Klare Kountry.

If you’ve been following along the last couple decades, then you know this beautiful gang. The Klares have expanded their kingdom into the country by buying a Lakehouse! (I should have taken a pic of your Klare Kountry sign as we left and the light was better!🤦🏼‍♀️)We were supposed to have a session in the morning then spend the day on the lake but poor Old Man Klare was stuck at work into the night and back in again that morning. I still shot a few frames of Luci and her minions because they were already dressed up!

Burrow joined the gang last Christmas!

Gosh y’all are so beautiful!!!!!

He’s a good boy!!

Linda is def the star of the fam that everyone is obsessed with. 😍

Photographing animals is definitely harder than toddlers. 🤣 They move much more and faster plus you can’t see their eye unless at a certain angle!

The whole circus came along with me for the fun!

You’ll see quickly how those two boys were cut from the same ‘special’ cloth.

I wanted to get a group shot but they were fully incapable of following directions at this point, so it was just candid. Which, ya know, is probs even better. I hope I never forget these moments but I’m glad I have proof for when I inevitably forget!!

NoJo was there but doesn’t love dark water so she stayed out. 🤣

Focus on Gianna’s pretty face and not that awfulness my dragons love to do. 🥴

She was always eating. Always sticky. Always happy.

Chris OMK finally got there just as Luce started dinner. We grabbed a couple more fam shots after everyone was showered. Dominic always has me laughing but this. 🤣😭 I love that kid.

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I could have done a whole blog of them living their best lives.

I realized as I put these side by side, the girls are less than a handful of years away from the age when we met. GAH! Where have the last 22 yrs gone? 11 babies and lots of chaos later, here we are happy as ever. We are so blessed.

I’m so thankful the kids all have each other to cherish too. Makes for so much fun when we can all get together. I’m so looking forward to all the new renovations coming to the Lakehouse. Next summers trip will be a blast!!! 🙌🏼 Keep working hard, OMK. We appreciate and love you. 😘 Heart, Aunt Mel.