jacque

I hope to see you all again, real soon!

much love <3