Meet Caroline, another amazing senior! Caroline and my cousin, Sarah, have been close friends since elementary school and now they’re both graduating! Life happens just a little too quickly!
Caroline is a big basketball player @ St. Louis. I was reading her jacket and remembered that their team was named undefeated District Champs of 06! What a great senior year for them! We had a great time during Caroline’s session. It was nothing but laughs for us, which is always fun!
Meet Cameron, one of my many gorgeous seniors I’ve had the pleasure of working with this year. Cameron did an amazing job… I think she could definately become a model with her hair and those eyes! Congrats, Cameron!
Kacie & Josh’s amazing 85 foot egg toss!
Gordie decided to stop by towards the end of the day for a little bit of leftovers…
Then got really excited when he saw some of the kids!
Okay, so, it’s a week or so later and I’m just now creating our Easter Collage…. As I’ve learned lately… it’s better late than never! 
So, we have here, a whole bunch of pictures from our annual Good Friday get together, and then our Easter trip. This year, Good Friday was held at my parents house, which just happens to be right next door to ours! Because of this, Adam and I gave a few “grand tours” of the house, since most of our extremely large family never got to see it.
We had a great time. My “Pop”, the crawfish-boiler extraordinaire, started cooking around 9:00 a.m. and the family starting showing up around 11:00. We ate many pounds of crawfish, with delicious corn and potatoes. My uncle even treated us all with some Raisin Cane’s sauce for dipping! The egg pocking contest was next. My grandmother always dyes all 32 of us our own personalized egg for the contest. If you’ve never pocked eggs before, it’s really halarious to see all of the different “techniques” and “methods” that everyone has come up with to try and out-pock everyone else! When Adam asked just how long this crazy tradition has been going on, my mom concluded that they’ve had about 45 years with “Good Fridays”, started by my great-grandfather!
Anyway, the day was a blast. We played hours of baseball with trees as bases and plastic bats and balls. After the egg pocking (which I came in second in), we had a huge egg toss. The first picture after the collage shows my cousin’s boyfriend and Kacie (in the b/g) as the final couple with an egg. They had already won the contest, but wanted to see just how far they could keep throwing. We measured their final toss @ 85 feet wide!!! My aunt was on the phone in minutes sharing the new Cart record!
Our beautiful Easter morning view of the Sabine River.
Uncle Matt and my cousin Jake enjoying a canoe ride downstream!
Adam and my dad claiming some Texas land as their own. Can you make out the names?
Adam and I trying out a little canoe action ourselves.
We just thought it was the coolest yelling back and forth between the two states.
Adam then decided we hadn’t done enough and wanted to try canoeing upstream where two different currents came together…. we got worn out pretty quick, to say the least…
Matt and Jake coming back in.
My aunt and uncle just bought an amazing camp right on the Sabine River. So, after our Good Friday fun, we got up Satuday morning and headed up to meet the rest of the family. We had an awesome time, although Saturday did bring some crazy icey weather. And, although our camper leaked during the sleet, the camper didn’t have a heater, and we slept a mere 3 hours Saturday night, we still had a great weekend. lol 
And Easter Sunday was just gorgeous.
Man, am I behind on blogging or what?! The past week and a half just killed me! With Easter celebrations and then seniors galore during their Spring Break, then another wedding this past weekend, I’m pooped!
So, I’ve been waiting since the 31st to create and post Colleen and David’s wedding collage! They had a gorgeous wedding in Slidell. Although the weather had posed as a huge threat for an outside reception, it amazingly held out for it! We did have a downpour right before the ceremony begun, but sure enough, the rain clouds had passed by the end of the ceremony, which left this amazing blue sky above the church. (You can see it in the collage!)
My new assistant and great friend, Katie, and I left our hotel and met the girls at the bride’s home that afternoon, which was also the reception area. Although the ceremony was held traditionally in a beautiful church, the reception was quite unique! Colleen’s family all owns property that comes together in this one area, which has tennis courts, a swimming pool, a screened in patio, and even girl/boy shower/restrooms area. It’s so cool! It just looks the families came together and decided to create a recreation area for everyone to enjoy. And that’s just where this reception took place… above the tennis courts and under lots of white tents, thousands of lights, and the stars above.
This family is obviously close, which I loved. Colleen’s family has this tradition going, coined the “Burton Bounce”. It is a ritual that occurs at almost any major family gathering and includes the official “Burton Belt”, modeled by Colleen’s brother in the collage above, and a distinctive bounce that is done by the entire Burton family. When interviewing one of the Burton Brothers, who had the honor of wearing the Belt for the night, I found out that the song was voted on by all family members at Christmas time and his song won. The belt is then loaned to the winner to be worn during the Bounce as a sort of trophy. After capturing this halarious act, I asked all Bouncers to give me their best Burton Bounce for a picture. If you notice above, the Burton Brother donning the Belt actually had THE highest Bounce, too!
To wrap it up, Katie and I had an awesome time, the food was amazing, the night was beautiful, and the bride was gorgeous. Congrats, you two! Thanks for such a fun weekend!
While I finished cramming all of my seniors’ proofs online in time for invitations, I thought I’d hurry up and blog one of them! Meet Ethan from the big J.B.! (Johnson Bayou) He’s such an awesome person. I first met Ethan a few years back when I was hired to take the pictures for his school’s homecoming and prom. I just fell in love with that little school on the beach and distantly kept in touch with a few of the kids from there.
Ethan brought some of the coolest things for his session, like his acoustic guitar and baseball uniform. I just LOVE when seniors incorporate their own personal things into their pictures. It may take a little extra effort now, but five, ten, and twenty years later, they’ll be glad they did it! Thanks for another great session, Ethan!
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