Teagan: 6 month session

Oh how I love this little cutie-pie!  Teagan is making her 6 month old debut on my blog, she is my niece and she is absolutely darling!  I have been wanting to photograph her for quite a while now and we had a moment to do just that in July.

She is at such a fun age as a baby, just learning how to crawl, curious about everything, so bumbly and so darn cute!

Below are my faves, Teagan in her environment, playing with her toys, chewing on her Dr. Seuss books and just enjoying life as babies do!

Senior Portrait Feature on "Inside the Locker"

Today started off as such a great day, waking up, saying a good morning prayer to God and checking my facebook for any awesome articles or news to read (I know that might sound silly, but I know a lot of you out there do the same thing too! haha!)

So, as I was scrolling through my news feed on facebook I saw that my images were featured today on Inside the Locker and my morning had become so much greater!! I am so honored to be a part of this up and coming blogsite and so proud to have my work displayed as inspiration to my fellow senior portrait photographers out there!

Check it out, browse the site, there are a lot of great goodies on there! A special thanks goes out to Holly McCaig for being so great to work with on this feature, she is such a powerhouse of creativity and talent and such an inspiration!!

Amy, Jocelyn & Cody- Lifestyle Session

I am so excited to share this session with you! I got together with Amy, Cody and Jocelyn a few weeks back in Redwood Valley for a family lifestyle session at their gorgeous property at the top of a mountain overlooking the hills of the Mendocino County.  It was breathtaking, fresh air, gorgeous trees, beautiful Manzanita trees everywhere and so peaceful.

Amy asked me to photograph her and her children to update their portraits and to just capture them as they are, in their element and I was very excited to follow them around and have fun!  Jocelyn is such a little sassy girl and so darn cute, her smile is infectious and Cody is such a sweetheart, very soft spoken and shy, a really great kid. Amy has such a wonderful personality, a very loving mother and just a beautiful spirit, I love being around her!

Here are my favorites from the morning with the family, enjoy!

Jarrod + Sally

A couple of weeks ago I met Jarrod and Sally at Parducci Winery in Ukiah for a lifestyle session. I absolutely love Mendocino County because they have some of the best wineries in California and Parducci sells my favorite dessert wine, Muscat Canelli and because I just love my family who lives the area, the gorgeous scenery, the mountains, the crisp air, it's wonderful!

We chatted over a bottle of wine, they told me their wonderful love story, how they met and we had plenty of laughs during our time together! Our entire session was on the grounds of the winery, we began in the wine tasting room, ventured outdoors on the patio and later down to a gorgeous garden with mini-waterfalls, a pond, trees and flowers everywhere! It was quite magical.

I have to give major thanks to my awesome cousin Nadine arranging our session at Parducci, she set everything up for us to stay after hours, you rock Nadine!! It's also very helpful to arrange a photoshoot at a winery when you know someone who works there (big thanks to Nadine's mom, my aunt!!).

Here are a handful of my favorites, enjoy!


























Details of Parducci Winery

The Latest news and upcoming blog posts!

Can you believe it is already July?  Time is flyin and I'm loving every minute, day and week of the year!  So many blessings to count and so much to be thankful for!

I had to share a quick sneak peek of what I've been up to lately and what is to come on the blog! I'm so excited to share with you Morgan, such a wonderful friend and such a great and hilarious personality, we did a mini-shoot in New Mexico.  Oh my goodness this girl has the most amazing blue eyes I've ever seen!  We had so much fun on our trip to New Mexico, it was a fabulous experience for me and I can't wait to share more on that !

I am also so excited to finally be able to share with you all a preview of a fundraiser I had the opportunity to be a part of in May at the Disneyland Hotel!!  I have been so anxious to share my experience, the wonderful people I met and how much fun I had!

Enjoy!

Summer Days, spending time with family

Last week I spent time with some of my nieces and nephews, since school is out and they live in the Bay Area, they will spend a few weeks throughout the summer here visiting and it's always fun to see how much they've grown since we last got together and what they're up to :)

Friday was there last full day visiting and I decided to photograph them as they are, full of life, free-spirits who love to play and they have plenty of energy to go around!  My nieces, Leilane and Naomi, were so excited to have their pictures taken and they just had a ball, running around and being kids, it made my job so much easier to capture the sweet moments (the girls talking on their "cell phones", hugging each other, racing and what not). My nephews, Ethan and Abraham, are sprinkled in the blog with a few pictures, they were more into playing with my husbands old action figures, hahaha!

Kids grow up so fast, I remember when they were all little babies and it's always wonderful to look back on what they did and looked like as they were younger, so here are my favorites, enjoy!