The Duley Family: Tempe, Arizona

With our friend Ally getting married last week, we’ve had the chance to see lots of old friends recently, including some who were visiting from out of town.  My old friend (and roommate :-) Krissy and her hubby Bill were here from Ohio and asked us to do some family portraits with them.  So we headed out to the campus of ASU on a chilly Sunday afternoon to capture some Duley cuteness!  They chose ASU because both Krissy and Bill have TONS of history there.  They both went to school there, Bill was practically living there when they were dating and he was working on his engineering degree, Krissy worked for the school before moving to Ohio and to go even farther back in time, her grandparents used to live right where Palm Walk is now and they sold the land to the school.  The Duley’s bleed maroon for sure!  They offered to show us their old make out spots on campus, but we opted to stick to the main roads.  (Ha ha – probably wasn’t supposed to mention that on the blog, right?)

A little stroll down Palm Walk . . .

Krissy & Bill’s little boy Sam is almost a year old.  He was SOOO good the whole shoot, although his mom says he’s usually a lot more smiley.  Smiley or not, he’s a total cutie.  I think he was a wee bit suspicious of the two crazy people running around with big cameras.  Can’t say I blame him on that one :-)  We are a little crazy.

One of my Favs: SERIOUSLY adorable :-)  And I LOVE that he’s sticking out his tongue a little bit.

The adorable Duleys

This one just makes me smile – probably because Krissy’s laughing.  So many of my fondest memories involve laughing with this gal :-)

Sam needed a little break from all the group shots so he got to play in the grass for a bit.  Ryan snagged this low angle shot of him.  Doesn’t it look like he’s on a mission to destroy something?  Like attack of the 50 foot baby!

So I came up with what I thought was a brilliant idea to have Bill throw a bunch of the fall leaves up in the air to get Sam to look up and smile.  He could not BE any less amused with my little stunt, but Krissy and Bill seem to be enjoying themselves.

Favorite, favorite, favorite!  Did I mention that this is my favorite?

Bill’s big request was to do some shots that “look like Arizona”.  We actually found this kinda funny since most of the time we’re trying to find places that DON’T look like Arizona :-)  So we drove around to find some cactus and brown stuff.  (Just kidding Bill – apparently most people in Ohio really do want to know what a cactus looks like.)

So every time we’re doing a shoot with kids, one parent or the other ends up throwing the kid up in the air like this next one.  The kids seem to get a huge kick out of it, but seriously, I’d be SO afraid I would drop them!  Especially with a bunch of cactus around . . .

LOVE this one :-)

And of course, we had to show a little love to the old alma matter – Go Devils!

Thanks for hanging out with us Duleys!  We had an awesome time with you guys and now we’re even more very sad that you’re going home :-(  Love you guys!