congrats to julie and randy and big brother riley! i photographed julie’s maternity back when riley was born (one of my favorite all=time sessions - you can peek at a few here on my old blog!

here are a few photos from last month’s maternity - i can’t wait to meet little miss ava soon….

i love his expression…like he’s pondering how this will change his world…

such a sweet, tender moment

what an adorable face!

riley getting in on some painting action!

the *now-its-a-tradition* welcome belly painting

filed under: San Clemente baby photographer, Orange County baby photographer, Orange County children’s photographer, Los Angeles maternity photographer, modern baby photos

Big thanks to Kristy for sending me this photo of her wall! I love seeing what folks do with the photos….

I admit to being secretly paranoid that my clients will be like **me** and have their beautiful photos just sitting around in piles (do NOT be like me!) so it is always nice to see the *final display*!

These were 9 horizontal 11 x 14 photos from one of my favorite sessions ever (and my VERY shortest! just 37 minutes from start to finish - that is a record for me!)

You can see more from photos from their shoot here!

(calling all clients….i’d love to see what you have done as well….pretty please with sugar on top….)

Thought I’d share a handful of shots from Miss Madison’s latest beach session - I first met her when she was a rambunctious little 3 year old - now she is 5 and full of smiles and sassiness - love it!

This first shot is one of my new all-time faves - I love shots with *personality*!!!

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Yikes! It has been nearly a MONTH since I have posted on my poor neglected blog! Bad blogger! Well - to catch you up on my month in one great big long grammatically-incorrect run-on sentence: We enjoyed the holidays, Santa was good to Jake and Ali and they were very happy with their new toys (and my new iPhone!) and then we had a mellow New Years, my Mom was in town visiting and we had lots of fun, as soon as she left I took off for Arizona for the Imaging USA and DWF conventions with my best photo-buddy (the fabulously talented Lisa M)- where I got all inspired to come on home and begin shooting again!

whew.

Betcha didn’t really need to know all that - did ya?

Okay - back to biz - I would like to thank everyone who took the time to email their nominees for my *giving-is-awesome* holiday giveaway! I **wish** I could do something spectacular for each and every nominee - and I will definitely be doing this again next year! It was hard to narrow down to just one *winner* - but something about Karen & Jordan’s story just touched my heart. Without sharing too many personal details - Karen is a single mom who has been through a lot and is still a ray of sunshine to her friends AND she is currently recovering from donating a KIDNEY to her sister - that is pretty selfless! Big thanks to the always fabulous LisaE for writing such a heartfelt nomination - (and she gets a $500 credit also!) Yay! I can’t wait to meet Karen and Jordan!!!

Because no post is complete without a photo - here is just one fancy cactus in Arizona……kind of appropriate with today being *Inauguration Day*, I thought….