Kickapoo Camping

A few weeks ago, Bill and I went camping with some old college friends from Chicago.  I love pre-Memorial Day camping because a) it's not crowded yet, and b) the weather is just perfect, not too hot.  We chose Kickapoo State Park in Illinois as a good midway point to meet.  It was sunny and we had a great camping spot close to a cliff overlooking a pond.  A few steps from our campsite, you could walk down a stairway to a fishing dock.  The park has trails to walk/hike on and you can rent canoes and kayaks to take on the various ponds.  It was the prettiest Midwest camping spot I've been to, if you like to camp definitely check it out.  Their two dogs Abby and Brody had a great time!

Abby tried to go after the geese.  We had a good laugh at her expense:

Brody looked handsome as I took his picture just before sunset:

Abby posed for me too:

Beautiful sunset (completely unaltered photo, I promise!):

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the Donaldsons - St. Louis Family Photography

I've been home for a few days now and am still trying to recover from a month of traveling (Vietnam is an 11 hour time difference from St. Louis!)  I've got tons of amazing photographs to sift through and process, so it will be a few days before I'll have anything to post from the trip.  My last few posts have been text-only so I wanted to break up the monotony with some (sort of) new pictures.  I photographed the Donaldson family and beautiful little Carys last fall, but I had to keep the images under wraps until Christmas and birthday gifts could be distributed (photo surprises are the best kind of surprises!)  This session was awesome because they brought their two adorable little dogs in designer outfits and even wine to sip on (kinda like a fashion shoot with models sipping champagne :)  Enjoy!

PS.  Congratulations to Lisa (see her maternity photos posted back in February) on the birth of her son, Alexander, last night!  I can't wait to meet the little guy.

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