the s family

my friendship with this darling family started with lauren and ryan's wedding a few years ago. since then i've been blessed to become friends with lauren's mom (we are very, very young mothers) and see lauren's two darling baby boys born. now, i don't know what i'd do with two boys, but lauren grew up with three brothers and her husband has six, yes six, brothers. so they are certainly comfortable with these two.
i've already talked to lauren about having more children, since she has such cute ones.
it has been so fun to see them around the neighborhood and get to know their families. so many of my couples move away or live in different states. it's been really fun to keep in touch with these two.
best of luck with the new addition, lauren and ryan!









laughing at big brother




taking some of his own photos

more lovelies

i love catching these little moments between the parents and their child. even if it's just showing the parent's hands, it's such a great memory. (even a drool wipe!)
a lot of times the parents will want me to crop this out, but i love to keep them in. it's lovely.

an oldie but a goodie

anyone who knows me well will recognize these two. i have photographed these twins twice now and i absolutely adore them. this is from last summer, but i wanted to make sure they got on here.
their names start with e and g. their mom told me i could "tell them apart because 'e' wears eyeglasses, although that could be confusing because glasses starts with g".
then i would call 'e', 'g' because all i'm thinking of is the glasses. anyway, she lost me and i don't know who is who. but they are darling and if they were mine i wouldn't have a career because i'd be photographing them all the time.

small, small world

this just blows me away.
you can track visits to your blog by adding a site meter onto it. so i go in here every once in awhile and you can not only see how many people are checking in, but also where they are coming from.
check this out! there are people in pakistan, hong kong, venezuela, the uk, canada and switzerland that somehow stumbled on to my little blog from des moines, ia. and that was just today.
it is truly cool to see how connected this world is.

santa barbara morning

jackie & mattieu

jackie grew up in des moines and then moved to the east coast where she met mattieu. mattieu grew up in france and after a brief stint as a foreign exchange student his freshmen year in high school, came back to the states for grad school. mattieu is pronounced a little bit like "achoo" in french. they met, fell in love were married february 23rd at the temple for performing arts in des moines. mattieu's family came from france and although they spoke english, i think they got a kick out everyone speaking very slowly and loudly to them.
we had an awesome time at their wedding. they gave us a whole hour just to play around at the temple and take photos.
they're having another ceremony in may in france, but they won't take me with them. they did, however, read on my blog that i love trader joe's and have promised me a special treat from there. i guess that will do.
happy happy spring! have fun in france.

favorite six

during the next week, i hope to share some of my favorites from last year that never made it up. i'm going to be changing my website around a bit, so i've been looking through a lot of great stuff.
these six were up on one of the walls at the studio during the open house in december and i just love them together.

more california photos

me and suzy at the getty
and
the couple we rode across from in the tram

you be the judge

i think my almost-two-year-old painted her face in the likeness of our dog, barney.
coincidence?
i don't think so.

jack's back

my favorite rocker baby was back for his six month photos.
here's a peek . . .