Practice Smiling

As you can see from the new beautiful blog banners we recently had a fun fall "photo shoot".

Jason, my friend Erica's husband, met Lily and I at the horse farm and took a bunch of beautiful pictures.

When Jason was taking Lily's picture he told her what a beautiful smile she had and asked her if I made her practice smiling. Lily thought that was about the funniest thing she had ever heard. Lily said, "That's so silly!! You don't practice smiling, Mr. Jason. You just do it!"

Despite the fact that it was incredibly cold...Lily smiled, and smiled, and smiled!

Jason had just start shooting when who should happen to appear but beautiful Tara (the horse...not the rider). Well, let's just say Lily was a bit distracted.



We took a quick break so Lily good give Tara a little love.



I hadn't really planned on having Lily's picture taken with her coat on, but it was so darn cold. As it turns out, I love the photos of her in her pretty red coat.



Lily did take her coat off for a few minutes. Since it was so cold Jason told Lily just to jump around and have fun and we would take pictures while she was playing. That lasted for about 2 minutes and then the coat was back on! Brrrr!



Lily found a huge leaf while we were walking across the field. Once she found it she didn't want to let it go. In fact, she still has it. It's in her bedroom. Along with about a thousand other odds and ends she finds here and there. Shhh...don't tell the Health Department!



I can't believe Jason got all these great shots (and more) in less than 15 minutes. Did I mention it was incredibly cold?!?

Okay, so maybe the fence could be a little cleaner but I absolutely love this picture.



I saved my favorite for last. I just love Lily's expression. I think her love/awe of horses is so obvious and beautiful.