DISASTER...

....Complete disaster.. and that's putting it mildly... This is what happens when my family tries to get together for family pictures. Yes, I'll admit it, we picked a horrible spot but when you're in Maricopa ... there's not to many "family friendly in a hurry to do pictures" places. So the sun was blasting everyone away, two babies were too tired to even be out there, one had too many toys to distract him, the oldest wouldn't cooperate, Grannie just tried to keep it together as long as she could, my parents.. what can you say, they didn't really help either... So this is the kind of pictures we got. I just look and shake my head and laugh.. and sometimes curse! But it'll do, I guess we'll have to remember family pictures just like this!!!

smiles :o)

This one has to be my very most favorite :) Just the gorgeous smiles that are so natural and playful. I just couldn't decide between the color and black and white... so you can decide!!


And these were just for fun.. we had to settle for some construction tunnels in the end because the grass was just saturated from all the rain. But it was fun and spontaneous! and kinda goofy! But that's why I love photography!

One more...

And probably a couple more tomorrow :) They just keep getting cuter and cuter!! I had to share some more... hopefully you guys like them as much as I do ;)

{tears}....

... tears of JOY and sadness all at the same time. As I sit here going through my pictures of one of my most favorite families in the whole world all I can do is cry and laugh and hope that we will have the opportunity soon to see each other and spend time together like that time we had this week. I spent the last few days at a family reunion and had the absolute pleasure of taking pictures of my cousin and her husband and gorgeous babies :) It was awesome, what a super awesome family :) A photographers dream!! So happy to be together and ofcourse some of the cutest little girls in town... well not my town anymore, but .. soon. hopefully ;) I will miss you guys more than you could know, thank you so much for letting me capture these wonderful memories for your family ... I love all of you :)

yes, yes, more Williams'... I can't help it :)

My sister is like my most bestest friend in the whole world, I just had such a great time following her and her husband around all afternoon!! We laughed so hard and embarrased him so many times! She does the funniest things, I have so many awesome pictures... I just can't decide!!!


Then on the other hand... he's pretty goofy too!!

Williams Family

I has the awesome chance to take my sister and brother in law and their so so so cute little guy to do family pictures yesterday... a friend photographer told me about this new spot that we got to try out and it was tons of fun. Lots of trees and plenty of grass, a great place just hang out and run wild! He had the greatest time playing football... until he threw the ball right over the fence (on purpose too!)
Yep.. there's the ball, right on the other side! Poor kid. We had to leave it there, that fence was a little too rickedy to be climbing over..
But I have tons more pictures, I am only about half way through editing them, so more to come soon :)

Lila... and the fam

I know Mom and Dad are going crazy to see more pictures so here you go... :) I promise I'm working, they'll be done soon !!

just for fun....

I just can't get enough of taking pictures of Calli! I get tons of practice and she gets to model.. which she absolutely loves :) We gave her this little beanie for her birthday, and she went crazy for it! So we decided to take a couple pictures and surprise surprise.. it started to sprinkle about 10 minutes after we got out to the middle of the dessert! But just like always it was done in about 2 minutes... so we took a couple more and came home. What a cutie :)
If you'd like to check out this awesome website with tons and tons of super cute beanies go to

www.pdxbeanies.com  ... or www.etsy.com and search pdxbeanies  .. you'll love it!!

{laughter}

I had a great session tonight with a super fun family down at Tempe Town Lake. It's been awhile since I've seen a couple that just enjoyed being together as much as these two did. They made my job so easy laughing and having a great time playing with their kiddo's. And these babies! What can I say, so cute! I have tons more to come ... I had to get a couple up because these were a some of my favorites! Thanks Kimberly :) Talk to you soon!

Jury Duty

Yes this is my day of Jury Duty, I ended up using my lunch break to walk around dowtown Phoenix and take pictures! I never got called into a court room so I was out by 2:30 and left to wait for Josh until 5. (he was choosen!) Anway, it was awesome! I never get to go downtown, so it was fun seeing what was a whole different side of peoples daily lives, than what I'm used to anyway. The traffic, the office buildings, and hot dog stand lunch breaks, the stinky buses ... and even trees and water fountains right in the middle of the mix. So despite not having the opportunity to fullful my patriotic duty, I had a great time just getting away from the usual and photographing something new :o) Which is always such a fun experience!