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Tiny Footprints Auction

Well, it’s been a while… as in over a year-while. In that year, I had another baby… and I’ve been doing all sorts of things that being a mom of a 4.5 year old and a 9.5 month old entails. I’ve also been squeezing in photography when time allows. It has been quite the challenge fitting in the demands of being a wife, mother of two, and a part-time photographer. When people ask me how photography is going, I like to say that I’m too busy for my life as it currently is, but not quite busy enough to feel comfortable about using routine childcare to get work completed. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. I feel so fortunate to spend time with my kids while they’re really little and changing so quickly. I also feel fortunate that my work is something that I love. (I’d just like a little more sleep sometimes, that’s not too big a wish is it?)

The most recent photography adventure I had was taking photos at an auction for the Tiny Footprints Guild. The auction raised over $35,000 for pre-term birth medical research. The guild dedicates funds raised to the Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS). They have held silent auctions in years past, but I was so very honored to be the photographer of their very first live auction!

The event had a great turn-out, and the attendees were fun, generous, and mostly willing subjects (a big change from photographing toddlers!). I had a fantastic time watching the excitement as people bid on some great auction items… an autographed Russell Wilson jersey and Pete Carroll football created one of the largest bidding wars of the evening! It felt so good to volunteer my time and services for such an important and under-recognized philanthropy. The Tiny Footprints Guild thanked me at the end of the evening for taking photos, but I felt humbled and thankful to be able to do my small part of a larger purpose.

For more info:
http://gapps.org/

Here are some highlights from the evening.

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Beach Day! | West Seattle Family Photographer

The gorgeous weather that we’ve been having in Seattle has me dreaming of many more beach worthy days this coming spring/summer. It also reminded me of this great mini-session I had at Alki Beach in the fall.

I was lucky to work with this amazing mama in a former life. In that life, I was a senior account manager at a national telecom provider and Sarah was a strategic sales representative. We worked (at what seemed) endless hours on our accounts together. When I left in 2009 to have my daughter, I had a feeling that she wouldn’t be far behind me. I was right, and she had her son about a year after Carli was born. We both happily left the corporate telecom world to be full-time mamas and have barely given a glance back over our shoulders! I feel very lucky to have Sarah’s early support for my photography career, and we met at Alki Beach in West Seattle for some to commemorate R’s 2nd birthday with some family photos. I was especially excited when we lucked out on gorgeous weather in November… in Seattle. (Yes, this blog is for photos taken in November. There will be more OLD sessions posted too.) R was a fun-loving, typical, on-the-go boy, but we did manage to capture a few of his precious nose-scrunch smiles. So cute! I had fun chasing R around the beach and seeing how much he loved being there with his mommy and daddy.

Carli and I just recently had lunch with Sarah and R before they made their big move from Seattle to Boise. It is so bittersweet that they moved away and that is what finally got us together, but I am so happy that we did. Sarah and I are each expecting our second child, so we’re determined to keep in touch and be our own little support group to get through the next crazy chapter of motherhood. 🙂 I wish them the best of luck with their big move to Idaho, and can’t wait to meet their new little girl the next time they’re in town!

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Laughter = Love ~ at the Washington Park Arboretum | Seattle Maternity Photographer

Jenn has been a very close friend since college. We lived across the hall from each other, and I got to know her silliness and fun-loving personality quite well. Rewind to 6 years ago when Jenn met Nelson, and when I knew that this guy would make her laugh. All.the.time. If it’s not his funny faces, it’s his declarations of how Brazil is so much better than America (he’s Brazilian). With such funny parents, I can’t wait to see how silly their little boy is!

Despite a ton of laughter during our session, I still was able to get these two to be serious for a few moments and captured some of the sweet tenderness that they share with each other.

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Multi-cultural Baby Luau | Tacoma-area family photographer

My cousin Rich and his wife Alice asked me to photograph their daughter’s 1st birthday celebration in September. A baby’s first birthday luau is a big deal in Hawaiian culture. It goes back to the day when many babies didn’t live to see their first birthday, so the ones that did had very large celebrations. In Hawaii, it’s not unusual for a baby luau to rival a wedding in terms of scale and decorations.

While N’s luau was not in Hawaii and not as large as a wedding, it certainly had all the elements of a luau with some extra culture added in. N’s luau had an imu (in-ground oven) to roast a pig, a bouncy house, a balloon man, and also a Korean 1st birthday ceremony. The weather could not have been more perfect for an outdoor celebration, and the festivities were at my other cousin’s house in Orting. Rainier in the background made for a gorgeous backdrop for N’s ceremony where she chose from a number of items that were set in front of her. They were supposed to symbolize what field she will be in when she grows up. N chose a rattle, which represented music.

The day was full of food, family, friends and love. It could not have been a more perfect 1st birthday luau.

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A House in the Country ~ North Bend Engagement Photographer

Kelly and Duane asked me to help them document their engagement and their new home. These two have been doing the long-distance relationship thing for about a year, so it’s a big deal that they are finally living in their house TOGETHER!

They live just outside of a little town in North Bend, WA. When I drove up to their house, it was hard to believe that I was only about an hour away from where I live. Their house is nestled right at the base of a well-known mountain Mount Si, so the views were GORGEOUS! I had so much fun walking around their property with them and there were so many cool things there I wanted to keep shooting. A pasture, cool fence, barn, old Chevy truck AND an antique car? I could have stayed all day!

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