FAMILY SESSION: Rain, Rain Go Away...

They were in from India and DubBai ...

This was our CHANCE...our moment...between arrivals, departures, jet lag and all.the.visits. we were determined to get pictures with the WHOLE CREW...

BUT...

with Ohio as the "home base"..you just never know what weather is going to bring...

and for us, that meant RAIN...

It started out as just a little sprinkle that blew over in a matter a minutes...and so we scurried off to snap a few together pictures quickly...thinking, "surely, we'll be okay...the rain has gone..."

Friends...we were wrong...very wrong...

About 15 minutes into our time, the rain came down in buckets...we were huddled under trees attempting to protect tops and hair....

But, that's the thing about a Family Session Experience...it's not JUST about the pictures...

it's about the MEMORY...the MOMENTS...the HAPPY that just bubbles to the surface when you are all in it together...

We definitely were able to snap some images that captured cousin love and sibling amusement...there were hugs and enough laughter to go around...

and in the midst of it...noone cared about the rain because it made the story that much more meaningful...memorable...and FUN!

The rain stopped again, after the downpour, and we couldn't help the HAPPY that sprung up at the hilarity of it all...

I hope this experience lives with them forever...as they continue to look at these pictures, I hope they remember the FEELING of that day...uncles making nieces and nephews squeal...puddle jumping in the rain...squeezing out wet hair...

but most of all...the JOY of being together!!!