This year’s family Christmas card was inspired by a photo I took in August of Miss L with her cousins. It was such a fun shot and seemed well-suited for our card.
Of course, actually taking the photo was more of a challenge. The oldest was home for the blink of an eye over Thanksgiving, spending [...]

Miss L’s sixth birthday fell on a Saturday this year. Between Halloween, Quilt Market and bad weather, I didn’t get around to taking her birthday portraits until last week. Exactly one month after her birthday, to be precise.
It’s amazing how much she’s changed in only one year. Two new teeth. Less of that baby face. [...]

I’ve started this post in my head so many times in the past year but nothing ever sounded right. Too flippant, too dramatic, too not me. And now that I finally can write it, share it, shout it from the rooftops, I find that a picture is truly worth 1,000 words — or maybe closer [...]

Can it really be that another year of ballet lessons is coming to a close?
Miss L’s annual ballet recital is upon us. This year I see more little girl than baby, another one of those bittersweet changes.
I decided last week that I would shoot her recital portraits myself this year. There’s nothing wrong with the [...]

Something made me think about this picture a little while ago, so I had to hunt it down. Taken at Easter 2006, so Miss L would have been around 18 months old. She’s changed so much in just three short years. But she’s still my little sweetheart.