Keri, Drew, O. and I. here is your beautiful baby T. – completely adored.
Monthly Archives: May 2010
I met up with the B. Family in Carlsbad on a slightly cool and overcast day. We’ve been experiencing unusually cool weather here in San Diego. Normally, by this time of the year we are all wearing shorts, t-shirts and flip-flops. But, it has been a cold and rainy Spring.
This family has a wonderful tradition. They treat each other to family portraits every year as a Mother’s Day gift. I think this is a wonderful idea! In 10 or 15 years, they are going to have a volume of family portraits that they can look back on and reminisce over.
I loved photographing this family. I wanted to take H. and M. home with me. Aren’t they just the cutest girls? I love how they look like sisters, but they also posses their own individual look. H. with her light-blond hair and blue eyes, and M. with her sandy-brown hair and beautiful brown eyes. Just darling.
Thanks D. and J. and H. and M. I had a great time hanging out with you!
I just had to share a quick little sneak peek for Diana and Jason. This might just be one of my new favorites
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This girl sparkles.
This girl shines.
She is winsome.
She is kind.
This girl is adored.
This is A.
I hope you’ll indulge me on a little personal post. I don’t often post pictures of my two kidlets because, well, truth be told . . . I seem to leave the images of my boys and family relatively untouched. They sit there on my computer’s hardrive, for months, until an overwhelming urge posses me and I stay up for nights and nights and cull and process and place a print order. What is that saying, “the cobbler’s children have no shoes”?
Ahh, but today was Mother’s Day. (I hope all you wonderful mommies out there had a marvelous, magical, and magnificent day). And we went out to breakfast and scooted along the La Jolla Coast and I watched, with a full heart, how my boys climbed trees and chased after seagulls. I took the pictures below, but they aren’t perfect – and that is okay with me. I gotta take what I can get from these over-photographed boys who have better things to do than stop and wait for me to take a picture. These pictures show the paint-splattered sweatshirt that J. was wearing, the bike helmets that rarely leave their heads. They show that one was taller and slimmer than the other. That one mimics the other in adoration while at the same time trying to establish his independence. These photos show that they are pals, partners in crime, and that they both honestly love each other.
They are my Mother’s Day gift to me.
Lara reminds me so, so much of my good friend Katie. They are both drop-dead gorgeous. They are both tall and slender. They both have these locks, this incredible, goddess-like hair that makes you just stop and stare. And they both have the most disarming smile. A smile that is warm and genuine, smart and vibrant. Katie lives up north and I never got a chance to see her when she was pregnant, but I bet she looked as radiant and amazing as Lara does today.
Lara and Gideon are about to welcome a little baby into their family. They don’t know if they are having a boy or girl, so they’ll have to start working on that name list ASAP. I offered up my middle name if they have a girl. Lara and Gideon know that I don’t like my first name, Sylvia, but that I love my middle name. They also know the crazy story about HOW I got named Sylvia.
Let’s have a little fun – leave a comment below and tell us your favorite name for a baby boy and a baby girl.
Lara and Gideon. It was such an incredible pleasure to meet you. I hope I can meet baby soon.
