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While living in Akron, NY, our family always enjoyed going over to visit the Kokanovich family at their farm. Our boys would have a blast climbing on the giant hay stacks in their barn, snuggling with the baby kittens, and catching the chickens to hold.
For Liam's 8th birthday, they brought him a chicken named Caramel as a present and he loved it!!
A year after we moved to Florida, they, and some other good friends of ours were vacationing in Cape Coral, Florida so we drove the three and a half hours and stayed two nights with all of them. We have known some of these friends for over fifteen years, spent many hours at their homes in Bible study or for parties. Ralph and I are where we are in our marriage, faith, and even Florida because of some of these people's influence. We love these people!
Everyone had such a blast catching up, swimming, and going on the boat. We were also able to see some burrowing owls near the playground. Devin, our middle child had just been learning about them!
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While we were there, ANOTHER friend of ours, named Candace from the same New York area was staying only thirty minutes from our other friends so we met up with her and two of her kids at Steak and Shake just to be able to give each other a big squeeze and catch up for a wee bit. We LOVE that people vacation in Florida and getting to see them!
When we were going to be in Western New York in July for my twenty year class reunion, I was delighted that Tiffany wanted to hire me to photograph her family during! On the day of their session, I showed up a little early on the farm. One by one, the kids started coming out of the house not to see me, but to see my boys. Not only had they come, but so did Ralph.
All the girls were anxious to get their photo taken. Abe, their only son, was content to keep playing until needed. Jada, their oldest had even practiced her poses. Grandma, a hairdresser and salon owner of D'Tangles in Alden and Corfu, came to help with all of their hair. Mom is also a hairdresser, but as you can imagine, her hands are full with homeschooling five kids and running Healthy Living Farm.
Jake was not excited for this session. Most men aren't. While I got started taking photos of the kids, he was still on his tractor in the field. When he returned, he said to me, "You've got fifteen minutes." I responded, "I can do it in less." I did it in 13 minutes. Phew! Ha!
This family is an absolute riot. There is rarely a dull moment and I love that I was able to capture just some of the fun that they have. May they cherish these photos, like they do each other forever.
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