The last few months have been absolutely crazy for me. Not only did I deliver my beautiful baby girl (6 weeks early!) but our family also finally moved into our new home and my husband started his new job. It’s been a whirlwind to say the least. In the midst of it all it seems like absolutely everyone has been having their babies and there are a whole lineup of adorable squishy newborn faces that will be making their way onto the blog soon.

For now, however, here are some photos of my favorite of all the squishy newborn faces – my lovely daughter Edith Dianne.

Happy belated Easter and more importantly happy spring! I must say the New England winter has seemed unending to this California girl and I’m glad that it’s finally warming up! I hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend with loved ones.

I met Emiko and Luke years ago when I was the second photographer at their wedding.  I have kept in touch with Emiko since then and was so excited when I realized that not only would she still be in Massachusetts when we moved but she was pregnant as well!  We were going to set up a newborn shoot for the beginning of August when I arrived.  Apparently little Eleanor had other plans and decided to arrive early.

I’m sure you noticed that the last post I wrote was in August (yikes!) and telling you I’d be “right back” after our move. Well here it is three months later and I am just now writing my first post back. Sorry!! The move was a lot more involved than I thought it would be and I’ve been so busy catching up with editing, album orders and just life in general that my poor blog has been suffering. I can’t wait to get caught up with all of the wonderful sessions and weddings that have gone un-blogged in my absence, so stay tuned!

We’re home!! I suppose you were probably wondering where I’ve been for the last week. If you’ve emailed or called and left a message – don’t worry!! I’m getting back to everyone as quickly as I can. The fam and I were on a fantastic Hawaiian getaway vacation and I decided to make it a work-free trip. Lovely right?! Hawaii with toddlers is a little bit different than Hawaii as a teenager on a family vacation (think lots of bike rides and hikes) or Hawaii as a young couple (think lots of fruity drinks and drawn out sunset gazes) both of which are quite nice. With toddlers going on vacation is a bit of a marathon. How much can you do/see/experience while still attempting to maintain some semblance of a “schedule” for things like napping, bedtime and eating. I’m pretty impressed with how much we actually managed to do and how much fun we had at the same time. The kids were great on the flight and Ben and I even managed to get away for a date night one night. It was a marvelous trip. Here are a couple of quick vacation snapshots, just in case you need a vacation from your desk. Feel free to imagine yourself on ours.

We went to a goat farm (and learned that our less than 2 year old daughter loves goat cheese)

Went to the aquarium and farmers market and wore lots of cute matching Hawaiian outfits (well at least the twins did, not Ben and I )

Watched lots of gorgeous sunsets

Learned to love sunglasses and hats (is Amelia in sunglasses not the cutest thing EVER?!) and spent lots of quality time with family

Of course visited the beach and played in the sand

And did I mention the SUNSETS?! Sigh.

All in all an amazing vacation! I’m feeling refreshed and relaxed and excited to show you more of the gorgeous weddings and portraits yet to be blogged. Stay tuned!