Announcing :: Mr. & Mrs. Rogriguez

Welcome to the wedding day of Ezekiel and Lacy!  It was a beautiful spring day that we so lucked out on!  It started getting hair and make-up done down in Olympia. Then we headed to her grandparents house where Lacy got dressed.  Everything about this day was intimate, from the time she got ready to their reception at Mercado.  Everything went perfectly and I know they look back and truly feel it was an amazing day, just how they like it....laid back and full of love.

    

Thanks Ezekiel and Lacy for letting me be with you on all of your most important days so far.  I am so lucky to have people like you as such great friends and I love capturing it all on camera.

If you look at older posts, this was obviously first, but their baby Emily Ana came just a month after their wedding day...talk about a busy month!  And doesn't Lacy look FABULOUS for being 9 months pregnant?!

Newborn Portraits ::Emily Ana

A few days after Emily got settled into her home with momma and daddy, they came over for some newborn portraits of this little munch kin. It's amazing what 3 or 4 days does when they are so little, completely different and every time i see her it's a different face and different feature to notice.

She was so good once she was good and milk drunk and let us do whatever, once in a while giving a cry but soothing hands to her back calmed her down and on we went.

What better thing is there then 10 little toes?! When you touch them they clasp on, never letting go, just like you want their heart to do to the one who is "the one" in about 25 years from now. Wanting them to be just so little forever, but at the same time not being able to hold back from saying "I cant wait..." till you see them smile back at you, hear that sweet first word, watch them walk down the driveway looking back and smiling and hold ONE finger up for the first day of first grade. We always wish hurry time up, but looking back, always wishing those sweet times would last through every single stressful moments in life. But with those times that are worse they make you appreciate the good ones, the ones you remember forever, and thinking about them make you smile a giggle.

And the favorite...

OK or this one...

So happy to have you in this world Emily, and you have SO MUCH LOVE all around you already. I know your mom wants to savor every single moment, but I can't wait to see the girl you will be and the women you will become. You have some great parents and are so lucky to have so much support all around you!

Announcing :: Emily Ana

On March 15th we welcomed into the world my good friends little one, Miss Emily Ana. She couldn't have come more perfectly, although took awhile to decide to enter into this crazy world that we all call life.

I was so lucky to be right there to capture everything, it was so amazing and I hope to do many more delivery sessions. It is truly an experience like none other, watching someone enter into a world full of love and hope. I cannot believe it has been 2 months to the day, it feels like yesterday we were all watching the monitors at the hospital hoping the best for both baby and momma and daddy.

Congratulations Lacy and EZ, could not be more happy for the two of you and I love her so much, along with everyone else in your lives! She is so blessed to have so much love and support and that showed from day one. Thanks for letting me share and capture this experience with you, I hope these images capture everything you felt that day and looking at them brings you back to March 15th, 2010!

Lacy :: Rockin' The Bump

Alright, so this was one of my first maternity shoots and it was incredibly personal and important to me to display exactly who Lacy is. If you ever are scared of pregnancy, Lacy would have inspired you. We have gone the the gym everyday together, she is due on Sunday and she is still going, pushing on with the theory that if it isn't uncomfortable, continue doing it! She barely was showing at 6 months and we were planning on doing shots in January but when the belly wasn't there we decided to wait....She would eventually POP out but really, still at 9 months she looked amazing...

Thanks Lacy, for letting me capture this extremely intimate time in your life! Can't wait to meet baby Emily!

Stay tuned for Ezekiel and Lacy's wedding and hopefully sometime this weekend, the birth story of baby Emily, as I will be in the delivery room capturing all those private moments on camera :) Enjoy your weekend friends!

Mr. & Mrs :: Darling

Welcome to the beautiful wedding day of my sister-in-law and her now husband; Stephanie and Josh. In November Jordan and I headed down to Alabama to have Thanksgiving with his family and the day after that, head further south to the sweet beaches of Alabama/Florida.

There are many more to come but these are some of my favorites from the prep through the beautiful ceremony! The reception ones are on there way but here is a little peek at whats to come!!