Matt and Amy are a fun fun couple! They met on a beautiful sunny day in Maine and Amy caught Matt’s eye with her tenacity in learning to surf in the freezing water. They love doing anything if it means they are together but top of their list are traveling and exploring the beauty of a foreign city, reading the Sunday newspaper over a cup of coffee (it’s likely that Matt roasted the beans himself!), and hiking anything from volcanoes to rain forests. They have such a love for each other that can only add to their capacity to love the friends and family around them.

It’ll be my honor to be their to capture their wedding day memories at Seattle’s Lake Union Cafe later this month! Can’t wait!

Matt has inspired Jake and I to start roasting our own coffee using the very same air popper my family used to pop popcorn while watching super 8 home movies on the wall when I was a kid. We quickly upgraded and are anxiously awaiting the arrival of a fancy new drum roaster. I love DIY stuff!

With the end of daylight savings, there’s no doubt fall is in full swing on towards winter. This fun summer session makes me smile with its glowy sunshine, playfulness, and warm mother/daughter moments. I love that they chose to begin the session in the library. It makes me think of how much I enjoyed reading with my mom when I was little and how she would read me the same book over and over and over at my request no matter that she could probably recite it by heart. :)

What could be more fun than a late summer afternoon at Alki Beach blowing bubbles with the ones you love the most?! These kids know how to rock it and we had a blast. I love the cozy quilt spread out on the grass and the giggles that erupted when bubbles landed on the girls. It’s so much fun to set the stage with something the kids love to do, let the moments happen as they will, and watch how their personalities shine.

How’s that for the next installment of Aston’s first year?! Just when you thought he couldn’t get any cuter, he went and did it. I just love all the smiles and with all the wide-eyed curiosity one minute and eyes squeezed so tightly the next with cuddly intensity. What a sweet, sweet family!

Check out his bump and newborn sessions!

This is Lucas. He was so excited to show me his tree climbing skills- isn’t he great?!

The last time I climbed a tree (it was more of a large shrub really- apparently I wasn’t very adventurous back then), I was rewarded with seeing three tiny eggshell blue robin’s eggs perched in the most perfect little nest. It was amazing, especially in the eyes of an eight year old. I still love the first sight of a robin at the beginning of spring!

When’s the last time you climbed a tree?

Isn’t that little mouth just the cutest thing you’ve ever seen?!

Carrying on a family tradition in naming him, his parents were inspired by the model name of a car. How fun is that!

I so enjoyed meeting little Aston- congratulations to Lotus and Peter!  And Happy New Year to all!

Look at them work it! They could totally be magazine models! I love it!

Look at that cute, cute bump!

Lotus and Peter braved the chilly Seattle afternoon with me this past weekend for a super fun bump session! I just love these images!

Being from Hawaii, they really wanted some images that said SEATTLE to their family back home so we met at the Olympic Sculpture park for some waterfront sculpture-y action. They also wanted to add some fun to the mix and since Lotus LOVES cookies (I mean, really, I couldn’t agree more!), we then made our way to Cow Chip Cookies in Pioneer Square for a yummy snack. I love the look of that shop and have always wanted to take some portraits there. Perfect!

Lotus and Peter are expecting their first lil bebe in December and I took such a liking to them when we met for our consult, I was THRILLED when they booked four sessions for their baby’s first year. I have a feeling we’ll have a grand old time together making images that will help them remember that precious first year. They are such a sweet couple and are so good to each other; I just know they will make wonderful parents too!

Nicole first contacted me about an Oplove homecoming session and we were both excited about being there to see Michael come home from his deployment (granted, she was infinitely more excited than me!).  Then, as often happens with the military, dates changed and it didn’t end up working out, so I was especially excited to get to meet the two of them after all when Nicole contacted me for an engagement session.

We braved the rain on Saturday and as you can see, all the wetness paid off with all the fun and super cute color-saturated images we created!

That weekend, we also learned (the hard way) EurRail is far superior to Eurobus, Nutella banana crepes are quite possibly the world’s best street food, and the Eiffel tower is the best place to just happen run into someone you know but the worst place to meet if you are actually trying to find each other (crazy story- ask me sometime!).

Yes, this is the randomness called my life, and I love it! But it’s also really hard since it means that some of my dearest friends are scattered around the globe.

Yesi’s beautiful, graceful, and is one of the deepest, most thoughtful people I know. She’s an amazing personal shopper, fashion designer, and has a killer fashion sense and quite the artistic eye that well lends her to photography as well (see diptych below).

I’ll never win a most graceful contest, but I do have fun with the best of them!

Stacy and Andrew are a great couple and to top it off, she proposed to him!  How cool!  I just love her no-nonsense, down-to-earth approach to life that is balanced just-so with his I’ll-snuggle-with-you-in-public-no-matter-who’s-looking take on their relationship.  They have great senses of humor and I just can’t wait for their wedding in October.  It’s going to be a blast!

They brought along their very photogenic canine Vincent to add to the fun of their session.  Any dog who’s people love him so much that they treat him to doggie ice cream is a lucky dog indeed!  Now on to a sneak peek at their engagement session before I wear out the hyphen key on my keyboard.