baby isabel.

Baby Isabel was the happiest baby I've seen in quite a while. She loved the camera and gave us plenty of smiles! Her blue eyes were fantastic — I especially love this first photo. Such a cutie!!

one of my loves.

In addition to countless photo shoots with one of the loves of my life (Lucy), here is another. She loves laying on the bed in the guest room in order to look out the one window that faces out to the street. She perks up with every movement she spots; a person walking on the sidewalk in the distance or a car on 316, but when there is something closer to the house, she goes nuts!

I love how content, yet alert she looks in this picture...

Then sleepiness sets in and she must lay her head down.

One of the many things I love about this creature: her snout! Doesn't it just look so soft & kissable? It is!!

With sleepiness comes a stretch.

But if I speak the word "frisbee?", she immediately is ready to go!

On holidays we enjoy treating Lucy as though she's our child. Cory brought home some special frosted cookies for her this Valentine's Day. :) Of course it said "daddy's girl".

Making her wait for the treats. Such meanies!

Loving the actions shots of her in mid-chew! 

She's even got a ruffly (aka: wrinkley) snout!

I swear she licked her mouth off for a half hour after finishing the cookies.. Perfect for some silly photos!

a twist.

Thanks to some free Photoshop action techniques, I'm taking some of my photography to a whole new level. Look!

Who wouldn't want to be on a beach right now??

 [[ I didn't take this actual photo, but it's my cousin's little girl and I thought it was a great photo to edit for practice. :) ]]

malik.

For this photo shoot we went somewhere new — an indoor skateboard park! We were able to get creative and captured some great photos of eight year old Malik. I think he enjoyed it too!