{Roseville,Sacramento Children's Photographer}: Gibson Ranch

This weekend we ventured over to this place... what a wonderful find! It's like we stumbled upon a hidden treasure in the middle of the 'burbs.

The kids were thrilled and squealed and jumped with excitement as their eyes went large with this vision. The huge pond and the ducks and the expanse of wide open areas to explore was a welcome release of energy to round out our busy weekend..


A mother first and foremost, I always get nervous when I see my kid right at the edge...


We are a two camera family and of course David is ever ready with his and was content capturing the ducks. Awesome shot hun!


Marlena and I ventured on our own...


The older she gets, the less she wants her photo taken. She made her mama happy when she obliged.


Such a beautiful place...


If you know of any places in the greater Sacramento County area and Placer County areas, please let me know! I'm always in search of locations... and, why, yes, I would love to take YOU here one day....!!

Thanks for visiting and feel free to bookmark my blog and forward it to a friend.... Kari, if you are reading...your sneak peek will be up tomorrow!

{Roseville,Sacramento Children's Photographer}: Cool like that...

As I was greeted at the door, the older one came up to me and I extended my hand to shake his and asked him what his name was. Very polite. The younger brother came very quietly behind his older brother. As I reached out to shake his hand to introduce myself, he had a big grin and told me his name. I noticed the new grown up teeth starting to make themselves comfortable in his little boy mouth. But what I noticed from the start was their bright, sparkling eyes. Their mother mentioned it to me, but I had no idea. Stunning. Blue.


The eyes soon took a backseat to excited boys. Well, this one was excited and full of energy and his older brother was playing it cool. Mom was in the background and tried to calm young son down and direct the smiles. I could see that he wanted to appease her but also wanted to let loose. The quiet battle dance between wills was starting to take place.... I know you mother's out there know what I'm talking about. Eventually, the quiet glances and giggles soon surrendered to mom because as you can see...

...the boys did great! They were themselves. There is a written code among brothers and these boys knew the code. I really enjoyed watching them relate and hug and punch and smile and chase and laugh and laugh....

They took my direction well. I asked them to stick their hands in their pockets and "be cool like that". Jeez, naturals I'm telling you, because these boys were OH SO, COOL LIKE THAT!

Thank you for giving me a fun couple of hours! It was much fun! All the best always!

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Happy Tuesday!

{Roseville,Sacramento Family Photographer}: Happy Birthday Sweetheart!

(photo taken December 2003)
Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband... I can really gush and gush about him, but I'll save you, so won't. Just know that my life is perfect because of him. Love you sweetie!

{Roseville,Sacramento Children's Photographer}: Lost in their eyes....

I always, always applaud mothers with boys. I have one boy and he runs me ragged...exhausting, never a holiday. These boys were no exception. I'll leave it at that for now. I was only there for a couple of hours, but I was lost in their eyes....

Have a great weekend!

(Roseville, Sacramento Wedding Photographer}: Beautifully Magical, It's all in the details....

I mentioned here that I had the pleasure of photographing this wonderful couple on their special day. The minute I arrived I immediately noticed quiet busy-ness. As I made my way through, I realized these busy folks were family...happily contributing their part of this momentous day to the start of Laura and Joe's life together. There was Laura's beautiful sister, Katie frosting the cake. YES! Frosting the cake like 1 hour before showtime! Smiling all the way through it, never breaking a sweat. Laura's equally lovely mother, Beth. Happily strumming along creating her vision of her daughter's day into reality... Look at that gorgeous centerpiece! Pumpkins encased in beautiful glass displays emblazoned with autumnal colors sparkling with a hint of glitter. Absolutely gorgeous!


The tables carried the theme... silverware with aged bronze handles that finished in swirls, each place setting received a candied apple dipped in caramel and chocolate. At night the tent was lit with mood setting everglow mini lights and the surrounding trees even had their own glow.


The colors...OH, the glorious, beautiful colors. Deep oranges and yellows mixed with a lush crimson laid out on the beautiful canvas of green that captured the days golden falling leaves...


Incredible vision that Laura's mother Beth held in her mind's eye... mixed in with the physical beauty of it all was the incredible warmth and love that was generated within this family and emanated through to those who witnessed and celebrated. This truly was a family affair, from their officiant, to the close friends of the family who prepared the feast, to the flowers, to Joe's dad and his homemade apple pies from their family orchard- and I'm sure so many more to mention-, it was physically beautiful and inwardly magical.


I'll end this post with a little music and this cute little guy. He was very content in making little dirt roads with his little monster truck creating his own brand of magic. Happy Thursday!!

{Roseville,Sacramento Wedding Photographer}: Laura + Joe

I'm feeling extra generous and happy tonight to be posting a huge, huge, sneak peak for Laura and Joe. I'm so excited for them to see their images. Laura made a beautiful bride and Joe sat back and let Laura's smile just tell the whole story.

The venue was at Laura's family ranch. She grew up on this ranch and it holds special meaning to her. Wow, it was just a wonderful, glorious, beautiful day and it was filled with so much love, exuding from everyone in attendance.


The bride was radiant, so calm and collected, she was kind enough to ask ME if I was stressed out. I gave her a big hug.


Another fav as Laura's sister reads during the ceremony.


This one gets me right to the heart... emotions captured, dad stealing a glance of his daughter right before he walks her down the aisle.... really, I'm crying already....


The love exudes and it is felt by all who are near...



Laura and Joe, thank YOU for giving me a special, memorable day!

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I'll be posting a few more images this week to show off what amazing work Laura's mother put into this wedding....

{Roseville,Sacramento Family Photographer}: Halloween....

So what were my kids for Halloween? This little guy was Buzz Lightyear.

Big sis was an Egyptian princess...


Little sis was a genie...


and we made a good candy run around the neighborhood.


I also went to this place...

It's a really cool walk bridge in Fair Oaks and also a beautiful photo op location. Shoot me an email if you need holiday photos! We'll whip 'em out. David took the snapshot, btw. He's becoming really good.

Hope you've all come down from the kids sugar rushes!
Have a great Monday!