Paige: Lake Oswego High School Senior

I love hs senior sessions. It was great getting to meet Paige, and her mom and sisters, who joined us for her shoot. We got to use their family friend's property out in Aurora, which was really beautiful! Paige has such a pretty smile and was fun to photograph.



















We took some photos of Paige with her sisters, before one sister had to leave for college. The three of them have a sweet friendship!

Katie: 2011 Lake Oswego Senior

Katie was cracking me up the whole time we were shooting. She has so much personality and would occasionally give me some of the best...er, "worst" hs senior poses ever on purpose... sometimes I was laughing so hard I couldn't even hold my camera still to shoot straight. So tempting to post some of those goof off shots. :) But of course these photos here all came easy for her because she's naturally beautiful.

Her sister Sarah came along on her shoot too, and let's just say it was like Katie squared. :) The two of them together... hilarious! I love their fun personalities!
Happy Senior Year, Katie!

Family...

Aren't they a beautiful family?! I had so much fun with them all! I love their comradery and how much they enjoy being together.















If you know this family, you know they're passionate about soccer. I love seeing all the tournament photos that Leticia posts on her blog of their kids. I remember watching the boys play soccer at their aunt & uncle's wedding reception last year on the side lawn, as I was shooting pictures of guests. It was pretty clear how much they love the game! :) And they're really good at it!





Sorry these photos are so small strung together like this, but I couldn't separate them... I just loved how they all looked together!

Chad & Leticia, thanks for asking me to capture you're beautiful family!

Chad & Leticia...

I got to meet Leticia & Chad through photographing some of Leticia's siblings & their families. They're such a sweet couple, and I love to follow their family blog. They have really cute kids, and Leticia is one of those moms that's easy to look up to!

I'll share their family photos in my next blog post. I just thought these two deserved their own little post. :)

Baby Bump in the Road...

We can do our best to plan ahead, but we never know what we may run into when we get there. :) I'll explain a little further below.

Our family took a much needed long weekend away to the beach. Ah, so refreshing to get some rest, read, play in the sand, soak up time together and just enjoy simple things. And what amazing weather we got to enjoy all weekend! My brother Matt joined us too, which was a lot of fun having his company! His wife Gina was out of town and my younger brother Caleb had other commitments, and my Dad & Janet were hosting a special birthday party for Janet's mom, so it was just us and Matt for the weekend. But we had a great time! Thank you Dad and Janet for letting us stay at Cornelius House!

I rested a lot this weekend, more than usual, because I've been taking it easy much more these days. I thought I'd give you a quick update on my pregnancy, since there's been a change in my shooting schedule for the rest of the year.

Basically, long story short, I've been receiving progesterone injections to help remind my body that I'm pregnant. I've had some pregnancy complications in the past (losing our first baby around 22 wks due to my water breaking prematurely and then also going into pre-term labor twice when pregnant with Jude & going on strict bed rest), and I received 20 progesterone injections weekly when I was pregnant with both Jude & Selah. Thankfully there were no complications when I was pregnant with Selah and it was really wonderful to experience a first "normal pregnancy!" with her!

We began the progesterone again with this pregnancy at 16 weeks, just like normal, but 4 of the first 5 injections I was having reactions/side effects to. The doctor said that I was most likely developing an allergy to progesterone, which is clearly not a good thing. So we stopped the injections and I'm being monitored weekly through ultrasound to just check and see that everything is ok. I'm at a high risk of pre-term labor now, but so far, the past two weeks of ultrasounds have shown that I'm doing fine. But, since stopping the progesterone, Josh and I talked and prayed and decided it was in the best interest of this baby and my clients to cancel all of my photo shoots from mid-September through the rest of the year (baby is due Jan 3rd) so that I can rest and take it easy. Everyone I had to contact has been so wonderful and understanding and supportive! Thank you!! :)

I'm wrapping up a bunch of editing (which has gone slower than planned due to extra dr. appts. and resting) and will finish up shooting these next two weeks. I'm sure you'll see a lot more of my kids on this blog the rest of this year. :)

I feel good, and am confident that God has this little baby in His hands and we are so excited to meet this little man come January! And he has a big brother and a big sister who are already enthralled with him. :) I'm really grateful for the care I've been receiving and the amazing husband I have, who I couldn't think higher of! {heart}

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend!!







Thank you Matt for snapping this family photo for us, and a little belly shot of me too! You have so much natural talent.













Pretty funny... Jude just learned how to play a video game. Uh-oh. :)