I’ve been lucky enough to have gotten to know Heather and Shaun since I shot their wedding 2 1/2 years ago. They are such a fun loving couple who you can tell are truly meant for each other! They are now expecting their first child which is due in two weeks! It’s a super exciting time for them! I got to photograph their maternity session a week ago and might I just add Heather looks phenomenal! Take a look for yourselves!
Now that winter is here and I have some free time I figured as I dream for warm weather I will share some of my fun from last summer! This past July I had the gift of doing a road trip with my youngest daughter Meg! We had talked about where we wanted to go and decided on Assateague Island in Maryland, Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, VA, and Charleston, SC. So on July 5th we packed the car up and started on our way. I was so impressed by the way Meg spent the entire car ride talking and singing with me rather than playing her video games or listening to her iPod. She truly made it a bonding experience that the two of us will remember forever! Our first stop was Assateague Island where we napped on the beach as we lay in the sun and then we got to see the wild horses as they run through the state park, then had a nice seafood dinner in Ocean City. After spending the night there we left on our way to Busch Gardens and little did I know the GPS would be taking us over the amazing Chesapeake Bay Bridge, which completely blew our mind! I thought we were on the bridge to no where, it was quite a WOW factor for the two of us! We enjoyed the roller casters at Busch Gardens since we happen to be the wilder ones in the family:) After spending a night there we left for our final destination, Charleston, SC. We stayed at the beautiful Francis Marion Hotel which made us both feel like princesses, and went to the spa where I had a massage and Meg had a mani/pedi it was pure bliss! We then ventured out to Fort Sumter and got to soak up some of the history this beautiful town has to offer! We took bike taxi’s everywhere which was a first for both of us, it was so wonderful and had what Meg calls “the best dinner EVER” where she had a killer steak. We hit the ocean one day and just rode the waves and relaxed in the sunshine! And the extra treat we got was to see and have dinner with our sweet friends, Sidonie, Mark and Michael, they helped make us feel right at home and got Meg to try Thai food! It was a magical trip that I will cherish forever! Here are some pics to share!
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these are SUPER FABULOUS!!! what a great way to make memories. love this post so much!
This year has been a wild one with my business booming and my girls getting older and busier every day, it went by extremely fast and I’m hoping that next year it will go by a little slower especially since it is my oldest daughters last year of high school before she goes away to college!
I have been feeling a little sentimental these past few weeks and just want to tell everyone that has touched our lives how much you all mean to us! I have met so many new friends this year, some truly amazing photographers/friends (yes you all know who you are) that have made me such a better person just by knowing them! Thank you all for that! I have also met many new clients that I feel have made such a great addition to my life, wonderful people with families just as wonderful as they are, I got to spend my working weekends away from my own family feeling like I fit in with the ones I was lucky enough to be with and of course to Patty who fits working with me into her crazy busy life, Patty you are the best!. I have grown so much not only as a photographer but as a person and I am so thankful to all that have enriched every moment of my life and my families! I thank my family for putting up with my crazy schedule that they know makes me so happy even though it’s crazy:) I am also super grateful to have been able to travel and see so many new things in life, conferences, workshops,a great road trip with my youngest daughter, flying to San Francisco to shoot a wedding with my great friend Rosaura, just seeing lots of new and exciting things and I am even more ecstatic to know that it will continue this coming year as well to places even further away!
All in all I just want to say thank you to all the important people in my life and to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year!
Time to share my beautiful girls photographs! Love you Shelby and Meg!
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Love you Sherry and the whole family! 
Looking forward to seeing you all in April. You are an amazing friend and I miss you much! Muah!!!!
Well this is a post that I may start to babble on and I apologize in advance for that! Morgan is a vibrant, sweet little 2 1/2 year old that lives in our community, this past September she was diagnosed with a Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), an inoperable brainstem tumor. She is going back and forth to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee for treatments. I still get goosebumps just thinking about it, it is one of those just plain unfair things that happens in life. Actually forgive me but it just plain SUCKS in my opinion!
Well going back some years I first met Morgan’s Aunt and some of the family while I was second shooting one of the first weddings I’ve ever shot, her Aunt Erin’s! This may sound corny but I instinctively remember having happy tears in my eyes during the speeches and the overall wedding seeing the bond of this wonderful family. And I truly mean this, I’m not making it up! Now fast forward many years, I get to see Erin again while photographing her daughters Nursery School pics, we chat, she remembers me and gives me a call this November to ask me if I would photograph this wonderful fundraising event for her niece Morgan. Of course there was no question in my mind that I was doing it, and I did, Patty kindly helped me out that day as well and it was a good thing she did because our amazing community that we live in here on the North Fork came together in a way I’ve never seen before, there were more people in Raphael Vineyard (the very kind people who gave their beautiful venue for the day’s event) then I have ever seen. I can not even put in words the love that you felt just being a part of the day. There were a large amount of local businesses that donated the food, chinese auction gifts and more. It was truly magical and in my opinion once again exactly what CHRISTMAS is all about! So I wanted to share some of the photographs that show a little of the day, face painting, crazy balloon hats, dancing and Santa coming to visit! I will also be posting on their facebook page a link to the online gallery and any purchase made for prints, I will be giving 50% of the profit back to the Helping Hands for Morgan fundraising efforts.
I ask that everyone who reads this please keep Morgan and the West family in your prayers, and remember the saying below always!
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Becky and John are a wonderful couple who I have gotten lucky enough to know a little more than some! They got married on October 23rd and it was just a beautiful day! It was the last wedding of the year for me and certainly a fun one. I was lucky enough to have my good friend and photographer, Rosaura Sandoval come from San Francisco to second shoot for me which made it that more exciting! Here are a few of my favorite’s from the day!
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What a special photo shoot! Pure Beauty!