Sarah J. Photo

Well Done!

Dowa called me and told me she had a fabulous location picked out for her shoot. She was trying to explain all the details and the beauty. She and Steve, her husband, had been there on their own and she kept recalling favorite spots she knew she wanted to have in her pictures. I trusted her excitement and judgement and headed out their way. 

Well Done Dowa!!! The place had intresting features everywhere we turned. Throw in two beautiful girls in the mix and a lovely set of parents and voila~ !  My work is done!  

Steve did the "Daddy dance" to get these gorgeous smiles from the heart!!! How bad did I want to turn around and check him out doing the boogie??!! Pretty bad....

We found some great lighting in one of the garages.

Sooooo many more I want to share with you. This family is fun and gorgeous at the same time. We laughed a lot and I can't wait to catch them in the mud with the cows on the next shoot. Right Dowa??! Love that they'll do "anything for the shot" . My kind of peeps! 

Old friends

     There are some friends you have that you can talk to every day and then months go by without

hearing from them, but when that phone rings, you go right back to where you left off. For me, Yvonne

is one of those friends. It doesn't matter how different our lives are, or how busy we get, when we get

together for lunch to catch up, we talk and talk without a pause. We know each others history, we get

each other well, it is so comfortable and I am thankful, so thankful for a friend like her. We worked

together while we were pregnant so for me to see her boys so grown makes me choke up (and think, I

CAN'T BE THAT OLD...).  Thank goodness for pictures, so we will always be able to look back and

remember all this togetherness, and happiness! 

Sounds familiar

Jennifer rang me with a joy in her voice, wanting me to capture her three boys. Throughout the shoot I would pause and smile, it brought back so many close memories, of where I was just a couple years back... There is nothing like being surrounded by little boys that love you! 

 

 

Sisters, Mothers and Daughters (...and Roan and Michael)

Laurie and I were sipping mimosas, toasting September birthdays, in which we share, when I explained I had a cancellation.... She jumped on the spot (literally a little jump in her chair) and said "I'll take it!" Her mother and aunts were coming into town and it all just happened to work out. 4 generations captured! These ladies are fun! When Remy (4 years old) walked in, she introduced me to her "Grandma without a pinky" , long story behind that involving a farm, but she really was missing a pinky! 

A mother and her daughters.....

 

I've been shooting this boy since he was liiiiittttlllleeee. Love him! 

The Huttons! Wish I could share more with you but with Christmas cards right around the corner, I have to be discreet, and you all have to wait...

 F O U R generations right here!!!

Already putting Andy's table to good use~

~Everyone!

Ava steals the show!

Little Ava here has lots of personality! It was fun to see her playfulness come out as I pointed the camera at her! Her red hair is beautiful! 

"don't worry"

Angela and Brennan are so kick back, and I was thankful for their flexible outlook on life when we had an early morning shoot! I hugged hello to Brennan, who had walked up a few minutes after we started shooting. It had been about a year since I'd seen him, and his first question was, "Are you out of breath?!" 

     YES! I was Out of Breath, trying to pull it all together ~a one year old and a three year old in a location that we get asked to leave every now and again (which happened on this very shoot, four or five times...) .      

     It was great to see them, and see how their kids have grown over the year. They didn't mind, or worry, about my craziness, or the fact that it was uber hot already at 8:30 in the morning, or the security lady that haunted us throughout the shoot shoo-ing us away, or when their lil guy didn't want to sit still. Which is what I LOVE about them.   I left them with the words "don't worry" and Angela was completely convinced, and let me know "I'm not worried."   ( no pressure ~ lol) 

But it all worked out and we got some.............. 

A new normal

     Life has changed since we've waved goodbye to summer. Glory days of late mornings, poolside afternoons, spontaneous adventures, have been placed in the memory bank. We are in full swing with homework, schedules, sports routines, and every fifteen minutes is allocated for and tracked out on the calendar and if we get off schedule it throws a whole kink in the matrix.

 

 

Oh how I miss the free play, where sticks become spears and the imagination soars. 

on the flip side...... the boys minds are visibly growing. They amaze me daily with their understanding and perception of life. 

They make me smile!

This family makes me smile! I enjoyed a whole baseball season of sitting next to them and sharing french fries. Anders played on Brandon's team and Mrs. Williams is a teacher at our school. To know her is to love her because of her kind soul as well as her calm kick back demeanor. Nothing phases her and she juggles it all. Her husband is her highschool sweetheart and their boys are great boys! We laughed as Billy, her husband showed up in swimming trunks and wasn't planning on being in the photos, but if you know me I threw him in some and promised he'd be happy!  I pretty much did the same with Janae, hope your both happy, because life goes by too fast to not take a picture with your boys !

Family visits

This family treks all the way from Asia once a year to get together and they have made it part of their tradition to schedule a shoot with me to capture the family. I couldn't be more thrilled! I get to see the kids grow and say hello to the family all over again. They are all so lovely, and this year Both Grandmas got to make it. The kids were great, and the two year old is brilliant. He spoke two languages, Chineese and English and took my direction so well! I was impressed!

 

Third child syndrome

     Karri called  me with a definite motivation. "I need pictures." Her explanation of how time has passed without the camera being focused on Annika was well understood. The early years of life force us into survival mode when we get past the one to one zone, meaning more than two kids. Pictures can be the first to slip by while we try to do it all. 

These girls are so cute, and SWEET SWEET personalities.  

She didn't last too long, but she didn't have to. This was when she was DONE!  She had her favorite duvet and her Mama! What more could she want...... ?!