Jocelyn K Brown Photography

meeting up with this family has been in the making since last year. brooke sent me an email ‘booking’ me for june of 2010- knowing that cannon would be one. about 2 weeks leading up to the pics, i started getting lots of emails from brooke- letting me know her excitement, telling me about ideas, giving me an itinerary of time- and i quickly realized- this gal is on top of it. i like that. i appreciate that. it is so not me and i’m envious of that.  and you might think that someone so on top of it- might be a bit too type a for me- but it so could not be further from the truth. right when we saw eachother- we gave a quick wave- with big smiles. i think i might have jumped out of my car and hugged her and she kind of started talking fast- and i remember kind of looking up at her- because she’s a good head taller than me- and thinking i like this girl. and then my thoughts were something like- wow! she’s smoking in her dress. and then i realized how much more  i liked her when i could tell she had absolutely no idea how smoking she really is. oh, have i mentioned somewhere in that train of thought, was i also remember seeing her car jam packed full of props? yeah. we are talking so jammed cannon almost didn’t have a spot to sit. yeah. pretty great.

and so began our morning adventures in georgetown. the starting point of our itenaray.

p.s. i just amended my post. here i was, chatting up brooke and all her props, but meanwhile- i didn’t show any pics of her props. these sailor hats (that they are all donning) were maybe my most favorite props. if you could have seen kuba’s face when she brought them out- you would have died. i’m pretty sure he even said ‘no brooke’. and i’m also even more sure he knew it was an empty no. i love her salute. so much.

this set with cannon and kuba are some of my faves. kuba is this very calm guy and i love when brooke would tell him to speak polish to cannon to get him to laugh. and it did. every time.

and brooke and her boy? favorites too. for a couple reasons. i love the light sunflare. and i love her side profile. plus i think her hair looks pretty great too- and her eyelashes.

i mean seriously- cannon is such a cool little guy. i love him looking all dapper- sitting at an old wooden desk- and that smile? was instant. as in, he smiled at me from the beginning til the end. lucky me

and then we headed to seward park. i had never been before. how this is, i have no idea, but i was in total absolute heaven. i was surrounded by green- everywhere. big huge trees. long shaggy grass and open space. and these three did an outfit change in the parking lot- in like no time at all. brooke put on a dress in my favorite color with her pearls. and the boys? they looked so perfect in their short sleeve button ups and jeans.  and we just kind of roamed around. i even managed to fall into a hole (which brought me down to my knees) not once, but twice. in all the open space – how i managed to fall into the same hole twice is beyond me, but we got a pretty great laugh out of it.

the field shots are my faves. i love that they are just of them- with me kind of capturing from afar.

kuba had to get into the office, so brooke, cannon and i hung out a bit longer in the field. i just wanted to sit back- and watch these two. there is just something about a mama and her  baby.