Shannon

This is Shannon....

I've known Shannon since he was only a notion in his mother's five year old head. His mom Jackie and I have been friends since the first day of Kindergarten, when she brought me home with her like a lost puppy and said "Please mom, can I keep her?"

Jackie and I would play house in her parent's unfinished basement and we would pretend to have children and feed them mud cakes and fill their heads with all our own dreams knowing that the old cabbage patch kids had not a soul to tell or no way of making us feel silly! I knew in my heart that one day we would both have real children and without a doubt we would always be part of each other's lives. 

Jackie said to me a few weeks back... "I don't have any good pictures of Shannon, he just doesn't know what to do in front of the camera" .... well that's all I needed to hear to make it my mission to give my old mud baking friend some great photographs of her cabbage patch kid! ;)

I've known Shannon since he was little, so convincing him to smile and to just be himself was easy for me. We have this thing that we share... we know all his mother's little quirks and we both love her anyway! We brought a few different shirts for him to change into (one that his mother insisted she really didn't like) so about half way through I said "Put on that white shirt now Shannon for a few".  Shannon smirks and says "Mom doesn't like this shirt" we both look at each other and he says "that's why I bought it" the exact same time I am saying "that's why I brought it" !!! :)

One of the nice things about a good friend is you get to get on their nerves sometimes and they forgive you for it. So forgive me for breaking out the "awful t-shirt" Jackie, but I think your son looks terrific in it! As for you Shannon.... you rock the camera and I had a blast with you!

Thanks for allowing me to be your family photographer!

Love you both... Shannon here is your preview......