Alan- my big lil brudder!

OMG! My not so lil brother is graduating high school this year!!! Wow I remember when he was born and I realized that we were ten years apart. I kept thinking of all all the milestone birthdays he was going to have and how old I would be! I stopped at 18 because when he was 18 I would be 28!!!!  I could not even fathom that I would ever be that old!! haha! Well guess what! That day is here! I was so happy to do his senior pictures. So……some may call me biased but I think he is a super handsome guy! hahahaha! I am so proud of him! I hope he knows just how much I love him and how much he means to me!! Congrats Alan! Check out his great shots!!

My Family

Christmas day! Seems so long ago.  Yes, now I am posting all these images! ha ha! Here are a few of me and my family!! So fun for all of us to get together and celebrate as a family. Seems that life is making it more and more difficult for us to all be together. So it was a great day of celebrating the birth of our Savior and the joy of family. Thanks to the help of my great photo assistant/amazing boyfriend Aaron! Oh and a quick shout out to  my tripod (I was sooo excited to finally use it!!) Here are some of the images from that day! Enjoy!

Sorry I just can’t help myself

Found a few more pics that I really love from my time with the Thompsens. I am on a blogging ROLL! more to come!! yay!

The Thompsen’s

Last month I was given the absolute honor of photographing my amazing friends Jen and Jeremy and their very handsome son Brayden! I have looked forward to this for a while now. It has taken a lil extra time to get these up……but I am so very happy and proud to finally post their pictures! We squeezed in a quick shoot at the end of december between rain showers at Ford Park in Redlands. It was a gorgeous day and with a lil coaxing we got Brayden to have a good time as well.  With out further delay- check them out!

Derek and Raelynn

A couple of weekends ago Aaron and I were given the absolute pleasure of doing an engagement shoot for my good friends Derek and Raelynn, Derek has been my roomate for just over a year now. Wow time flies! Derek and Raelynn are both amazing people. I count myself truly blessed to be able to call them friends. They also were a blast to photograph! I had so many favorites that it made it extremely difficult to narrow it down. Warning- this maybe a long post. Here are the ones that made the cut. Congrats Derek and Raelynn on your upcoming wedding and the many years of happiness to follow!

So ya……it has been awhile

So Sorry! I have been doing some serious slacking in the blogging world. My blog has been grossly neglected! Good news- I think I might have started to catch up! Stay tuned for posts of my good friends/roomates engagement and a trip up the california coast!

Egypt and the Sinai Pennisula

Finally! The end of the March and April travel saga! Egypt was amazing. I am always blown away by how different each place is that I visit! Each part of the world offers up another way to behold beauty. I marvel at God’s creation with each destination that I travel to. I guess that is why God created such a beautiful and diverse world for us to enjoy. Oh and I have every intention of doing so!  Egypt is a land full of tradition and old world flavor. I loved my time there and will never forget the new experiences and people that I met! 

Greece!!!

What a beautiful country!!! It was cool to change things up after a couple of weeks in Kenya. I met my cousin Jamie in the beautiful city of Athens and it was a riot! (almost literally!) Ok so Jamie and I made a deal- I would do the picture part and she would do the writing part so go to Jamie’s Blog for more details on our trip….. 

 

Africa part 2

Sorry It took sooooo long but here is part 2- to my kenyan adventure…….Enjoy!

 

 

Jambo!

Yay! I am soo excited to show you the first set of pictures from my trip to kenya! First let me tell you some logistics. On March 17th a team of Doctors and Nurses arrived in Kenya to teach an APLS course (Advanced Pediatric Life support). The group makeup I likened to Noah’s Ark. We came in two by two. We lined up as such: two critical care physicians, two pediatricians, two pediatric intensive care fellows, two pediatric residents, two pediatric intensive care nurses, and two pediatrics (aka the Kidlets)! It was a great group dynamic! We had an awesome time together. I feel so blessed to have been given an opportunity to work with all these amazing people. So many laughs- which if you know me at all- you know that is my most favorite thing to do! The kidlets were the stars of the show. We were all so glad that they came. This journey entailed many jokes (mostly knock knock jokes), and many renditions of Toto, the Lion King, and a lil bit of Dire Straits too! haha!

Kenya truly had a beauty all of its own. I still can’t help but hold my breath while looking at these pictures myself. Oh and if you are wondering “Africa” by Toto always is playing in the background of my mind as I look at them too! I hope you enjoy these first pics as much as I enjoyed taking them! More to come!