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i loved her dress.

jennalee took julia out of the car and i said "OHHHH…i love that dress!!!"

it was the perfect choice.

you can't go wrong with a red and white polka dot dress.

Jenna

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you cannot know how hard it was not to grab her and give her a big zerbert right on that chubby arm pit.

her neck is absolutely kissble too.

she is just too sweet.

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we tried to do some with just julia….

and then just like that….she was DONE.

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and she was still cute!

thank you jeremy and jennalee….

she is so adorable i don't know how you get anything done but hug and kiss her all day long…

that's what i would do.

Grammie - Meg, those pics couldn’t be any more precious. Ok, so maybe I’m a little bit prejudiced 😉 Just want you to know that JuJu Bean IS so “squeezie” that I don’t get diddly-squat done all day because I love to give her kissies and squeeze the stuffin’s out of her every few minutes. Well, that and pull her out of whatever she’s into that she’s not s’posed to be into. 😀 Anyway, love your creativity!!!

robin bird - hey meg! i am lovin’ your header! i have to tell you….your photography is so awesome!! you have used you practice sessions well! i love coming to see all that you are up to with that camera. you are fast becoming a real pro at posing (when you do), keeping it sharp (when you can), and post processing goodness! i adore you as you know but still…you are good, very good!
XOXOXOX

Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - The ones of her crying are just the best.

Rebekah - I tried to remember when my daughter was that age that there really was nothing in the world more important for me to do with my time than hugging and kissing her. All too soon they’re on the move and it’s all you can do to get them to slow down for a smooch! I say, “Kiss ’em while you can!!”
Gorgeous pictures!

Kathy - love that baby and her tears!

Cate O'Malley - Love that dress too! I have a similar one for my daughter and I call it her I Love Lucy dress. Just reminds me of Lucille Ball. Great pics!

Hannah - She’s so precious!! Those little tears on her face, my goodness, she’s cute!
Great pictures, thanks for sharing!

Sandy - Good point, Renee! I think from now on before Megan and family go on vacation she needs to let us know where she’s headed and the route they’re taking. That way anyone along the way that wants to have coffee, lunch, pictures taken, etc can schedule with her in advance and they can plan their vacation around it. 🙂 So…how soon will you be traveling through the highly popular *Ohio* for vacation?! It may not sound exciting, but you love Kansas so much and it’s really not much different. 🙂

Sarah - Why do I love that crying one best? Two perfect little tears! What a beautiful baby. Great pictures…are you sick of me saying that yet?

charlane - amazing how they can be like that! 🙂 adorable shots

Sarah - She is so kissable. So cute!!
Great pictures, love the one with her mommy and daddy in the background. Fantastic.

pve - you sure know how to put the “polka” in your photos.
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Heather @ Cookie Mondays - LOVE the shot of mom & dad smoochin in the background.

Keri ~ Forever Folding Laundry - What a cutie! The one of her crying is precious!

Jen - I love your mom-and-dad-kissing pictures. so nice.

purejoy - look at those adorable crocodile tears!

alice - funny how fast they get finished sometimes – lol! but, she is still beautiful even with tears in her eyes and on her face :), great pictures!

Renee - If you ever come to VA, you have to come to our house. I would LOVE to have you taking pictures of my kids! Awesome, thanks for sharing. xoxo

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so glad i brought my camera.

i don’t always have it….really i don’t.

but this day i stopped and debated but threw it in my purse last second.
and look what i found just driving along.

 

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donna - I have a friend (Sundrenched Moments) that sent me this blog of yours last year because she knew I love, love, love sunflowers. I go to it often to get a sunflower fix. Earlier this months I had the opportunity to go to Topeka for work and I asked where I could see some sunflowers. I was told to go west to Junction City and I should see some. I didn’t see any! I want to see a field where you see sunflowers that go on forever. If I have the opportunity next year to go back can you suggest to me where I can see a field of them?~donna

Amy @ Living a Blessed Life - Just found your blog from a new friend’s sight. So glad she linked to yours. Your photos are incredible!!! You sure have a gift with the lens. I gave my husband the link as he loves photography as well and loves to learn from others’ perspective.
Sweet blessings,
Amy in OR

Jodi - I absolutely love your photos, you are so talented~!! Your blog and photography is delightful!

Elisa - The thought of you running through the sunflowers topless brought a smile to my face 🙂
But seriously- those pictures rocked! Great job!

Sarah - Oh wow! They are gorgeous. I live in the city and would have to drive far, far away to see something like that, if it even exists in VA. I have never had a desire to visit the Midwest until reading your blog. The fields are beautiful. Can’t get that on the East Coast.
Thanks for sharing!!!

Magchunk - Just want to tell you how much I looooove your blog. I seriously just read the whole thing in only a few days, laughed out loud, cried (I’m as bad as you on the weepy thing), and printed out many recipes. And I made my man read (ok, he only made it a few months, but he usually reads techy blogs, so it was a start) and he’s obsessed with Waffle.
Would you do me a huge favor and email me (maggie {at} magchunk.com)? I would love to do a little Q&A on my blog, magchunk.com.
<3 Maggie

Cate O'Malley - Such happy, cheery pictures! Makes me totally want to visit Kansas!

traci - beautiful!!!! i love sunflowers.

Karla - LOVE LOVE LOVE the sunflower pics… so glad you took your camera!

Tracy - BEAUTIFUL Sunflower pictures and LOVE your new haircut/color – makes you look like a STAR with your shades on! :O)

Heather - So beautiful! We were recently driving through central CA and there were fields of sunflowers . . . on the way down, they weren’t quite in bloom and the way back, completely blown:( These are wonderful pics. Makes me happy on an early Tues morning to see them!!!

Chasity - good ole kansas…

cynthia - i can only imagine seeing that!
how beautiful…

Kathy - OMG Amazing! I love where you live! Great photos!

kate - Dear Meg,
I am dropping by to say I love your blog very much. It is a very happy blog and is full of bright, cheery colours.
You take really good pictures!
And…I want to say that I have nominated you for the Kreativ Blogger Award!
Do drop by my blog for the details. 🙂
Cheers,
Kate
from http://www.theleftlook.com

Laura Phelps - you are taller than me. a whole lot taller.
and please, put that skirt on already…

Nancy - i have to tell on Amy. she called me today and said, ‘i am a super star, Meg mentioned me on her blog’. so, i tried to log on but the connection was slow at work. so, i ran to her desk to see.
we LOVE your blog….thanks for making our day!

Genn Hass - Hi Meg. I happened upon your blog through a friend’s blog (Definitely, Maybe). I love to read yours and look at your amazing photography, and I just wanted to let you know. Your pictures are so beautiful. I am a mom of two and newly interested in photography. Not professionally, (I am a hairdreser in So. Ca), but I love taking pics of my kids. I can’t stop. Just wanted to say hello.

jerusalem - amazing! sunflowers are in my top 5 fav flower -they are always just so full of hope and brightness!! can’t be sad with sunflowers around. amazing pics!!

Rebekah - I love the closed ones. And the open ones. 🙂

amy - no worries mate (why am i quoting finding nemo?)
can’t wait to get our goodies when you finish up anna’s gumball tee.
the new hairdo is super spiffy! do you have a hard time putting pictures of yourself on your blog? i do! it’s so hard! 🙂
the sunflowers, oh the glorious sunflowers…i swear i can see them actually smiling in these pictures!
thank you for sharing. perfect summer happiness!

Jill Jones - I adore your blog. Period. You take beautiful photos and you have a way of making the ordinary absolutely stunning! Thanks for making me smile on a daily basis. 🙂
By the way, your Salted Ash color was so different than it looks in your pictures. Still very nice, but not at all what I was expecting! Thanks again for your help.

Sarah Beth - I think sunflowers are my favorite flower. I decorated my room as a teenager in them. I think I went overboard though 🙂 I would love to photograph a field of sunflowers one day. They are just so happy!

Allikayes Mama - I am suprised there aren’t little bugs in your close up pics! And those are p-r-e-t-t-y! You are visually stimulating! hehehe

Vera - This post made me happy!

Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - Gorgeous!! Gotta love sunflowers. I would have paid to see you running through the field carrying 6 ft tall sunflowers…that would have been so funny:)

Mary Elizabeth - The sunflowers are awesome! I planted some {Late of course} and can’t wait for the m to bloom! 🙂 Your new haircut looks great!!! 🙂

Angela Henrie - What a beautiful surprise!

Mandy - That’s the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in a long time! Now that’s summertime in pictures!
Lovely.

Sally Pepper - Beautiful! So…you need to take your camera with you EVERYWHERE!

pve - Those sunflowers knew you were comin….they look so perky and you do to. I am so thrilled that I am going to be getting an etsy package from you…my daughter will love her shirt….
pve

Meredith - So glad you had your camera with you. Thanks for posting these happiest of flowers. Hair is looking fab! Meredith xo.

Sarah W. - Sunflowers make me delightfully happy! And those are such pretty photos 🙂
So does your pretty hair cut and color. So beautiful.
I wanna frolic through a field of 6 foot tall sunflowers!!
thanks for the compliments btw. 🙂
I wish I was back on the beach…. it was so great to get away for a bit.

Lisa - YOU CUT YOUR HAIR, IT LOOKS GREAT!!!
BOY YOUR TALL, SO NICE. I’M 5’1. YIKES!
GREAT PICTURES!!!
HUGS FROM MAINE

sarh - now that’s a field to play in!

Kate - Oh wow! Amazing! Great pics and they made me smile! Thanks!

Secret Mom Thoughts - I love when I see cool stuff and actually have my camera with me. Great shots.

Dana D @BoysMyJoys - LOVE the sunflowers!
LOVE the hair!
LOVE that I could FEEL the sunshine thru your pictures!
ps- I’m baking a ‘practice’ rainbow cake from your post tonight. The husband and kids will devour it! Then baking another one for my dad’s b-day this weekend. THANKS for the INSPIRATION!!!

Amanda - Awesome! Are those on 24th street? I found a sunflower field there a few years ago and got some good pictures, but definitely not as good as these! Kansas is lovely.

Erica - i don’t know if i have ever seen a field of sunflowers. that is pretty cool. i tried to grow some this year… yeah… not so good. I remember you had some in your backyard in dp right? Very cool pics.

Staci - Man oh man do I love those pictures!!!! And I love your new hair too!!!

Erin - Beautiful photos and Oh yay my pillow is coming! 🙂

lisa - Awesome, incredible pictures!! Love the hair cut, so cute

Keri ~ ForeverFoldingLaundry - Love how the sunflowers are always standing at attention, looking at the sun. Gorgeous pics!
And cute hair, too!

Tonya - amazingly beautiful!!! love all your KS images…i’m in ne ks.

Lori - The pictures are breathtaking. Really. And your hair style looks so cute! Thanks for sharing some more great photos.

Anna Marie - Beautiful photos!
Love your hair, btw! 😉

Michelle - Wow. This set of photos just blows me away. So absolutely perfect. I love how you find the beautiful in what lots of people would just drive right by. Stunning pics.
Have you ever shared what kind of camera you use? I would really love to know cause I’m in the market to buy my first “real” camera and move away from my trusty point ‘n shoot. How about a post on that?
~Michelle

Kelly - I’ve been thinking of sunflowers lately. I want to plant some in my backyard next year. I got a great tall galvanized pail at a rummage sale this weekend just for putting sunflowers in. I probably would’ve taken off with a few had I been you. 🙂
Cute hair too!

Jess - beautiful sunflowers. you. crack. me. up. your hair is totally cute. i’ve been ready for a new do for the past year and can’t get myself to just do it already.

erica - wow those are awesome! beautiful pics 🙂

Michelle B - Love the sunflowers! So pretty! And your hair – very cute!

Dina - beautiful!! I adore sunflowers!!

Suzanne Green - Love the sunflowers!!!!! They are amazing!!

Renee - LOVE the hair! Sunflowers are very pretty, too. Can you tell us more about your camera??? xoxo

Flower Patch Farmgirl - We have them popping up everywhere, too, and I cannot stop taking pics of them! Yours look completely illuminated from within. Lovely!

TRACI - LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUV the sunflowers to pieces but ya know Meg….you DO live in KS where there are PLENTY of sunflowers.LOL
People say Ks is boring…HECK NO!!!!!

Becky - before i even read the lines, i thought “ooooo, mama had herself a clip and colah!” very cute. and the flowers (and photography) are insane.

Amanda B - TOTALLY cute hairdo!!! You look adorable, although you did before the new do too!

Sandy Toes - so glad you did..beautiful.
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Chiot's Run - I love sunflowers. I keep planting them but the chipmunks keep eating them.

pam - i love your hair. i can see sunflowers any day. loved seeing you! 😉
but really, awesome pictures capturing kansas sunflowers. i could buy that cool camera but the pictures would still never be the same. yours rock.

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a promise

i promised talby a photo shoot…with her pettiskirt and pigtails.

i picked a field that was full of queen anne's lace and wildflowers.
then it rained and rained all week.
one evening when it was clear we took off..20 minutes past when i was hoping.
we stopped for balloons….another part of the promise.
the woman at the floral counter was……..S.L.O.W.
we first asked for 10 balloons but settled on 6 because she was soooooo SLOW.
then we went to the car and two popped…because she'd over filled them.
but we were losing light so we left with 4.
we drove the 10 minutes to the perfect field….
and it had been mowed down.
we drove on to find another but could not find wildflowers
so we settled for corn and the sunset.
then another balloon popped.

and yet….the pictures are still lovely.
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sweet annie was there too…of course.

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i want to skip in a field with a poofy skirt too.
i really do.

these girls are my everyday.  
i love them.
i love being their mom.
i love our everydays.

especially the days that we end up in field with (only) 3 balloons at sunset.

carol sue schoenfeld - Hi, Meg! I just love your pictures of the sunflowers at my “ole home” in Peabody! Wished we’d had those sunflowers when I was growing up, as they would have totally enriched my life, although I loved the wheat and still have some in our home in Manhattan Beach, Ca. Love the pictures of your absolutely darling children! They are the cutest, hanging out in the sunflowers! Thanks for stopping by. Carolyn called me yesterday to tell me about your blog and Becky is here visiting us now and we are loving and chatting about your exquisitely beautiful pictures!! Enjoy!!

Wendell Gard - Meg: Wonderful pictures and a great web site. Thank you for posting the sunflower pictures. Carolyn is my sister-in-law. She told me about the sunflowers and of people stopping by to look and or photograph them. I live in Oklahoma and would have not been able to see them had you not posted them here. The house next to the field is the one my brother Jon and sister Carol were raised in. Jon and Carolyn decided to move back there several years ago and make it their home. The three of us were adopted from different families but wer so fortunate to be raised in a home full of love and Christian values. Before the highway was re-routed around the north side of the house, there was a grove of mulbary trees where they imported silkworms to make silk. There is some samples and additional history at the public library. Our family homesteaded that land in 1865 after leaving Gard’s Point, Illinois, traveling by covered wagon to that location.
Your photography is just great, so keep your camera handy at all times. I carry my still camera and a video camera wherever I go and have obtained some outstanding photos and videos.

Patty - Perfect.

Kate - i love everything about this. have been “stalking” your blog since Baby Cora (we must have some mutal friends somewhere along the line). i love it and check it almost every day. love your photos, your creativity, your house, your dog, your stories, your new porch living room, your family.
-love the one of Talby in the chair looking up at the balloons.
-love that you brought a chair to the field. genius idea.
-love that poofy pink skirt. i would have been beside myself over that skirt when i was a kid. BESIDE MYSELF. I was obsessed with skirts that twirled and shoes that “clacked”.
-love the balloons
-love the magic hour light
-love the whole idea
love you share so much of yourself, your talents and your world with the blogosphere for “stalkers” like me to enjoy and be inspired by.
Nice to “meet” you!
kate

Melissa - The skirts are adorable – I was also wondering if you made annie’s and if so what pattern was it (we are big time into skirts at my house)

alyssa - very sweet.
I wish I had your camera…
and your talent…
and those skirts!

The Countess of Nassau County - I just love looking at your blog.

Holly - You take such pretty photographs! Your girls are very beautiful!

candice - The one with Annie looking up at Talby, it actually made me cry right now! I think they are perfect in there own imperfect way, and the story is even better, what beautiful girls and loving sister you have.

Laura Phelps - you should skip in a field in a poofy skirt.
I would really like to see that.

Steph @ Problem Solvin Mom - How heartwarmingly perfect, even though it wasn’t what you planned!

Ashley - Precious!

misty - these are great! I wish I wasn’t all the way in Oklahoma!

Elisa - Oh Meg these are perfect!

Kathy - Now that is a perfect Mommy day in my book! Noticed the teen wasn’t there? I would have to rent a few kids to do that my teen would die of embarrassment ….I mean what if some one saw her! Great photos! Your girls are so adorable.

Kelly - Captivating shots! I just found your blog, and scrolled through the pictures of your house (incredible, by the way!). I have a question about all the amazing trim in the house… because our new home also has incredible oak woodwork everywhere, and I’m not sure about painting it. I really love crisp, white trim, but am concerned about painting the windows shut, and also about leaving some oak and some white.
Just interested in your process:-)

Aubrey - those are sweet pictures. and sweet girls. you’re such a cool mom. apparently i’ve been such a bad one–much worse than usual–my daughter asked my husband if i could move away.

dawn - I wish you could photograph my girl. 🙂

Sharla - Like so many others, I love Talby looking up at the balloons and Annie looking up at her. The skirts rock!

Sarah W. - Gorgeous!

Cate O'Malley - Love the one of Talby looking up at the balloons and Annie looking up at Talby – stunning as always!

adrienneK - GUSH!!!!! so sweet!!!

Sheryl - Oh, what beautiful pictures! I think all women should be able to run in poofy skirts, too! You can just feel the life in your work. Thank you for sharing.
Sheryl

Marie - Hello Meg – oh my, I have really enjoyed your photos over these last few months! I especially like this photo shoot. That pink skirt is too fabulous! Thank you for sharing.
I’d love for you to join me for an “Heirloom Party” over at my blog on July 31st. Please stop by for details!
Blessings,
Marie

Dana Maize - Oh, I LOVE them. The little chair is the coolest idea.

Angela - I love Annie’s skirt. Did you make it? I love the picture where Annie is looking up at Talby like, “She is so cool.”

Kate - So beautiful! Great job, Meg 🙂 So perfect!

kat - I love these pictures!!! You are such an incredible Mommy and inspiration to us all. I wish I knew you in real life. For now, I’ll settle for knowing you in “reel” life. (I have been on vacation for two and a half weeks and yours is the first blog I checked because it is my absolute favorite!!!)

Renee - Awesome pictures. The one of Annie looking at Talby is heartbreakingly sweet. Wish I could take pictures like you. xoxo

Sandy Toes - precious.
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tausha - BEautiful-like always. Thanks for sharing your talents. You really are one fantastic lady!!
Love to come here every day-you make me smile!!

Nadia - These brought the most incredible amount of joy to me today! Gorgeous shots and gorgeous girls. You are a sweet mama!

Brooke - Your girls are too adorable. Love the pics, especially the one of the two of them on the chair together. 🙂

Vera - Great pictures – LOVE the light through the balloons on the first one and #6 is just priceless!!

renee - great pics, i just love your blog

Jess - LOVE

pve - 🙂 this made me cry happy tears.
oh my word, just the pop of each balloon, made me cry.
but then those smiles and poofy skirts made it all better.
you are a good Mom.

Victoria - What precious photos! I love them. Also love the junk idea in your last post and last year’s junk man! Great ideas.

Lacey McKay - These are gorgeous! I love the close up of her with the balloons and grinning. I love the one of Annie looking up at her, and I really, really love the one of her running alongside the road! I feel like I was there! Great job!

alice - these pictures are great! i love the way the sun shines through the balloons. your girls are beautiful 🙂 and you have some great photos to remember your day by – balloons aplenty or not so many :O)

Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - My oh my! You are so good. Do you ever get tired of hearing that? I love the time of day…you caught it just right.

Nina - beautiful pics Meg….might seem like a dumb question but how do you get the background sky so white looking??
thanks!

kris - beautiful meg! and so sweet…! sigh…

traci - so sweet. i love the photos of the girls together. you can just feel the love.

Georgia - I love these photos, they are so CUTE!!!
You have two very gorgeous young girls there, i love the photo where Annie is looking up at talby, its like ‘i wanna be like her one day’
Well done! xxxxx

Emily - These pictures are so beautiful… whst lovely ladies! -e

Lisa K in FL - These are great – and I enjoyed the story behind the pictures 🙂

erin - you have two adorable girls!

Amber - Beautiful!!!

colleen - Love the one of Annie in the chair looking up at her big sis. This photo shoot took perserverance. Sometimes our best plans have to be altered and we have to just go with the ebb and flow of it all. End result – fabulous!

Mary Elizabeth - Love em!! I want to move so you can take Maddie’s pictures and so she can play with your girls! 🙂

Karli - These are awesome. Totally captures a little girls dreams. I Love them. Every girl should own a pink tutu I think. =)

Michelle B - amazing!

Kelly - I love the one of Talby sitting in the chair and looking up at the balloons. I also love the one of Annie sitting in the chair and looking up at Talby. GREAT photos. Kelly

Andrea from Orlando - You’r family is so blessed to have all your wonderful photos to look back on. You’r a great photographer, makes me want to live in Kansas.

se7en - Oh look at those girls and that skirt is too darling!!! Love your everyday!

Jess - so cute…i love the one of annie looking up at her big sis…priceless. your girls are precious! they are so lucky to have each other…and for you to capture it…perfect!

Dawn - What sweet pictures! Your girls are adorable!
I wish I lived close to you so I could have you take pictures of my children!

princesslasertron - Talby looks so much like you. And I think the sunlight looks perfect. <3

Sophie - Awww! Such beautiful pictures, and such bneautiful girls. (:

PaiselyJade - I want to wear a big poofey skirt as well! What amazing shots – you have such a gift (I think I say that every time I comment!!)

Donna - My favorites are the 2nd and last…and of course the ones with Annie! Adorable!

Iman - A.D.O.R.A.B.L.E
I love the one of Annie looking up at her big sister.

Amy Purvis - THESE photos….are the best you’ve ever shot!! I love them!! Your little one looks adorable and happy…and loving life! Regardless of balloons…the smile says it all!!
LOVE these pictures!! The second is my favorite!!

emily :] - 🙂 this made me happy.

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happy family.

these girls were full of smiles.

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and they had amazingly beautiful eyes!

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even the baby.

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jody…i love your hair.
i meant to tell you and i didn't.  
it's shiny and beautiful…i love it.

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i love the cuddling on daddy's head.

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so pretty.
they were sweet as sugar.

thank you for spending some time with me chad and jody.

Wendy - Oh how exciting! I was just relaxing reading your blog and realized who this family was!!! I went to Bethel College with Chad and Jody and haven’t seen them since we graduated 9 years ago! Thanks for sharing your great pictures…what a beautiful family they have.

Michele - I’ve recently just started reading your blog and I LOVE it. You crack me up. You are inspiration to all Moms to enjoy every second with their kids…and to let them be kids!

Mallory - Wow! I love their hair and eyes! Their oldest child looks like a little lady.
Great pictures.

heidi jo - OH MY GOODNESS!!! THEY ARE GORGEOUS!

pve - I have always admired a gal who can match the moxie of a dress with polka dots, and bows. Oh they are too sweet as sugar! Great shots-

kinha - Hi!
Beautiful family.I’m glad to visit a great blog. Smart posts and beautiful photos. I like to contact people, all over the world, by his blogs.Would you follow me,because I’m afraid to lost your blog?I’m waiting your visit. Thank’s

Marie {Make and Takes} - I have a “finalist” award to give you for the Social Luxe Lounge Blogluxe Awards. I can’t find your email, so please email me and I’ll shoot you one over! Congrats!!

Kate - Look at those eyelashes!

dasa - sooooooooooo cute!

erica - what an absolutely beautiful family!!

purejoy - ah-stinkin-dorable!!
there’s a genetic xerox machine in that thar family!

Secret Mom Thoughts - Beautiful family and photos.

juliann brenner - lovely family…wish you lived close to photo. mine! I read your porch re-do; very nice! It made me think again of your third floor area above Lauren’s room…what did you decide to do with that??

Jocelyn Stott - What a beautiful family!

amy j. - They are one of my favorite families! Great pictures, Meg. As always. And you’re right, she does have awesome hair. Hate that about her. 🙂

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kansas

yeah…we're in the middle of nowhere.

yeah…we don't have oceans or mountains or starfish

yeah…we are full of rednecks.
yeah…we don't have any movie stars here.

BUT it is beautiful here.
June in Kansas is my favorite time of year.

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on the radio in my car was "We're from the Country"
how fitting.

now…if i knew what anything about farming…that would be even cooler!

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totally random…i just walked by sean's room… he is in there playing legos alone…singing Joy to the World…as loud as he can.  

funny.

Lori - Those pics could be from my family farm! I’m now a city girl in the East and I do miss the wide open spaces in SW Kansas! The best sunsets and the golden waves of grain are truly breathtaking!

erin - I live in Kansas! Born and raised. It gets boring sometimes but I have lots of green space around me, No horrible traffic, nice people that wave at you when you are driving even if they don’t know you, a house that I could never afford anywhere else, good schools and great neighbors. Wouldn’t live anywhere else.

Pansy Cottage Girl - Just had to comment about this. I’ve lived in southern California my entire life,43 years. I’ve worked in the movie business and I know a lot of people. But here in so-cal. Everything is so contrived. People aren’t real and you HAVE to lock your doors and car. We have a lot of traffic, the cost of living is rediculous and its a real challenge to instill family values in your kids when everyone is so concerned about what they wear & drive. I’m sure some areas have a sense of community but I dont have it for my kids. I’m a very outgoing person and I find it really hard to make meaningful relationships. I would move to the heartland in a hot minute if I could.

Ashley Crenshaw - Oooh! I’m so happy I found your blog (via The Inspired Room’s Melissa)!! I was born and raised in Kansas and now live in Colorado. It’s so nice to be reminded of my roots and how much I still love it there. Thank you for the beautiful pictures. Seriously, Kansas is awesome!

chasity - love how you captured the spirit of the midwest in these photos…they are fantastic!
chas

Sara - I want to learn to take pictures like this…amazing.
I love Kansas too. It’s dreamy.

Heather Richter - Just moved here…you captured it perfect. Love the sunsets here.

Cheryl Enlow - It looks so beautiful!

sandy toe - Wonderful pictures!
sandy toe

katy - I hear ya….it is beautiful!!! We are one of your neighboring states (OK) we live about 30 min. from the Kansas border.
I love looking at the wheat fields, I can see them from almost any window in our house.
Very nice pics you took!!

Traci - great photos. cuttin’ wheat – i love that time of year. we won’t be doing that until the mid to end of July. you need to be taking photos at the old farm. awesome.

Karen - Stop. STOP! You’re giving my WI dairy-farmer-husband, CROP-ENVY!
Still…beautiful. Just beautiful. TFS.

Staci - You can make a picture of a truck look incredible 🙂 I love that Sean was playing Legos…alone….and I LOVE that he was singing Joy to the World 🙂 Gonna go vote!

Kelly - Thank you for the beautiful photos. I’ve lived in Iowa and miss is so much.

Meta - hello,
here a message from a lurker in the Netherlands (so excuse me for my english and where the corn in the fields has not yet grown higher than 30 centimeters! yours is so high already!)
you have a great blog and make even greater pictures!
you’re an inspiration!
after years of being busybusybusy with everything and everyone around me I came here to read and saw your creative powers…..
yeah! I remembered I have those powers too and was in shock when I realised I did not work with them for way to long!
shame on me!
so I digged up my creative stuff/ cleared out my craftroom and YESYESYES!
me happy!
thank you!
and keep on blogging, I love to read it!

Keri - These are lovely. Starfish and oceans are great, but there is something to be said about wide open spaces! Kansas looks beautiful!

jolyn - I am officially homesick now. “You can take a girl out of Kansas….”
(I recently discovered you, but this is my first comment:)

Amber - I’ve been living on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland almost all my life and I never thought I could move to a middle-of-the-country state where all the land is flat. I am surrounded by mountains, ocean, reservoirs, bays, cities, etc. I would feel trapped in those middle states. Lol. But you sure make it beautiful with those pics!!

Erin - You captured the Midwest beautifully! I love living in the Midwest – don’t think I could ever leave!

Jenn - beautiful. hoping to see it in person some day!

Angela Henrie - I love farms. I wish I grew up on one. There’s a little patch in the middle of my town that still grows corn. I get so excited to see it growing. I hope they never develop that land – it would be a horrible day for me!

gina entz - I LOVE Kansas too. I’m always telling Ryan how beautiful Kansas is. And he always tells me I’m preaching to the chior. Great pics!

Rach - Yes, but you have summer thunderstorms that leave that sweet smell of wet grass when they are done; you have fire flies to run and catch in big glass jars with holes in the lid; you have clear skies not plagued with smog; and you have quiet summer suburb nights where you can leave the windows open and only hear the sounds of crickets. Kansas is a good place to live and your kids are your very own movie stars that you worship and adore. 🙂

Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - Nothing like the Midwest. I love it. GORGEOUS pictures!!

sarah keith - yes…it is a lovely state! I enjoyed seeing all the combines “workin’ it” out in the field. I’ve never been in June–usually in late fall-winter. No oceans-No starfish—but what you have is a mean sunset across a wheatfield!

Meredith - I can see why you love it so much. These photos could easily be mistaken for rural Australia. There is a quiet, calm beauty all of its own that sort of steals its way around your senses. Meg, these photos are simply beautiful.
Do you do “best part/worst part” of your day with your kids at the dinner table? One of my “best” parts yesterday was your lovely comments on my blog – I felt really encouraged – thanks for being so generous. Meredith xo.

Kristine Robb - what you do mean no celebrities?! you have DOROTHY!! 🙂

Vera - That’s funny, we both did similar posts today about our little neighboring states 🙂

rachel - Lovely picures – Kansas tourist board should hire you, you’d soon have the tourists flocking there 😀

Karina - Kansas certainly looks beautiful, I’ll have to visit one day. Your blog got my vote!

Kelly - Your pictures are great! I love your “amber waves of grain” shot!

Gram - Love Kansas, my parents met and married in Kansas, both my sisters were born there, my best friend in the world was born and raised there.

angela - Amazing pictures…love them! I grew up on a farm in Ohio and I miss it and that life whenever I see photos of corn, wheat, sunsets, tractors, etc…
Thanks for all the inspiration.

Kathy - Never been to Kansas but your pictures are beautiful so Kansas must be too.

Anne - You take seriously the most “lively” pictures! I love the one with the cows the best.

ali - You must be a photographer…i just came across your blog yesterday and can’t even remeber how…too much random time at work! But I had to ask what kind of camera you have. I know it’s mostly skill but your pictures jump off the page! they are amazing! i love them!!

Deva84 - OMG! Absolutely amazing blog! Just brilliant! Feel so warm to be here!
Have a lovely day!
Deva

Liana - Just voted. I love cake wrecks too, but you win, no contest!
GREAT pics, by the way. You really have a talen for finding beauty in everyday!

Cate O'Malley - Beautiful pictures! Would love to live in the country, but in the meantime, will happily live vicariously through your blog. 🙂

Anna Marie - ummm….you do have totally awesome fields of sunflowers! the first time my husband showed me a field of sunflowers just on the other side of the missouri/kansas border i was in awe! do you have any near you? if so…you have GOT to take pictures. those fields plus your photo skillz equals awesomeness…no joke 😉
love
anna marie

andrea liese - your lucky, i am in CA and can’t wait to leave to a more simple life, i love the pics

Ruth - It looks so beautiful. I would move to the middle of nowhere anyday if I could!

Amy - I spent my summers with my grandparents in Eureka so these pics bring back incredible summer memories. Also now craving the tastiness that is corn picked from the field then served with freshly caught fish.

Nina - Meg – those cows look like they are posing for you!

AnNicole@OurSuburbanCottage - Absolutely beautiful. I actually drove from Oklahoma to Kansas City in the spring, and I marveled at how beautiful the fields were. It had been raining, so everything was grey and vivid green. Amazing…

Meredith Salmon - Meg,
I am really inspired by your blog. Your photos are amazing and I can not wait every day to see what you have posted. I am a working mother of two boys (5yrs and 7 months). I have the same camera you do and love taking pictures of my family. I would love to know more about how you alter or enhance your photos. They are beautiful and vibrant. I would love to know more about your photos of families. I know you get a lot of this but you are an inspiration. God Bless.

Tracy - LOVE the pictures and the song on the radio is one of my favs considering the fact that I actually am from the Country – Arkansas to be exact! HA! Have a great weekend, Meg! :o)

pve - makes me wish I was in Kansas, right now wearing no shoes and sporting overalls.

Dina - oh my, it is beautiful! thanks for sharing!!

Melanie - Your photos are breathtaking. Love ’em.

Gretchen - I was just stuck in a traffic jam on the 101 Freeway in Hollywood while I was taking my son to a playdate. Came home, opened this and started to cry! Man, would I rather be walking through a cornfield!

Sharla - These are all so great – although I see these things around me, they just seem prettier when someone else points them out.

Starnes Fam - The Midwest is a lovely place to live and since I’m only in week 7, I’m still discovering all of it. Happy to be here! Beautiful pictures, as always.

Trish - holy cow your corn is so tall compared to ours in Michigan! I voted for you yesterday… I’ll go vote again 🙂

Dani - Beautiful pictures! I want to take pictures like that!
Going to vote… as I have done everyday since you posted about the award!

Heather @ Cookie Mondays - holy moly! you are killin the competition! you rock, meg(an)!

valerie - BEAUTIFUL! The pictures of the wheat are just gorgeous!

Jo - Meg,
The 3rd picture is definitely beautiful 🙂 Good eye, good eye. I see that stuff all the time living in Texas, but I don’t like to be stereotyped as a ‘redneck’, just not my cup of tea. Yes, we have TONS of cowboys/girls here, but i’m not one! It’s neat to see though, I think personally. The pictures are fab. *RUNNING TO VOTE*

purejoy - y’know? i think kansas has some pretty sexy wheatfields. your pictures are lovely. eye candy! is that queen anne’s lace? if it is, i’m in love. even if it’s not. . . i’m still in love.

Ambre - Wow, I never thought anyone could make me miss Kansas…but I LOVE that 3rd pic!

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3 little ones…

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kate with her toothless grin…oh my that is adorable!

and a green eyed big brother owen who loved telling jokes.
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both had beautiful eyes…and lashes.

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their cousin caden was visiting so we added him some pics too.
he had those same sparkly eyes too…and sweet chubby wrists and ankles…i love that.

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i really am enjoying being around all these kids.
it's a good break from my own…even its only an hour. 

thanks kelli…they are super sweet kids!

happy birthday mama.

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now…have you voted today?

i am getting kind of excited about this.
it's easy..no signing up…just type in your name and your email so they can record your vote.
would love if you went and voted today.  ðŸ™‚
there are 462 votes at this moment…how high can you blog lovers get it today. 

thank you…thank you…thank you!

Becky - Just stopped by … your pictures are gorgeous!

Anna Marie - Wow! You have over 700 votes at this point. So awesome! I hope you win!!!

Victoria - I just voted!!!! You know, I typically don’t vote for things like this but in this case, I truly believe you do have the best “eye candy”. Looking at your bright, colorful pictures always makes me happy! 🙂

pve - why is it that we love our own but it takes seeing other kids to know how much we love our own. those kids make me miss those wee days, of round cheeks, biting toes, kissing boo boos and chasing fire-flies. your photos say it all. summer love.

Keri - Fun! I’m off to vote. What do you get if you win?

melissa - you’ve got more votes than The Pioneer Woman!!! GO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
I love your blog! You are so much fun to read!
If you are ever in KY…or TN…I’d love for you to photograph my kiddos!!!

Simies - Hi Megan! I love your blog and your photos very much! I just voted for you again, hope you win!
Simies from Czech Republic

Jackie - Just voted! Hope you win 🙂

Becky - please tell me that if you ever find yourself taking one of your kids to space camp here in AL, that you will swing by and take pics of my kids?! simply a must. cause i’ll cook you supper and make it worth the trip. i promise!!

Heather @ Cookie Mondays - blogged about it today! it’s getting so fun!

adrienneK - awe cuties! i voted yay!!

Sarah - I love these pictures. What beautiful eyes!
I just voted (thanks for the reminder).

Lorilee - Adorable photos of adorable children! I love to photograph little ones. They don’t “change” for the camera.
Blessings,
Lorilee

Erin - Thanks so much, Meg! They are all fantastic!

danyele - toooooo precious!!! i love the skinned knee, the freckles…and the cutesie faces!

Jess - Sparkly eyes and long eye lashes! Beautiful. Great work Megan.
I’m going to vote now….I forgot you could vote every day,oops!

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mr. brody

he was one week old.

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he had perfect skin.
he was wide awake and calm as could be.
i loved his sweet red hair.

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that wrinkle in his foot?  that is just pure yumminess!

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we saw those eyes a lot!

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he's a keeper.

thank you for letting me get my baby fix jeremy and libby.
although…i think it made my baby fever worse.

Dina - These pics brought me to tears…so precious. You are truly gifted.
Beautiful.

Cheryl Enlow - How precious!! You take such amazing pictures.

Emilie - So cute! Gotta love the name (MY Brody is 5 months old…AND has red hair!) – Ahhh babies!

Alyssa - Stop taking such cute baby photos…It makes me want more kids. But seriously, great job on the photos.

Christina - That last picture is stunning!
Oh, those first days and weeks.
I miss them.
And I don’t. 🙂

Meredith - Enough! I already have six children and I’m trying really, really hard to be satisfied with that. I’m barely out of my maternity bra! I swear I could smell newborn baby smell while I was looking at those photos. You really need to put a warning at the top of these posts:) Meredith xo.

Sarah - Great pics…as usual.

Starnes Fam - My Lord. I need another baby. Such a little punkin…..great pics! The one looking down on him from his head is really impactful.

maribeth - oh, those feet! beautiful baby and beautiful pictures!

LibraryGirl62 - Mine are 15 and 16~and I still miss the baby days!

Ashley Ann - I could remind you what 9 months pregnant feels like and that might help the baby fever a bit…unless you are ONE OF THOSE women who adore pregnancy. Then we can’t relate 🙂

Lori Danelle - He is so precious! and great photos. Love them!!
I think it’s good that we made our decision to be done with kids permanent because I’ve been missing the itty-bitty baby around my house already! I might just get myself in over my head with kids from baby fever otherwise!! (My 2 keep me busy enough, not sure how you Moms of more do it!!!!)
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CherryTreeLane - I need to get pregnant!

sassafrasanne - i want to eat the toes.
🙂 and just sniff him a while 🙂
i, too, am baby hungry.

Mindy Harris - baby fever=that makes 2 of us!
wonderful, wonderful pictures!

Kathy - So cute! Only time having rolls is cute…not so cute at 40 something!! Have a great week!

Christy - What a precious. precious little boy! Love those little baby wrinkles. Seems like a million years ago when my little boy was so little. Sigh.

erica - what a doll! i love that he has his paci in some of the shots! too precious!

susie - now if you could only add that wonderful “baby” smell to your blog!!! Oh what a doll!!! susie in texas

juliann - oh my! I want another….

Tracy - JUST PRECIOUS, Meg – great job as usual and that baby is so cute you just want to eat him up! Thanks for sharing! Hugs, Trac~ ;o)

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