"Big" Abby Tsutsumishita

I've mentioned the Tstsumishitas briefly in the past. They are the family across the street with 4 children. Nathan, Abby, Jonathon and Daniel, who is two months older than Adam. About two years ago, Erin invited me over after telling Todd to tell me to call her when she was on a garbage related phone call :) We hit it off.

She is my age, very nice and has a good sense of humor. She is one of those friends that has nothing to do with anyone else I know and she's not too into complicated things. Erin is about her family and her church and she cuts great hair, too, at JCPenney. She cuts Adam's hair and I will have her do Abbey's hair if the time comes. These kids are great and my kids, especially Adam, adore them. Her house is one of the very few places he will go into and tell me to leave.

At the beginning of August, her daughter, whom we refer to as "big" Abby though there is nothing big about her, turned 10. Her and her mom came up with the idea to do a hotel themed party. She invited two friends, Erin dressed up like the hotel chef and her husband Tomo dressed as Jaqcue the limo driver. Very cute. I volunteered to do a" star" photography session for these "very important guests". I thought they'd get a kick out of it and I could practice some portrait skills. I had wanted to use Montcalm Park for a while, though I didn't realize how different the light would be at a 5pm session versus earlier in the day when I'm usually there. A few of my favorites... Stopped at Breitbeck, too and this is one of my favorites of her. And of course, I insisted on a shot with her Daddy in my backyard, AKA Jacque. I love this picture, I think, the most, as it reminds me of how much I adored me Dad, too. Hard to take a bad picture of Abby as she is so beautiful. as usual, blogger doesn't do the colors justice, but I ended up with 60 photos of the girls when I was done as I did individuals of each and groups. It was fun to experiment with these girls and Erin and the other moms liked them so much, they made collages out of the images I sent them. It was flattering and fun. Makes me think about how much I'd like doing this but also how much I still need to learn!