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On October 2nd we went with our dear friends Patty, Caleb and their two girls to Legoland.  While we were there I took a few snap shots of them hanging out and a few portraits of the family.  Patty is pregnant right now and is due next month.  I also wanted to get a few pictures of her beautiful pregnant belly before her little dude makes his debut.  On a side note Legoland really isn’t that exciting (for adults) but for small kids it is a lot of fun.  We just enjoyed hanging out with good friends and of course I had fun taking pictures.  🙂  The girls were total hams as always (love those girls!)  I left out those pictures on this blog, but Patty I will be sure to give those to you.  🙂  Here are a few of the portrait pictures I took of them.

She is glowing!!! I love how happy you look in this picture Patty.

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On Sunday Madie will be turning two years old so her Mom Jessa and I met up to capture this milestone in her life.  We went to Wind & Sea Beach to take some pictures.   We were also able to snag a few pictures of Emily in her blessing gown before we went to the beach.  I think Wind and Sea is becoming one of my favorite beaches to take pictures at.  It seems to be one of the least crowded beaches in San Diego.  Not sure why, it is a great beach!  Plus there is plenty of parking.  Not like La Jolla Cove or other beaches where you spend 30 minutes just trying to find a parking spot.  The weather was great too.  It was a little over cast, but it wasn’t cold unlike last weekend.  It seems to be finally warming up in San Diego.  But if it stays cool awhile longer I won’t complain. 🙂  I have had my fair share of hot weather living in Arizona most of my life.  So here is our morning with Emily and Madie.  I love photographing these little girls!

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On Friday I finally got to photography my sister’s family.  It’s about time!!!  I have been doing photography for awhile now and this is the first time I have photographed their family!  They are not big picture people…  It took , my sister’s husband to graduate to get these pictures done. :o)  I said what’s going to be the next big event to make you guys take pictures!?!?!  So my brother in law is graduating this Month from SDSU.  It has been a long road and he finally did it.  We are very excited for him and his family.  I know it has been a sacrifice for everyone during this long journey so we are very proud of him.  We went to San Diego State University to take their pictures.  I have never been there before and I was pleasantly surprised at how beautiful the campus was.  Here are a few of my favorites:

I especially loved this picture for the meaning behind it.  The message I was trying to portray was the family behind my brother in law.  Through his whole college education his family was behind him 100% supporting him along the way.  They are truly a close tight knit family.

Truth be told, this was how most of the shoot went.  I had to delete a lot of pictures because at least one of them was being silly in the picture.  So this one I got ALL of them being silly.  This is their personality so we had to show it.  I love my nieces and nephews.  They are always good for a fun picture.

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The Smith family is one of my long time faithful clients and of course our friends.  I started photographing this family when their oldest daughter Madie was born.  Now she is walking and talking!  It’s been fun watching this little family grow and being able to capture all their moments.  This morning I met them at Balboa Park.  Of course, one of my favorite places to shoot.  🙂  It was a gorgeous day and I couldn’t have asked for better weather.  I photographed the girls a few weeks ago, but we wanted Ben in the pictures so we could get the whole family with their newest edition… Emily!  We also had their “Nana” Debbie come along to get some pictures with her girls as well.  Here are a few favorites.

Always good for a laugh Ben…

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In my family most of my cousins that we saw regularly were boys…  and one of those boys was Jeremy Olsen (he is the Dad in these pictures.)  Jeremy, his brothers and my brother Dave were just merciless to me growing up.  Ok, maybe we were all like that to each other, but come on…  It was 4 boys against me!  Actually their youngest brother and I banded together, but I was a traitor and was mean to him too.  It was a vicious cycle, but in the end we made a lot of great memories and life time friends.  I think it was our goal to out wit each other and see how far we could get away with playing practical jokes on each other.

It seemed like every summer they would stay with us or we would stay with them.  Than when we got older they moved to where we lived and we saw each other all the time.  We sure went through our ups and downs with each other, but in the end we made some memories we all look back on and laugh at.  They were definitely some good times and I cherish them.  Now we are all old and grown up with our own kids.  It is so weird.  We are actually responsible adults now!  Who let us do that?  🙂  So I was excited to photograph Jeremy’s family yesterday at Coronado Island.  Jeremy and his wife Trish just had their 3rd baby right before Thanksgiving last year and it was my first time meeting Kimber and taking pictures of her.  It was a lot of fun for me to capture this family’s life as it grows.  Jeremy’s parents also came to San Diego with them so I was able to take some pictures of my Aunt and Uncle too.  My Aunt and Uncle were some people who were always there for me when I was growing up and I can never express how appreciative I was for that love and support.  I was excited to spend time with all of them this weekend.

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Emily Lane Smith was born on February 27th, 2010 and is the newest member of the Smith family.  Today I got to photograph Emily, her big sister Madie and her Mom.  Hopefully in the next week or so, we will get Dad in there too.  But for now here are the adorable Smith girls.

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Today I met Brandie, Kris and Kylie at the park to do some family and maternity pictures.  You may have noticed I did Brandie’s maternity pictures back in December, but she was barely showing than.  We were doing a family photo book for Christmas and we were trying to get the pregnant ladies in our family in there, so we had to make due with what we had.  Now she is in her last month of her pregnancy so she is definitely showing!  I love pregnant bellies!  Almost makes me miss mine…  Ok maybe not.  It sure was uncomfortable, but I did love feeling a little person in there.  It was an amazing feeling.  Here are a few pictures from today’s shoot:

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On July 1st I was able to photograph Katie’s children and some of their cousins that were visiting from out of town.  We went to Wind & Sea Beach in La Jolla and had fun in the sun and played on the beach.  The weather was perfect!!!  Here are a few of my favorite pictures from that session.

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