The name may ring a bell, as I did pictures for Al’s brother and his family last fall. I’ve known Leanne since Grade 8, and we’ve had some pretty fun and crazy times together, especially during our highschool years. Seeing as this is a PG friendly blog, I won’t regale you with stories of late night card-games of Speed while we belted out Bon Jovi, our various adventures in George (an old Ford Tempo I drove in highschool), some crazy road trips and so much more. Needless to say it was good times, and there are days that I wish we could go back in time just for a few days of responsibility free teenage living. 
Over fifteen years later, it’s amazing to see where we are now. To see Leanne as an amazing mother to five kids still makes me think how fast the years have flown by. I loved having a chance to get to know her kids a bit and to see her family interact during their PhotoSession…it almost made me think how neat it would be for me to have such a big busy and rambunctious family (and then I gave my head a shake and realized there’s no way that I could be as good of a mom to five as she is, not to mention making it through two more pregnancies!).
Leanne was really excited and nervous about these shoot, and as a result I was nervous about her liking the resulting images. But when she called me up crying after seeing the slideshow, I knew she was happy with them. And hey, with kids this cute, you can’t go wrong!
Here are a few of my favorites…let me introduce the clan:
This is the oldest, Levi. He just turned 9. He’s such a kind and considerate big brother and he loves hockey and sports:
This is Sam, 2nd oldest, she’s 7 and a quietly independent little girl who was a little nervous about pictures, but photographed beautifully:
And the middle child, Luke, who is five and going to Kindergarten in the fall. Gotta love the cheesy grin! My son Ethan and him get along famously when they see each other:
And then we have Kaycie. So darn cute with her hands on her hips and refusing to show her teeth (you have to check her out in the family shots, she has the best facial expressions! She’s big into Polly Pockets and looking forward to going to Preschool next year:
And then Alexa, or Bubbles as she’s known to her family, and pretty much everyone else. She’s a mama’s girl and wasn’t too keen on being detached from her mom, but we managed long enough to get a few shots of her too:
Ande then we have all seven of them:
We decided to let the kids burn off some energy with a race, and we staggered the start so the younger ones had a chance to get ahead. Bubbles wasn’t walking yet at this point, so she missed out. I think we’re going to have to do an updated shot of this next year!
I love feet shots, I think they make such great artwork for your walls:
And one of the happy couple, who celebrated their 10th anniversary just two months before us (it was a busy year for weddings in 2008!):
And one final family shot:
