I like fruit. :)

If any of you have ever been blueberry picking with me, you know it's serious business. :) I love to go with friends, chat and "work my system". It's so much fun! I'm a blueberry picking nerd for sure. Two summers ago I picked 80 lbs. and last summer I picked only 60 lbs. Believe it or not we are almost out of blueberries in our freezer and it's barely March.

My neighbor Rosie started a "dreams" list about a year ago. It's a list of 100 dreams for her life. On it can be anything. Any dream. No restrictions. And the goal is to slowly mark things off of your list. Well, she inspired me and I started a list months ago and it only has 30 things on it, "Get fit; Convert an old barn into a natural light studio; Become a better cook..." And another dream of mine is to have fruit trees and berry bushes in our backyard. I've always wanted to grow fruit! Well, Josh is the man of my dreams and he's always making my dreams come true. Two summers ago he bought me raspberry bush starts. And this week we got 5 blueberry bushes. We got 3 for the backyard (an early, mid and late bloom) and two small ones for our front patio pots. And I'm ridiculously excited about it. :)

Here's one of the tiny pot bushes. Isn't it cute? The backyard bushes are bigger.

Jude and I noticed these cute little flowers popping up in the backyard today while we were out watering. I like to stick flowers between fence slats because they look sweet that way.

Jude was asking to paint yesterday, out of the blue, and I realized I've never bought him paint! So we went to Target today and got him some, and large Thomas the Train pages to paint on. He was pretty excited and did really well. I love this sweet face. Have a wonderful weekend!

Their little wee fairy: Heidi

When I saw Heidi for the first time I just thought she was about as cute as they come! She has these sweet eyes, pretty lips, and this perfect hairline. And she seemed so dainty and girly.
If you follow my blog you'll probably recognize Heidi's family. She has a terribly cute older brother, Dutch, and I'm a big fan of her parents, Jeff & Kari. They're good friends of ours and remarkable people. Kari referred to Heidi as her little wee fairy and I thought that was adorable. :)
Here's Heidi at only 4 days old.

Oregon Beach

Josh, the kids and I spent the weekend at the beach with my family and had a great time. It's always so relaxing there. We stayed at the Cornelius House and I'm telling you, I LOVE that place. It's a home away from home for me, and every time we stay there I wish we had planned ahead to stay longer. We were a crack up, though... among seven adults we had seven computers there. It sure shows the age we live in; none of us felt like we could leave home without our laptop!

On Sunday afternoon my brother Caleb's girlfriend came out to the coast and brought along some friends, and a couple of those friends were visiting from another state. We went down to the beach to take some fun pictures and play around. This was a great group!! They were singing, full of laughter and personality!

Loving the Newborns!

Nancy is a super mom! Her adorable kids are 11 months and 2 weeks apart. I know she has her hands full, but I think she's rockin' it! And I think it's going to be really special for these siblings as they're growing up, being so close in age. I had a wonderful time hanging out with this family! Here's their sweet little guy, Carter. Isn't he cute?


And two more shots that I personally love. :)
#1... I love a round baby belly
#2... Here his daddy was picking him up and he didn't want to be woken up.

Romantic Surprise, Romantic Setting

Aaron surprised his beautiful wife Val with a photo shoot for Valentine's day! (Way to go Aaron!) I had such a good time photographing them. I always love shooting at this spot and when we were there for their session it felt especially enchanted! As I was running around, chasing their daughter Ayla with my camera I felt like I could picture what it would've been like to be there a hundred years ago... so charming! Definitely story book. It was amazing!! I can't wait to go back and photograph there again. I have new ideas in mind.







Aaron and Val, as cute as can be.



Ok, if you know Val you will be able to hear her laugh when seeing this next shot! Best laugh ever!







Their sweet 5 month old, Macy.


And finally, if you ever wonder what it's like photographing toddlers? This shot gives you an idea. :) And I love it!!