Pumpkin Time

You know fall is officially here, when you begin to see the giant cardboard boxes of pumpkins in front of the grocery stores. I love those giant orange orbs. Something about them just screams fun to me. Perhaps it's my memories of flinging pumpkins thru the air at the pumpkin farm in Sequim. Autumn is such a wonderful time of year. The amazing colors of the leaves falling off the trees. The wind blowing, quiet whispers that winter is going to be here soon.
Every year I take my kids to the pumpkin farm to see all of the giant pumpkins and animals. We love to see the enormous squash that the farmers have been babying to grow so big. I love to take the kids portraits hugging and sitting on the giant orange and yellow pumpkins.

Fall is a great time to have outdoor family portraits taken. The portraits make wonderful Christmas gifts for family and friends, and gets one thing off the list for the busy Holiday season that is fast approaching. Plus we still have some dry days, which won't last forever. Call to book your outdoor fall season session now.

Hope you all enjoy your Autumn and hope to hear from you soon.

First Day of Kindergarten

Yesterday was Vinnee's first day of Kindergarten. This is the big day Vinnee has been waiting for all summer. We are lucky enough to live directly across the street from the school he will be going to until 6th grade.

We went to Wallmart and bought all of his school supplies, including his new Speed Racer backpack, only to find that Levi was extremely jealous. After listening to them fight over who got to wear the backpack all day, my mom and I decided we better go find Levi his own backpack. It was just in the nick of time too, because I just got thru throwing Levi's diaper bag into the trash because of a broken zipper. Now Levi can carry his own diapers and wipes. Haha. He doesn't care if there is anything in it or not, so why not.
Vinnee seemed to feel very comfortable at his new desk, and immediately started making friends and playing. I don't even think he noticed when Levi and I slipped out the door to walk home.

Levi on the other hand was very upset. He wanted so much to join brother for a fun day of activities at kinder garden, and even tried to push Vinnee out of his seat at his desk to play with the Lego's. We had an afternoon of a lot of tears. I think once he realizes that he's going to get mom all to himself for the afternoons he might not mind so much that his best buddy is gone for a few hours, but this might take a few weeks to sink in.

All in all it was a great first day at Burley Glenwood Elementary. Vinnee's only complaint was that it took to long in the day to go to Recess, which already seems to be his favorite subject.

The Sweet Anticipation

I was honored to photograph Erin and Lucas's wedding last weekend. I love getting to record forever the awesomeness of one of the most beautiful and memorable days of a persons life.

Although I love every aspect of a wedding. From sharing of the vows to the exhausting end of the evening when everyone finally says their goodbyes to the new bride and groom, I have to say one of my very most favorite parts to photograph is the bride getting ready.

The excitement and anticipation of the day is just moving through the air. I love being able to capture some of that, not only for the memories, but also because this is a part that the groom doesn't get to see until later. I love capturing all the little details. The stuff that may have gone unnoticed is now created into a piece of art. Here are some of my favorite images from that part of what turned out to be a perfect day for Erin and Lucas. I hope you enjoy them.

I also want to say Congratulations to Erin and Lucas. May you live a long happy prosperous life together.

Glowing Beautiful Sara

Sara is a beautiful glowing mother-to-be. Anxiously awaiting her new baby girl. She is a sweet girl with a gentle kind spirit, and is going to make a fine mother.

Sara will be picking out her favorite picture from the session and it will be hanging up in the Garden Baby Boutique for the month of September. So if you want to see more, stop on in and take a look. Tell Courtney, the shop owner that I sent you.

We finally got our first eggs

If you recall seeing pictures of my boys this spring on the blog, you know that we got baby chicks this spring. Well, after a very long anticipated wait, we finally got our first couple of eggs over the weekend. They are so cute. Only about half the size of one you'd buy in the store. We're not sure if that's because it's only our little Ban tee chicken that's doing all the laying, or if it's normal for the first eggs to be extra small. Either way were very pleased and excited. Especially the boys.

Finally a good portrait of my dogs

Hershey my Chocolate Lab is a ball obsessed-hyper-active dog, which makes taking a decent portrait of him, next to impossible. Now try to throw Weasel, my sweet little long-haired Dachshund into the picture, and you can just forget it.

Well when we were at Manchester park one day, they were both just sitting there so sweet, tied up to a fire hydrant, of all things, and looking posed, so I took this great shot of them. I wasn't exactly impressed with it, until I did some editing and came out with this. I think it's definitely a wall-print worthy portrait now. What do you think.

I just had to add this one because I thought it was funny.

Family Treasures

Being a photographer has such great rewards. This morning I photographed a family who will be treasuring their portraits for the next year, as it will be a reminder of their brief visit that they got with dad/hubby before he had to go back to war. It's memories like these that mean so much, and makes my job such a joy.

Thanks Bev for inviting me to document this special time in your families life.

See you tomorrow when you get to see the rest. ;)