engagement at hope glen farm. { frost on flower }

I drove out to Cottage Grove to meet with a couple to review their wedding contract and do their engagement session. It was wonderful to meet them and to explore their wedding venue - Hope Glen Farm. There were quite a few neat photo spots. I can almost imagine their wedding already! We had a lot of fun and here are some of my favorite photos:























Congratulations C+K! I can't wait to photograph your wedding in 2013!

tiny twins. need i say more? { frost on flower }

I absolutely could not wait to get home, upload these photos, and get to work. Last Saturday I spent two hours with these adorable twins. Those two hours were jam packed full of exploration, excitement, snacks, and even tears. When all was send and done I had close to a billion photos to look through. That's right... a billion.

While you probably wouldn't mind seeing nearly a billion photos of these cuties I'll save you a bit of time and show you my most favorite few. And by few, as always, I mean a bunch.

As the air was quite cool in the morning we began indoors inside the Guthrie Theatre.

We went straight up to the Amber Lounge. The girls had some time to get comfortable and do some exploring.

They were pretty interested in being held for a while, which is understandable. I was new and we were in a weird yellow room with giant windows.  Pretty strange, right?

Soon the girls got a bit more comfortable and peered out the windows into the fog.

Same eyebrow raised. :)

This little one was pretty into doing her own thing.. and quite quickly!

We made our way down to the fourth floor where everything was a bit more normal colored.

There was so much outside to look at it. I love getting reflections in these windows. :)

There are giant comfy black chairs to climb on throughout the theatre.

We of course blew kisses.

And looked out the windows some more.

And constantly asked for more snack. 

And licked the windows.

And wondered why window licking was happening. Ew.

After the girls had about enough to exploring inside we went out, just past the Mill City Saturday market.

We found this nice wall but the girls weren't overly interested in looking at me.

This little lady spoke to my heart by exploring the numerous rocks.

This one was pretty pumped that I brought bubbles along.

We managed to get them together for a few seconds at a time.

Though that didn't mean they were actually going to do the same thing or look in the same direction. 

No comment. :)

More snacks.

I always get a few of these reaching for my camera shots. Love them. :)

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The girls were nearing the end of their available attention and tolerance for me and my camera. We headed down to the boardwalk for a few more shots before calling it a day.

the mini session i most looked forward to. { frost on flower }

This is the last of mini sessions from earlier this month at Minnehaha Falls Park. I was looking forward to this one all day! I used to work with this mama over 1.5 years ago! It was great to meet her family and spend a little time with them. I ended up with so many fun photos!

Here are some of my favorites:





























These just about capture everything - close family, confusion, goofing off, runny noses, crying little ones... :)