The Downing Family | Austin Family Photographer

I have a soft spot for the mothers of boys. Obviously this is because I am one. But I really loved this family who was so close and loving and these boys who are really young men. They were so warm and polite, funny and smart—just what I want my boys to grow up to be. And if that were not enough, they also had recently adopted an elderly rescue dog with a limp. I was mad for them.