Baby Cheyanne and Glacier National Park

I took this last week off to drive out and meet my friend's new baby Cheyanne. I've known Amy since 6th grade and despite moving around to different states, (and even different countries), we have always kept in touch. She is one of those people in life that I can go months without talking to, but the second we connect, it feels as if no time has passed. It was so wonderful to meet her sweet little baby girl. Not only is she as cute as can be, but she is a really happy easy-going kiddo.

Amy lives right at one of the many entrances to Glacier National Park in Montana. If you have not been there, it is the most gorgeous landscape I have ever seen and it is definitely worth the trip! On my first day, we headed up north into the Canadian section of the park which is where I got the shot of the three of us. The trip was super relaxing and I wish I could have stayed longer. Hopefully I will make it out there again soon.

Oh, and the last shot is for my fellow Oregonians. We are tortured with 55-65mph speed limits here AND everyone is a super slow driver on top of that. Once I crossed into Montana, I was so thrilled at the 75mph speed limit that I ended up going a little bit faster than I should have. oooops!

Baby Caleb

This last year has been filled with meeting babies of my past wedding clients. I love that my clients keep in touch! Caleb is the son of Shannon and Long. I photographed their wedding in 2007. I can't believe how time flies. As you can see they look great and now they have an adorable little boy! I posted the photo of him standing on the grass because he had never felt grass before this photo shoot. His reaction was really cute. He was a little hesitant at first when they sat him down. So they stood him up and as you can see, he just looked back down at the strange new texture he discovered.

Theo's slideshow

I tossed together a slideshow of the photos from Theo's shoot. Enjoy!

Baby Ava

I met Meggan, Robert and thier new baby girl Ava 2 days ago in my office. Ava is only a few weeks old. As you can see, she is super precious. A head full of brown hair, bright blue eyes, and I saw her dimples every once and a while. She is a super sweet and beautiful little girl! It was a pleasure working with this new family.

Theo turned 3!

I was contacted once again by the lovely Jami Curl (owner of Saint Cupcake)to photograph her family as her one and only little boy turned three this past month! We have had a tradition to do a family shoot around his birthday for three years now! Well, two years have passed, but I have done three birthday photos shoots, starting when he turned one. Did you get that math?

This was the first time that Theo was aware of my camera and that it meant he would proudly look right into my lens and smile for me! It made my heart melt when he would say "cheeeeese!" We had a ton of fun wandering around some industrial areas in NW Portland and then we ended the evening at Sauvie Island where we explored a grassy field and had a picnic. The balloons were meant to be in more photos, but Theo was worried they would fly away (don't we all worry about that when it comes to our balloons!). It took a lot of convincing for him to finally hold one balloon at the very end of the shoot. It was worth the wait. Thanks Theo! It has been so fun documenting you over the years. Can't wait for the next shoot!

Malone family at the Woodburn Tulip Festival

Brian and I headed down to the Woodburn Tulip Festival yesterday afternoon. I've had the pleasure of getting to know Brian's family these past few months. His sister Jeni and her husband Andy have the cutest two boys Skyler and Mason. They joined us at the festival so we could take some family photos. Jeni is the photographer in their family so it isn't often that she is in the photos with her boys or that they get a photo with all four of them together. Brian has been joining me at the last few photo shoots and he has made great use of my D200. I took so many of my favorite photos with that camera so it feels great to see it being used again. In fact, half of these shots are Brian's. He is becoming quite the photographer as you can tell. The weather was perfect and the fields of tulips went on forever! It was a fun afternoon.