A New Birthday Traditon

My sweet Stelli Bean turned 6 a few weeks ago and around that time I started noticing all of the beautiful buttercup fields around the undeveloped areas in what I consider the 'country' of Virginia Beach.  The kids and I love to drive through the back roads on the way home from school.  We mostly look for the horses that are in the fields or the vultures or hawks flying about.  Since we've had a real Spring this year, the flowers are blooming brilliantly and the grass has been so much greener.

I wanted to capture the beauty of the buttercup fields before they were cut or faded away and I also wanted to capture my little girl before she grew any bigger.  After school one day, I brought along our rain boots and a very fancy dress Stelli had gotten for her birthday.  When I picked her up from school I told her we were going to take Birthday pictures and she was thrilled.  We drove to a field a few miles from our house and parked in a church parking lot that backed up to the fields.  The rain was getting close so we had to be quick about the pictures.  The field was beautiful and a little soggy from a previous rain.  Stelli found tadpoles in just about every puddle in the field, she's a real nature gal too!

Here are a few of my favorite shots.  I'm so glad we made it out to do this and I hope this becomes an annual tradition for both of my kids.  They grow so quickly and sometimes it's easy to forget to snap a photo of them on a regular basis.  Their "Birthday photo shoot" will now be something we can all look forward to in addition to celebrating their Birthday.  I hope you enjoy them!