Baby Adeline

My freshman year of college, I went half way across the country to go to school. I didn't know a single person, so I was really nervous to meet my roommate. Nikki and I hit it off right away. We grew apart as the year went on, forced in to different social circles. But I feel very lucky now that we have kept in touch all these years and she is still in my life.

Nikki married her college sweetheart, Matt. This past June, they created their own little miracle, Adeline. What an adorable baby! She loved the camera and was so expressive! I can't wait to shoot her 1 year old photos next June when I get back to Illinois!

I think this may be my favorite shot of the day:

It was so great to see you Nikki, and your wonderful family!

Abernathy Family

I did my rescheduled family shoot for my friend Mandi and her family. Mandi's sister Kim is an old friend of mine from my Best Buy days.

Mandi has a beautiful family including her husband Brian, daughter Paige (4) and son Sean (9 months).























This is Kim:




Me and Kim:

Allie + Jared

Allison is my best friend from high school. We lost touch for a few years, but when we found each other on classmates.com again it was like we were never apart!

She and Jared are high school sweethearts! They have been married for 6 years now! Wow! She has been wanting to get some recent portraits taken so of course she called me! :)

I headed out to their place in Temecula. We started at the Redhawk golf course to take photos in front of the pretty waterfall - which wasn't turned on that day!!! Oops. We went to our back up location - Wine Country. Our first stop was South Coast Winery and then on to Wilson Creek for some chocolate port! Yum!

It was great to spend some time with them...Allie just opened a clothing boutique in Murrieta called Colette and its been keeping her pretty busy!

Busy Weekend

My parents were in town this weekend! I picked them up at the Baja Border on Saturday and we headed up to Palos Verdes for the night.

I was planning on photographing my God-neice this weekend but she was feeling too sick. :( I didn't want to go a whole weekend without picking up my camera, so when I went to pick Mark up at his dads last night, I shot some photos.

Mark wheelie-ing up his parents front yard:

I like this one because he is looking at me:

Dale (Mark's dad) playing some pool on their new pool table:








Brutis listening for bunny rabbits:

It was good to see my parents but its also good to be at home in your own bed at the end of a long weekend! :)

A Personal Update

The awesome news is that I'm almost back to walking normally! Monday I will offically be off the crutches, but honestly I've been off them for a few days now. :) Shhhh. I feel positive about my appointment on Monday.

I have a lot going on in the next few months. Weddings, Photo shoots, Travel. Whew! May will be a nice little break for me. Only one wedding scheduled!

I'll be travelling over Easter weekend up to visit family in Oregon. Hopefully I can hook up with some friends too, to do a photoshoot or two. My grandmother has recently become ill and I will be going up to see her for probably the final time. I plan on doing some awesome portraits and it will be very healing for me to share them here. I've always been close to my grandmother. I'll finish this blog with a photo of her and me taken in late 2005.

Jen + Bill (plus one)

Balboa Park is one of my favorite places to shoot at. There are so many nooks and crannys to explore! I met my April 14th wedding couple there on Saturday morning. They have an adorable 15 month old son named Will. Jen's mom also came along to help out! I took a bunch of the two of them, and also some of the 3.

Let me know what you think!

The happy family, Jen, Will and Bill
I just adored little Wills Converse. Stylish! I had to shoot them :)