a moment by the river....

i wasn't going to take fall portraits of my kiddos this year. a great friend of mine did our family portraits this year (i'll have to stick the one of our family on my home page). she did such a great job and saved me a LOT of trouble :)  but the more time i spent taking pictures of other families with all those fall colors the more i wanted to capture them with my own family!

oh my heavens i love the boise river in the fall.... these pictures don't even do it justice. i'm glad we squished this session in real quick. gorgeous colors & some pretty cute faces!

three cheers for kylie

kylie is new to the area and already made cheerleader!  this was a fun solo session - full of team spirit :)

alexa and lauren

these cute sisters were due for a session... i photographed them two years ago while they were here visiting family and it was so fun to see how much they've grown up! beautiful girls!

california portraits...

we just returned home from a sunny week in southern california! 30+ people under one roof! every other year my mom treats us to some wonderful place all together... you can scroll down to the next post for a few of our adventures, but i couldn't let the week go by without capturing some family portraits on the beach.

i'm tacking on a few taken by my brother's wife of their adorable SIX boys. her camera was having a "moment" so she lost her best pics but we salvaged some of them. i have so many adorable nephews!

a new chapter :)

ashley is starting a new chapter of her life...  she's going to be a full-time missionary!  we took these shots right before she left so her family could cherish them while she's away.  she's an outstanding individual.  she will do a marvelous work!

can u say WOOT WOOT! college grad ~ 2010....

wow! i have been very, very busy! sorry for the major gap here! i've got some big sports photography stuff going on, a wedding dvd, a family portrait sitting... add to that my 3 year old, 5 year old (preschool graduation), end of school for a high school kiddo, middle schooler, a fun weekend in mccall, and it just doesn't leave ANY time to hang out on the computer!


i'm finally ready to introduce mr. darren - college graduate!! fortunately we took his portraits before it started pouring rain the last few weeks.

darren just graduated from BSU! we had lots of fun running around the boise depot. he was a good sport and laughed at all of my jokes :) he didn't even roll his eyes when i stopped to take some photos of a very weird large bird to show my kids later! we were hoping to get some pics on the tracks, but there's an interesting construction project going on down there... not too picturesque unfortunately. his family happens to be the very first ones who were brave enough to let me take their portraits when i first started out a few years back! (brave souls!) congratulations darren! he's brilliant!