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I’m looking forward to a fun little giveaway sponsored by the What to Expect line of books! The What to Expect While Expecting book was like my bible when I was pregnant the first time and I’m really excited to be hosting a giveaway of their book. More info to come, but in the meantime if you have no idea what I’m talking about you can check out their website here!!
Have a great weekend!!
Rendy
Lainey and Leah belong to a family we know through school and church. They are perhaps the most adorable girls I have ever known. I have the pleasure of singing with Lainey every Sunday at church and she is such a joy. Her little curls just melt my heart (and make me jealous for Scarlett). Leah has recently turned 18 months old and is the sweetest little sister. I loved seeing the girls interact with each other during our little session. They were just so sweet!
The first shot is my fave. Perfection.
The Holdaways are an adorable family we have the pleasure of living near. Trish does my hair, and I have NEVER had anyone I’ve been more happy with. (No offense to my past hair-girls.)
Anyway, I happen to like to like to get my hair did and Trish happens to like to have family pictures so we worked out a trade, of sorts. I am ALWAYS open to trading. Do you babysit, massage. . . are you another photographer?? I’m happy to work something out- shoot me an email!
So I met the Holdaway family on a beautiful and sunny evening at Gasworks Park. The sun was just on it’s way to bed and all of the sailboats were coming in to the harbor for the night- what an amazing show!! I could have sat for hours just watching them sway back and forth. Little Maxwell was more interested in the pebbles on the shore, and the bugs in the grass, and anything and everything else. He was the perfect three-year-old and ran and played and gave a few kisses to mom and dad. Those toddlers really make me work, but I just love the shots I get from them!
Thank you Holdaways for amazing pictures, and amazing hair. 
This is my favorite shot of the night. Hands. Down.
I love doing newborns. Love, love. They’re so sweet and while you might expect it to be stressful, I find newborn sessions to be the least stressful of all. I just love shushing them and rocking their little bodies to sleep. Asher was no different. He slept like a champ and hardly cried. His big brother is perhaps the cutest little boy I’ve ever laid eyes on and he was equally sweet. I’m not sure how his parents ever say no to those baby blues.
I am WAAAY behind on blogging, but better late than never I hope!
Stella had a birthday! That’s right, MY baby is now one. I’m still in shock.
To mark the occasion we did a Cake Smash photo session. These are so fun. I used some decor from her birthday party (which I will be blogging shortly) to decorate the backdrop.
I just love her little smiles at the beginning, and her fake crying at the end is priceless.
This picture says, “No more cake, Mommy!”
Dylan is my one and only little boy. He was my first baby and will always be so special to me. Getting pictures of him is hard because he generally doesn’t like to be the subject of pictures, and unlike his little sister, he doesn’t often dress up and do things that make me think, “oh man, I’ve got to get my camera.” So when he came home from school one day with a loose tooth, I knew that my moments with his beautiful little boy smile were limited and a full-on photo shoot was scheduled for the next free morning. The tooth still hasn’t made it’s way out – that will be cause for another photo shoot- but I’m glad I didn’t wait because it’s only a matter of time.
This weekend we went up to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival and it was beautiful! The sun was shining and the flowers were in full-bloom. Unfortunately, the rest of the Seattle metro area had the same idea and we were in horrible traffic the whole way.
We checked out some of the tulip fields and then went over to a little produce stand and ate wood-fired pizza and delicious ice cream. Could you ask for anything more?
Of course, 3 o’clock in the afternoon isn’t the ideal time of the day to shoot in open sun but I’m glad to have these pictures anyway. And if you’ve ever wondered why photographers don’t shoot in mid-day sun it’s because of all the shadows it casts on faces and such. Now don’t you feel informed.
So I kept looking through the pictures I edited from Scarlett’s little session and each time I felt like something was missing. I had quickly ran through the pics on my camera as we drove home from Pike and I remembered there being one really fantastic picture. Maybe it was my lack of sleep, maybe I was rushing through when I edited in hopes that I could finish before Stella woke up again, or maybe I have permanent “pregnancy brain”. . . . but somehow I left out the absolute gem from the session. This picture beats all the rest by a mile if you ask me.
So here it is in both color and black and white. Which do you like best?
My little Scarlett turned two a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been wanting to get pictures of her to mark the occasion. Today we finally made it down to Pike Place Market with photography on the agenda and I am so glad we did. Scarlett hammed it up as usual and I think we got some great shots.
Scarlett, I adore you. In all of your sassy glory, you are MY daughter and I love every inch of you.
You may be thinking “why would you want a picture of the back of your kid’s head?” I love this one though, and I think it is because I could recognize the back of that head in a crowd of a million and instantly know that it belonged to me.
And you may have noticed Dylan got in on a few shots. Unfortunately, most pictures of the two of them are totally goofy. What can you do?
Last week I had the opportunity to photograph the Little family and it was one of my favorite sessions of all time. This family is so sweet. The girls were absolutely precious and Andrea and John were just about the nicest people ever. Add to that PERFECT light and you have the makings of a wonderful evening.
We met at Manito in the Perennial Garden and then took a little side-trip to a more natural area of the park with beautiful tall grass and bare rocks. The sun was just going down and we got the most beautiful back-light which absolutely made my day. Then the girls came across some untouched dandelions – the full, perfectly round ones that are just begging to be blown to smithereens. I had so many good shots from this session that I had a really hard time narrowing them down! I love it when I have that problem.
