Geoff and I photographed Chelsea and Austin’s wedding a few years ago down in North Carolina, but now they live in our hometown of Pittsburgh, PA! They absolutely love it and are even recruiting their NC family and friends to join them up north. They know I’m from there, so on a recent trip to my native city, I had the pleasure of reuniting with Chelsea and Austin in their home and taking family photos of them with their son Fox. Fox is an amazing kid with the best head of hair in the entire world and an extremely enthusiastic disposition to match. He is *high energy!* and likes *vacuuming!* and *unloading the dishwasher!* and *umbrellas!*. He is very excited about the fact that Chelsea is pregnant and that he’s about to become a big brother, and I know he’ll do an amazing job. Everyone deserves a sibling who is so excited, and Fox is the best.

You know who else will be a fantastic big brother in this household? VIRGIL. Virgil is an orange and white tabby cat and my hero. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cat who more closely resembles a cartoon version of a cat more in my entire life. We locked eyes and I fell in love with him instantly and he knew it, so then he proceeded to follow me around and presumably ask me for food, which I did not give him. But I did pet him. I love Virgil a whole lot. I also love this whole family a whole lot and am so excited for their family adventures with their new little girl. Congratulations friends, and thank you for having me!

Woman petting orange tabby cat
Woman petting orange and white tabby cat
Orange and white tabby cat
Family portrait with cat in home
Family portrait with cat in home where boy is hugging cat
Mom playing with kid's hair
Mom putting a scarf on boy's head
Boy and mom smiling at camera
Portrait of a toddler
Toddler portrait funny
Kids acting like dinosaurs
Kids acting like dinosaurs
Kids acting like dinosaurs
Orange and white tabby cat sitting on kitchen counter
Orange and white tabby cat standing on kitchen counter
Kid laughing with his dad
Kid playing with car keys
Toddler unloading dishwasher
Toddler unloading dishwasher
Toddler unloading dishwasher and helping to hand dishes to his parents while tabby cat stands on counter
Toddler putting a spoon away in a kitchen drawer
Toddler unloading dishwasher
Toddler jumping on chair
Toddler jumping on chair while parents hold his hands
Toddler jumping on chair
Toddler jumping on chair
Orange and white tabby cat sitting on chair
Kid talking to his cat
Toddler giving his cat a hug
Orange and white tabby cat
Toddler playing with bookbag
Toddler putting a bookbag on
At home documentary family portraits
Toddler eating cereal
Family portrait with toddler and pregnant mom
Family portrait with toddler and pregnant mom
Maternity couple portrait
Photobooth pictures hung on door
Toddler smiling
Parents smiling at toddler as he cleans room
Dad laughing at toddler
Toddler shrieking
Toddler shrieking
Toddler laughing
Toddler vacuuming his room
Toddler meltdown lying on floor
Parents building blanket fort with kid
Kids and parents in blanket fort
Kids and parents in blanket fort
Toddler meltdown
Mom handing son a polkadot umbrella in the rain
Toddler holding polkadot umbrella
Toddler walking around with umbrella in the rain
Toddler smiling at umbrella
Toddler walking around with umbrella in the rain
Toddler walking around with umbrella in the rain
Toddler walking around with umbrella in the rain
Toddler putting on his jacket
Parents taking a rainy day walk with toddler down the street
Parents taking a rainy day walk with toddler down the street
Parents taking a rainy day walk with toddler down the street
Parents taking a rainy day walk with toddler down the street
Parents taking a rainy day walk with toddler down the street
Mom getting snack for toddler
Dad getting pregnant wife cheese from the fridge
Parents eating snack with kid in the kitchen
Toddler unloading dishwasher
Toddler unloading dishwasher
Toddler unloading dishwasher
Orange and white tabby cat
Orange and white tabby cat
Toddler playing in ballpit
Toddler playing in ballpit
Toddler playing in ballpit
Toddler playing in ballpit
Toddler playing in ballpit
Toddler climbing slide
8 month maternity photo
8 month maternity photo with skeleton
8 month maternity photo
8 month maternity photo

Cat+Mitchell+Co.

I believe this is my 7th time photographing Cat and Mitchell and that calls for a toast… of gluten-free pizza… which we did immediately after the session. Cat might be my first gluten-free friend in NC, and I am incredibly grateful for her wisdom and guidance in my first months of diagnosis, and her resolute assurance that Italy was the absolute best vacation destination for the gluten-free (she was right). It’s been nice having a partner in rice-based recommendations. We don’t live super close to each other but we always try to base our get-togethers around food (which is the right choice), and we’re always trying new gluten-free restaurants. This session ended in us splitting multiple gf pizza flavors which resulted in two leftover boxes in the fridge (one for mine and one for Geoff), which their son Cameron labeled for us with a crayon, and it was very helpful.

I love these guys and I’m not sure what more there is to say. Cameron’s our bud and Sarah was a baby but now she’s our bud too. Sarah, I think, is just me somehow. Like my having photographed her parents enough somehow embedded my DNA into Cat and Mitchell and now Sarah is like, 25% Carolyn. She’s obsessed with Halloween and her favorite song is the Ghostbusters theme and Halloween and spooky things are really all she wants to talk about. I relate to that on a deep level. I need to work on getting her interested in cats (I tried to show her the pictures of our cats, but all she really wanted to see was a video of our 12ft skeleton at Halloween… I’ll work on it). I also have a lot in common with Cameron, who likes animals (especially their dog Biscuit) and basically any food that’s sweet. They are truly good, sweet, polite, funny, fantastic kids. But of course they are because Cat and Mitchell are their parents and they are wonderful people.

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