I have been photographing this wonderful family since little "U" was a newborn, got to meet sister this time around!  I just adore this family
they are quintessential Northwesterner's and I just love that






this is there amazing home that i have watched them build from the the ground up!  so exciting to see the progress year after year!
Mark built this amazing wall by hand!






we got to collect eggs at the coup!

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she was doin the shake, shake, shake...so adorable!



notice mojo, jumping in the background!  He's got some height on him!





ok, i can't end a session without some baby bum!!!! so sweet!

This is one of my closest friends, and her lovely family. We had so much fun playing at the park, where coincidentally, there was disc golf going on all around us, when we weren't dogging frisbee's we were trying to catch caleb our super quick two year old!  It was a lovely day and I feel so privaleged to watch my friend's lives expand and grow...this was the first time I photographed the five of them, it had been the four of them for so long!  Love you guys!

Hope these images help your Monday. I shot these on a recent trip I took out on the Histroric Columbia River Hwy I love fall in the Northwest, it's incredibly beautiful and soothing.  I love spending time in nature whenever I get the opportunity!

this one speaks to me so much of the girl she is and the woman she is becoming!

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.  She never existed before.  The woman existed, but the mother, never.  A mother is something absolutely new.  ~Rajneesh

Bright Star by: John Keats

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--
No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever--or else swoon to death.

http://www.brightstar-movie.com/

absolutely beautiful movie

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
 Theodore Roosevelt

Beautiful senior from Spokane! I was so excited to photograph this lovely young woman!

It's back- to- school for my babes!  They were so excited and nervous for their first day of school. I love how J just loves his big sister.