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San Juan Capistrano Family Session [Kelsey] / Orange County Family Photographer

08.22.17

You may remember this awesome family from their session last November! The are truly such sweet people and it was so much fun exploring the wilderness during golden hour and catching up with them. It’s always such an honor to see how families have grown since the last time I saw them.

This rock solid team is made of hugs and smooches, big sister guidance, laughter, a strong bond and lots of love! I couldn’t get over the sweet way this big sister looked after her baby sister with such care, helping her through the sticks and leaves and helping her to smile for her photos. Or the way each girl looked at their Mommy. Or the way this Mommy shows how much she loves her girls. Their love is palpable, real and strong.

Looking forward to seeing these ladies in the future for many more special moments like these!

I mean, come on! I can’t even handle how sweet that look Brooklyn is giving her Mom is!

Genius alert! When Brooklyn who is barely two years old didn’t want to cooperate I suggested a bribe. Candy maybe? But this Mama had it covered. She brought her wooden numbers and letters! They are her favorite thing and she knows all of them!! She was a happy camper!

Heart. Melted.

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San Juan Capistrano Family Session [Tracy Family] / Orange County Family Photographer

08.03.17

I just love this family! I first met Murdock and Sarah back in 2012 when they were engaged and planning their wedding. They are truly one of the kindest and most down-to-earth couples and it was such a wonderful experience photographing their wedding!

Since then, I’ve had the honor to again document their life when I came to their home shortly after baby Caine was born and we had an At-Home Session (one of my favorite things to shoot and so very special!). We’ve really come full-circle with this new session up on the blog today when we got to show the growth in not only baby Caine but in these three as a family. It was SO awesome to get together, catch up and to see the Tracys grow before my very eyes!

This session seriously melted my heart. You can just feel the love oozing out of every photo. That sweet feeling of seeing your little baby learning to sit-up on his own when you never imagined it would happen so quickly, that little personality starting to shine through, you as parents starting to finally get the hang out it (sort-of) and feeling like all of those sleepless nights and wondering what to do is coming together a bit more now, falling deeper and deeper in love than you ever imagined possible. This is what life is all about.

Thank you, Tracy Family for once again allowing me the absolute pleasure of watching your family grow. You guys are the best! I can’t wait to see how baby Caine has grown the next time!

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San Clemente At-Home Newborn Session [The Roberts Family] / Orange County Newborn Photographer

07.25.17

That feeling when you first enter into a home that just welcomed their new baby never gets old.

It’s sacred, quietly exciting, nurturing, it’s shhh-ing and swaying, deciphering cues and searching for binkies, baby sighs and baby hiccups, it’s a glazed over look of love and a long yawn that questions if you’ll ever sleep through the night again. It’s witnessing a couple turn into a family or a family of three turning into a family of four. It’s documenting those strong bonds being built before your eyes. I adore At-Home Newborn Sessions for this very reason. It’s a time-capsule of this present moment.

Baby Carson is one lucky little man, just look at all of this love surrounding him. Daddy, Mommy and Big Brother, Brock were the sweetest with him and so in love! The way Brock looked at his baby brother truly melted my heart! He is the best big brother already and they are going to be the perfect team! Daddy is a firefighter and it was so special to get to incorporate that into their photos. Crazy to think that these boys will be big enough to wear Daddy’s gear one day. But for noe, it’s all about this moment in time with this new family of four.

Congratulations, Roberts Family! I am SO happy for you. Enjoy XO

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San Juan Capistrano Maternity Session [Andrew + Andrea] / Orange County Maternity Photographer

07.07.17

You might remember Andrew and Andrea from their wedding I photographed back in 2014. They were geniunley one of the sweetest couples I ever had the pleasure of meeting and their love for each other and the importance of family was so apparent. Fast forward three years and look at them now! It only makes sense that these two are embarking on creating their own little family.

There’s nothing quite like that space in time of expecting your FIRST baby to be born! All of the anticipation. Of wondering what he or she will look like (they are waiting to find out the gender!), all of those little kicks reminding you that your baby is safe in there, the exciting doctor visits to see those kicks via ultrasound, planning the nursery and the nesting, picking out itty bitty clothes, marveling at the fact that your baby is the size of a grain of rice and then slowly but surely it becomes the size of a melon, that melon catching up to you and feeling like you don’t have an inch to spare in that new body of yours. Until the moment you are so beyond eager to meet your baby that you are on the verge of breaking down in tears if God forbid the baby goes over it’s due date (just me?) 😉

Andrew and Andrea, I’m SO thrilled for you both! And I cannot wait to find out if “it’s” a baby boy or a baby girl! Regardless of what your sweet baby turns out to be, I do know one thing for sure. You two are in for your whole entire life to change in an instant, for your whole entire hearts to burst in an instant, to know in an instant that you are forever blessed by this miracle. And to understand in an instant that now life has truly begun.

Congratulations, Mr. & Mrs. Bergen!

How adorable are those tippy toes?!

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San Juan Capistrano Mini-Session [Mother’s Day] / Orange County Family Photographer

05.10.17

With Mother’s Day this weekend, I just had to share this sweet session of Kelli, her daughter Sierra and Kelli’s Mom, Sue. I love these three SO much!

Kelli and I have been best friends for 20 years and growing along with her has been one of my life’s biggest joys. We spent basically every awake moment of high-school together, before school and after school. We had this special notebook that we would write to each other in and we would pass it back and forth all day long. This is how we communicated in the 90’s people! Remember? No iPhones, no Texting, no Snaps- straight UP folded notes and our special notebook. Oh, if that notebook could talk. Oh, the stories. The memories. The inside jokes that were made back then that have us in tears even now. I don’t know how I would’ve done life without her and truly don’t know how I would do it now. This bond forever ingrained in me with this beautiful MOM is one I cherish more than words. Through high-school, heart break, parties, trying to make sense of it all (mostly me), to frantic calls asking if I should be on the 5 South or 5 North if I’m headed to San Diego, to college and graduation and starting to make sense of this life, building careers and getting engaged and all of the fun events that followed and going through marriage and being pregnant together and raising babies. I’ve always been able to rely on Kelli for her presence when I’ve needed her most, for the love she’s always shown, for the bluntness that I need, for being my confidant and my cheerleader, for being real and for always being a true friend. And for pushing me to go on an all girls trip last Summer to NYC when it was exactly what I needed at exactly the right time. Friendships like these are priceless and one of life’s biggest blessings.

So, it was such an amazing day when I got to photograph this group! Sue is such an awesome Mom and Grandma. Truly one of the best I’ve ever known. I love watching the relationship between Kelli and her Mom and Sierra and her Grandma. This is what love looks like. And what’s so great is that her kids will say the same thing. They love and appreciate their Mom so much. She would do anything for her family. And I’ve been lucky enough to have her in my life as a HUGE support as well. She’s been there for me during life’s hard moments and she stayed right there. Anyone who knows Sue knows what a huge heart she has and to be able to witness her loving on her grand babies is precious!

And life continues to bless this family; check out these photos to see how!!

Happy Mother’s Day Kelli & Sue! So glad you have these memories to hold.