(impromptu) golden hour family pictures

jarman is on his last week of winter break and i never want him to go back to school. the first couple of weeks it was rainy and cold (even snowed in temecula in case you didn't hear), but this week has been so nice. we have already been to the beach twice. on monday we went with my mom and sisters and ended up taking some family pictures. i really wanted to hire a photographer to take pictures for us when jay was born, but it didn't work out. so i just make people take lots of pictures of us when we get the chance! if i had planned on doing these pics i probably would have done my hair, maybe worn a bit more make up and coordinated our outfits a little more. but i kind of love how they turned out- they have a soft, ethereal feel. looking at them makes me feel warm and cozy inside. it was jay's first beach day we captured it perfectly.

photoshoot / geddie's family pictures

i got to take this cute family's pictures last week- i loved hanging out with all their boys! they had so much energy- which i'm going to have to get used to with my little boy on the way! we took these pictures at windansea beach. jarman and i have been going here since we moved to san diego, and i was immediately obsessed with the little beach shack. i had been hoping to get to do a photoshoot there, so when the geddie's said they wanted to do their pictures at a beach in la jolla i immediately knew this is where we should do them. 

i still have 5 weeks until baby is due and am starting to get stir crazy. i pretty much have everything ready and now it's just a waiting game! (possibly the worst and least fun game of all!). so contact me if you need any pictures done- i'd love to have something to distract me (and possibly help get things moving along:).

photo shoot / child's family pictures

i had the pleasure of taking the child's family pictures a couple of weeks ago. they are adorable and hilarious, and quite honestly easy to take pictures of because they are all so cute! the littlest boy, josh, just kills me with all of his smiles and smirks. 

photo shoot / adelaide's newborn pictures

i was so excited to have the opportunity to take nicole and eric's family pictures of their new baby girl, adelaide. she is the most adorable and tiny baby ever- the dream client. we took the pictures at nicole's mom's house when adelaide was about 2 1/2 weeks old. 

a baby swim suit and swim cap, for real??

photo shoot / boho glam family pictures

before syd left we really wanted to take family pictures. we hadn't gotten any done since jarman has been an official part of the family. we decided to just try to take them using a tripod and a clicker. it was actually a lot harder than i thought it would be- my clicker wouldn't work if we were too far from the camera, but my good lens makes it so we have to be kind of far. so the ones with the whole family were literally timer pictures where i was running in my six inch heels in the sand to get back to the camera. it was totally worth it though because i love how the pictures turned out.

we decided we wanted to do a boho shoot (which not only provided our stylistic choices but also lots of jokes from the boys). we all tried to wear longish or flowy dresses with big heels. we also brought down a bunch of furs to wear for some of the pictures. we like to choose outfits that loosely go together, rather than things that are obviously matching (like white shirts and jeans). i love the bright blues that pop out of some of the outfits, and we also had creams and browns and black and few others. 

we took the pictures in oceanside (this little outing was on sydney's last day so she got to see the beach and eat at phil's as well). some of them are just in front of people's houses, and the others were on some rocks and stairs that we found. we went down with some ideas of places, but nothing set. it was fun to drive around and find the cutest places we could (we ended up parking the car only once though- all of these locations are within walking distance of each other).

seriously though, how cute is my family? my sisters get prettier and prettier, my mom looks younger and younger, and jarman is handsomer and handsomer. you better believe we will have lots of these pictures all over our house!