I went to a huge high school. We’re talking 1,000+ students on three floors of a school that was a block wide. I normally stayed with my small group of friends, but I was familiar with a lot of people. Different classes, different cliques.

When Sharla contacted me about a Lace, Pearls & Little Girls session for her daughters, I knew that she looked so familiar right away. And of course, she was. She was a year younger than me through middle school and high school years. We had mutual friends, but somehow never really became friends ourselves.

Her girls, Jane, Jessi, and Hunter, were dolls to work with. Their personalities were so different from one another, but they all had a quiet smile like their mom. We met at Ted Ensley Gardens at Lake Shawnee, and we were able to get so many great portraits of all three of them. Hunter was all too happy to jump in the water in her lace, and her big sisters were there to make sure she didn’t fall. We watched butterflies, chased each other, and saw squirrels. It was a great and energetic shoot!