AAARRRGGGG! Yo Ho Ho!

Halloween is my favorite holiday. I love the costumes and I love the season that comes with Halloween. Gabby always wants to be a princess, something cute and girly which must include frills. Well I really wanted Isaac to be a pirate and I really wanted them to be matching. I usually make their costumes but really didn't want to this year, well I found Isaac's costume and fell in love with it. So I checked out all the girl pirate costumes when I stumbled upon Gabby's. I loved it immediately and thought Gabby would too but I wasn't sure, I hoped maybe I could convince her and if not I could easily return it so I bought it. To my luck she loved it when she saw it and it was settled, I got what I wanted and so did Gabby as a cute frilly, girly pirate that looks a little like a musketeer (think Barbie and the Musketeers). Loved the costumes so much I even dressed up to match which I never do.

Happy Halloween everyone!

SPU Fall

I know I know I havn't been around in awhile. Isaac is at that age where he really just doesn't want me on the computer. He either cries or grabs at the computer when I am on it so it makes it pretty difficult to get on regularly. Well last week Tracey (my neighbor) and I took the kids out for walk, they really needed to get out. The fall colors and campus are so beautiful I had to bring my camera and I am really glad that I did. I love the campus here as I just think it is so beautiful. As usual Gabby is a goof, she hates me taking her picture unless I am trying to take a picture of someone else. Aiden seriously I love, he actually asks me to take his picture when I have my camera out and he is so photogenic. So is Maggie, I love her beautiful blue eyes and want so bad to do a photoshoot with her. So Tracey lets get on it.

We are really loving Seattle much more than we thought we would. This is definately the right place for us to be right now in this stage in our life. I am excited about the future and what it has to hold for us. Though I do have to say with Thanksgiving coming up I am feeling the lonelyness of not having family close by. I was tempted to see if Pete would be up for driving home for the holiday's but the more I think about it the more I know it's not possible. We miss you all at home and are definately thinking of you.

Halloween Festivities

Halloween is my favorite time of year. I love it and we had so much fun this year. It was the first year where Gabby really got it, costumes, trick or treating, candy, and fun. She was so excited that her enthusiasm really spilled over on me. So here are just a few pictures of our festivities. Gabby loves her costume and the great thing about it is I can use her tulle skirt for a fun photoshoot with a little girl.


Our friends loaned us their spider costume for Isaac and I have to say he makes such a cute spider. He wouldn't wear the hat and I barely managed to get a picture of him with it on but seriously cute. And despite his size he was caught up in the exictment too. We went trunk or treating in the church parking lot and there was lots of excitment to get caught up in.



After trunk or treating we came back to our place and had a spooky Halloween dinner with our friends. We had worms for brains, jack o'lantern fruit bowls, witches fingers, and mummy dogs. Looks like fun huh. This was my first themed dinner and it was a lot of work but lots of fun and the kids liked it.

Vintage Fairy | Seattle Family Photographer

I don't know why but I am drawn to the vintage soft look of photographs, I just love the feel of them. So I had to play with this and see what I could do and I think I am in love. Hope you like it as much as I do.

Happy Halloween! | Seattle Family Photographer

I decided this year I was going to make Gabby's Halloween costume which I was afraid was going to be a huge undertaking for me. I found this really cute no sew fairy pattern at Jo Ann's and decided I would go for it. Gabby decided she wanted to be Tinkerbell and this pattern I thought would translate well into Tinkerbell although Gabby keeps telling me her shirt doesn't look like that, and her wings don't have flowers mom. She thinks she knows it all, oh well she still likes it even if it doesn't look exactly like Tink. I finally finished it and did an impromptu shoot today. These pictures don't do the costume any justice but they are still cute. The best part is the tulle skirt that you can't see very well, it's green, yellow, and white and they are beautiful together. Now she can't wait for Halloween. I keep thinking I need to make Isaac Peter Pan but he is going to be a spider instead curtesy of our friends. I will show pictures of him with his once I get the costume.

Brogan | Family Photographer

Before I left Utah I was able to photograph the cutest little 6 month old. He has the most beautiful eyes and lips and the cutest red hair. These were so fun to edit as nearly every picture was perfect, such an easy happy baby to photograph. I wish my little guy were this easy. Hope you like them Amy, I had so much fun hanging out with you and look forward to you coming to visit us in Seattle.

Archibald | Family Photographer

Trying to get moved into a house that is 1/3 of the size of the house you were living in is very difficult. I have really been struggling with getting "moved in" we still have boxes everywhere and I can hardly bring myself to touch them as I have no idea where they are going to go. needless to say I have been slow going with everything. I woke up yesterday at 4:30 am and couldn't sleep because of all the editing I have to do. I got this session finished which has been stressing me out. This family is Pete's cousins and there little boy is having major heart surgry in October in California so I needed to get them done before they left. Here are a couple more for you to see Mandy, these are a few of my favorites.