Welcome to the world baby Michael!!! March 28, 2008

Baby Michael David Stokes was born to Vera & Mickey 2:05am on March 8th, at Swedish in Ballard - (and named after my favorite Dad, Michael David Hull!)

The first few photos in the collage are of us just minutes after the birth and the rest are the next day.

After six super short days, we had our first “real” photo shoot - baby Michael is SO cute!

His favorite activities include sleeping, eating, wiggling, listening to music with Dad and of course playing dress up with THE best big sisters EVER!!

We’ve already taken over 500 photos - so it was hard to narrow it down to this few…. don’t worry your inbox will be full of photos again next week!!

Enjoy!!

Angela, Albert & Roxie! March 27, 2008

Angela & Albert have a new addition to their family this year! Little Roxie is a BIG part of Angela & Albert’s lives, she is so fun and playful. =)

Last Friday (after waiting a few days for some sunny weather) we headed over to Discovery park and did some freestyle walking, played a little frisbee and even had some time for a portrait or two. =) Angela is the owner of Savor Seattle (feature a few times in the blog this year!)

James, Mia & Jude! March 18, 2008

Last Sunday I met the McKey family over at Gasworks park where we spent about an hour playing, laughing, running, rolling around and yes of course a little crying to (but only a little).  =)

Kids are so my favorite people to photograph - they are so silly you never know what is going to happen!

Here are a couple of my favorite images from the day.  (it was SO hard to narrow them down - such cute kids!!)

The Hays Family ~ March 7, 2008

Tim & Mellisa have been so supportive of my business over the past few years and also featured many times in my photography work - with their engagement (the actual event… it was SO exciting), their wedding (the most perfect October day) family holiday photos, and now…. to introduce the youngest Hays member - Cooper!! Little Coop will be six months old soon and he is so cute - with TONS of hair and very stylish clothes (love baby clothes with attitude!!).

On Sunday of last week - we headed out to a gorgeous park in Des Moines where Kailani and Mackenzie played the rolls of the most perfect big sisters ever!

Here are a few of my favorites from our session:

The Tate Family ~ January 31, 2008

Lori heard about me through Heather & Janine (featured many times on the blog) at our fabulous Conscious Body Pilates studio in Madison Park. She emailed and said she was looking for some fun artistic family photos (my favorite kind) - she & husband Byron have a beautiful 6 month old named Camber (love the name!) I was so excited to meet Lori and her family - they are fun and beautiful people who live in a beautiful home with lots of natural light. Perfect for those sunny January days where it is MUCH too cold to be outside for longer than two minutes! =)

Here is a sneak peek at our little photo session.

Enjoy!

Love this expression!! hee hee