Relationships That Last...

We've known this family for quite a few years...their youngest 3 fill in with stairsteps to my own set of 3...

It helps that they only live around the block from my home as well...so it makes a family session easy-peasy to just scoot on over and walk through their beautiful acres of land! 

It's very easy with large families and age spans between kiddos for some of them to get "lost" in the shuffle...I'm 12 years older than my youngest sister, and truth be told, there is much from her childhood that I just plain missed...

It warms my heart to see this family so close...We see them together at neighborhood gatherings and school football games or plays...Mom and Dad are greatly involved in their lives and model a closeness that is copied in the relationships that they have with their siblings...

My blogging catch up is slowly coming to a close...I'm trying not to get my hopes up that I'll actually be caught up by the time fall rolls around again...

until then...I'll let you just drool over these gorgeous landscapes that they get to view everyday!