Love these folks! I’ve been photographing them for years and it’s truly such a privilege to be close enough with a client that you feel right at ease and at home with them, and they don’t look at you sideways when you explain that you drove away from the house with your husband’s work laptop mistakenly in the car and now he has to come to their house to retrieve it while you’re doing the shoot. Aleigh and Joe are great. Their kid is great. I love them. Their kid decided he loved me even more and promptly asked if I could be his babysitter when I left. Rest assured this was because I gave him temporary tattoos and I let him jump on the bed – which he enthusiastically did until his parents decided he needed a safety/water break. We made muffins. We delivered letters to neighbors. We read books. Just a wholesome morning with this dino loving miniature dude and his rad parents.

We photographed Margaret and Bryan’s wedding back in 2018 (!) when we were lucky enough to meet and work with Barbara and Gordon, Bryan’s parents. Since then, Margaret and Bryan have moved away and welcomed a small adorable child into the world. Bryan’s brother Gray and his wife Christie now also have two children, and everyone was going to be gathering together at Barbara and Gordon’s house for a few days while they were attending a wedding, including Skippy, Barbara’s sister-in-law. Wonderfully, Barbara reached out to see if I could come photograph the family all together and update their family portraits as well as take some candids of everyone at the house. A basketball injury the day before the shoot left Gray on crutches but thankfully there are plenty of beautiful places to sit around their property and we soldiered on! And did we make a baby smile using an extremely haunted-looking doll? We absolutely did. It was so lovely to reconnect with their entire family and meet the two newest members!