The latest issue of Babiekins magazine is now live and it is as awesome as ever. There are some beautiful editorials in there that I had the pleasure to see and help choose as Photo Editor. So much fun to see it all come together. Check it out- http://www.babiekinsmag.com/issue11.html

My little is the little star in Meet My Babiekins. My favorite part is when they asked her what is her mom’s job and she answered “looking at pictures”. Not taking, just looking.

Some more of this amazing Brazilian girl.

This is Alana. I’ve seen her face before and I’m not going to lie and say I wasn’t excited to be able to take her picture myself. And she was awesome, she charmed our socks off from the very start. She loves Taylor Swift, swimming, crepes, My Little Pony and her aqua plastic shoes she has named Bubblegum. And I love her! This was probably one of my favorite shoots and she was a champ in the freezing cold wind. And there are so, so many fun ones I will just have to post all week.

I had a lot of help from my friends with this too. The best part of my experience with the Babiekins team has been the collaboration, everyone I work with is so good at what they do- they blow me away.

Styling by Heather Rome & Priscila Barros, Hair by Sue Ann Tiger

Yesterday it was 80 degrees, last week it was 36 when I drove my daughter to school and there was frost on the ground and windows. And now, warm and sunny and perfect. I asked the girls what they wanted to do and they said, “dress like princesses and run on the beach”. So I let them dress themselves in tutus and princess dresses and we went. The water was too tempting though but still freezing. This one got completely soaked and ended up in dad’s sweatshirt.

And I couldn’t resist this one. They grabbed each others hands and ran to the water. Of course right into the sun but I still like it.

I know, Christmas is over but I had to share these too. These are the last ones of gorgeous Paige I did for the Babiekins Christmas editorial. We rarely have cloudy days here unfortunately and on this day we shot right before a storm came in so the sky was dark and beautiful.

With styling by Priscila Barros, Hair by Sue Ann Tiger

Over the past couple of months I had a lot of family sessions and I’m starting to have time to post them. This one was one of my favorites. My dad let us use his restored ’59VW bus, his baby. He was so worried too. He actually told it before we left, yes it, “please come back in one piece” and it did and we got to hang out with one of my families ever. I adore this mom. I want to be her when I grow up and this family is so fun and it shows.

This is from a little while ago but I keep going back to it. My good friend’s sons, brothers. It was funny because earlier we were talking about their personalities and she was saying the older one is more serious and not too cuddly. And the younger one adores his big brother and always wants to hug him and give him affection and the older one will take it for only a little bit. When I saw this shot I thought it captured that perfectly. I also love the helmet. Poor mom had the idea to have them dressed up and looking nice and I go and suggest boots and then older brother puts on his army helmet. But they look so…. quintessential boy, no?

Thirteen years ago when my sis and I moved to Hawaii my cousin took us in to his tiny one bedroom place in Waikiki. We slept on his fold out couch but we were in heaven. He took us kayaking and on hikes to waterfalls. Now he is married to an awesome lady and have sweet little Madeline. They are visiting for the holidays and I got to take pictures of Madeline where he dad grew up- Carlsbad. It was a freezing, windy winter day but Maddy was so good. She never complained once, she would just say, “I’m not that cold”, when she’s in this tutu dress and we’re in jackets and hats. But such an amazing day at the beach.