Meet my beautiful cousin Allie 
She’s a senior this year, and was of course in need of some fun senior photos!
With this session came a small dilemma though…
Dilemma: My G-mom and Aunt Kay (Allie’s mom) both prefer traditional backdrop/studio photos with everyone pleasantly smiling at the camera. Well… Allie isn’t a traditional teenager… She’s colorful, she has attitude, she’s quiet, she dyes her hair black, etc. She’s not a smile by the pretty fountain in the park type of girl. So, how do you balance what the senior would like (they are her photos after all) and what mom likes (let’s face it, we’ve gotta make momma happy!)?
Solution: Fun, funky photos in a unique location for Allie… combined with well lit, straight on, smiley face shots for G-mom and Aunt Kay. We think that we captured Allie’s personality perfectly AND took a few for mom to put on her desk/hang on the wall. PUUUUUURE GENIUS!!!!!! HA!
We haven’t shown you guys a Bobbi version and a Mike version of the same photo in a long time… so, here you go! Here’s my photo…
And Mikey’s. 
“Every Birdie Welcome”
WORK IT OUT!!!!!
CHEEEEEEESE!
LOVE THIS!!!! I want Mikey to take MY photo here… LOVE the colors! It’s my favorite! 
When I showed this one to her in the back of the camera she smiled and said, “That one is my favorite!” So, I thought I would show you all…
AHHHHH!!!!!
We found some abandoned construction equipment
Here’s Mikey’s favorite 
Brittany came along for the shoot… so we thought it would be fun to get a jumping shot with all of the girl cousins That’s Brittany on the left (she wasn’t feeling well…) me in the middle and Allie on the right.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Allie is such a neat young woman… and I love her so so so so so much!
She’s a senior at North Kansas City High School… which is also where I went to high school. Now, I know this is weird… But I LOOOOOOVED being a teenager. When we drove through North Kansas City, I all of a sudden was overwhelmed with this HUGE amount of school spirit, it was RIDICULOUS. I began singing our Alma Mater at the top of my lungs and couldn’t remember the second line… it was KILLING ME!!!!!! So, I called my best friend Corrie and asked her to sing it to me She knew EVERY word! I’m not surprised in the least!
After dinner, the WHOLE family went to Stroud’s for some fried chicked (yeah, last week was NOT a good week on the diet). Corrie came along. The hostess was an NKC alum, too (class of 07) So there we all were… singing our song.
Any NKC alum reading our blog? If so… remember the words? Blog comment it!
Allie, I’m SO excited to see where your future takes you. Follow your dreams… let NOTHING hold you back. I love you.
~bobbi+mike +
You guys know I LOVE my red pants!
And go figure… Mikey sleeping on the job.
Actually… he was taking this photo It’s probably my new favorite action shot. I love you!
WHEN CAN WE GO BACK TO KC?!
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