Back in Boulder! My life is not stressful at all. Let me tell you about it.

We went to Tennessee for a week, I did back to back shoots for a couple days when I got back, then we went on what we thought *might* be a vacation to San Francisco, but ended up being really a work-cation. I can tell you right now how much I LOVE my husband (and he does not even read my blog, nor look at my photos, though he is polite when I sit him down every few months and MAKE him).  Adam drove all over the bay area with me on all my photo shoots-12 to be exact. He hung out with the kids and was stellar the whole time. I really did not mean for him just to be the babysitter while I was there, but it worked. He got that one on one time with the kids (like he doesn’t get it all the time at home!). He was simply wonderful.

Anyways, I tend to put too much on my plate. I was an animal when I did not have kids. It did not matter what I had to do, I got it DONE. Not so much any more. I have a baby that really does not let me have more than 30 seconds to myself and a 5 year old son who finds it REALLY hard to see me photographing other kids.

Oh, did I mention we were moving in a week? Not stressful at all. We are actually moving to co-housing, which was my grand idea so that our lives would be *less* stressful. Basically, it is a group of single family homes built with the intention of community. So we have meals at the common house a couple times a week, kids running wild everywhere, no ideology, just good people wanting to have connection. And I *need* that.  We have a beautiful, big house in Boulder that we own, but there are no kids, no neighbors, no sense of community. I was the girl in high school who dreamed of starting a commune. This is not exactly that, but close. I know it is a ton of stress right now-renovating our house so we can rent it out, moving, traveling, shooting, and having a baby that is wonderful (but not one of those easy ones!).

We are almost there, though, and I am so excited. We are moving into a place that is 1000 sq ft smaller than our house now, and honestly, I am so sick of all of our stuff, I can not wait to get rid of it all. I want to live a more simple life. For those of you that know me, you have been waiting for me to “settle” down for awhile. Let’s see how it goes.

So… this family was AMAZING! I loved them.  The grandparents were so in love with the children, and the kids were just filled with this pure, genuine joy. My favorite. Every single photo was so perfect from this session, it was hard to choose what to post.

And I am sitting on about 35 gb of memory cards.  Slowly starting to upload them. A kazillion blog posts to come in the next few days. Here is just one from the first card. Loved it!

I was so honored when the mother of one of my friends asked me if I would photograph her daughter while she was in town. It was a quick shoot-we had to be at the rehearsal dinner for her brother  (who is one of my best friends!) right afterwards, but her kids were so cute that it did not matter. Look at these beautiful children! I LOVE them. I want to put them in my pocket and keep them in Boulder. So full of joy and love. Even Chloe, who is oh-so-little, was full of life and as happy as could be. Thank you, Ann, for the honor pf photographing your family, I am so glad I got to spend this time with you!

I have sooo many photos to post! We got to celebrate my grandfathers 85th birthday while I was in TN. I love him so much, and am so glad I got to spend time with him this week. I just got back late last night-our plane had to make an emergency stop in Texas, and then lets say that the flight after that was so bumpy Amelia could not stop giving me back her dinner. Yeah, it was no fun. But I am back for a day then head out again! I WILL get back to all emails and voice messages soon, I am so behind now!