Monthly Archives: June 2014

We’ve added on to our family!

And we are so excited for you to meet our newest addition and our GIANT baby girl!

Just to let you know… if you plan on visiting my house anytime soon, I now have two toddlers!  A wild and crazy 26 pounder who loves monster trucks, car crashes, Winnie the Pooh, Slides and splashing in the pool!  My other toddler:  A wild and crazy 65 pounder who believes she is a newborn baby, likes to be held like a newborn baby, runs zoomies around the backyard, talks back to you when you speak to her in baby talk, is a lover of cheese, and will play peek a boo for hours!

Both fight for attention, both want to sit in your lap at the same time, both want to know where the other one is at all times, both are keenly aware of when there is a chance for food to be involved, and both think the world revolves around each other!

They are a dynamic duo for sure and all I need is a set of matching super hero capes for them… and maybe some theme music!

Meet our new girl Tipper!

What’s more perfect than sandy baby toes, mushed up avocados, sticky cheerio fingers, squealing baby giggles mixed in with baby growls and the far distant crashing of waves?!

That is by far my perfect evening!  A warm summers night and my absolute favorite people around!  There is nothing that fills my heart more!

We had the perfect evening for a family session that was inspired by little Jacks!  He is such a wonderful and funny little man with the best of both his momma and daddy in him!  It’s been such an honor and a joy for me to watch him grow and explore and this family session was huge for me!

I’m a pretty emotional personal but seeing one of my best friends become a mom and really she was born to be a momma… it just is a something I can not describe!  This session in particular, I’m not sure what it is about it.  I came home and as I was going through these images I was just bursting with happiness and tears!  To see her grace and beauty as a mom and a wife is breath taking.  To be able to capture how playful she and Kimo are with their son and how happy and crazy and silly Jacks is;  to see how full his little life is already, he is just one incredibly lucky little man!

I’m usually full of words and can openly express my feelings and my thoughts but this is the first time I really find myself unable to find those words to describe what is on my heart.  It’s the first time that I really am unable to express what I felt when I was taking these photos and how incredibly happy and just amazingly beyond lucky I am to be able to be a part of their lives.  I just don’t have the words to express what it means to me to be able to share these moments with them.

It might be hard to understand but when you have known someone as long as I have known Colleen:  almost 25 years now, it becomes a blessing and a privilege to be able still be a part of their lives and see everything that they are and how far they have come and who they are now!  I feel honored to be able to give back to her by capturing these special moments and I feel honored that she let’s me be a part of them!

So enough sappy talk… here are my favorites from our session together!  There are many and if I could have put the whole gallery on here, I would have!

Special Thanks To:

Elizabeth Friske Photography:  Styling and Decorations!  (not only is she an incredible photographer but she happens to have an incredible eye for interior decorating and styling!)

Ashton Keely:  Colleen’s Bracelet

My Sweet Sunshine Moccs:   Jacks Blue Moccs

Sometimes, I get a wild idea… and then it explodes!   2014-06-04_001

Sometimes that explosion works in my favor, like it did for this amazing session I had this past weekend.  Other times, it’s overwhelming and it backfires in my face in the best kind of way where there’s no choice but to laugh!  I’ve had that happen with clients so many times before and thankfully the results end up being spectacular because we are all just laughing at my epic failure that the images turn out great and simple and truly candid!

This idea though:  one I finally was able to see come to life in the way I visioned it thanks to some creative help!

Many Many MANY special thanks to Elizabeth Friske for hopping in my car straight from work and coming with me to help me stage this, to help me haul all this up the beach and just support me!

Check back later in the week to see more from this gorgeous styled family session!