Michele and Anthony are going to be the proud parents of ….. well, they don’t really know what they are having except that it is a healthy baby.  :)  They want to be surprised in about 5 weeks to find out if it’s a girl or a boy!!!  Here is a quick look at their maternity shoot we did in Lincoln California.  It’s only a few and there are a lot more, just had a quick minute to post some.

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It’s been a crazy couple of months here, but I wanted to keep posting some pictures from a wedding that I had the awesome opportunity to second shoot with Kenny Kim from Chicago.  He is just an awesome photographer!  We met at Mike Colon’s workshop this past January and he is one of several people that I admire from our group.  Anyway, here are some more shots.  I keep going through them when I have a few minutes here or there between my other shoots and my “day job”.  This beautiful wedding was held in Los Altos and Palo Alto California.  Several more to post from our shoot at Standford University!  Wow, what a place to take pictures!  Thanks for looking!

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A few weeks ago my family and I took the 90 minute drive to the bay area (San Francisco) and went over to the Marin headlands to watch the surfers and dig in the sand.  The beach is our ultimate favorite place to be at….mine to relax and listen to the waves, Joe to watch the surfers, and the girls to dig in the sand, of course!  :)  Here are a few pictures…..

Ok, here is one of my favorites…… a little sun flare at the beach!  Really like this one!  If you can’t read the writing in the sand, it says “I love my mom” with the shape of a heart for “love”.  I know I’ll treasure this one forever….

Then we went on to the Golden Gate Bridge to stop and feel the breeze.  Here is another favorite of my oldest just taking it all in.  I like this one a lot because she is so much like me and was in a meditative state, just closing her eyes and feeling the wind against her face.  I used some textures on this one and just love the feel of it.  I can feel what she is feeling in this picture.

We also went over to the Discovery Museum in San Francisco to take some pics of the kids playing at the VERY cool park they have there.  This picture I have to dedicate to my friend Fara Smith…  :)  It is soooooo her style!

This one is cool because I’m starting to use my wide angle lens more.  Love the boat here.

Lori and Chris met at a design center while choosing interiors for each of their new individual homes.  Phone numbers were exchanged and three years later, they are engaged and getting married in July.  Thank you Lori and Chris for getting together this weekend for your engagement session.  Can’t wait for your big day in July, just two months away.  You guys were awesome to work with and just an all around great couple!  Thank you for letting me capture these moments.  Here is a “sneak peek” for today.  There are soooooo many more, but it’s pushing midnight, so I better wrap it up for today.  Enjoy!

Jean and Laurel allowed me to capture some mommy / daughter moments up in Benicia, California a few weeks ago, and there are sooooo many more pictures to go through, but I wanted to at least give Jean some “sneak peeks” that are WAY overdue.    Thanks so much for your patience!  You and Laurel were so awesome to work with and Benicia was a nice change of scenery.  Thanks for being such a good friend and I’m so glad that we met.  You are an awesome individual.  Our jobs brought us together several years ago, and I am so blessed for that.

Enjoy!

Ok, for those of you who really know me or venture out to lunch or dinner with me occasionally, then you know my favorite food is mexican. Some of you even joke with me when asking where we are going to eat …. like it should really be a question at all. I could eat Mexican pretty much for every lunch and dinner, EVERY day! But I do sacrifice occasionally and do Italian for my friends and my kids Anyway, took a picture of one of my favorite mexican joints, El Azteca, in Roseville. All the colorful bottles in the bar have always caught my attention and I happened to have my camera in my car, so I busted it out and grabbed this shot.

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I had the opportunity to take some family pictures on Monday evening of Monica and JP, with their daughter Sidney. JP is back in the country from Iraq and is leaving again on Saturday for probably another 6 months, so they wanted to make sure they captured their time together before he leaves. Thanks you guys for being so awesome and working together quickly before the light faded away into night. You are so great together and I’m so proud of you both! I’ll post more when I have time, but here is one of my favorites of Monica and Sid showing off Monica’s VERY cool tatoo “Lucky”.

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Yesterday we had a nice time over at Ancil Hoffman park in Carmichael. My nephew came back from Iraq and my brother flew in from Washington State. Good time! The little girls flew a kite for the first time and the older one actually caught a butterfly in the net! She was thrilled! Here are some pics from the day.

Here are some of my nephew, Andrew, up in a tree. Cool stuff!

Then my brother and my other nephew, Lee, climbing trees taking a moment to let me snap a picture.

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