All American Girl

I love this girl. Well, actually I love her whole family. But, I'd like to think I have a special connection to this girl. I can always count on her coming up to me and giving me a hug at church, and I can always count on a meaningful conversation with her when we hang with her folks, I just love her.

And, this happens to be one of my favorite photos of her.

Not too long ago I photographed this girl and her sweet family. Her momma had a baby girl and so I captured not only the baby's goodness but the rest of the family too.

Often times, after I edit and turn over the DVD of images, I will go back (a couple of weeks later) and look at the images again - usually to see how I can do better next time. And, often times I forget about many of the candids that I caught and those happen to be my all-time favorites. Same thing happened here: I had forgotten about this series of photos that I got of her when we had a few moments alone.

Here, we were having one of those meaningful conversations and I snapped away while we conversed.

I think I asked her "So, KK, tell me about your favorite book you've read this year, so far?"...

And then she said, "hmmm....?"

And then she proceeded to tell me...." ." Except, I do not remember what it was....

And then, I said something silly....I do not remember what it was, but I got this amazing and completely natural smile from her. A treasure...

It was definitely a sweet moment between the two of us and I'm glad that I had my camera to capture it all.

Dear girl, you are our joy. I vicariously claim you as mine too! :)