mike | kim | noah | levi

mike, kim, noah, levi and i took a trip to the beach yesterday. it was windy and too sunny, but they look fabulous anyway!

i love these mommy & daddy moments...

airstream | family

i met kelly at a birthday party and basically told her she needed to let me take pictures of her family. (be careful, i'm building my portfolio and you might be next...) clearly, i was right that i needed to take her family's photos, because they have the amazing airstream tralier as a backdrop.

kelly also has this fantastic 'camping furniture' stashed in the airstream. i fell in love! kelly, i might come over and borrow one or two chairs for future photo shoots :)

Noah's Birthday

Last weekend Logan was invited to a birtday party so I brought my camera. I took a few (hundred) pix and came out with a great set of photos from the party. I think people should hire photographers more often for kids' birthday parties! You put so much time and effort into the party only to rush and get 4 photos of your kid blowing out the candles.

The birthday boy:


Gotta love babies who love the camera:



Cake time and everyone's ready:

Baby Landon

Sweet Landon was born on January 31. I loved getting to spend an hour with him, getting to know his mama and smelling his sweet baby smell.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Matt and Monica + 3

I met up with Matt and Monica at their stunning house to do a shoot with their stunning family. It was really a great time hanging out with ultra-affectionate Malia, stunt-boy Makaio and sweet, beautiful (and just a little bit tempermental) Maile.

This shot of Maile is my favorite of the day:

Megan and Zack

Although I'd like to say that Megan and Zack's parents dropped them with me and ran, it's not true. Brad and Kibbe were there the whole time and posed in quite a few pictures. It turns out that two and four year olds really never stop moving, and my favorite shots just happen to be of them individually.

Squish

Don't you just want to squeeze her?

My girlies

It's definitely the hardest for me to take pictures of my own kids. They don't want to pose for me, they want to play! But every once in awhile they share some magic:

Sweet Levi

Levi is my neighbors' son. He's the only one of our kids who would stop long enough for me to take a (good) picture.