old friends - salt lake children's photographer

My favorite kind of friends are the ones with whom you can pick up right where you left off...every single time you see them. You might see them once a month or talk to them every day or they might live on the other side of the country, but spending time with them is happy and familiar and wonderful.

The Manwaring family is just this for me (and my kids). Sadly, they do live a whole country away from us, but they were here for a visit this week and I got to take their pictures.

This little guy isn't as little as I remember, but still just as wonderful...

And this little miss seems so grown up...

And the one on the way is sure to be just as wonderful...

This beautiful momma inspires me to be better in so many ways.

To cherish the good...

And embrace the not so good...

To teach them to explore...

and to play...

and to love...

And, I made her pose for some maternity shots...because we are friends and I can do that!

Loved seeing you! You are beautiful in every way!

Click click click - salt lake city children's photographer

I don't have any sisters and my brothers are much younger than me,

so my kids kind of get jipped when it comes to cousins on my side.

But lucky for them, and me, I have some fabulous cousins

whose kids are the same age as mine

and we get together often for fun adventures.

And when we try to get them together
so we can take a picture of the special relationship they have,

we get this...

and so we keep on clicking, and doing chicken dances by the camera,
and making faces, and playing peek a boo...

click, click, click

and eventually, if we are lucky, we may get something as fabulous as this...

and then when the big kids clear out, this little stink just oozes cuteness...

and so we keep on clicking.

Click

Click

Click

Click, click, click...the story of my life.

Capturing Relationships - salt lake family photographer

When it comes down to it, the most important things in life aren't really things at all.

They are the relationships we have with the people we love.

When I got the call about taking pictures for the Gowans family I was thrilled.

Not only because they are dear friends, but because of what they wanted to capture.

This session was about the relationship between two adoreable little guys and their Avo (grandma) and their mom. How often these sweet relationships go unrecorded because we don't think to pull out the camera or because we are always behind the camera and those sweet moments that you never want to forget just slip by...too quickly.

But they didn't want to let the moments slip away...

so we captured them instead.

Two sweet little guys

with their beautiful Mommy

and their beautiful Avo

Three generations of love

And it started with a mother and a daughter