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A lovely Maui Vacation {my life}

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)

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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 :) )

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Watched lots of gorgeous sunsets

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

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Of course visited the beach and played in the sand

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And did I mention the SUNSETS?! Sigh.

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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!

She captured our love {My Life}

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!

Happy Valentine’s Weekend {My Life}

I know the blog has been a little (ok a lot) slow lately. I am going on a weekend break and I will be out of the office until Tuesday. When I get back there will be a lot of new posts coming.

In the meantime, it’s been much too long since I posted any pictures of my two favorite valentines (no offense to the husband of course). My tiny babies looking not so tiny any more, but I love them more than ever. Happy Valentine’s day to everyone!

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Happy New Year (and a sneak peek)

Happy New Year! I’m finally back from our week and a half long holiday break and I can’t believe it’s already 2010… a whole new decade! I have a whole heap of new and fun things to blog but first up a little sneak peek of one of my favorite images from a portrait session back in November. I just love the late afternoon sunshine :) !

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Amanda & Steve {vintage engagement}

These photos are a long time in coming… they’ve been burning a hole in my virtual pocket just waiting to be shared with you all… if only I could get enough time to blog!

Amanda and Steve are awesome.  Hands down fabulous couple!  They won my giveaway a few months back and I had such a blast shooting their “retro recreation”.  In case you don’t remember the story, Amanda’s parents eloped and her mom wore a super sweet minidress to their wedding.  Amanda wanted to recreate that day with a retro car and a sweet minidress of her own :)   I scoured Los Angeles to come up with the location I had pictured in my mind and I found the perfect spot :) They turned out even better than I hoped and I love them all! Amanda you looked fabulous!


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Congratulations Amanda & Steve! A lifetime of love and happiness to you both!

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