The holiday fog is starting to lift, and things are slowly getting back to 'normal' around here.  I meant to post these images of Kevin, Sara and their kiddos before I closed up shop before Christmas, but I musta mentally checked out a day or two before I officially turned out the lights.  I've known Sara for several years now through my work at TI, and her & Kevin are such fun people to hang out with.  In fact, we'll be joining them and a few other fun couples for an early New Year's Eve dinner in a couple days, and we're so looking forward to it.  Oh, and did I mention how cool their kids are?  Since they know me and have gotten comfortable around me, they're pretty easy to work with on the other side of the lens, and we had a blast playing around up in McKinney a few weeks ago.  Well, maybe an Arctic blast.  We moved their session up a day to avoid a cold front that was coming in the next day, but it was still pretty frigid by the end of our camera date.  They were all troopers, though, and we got some awesome images to show for it.  Here are a few of my favorites from that day. This first image was made possible by...

... mom running a stick through dad's head.  I love it when parents can be silly with their kids; it's so helpful in getting natural, authentic smiles.

Sometimes ya gotta do a little of this...

... to get a little of this.

Love this brother-sister image.

Fantastic moment.

Considering it was probably in the upper 40's a this point, I'm amazed we were able to still get such great images.  These guys were much tougher than I woulda been.