Siblings and Cousins | Oakton Family Photographer

Over the Christmas holiday, I was lucky to spend a morning with four great kids.  We went hiking.  Through snow, sleet, wind, mud, muck, yuck, the photographer just keeps on trudging….

Two of the kids are local to my area, and the other two girls are cousins, visiting from Atlanta.  It was amazing to me how much they were all like one big family, more like brothers and sisters than cousins.

Most of my time was spent chasing after them as they ran on ahead.  They kept trying to convince me to follow the trail to the end, though no one seemed all that positive about where it ended.  When we got to this, I told them it was a sign.

Time to turn around!

He is the lone boy in the sea of girls.  Seems to hold his own though.

His sister.  They get along as you would expect brothers and sisters to get along.

And this little girl had a tooth I was just dying to pull out.  It was the mom in me.

She and her sister were buds.

But, together, the four of them were like the three musketeers.  Or like the four musketeers, if there were such a thing.

Do you like the nails?!  They did that in the morning before I arrived.  They were completely loving their nails.  Well, the girls that is.

Is there a cuter crew?  It was so cold that morning, and the kids were having a blast blowing steam.  When I asked them to do it on camera, the boy held his composure.  The girls were all over it.

Same thing with the funny faces.  Every.single.time.  I would get three girl funny faces.  And one boy smile.  So sweet.

And then it was time to go home.

And we ended just like we had started.  The kids running ahead, and me walking a bit more carefully behind.

Neither snow, nor wind, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays {this photographer} from the swift completion of {her} job.

hehe.

Can’t wait till next year!

A