First I want to say thank you to everyone who left some love on the blog yesterday for my sister’s engagement session! You all made her and Donald feel very loved and for that I am so grateful!

These are my beautiful cousins. They mean the world to me. Every time I see them I feel so old and I can’t believe how fast they are all growing! As you can see, little Mae steals the show when the camera comes out! I can’t even begin to explain how much JOY this little girl has. You can’t help but smile and laugh when you are around her. Love her. And my handsome little…or not so little cousins are just the best older brothers to little miss mae.

Enjoy.

I feel like time is flying by right before my eyes and I just want it to slow down. I really, really do.
This weekend I did something that I need to do more often. I did something simple, but it gave me so much energy and made me feel so full.
Visiting my sweet little (or not so little anymore) cousins couldn’t have happened at a better time. I love these kids to death, they are the only cousins I have in the state of Washington so they are pretty special to me. I can’t help but feel old after seeing them though…the oldest is basically a MAN now and towers over me…it seems like yesterday I was running around giving him piggyback rides. *sigh*

Time keeps moving along and so do our lives. But one thing doesn’t change for me…family.

My family will always be my favorite thing.

I’ve had the pleasure of watching this little family grow over the years and it has been so much fun! I met Manu almost 4 years ago in school and ever since then I have watched her life change…from being an awesome wife to Daniel, to becoming pregnant with their first child, and now she is now a beautiful mother to little Clara. Manu understands the importance of documenting life and this is why I love her. If you would like to see their little journey over the past couple of years you can check out her maternity session HERE, and also there first family session HERE. Clara just turned 1 a few weeks ago and I was so excited when Manu called me to document it. I’m sure Clara is so tired of my huge camera in her face all the time…but I’m sure she’ll thank me later : )

Love, love, love this family.

We’re in the right spot, and juuuust the right moment.

Happy Friday everyone.

No matter their age.

Justice is one of those kids who teaches me something every time I see her. This little girl has a lot of spunk and she definitely challenges me when it comes to photographing her. She’s a girl of many faces and she makes me laugh. She reminds me it’s okay to get a little crazy. It’s ok to run around with no final destination in mind. Justice is a pretty cool kid.

As much as I love shooting weddings, every once in awhile I need to hang out with kids and photograph them….just being kids.