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’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!

I can’t tell you how much my family means to me.  My kids and my husband are my life.  I have mountains and mountains of pictures of them… but hardly any pictures of all of us.  And pictures of all of us are important.  For our kids first birthday this past fall we decided to get a family portrait session with the truly amazing Tara Whitney.  She is the master of family photography.  Every one of her pictures is so REAL and captures LIFE and LOVE and that was exactly what I wanted for our family portraits.

I was so excited and nervous for the session… would we pick the right things to wear?  Would the kids cooperate?  Would there be enough light in our new place (we took these about a week after moving to our current home)… I wanted desperately for these pictures to show what this part of our lives was like and how much joy we have.

Well I needn’t have worried because Tara had us covered.  They are more gorgeous and more true and real and heartfelt than I could have even imagine.  I love each one to bits.  She just blogged our session today and these are a few of my favorites.  If you want to see more definitely stop by her blog to see the full post.

Thank you Tara! I love them!