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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!

The Wonders {Family Portraits}

The Wonders family is Cute with a capital C. I am lucky enough to have worked with the very talented Jackie Wonders on a few of my weddings and I was so happy to get a chance to meet up with her and her adorable family over my winter vacation. Emery is pretty much the cutest 2 1/2 year old ever and she certainly has a mind of her own (and quite the personality as well) It makes me both excited and terrified for when my own kids get that old :)

We mostly met up for a chat and some catching up but we also did a quick portrait session as well. Here are a few of my favorites – enjoy!

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Jackie it was SO fabulous to see you again and your family is beautiful! A very happy 2010 to you all!

Two little men – C&C {family portraits}

I’m still here, still alive and I apologize profusely for the lack of blogging in the last month. Has it really been a month?!

Many new posts coming your way soon. I think I’ll put up one a day or every other day for the next few weeks to make up for the slow down (or rather grinding halt) in blog activity for the last little while. Sound fair to you? :)

This portrait session was one of my favorites ever! I met Tamlyn (mom to C&C) through my mothers of twins club and hit it off with her right away. When she lamented the fact that she didn’t have any good family portraits I pretty much jumped up and down waving my arms and screaming “Me, me! Let me take some!” You’ll see why as soon as you see the curly locks and gigantic smiles on these twin boys. Future heart breakers for sure! The goal of the session was to do a “day in the life” following the family through all of their typical daily rituals and really capturing who they are as a family. I love this type of shoot because I get to see a family in “real life” and I also get to spend a lot of time goofing off with the kiddos.

We started out in jammies in the kitchen whipping up some pancakes because what better way to start the day when you’re momma’s a chef?!

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After breakfast we headed to the beach. I loved how beautiful and sunny and deserted the beach was. A gorgeous day!

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And then back to the house for some snuggly book time at home

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These two little boys have the most ridiculously adorable dimples of all time. Can you even stand it?!

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And a few family portraits outdoors to wrap up the day. I love this one.. the squishy fish face is so ridiculously cute!!

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I had so much fun with you guys!! Let’s do it again next year (and the next, and the next :) )

A few sneak peeks {Family Portraits}

My blog posts lately have been shamefully few and far between. Blame it on the crazy busy season or the holidays or the fact that my children went bananas with the time change… in any case I owe you a LOT of blogging… and it will be coming soon! To tide you over here are a few random sneak peeks from a bunch of family portraits I did in the last few weeks (’tis the season and I have a few family portrait sessions left before the holidays if you’re still interested!)


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More blogging soon… engagements, weddings and families… I have so much to show you!!

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