Journal

I was just looking back at this family photo shoot I did at the very beginning of November last year, and appreciating those fall colors that you don’t really see on trees in Maui.  There are some bright fish and flowers and a different beauty to be found though.  I digress.  Back to this location– it […]

At the very first Thanksgiving feast, in 1621, the Wampanoag children and Pilgrim children ate and played games together for three days. At your table, either for Thanksgiving Week or Day, this craft is a simple and fun way to up-cycle, educate, and entertain your little ones by using coffee sleeves and creating both a […]

Every fall I take my girls to the pumpkin patch, it is an autumn tradition and one of my favorites. I look forward to going every year. The pumpkin patch tradition started 10 years ago when we were in Westlake Village and visited the ever-popular Underwood Family Farms. Now the weather in Southern California is […]

Doing a little bit of editing on this beautiful girl’s portraits and just had to share. I so enjoyed photographing her and her brother at her Thousand Oaks home, but more of that to come. For now I just wanted to share this one from Maui– doesn’t she look so pretty?

So I wanted to post before going to bed. The second blood moon of this year. My littlest couldn’t sleep, and then I read that the best place to see tonight’s blood moon was in Hawaii! I was thrilled to have the advantage of living in the middle of the Pacific on this occasion. I […]

Take a little trip with me, to my old street. Don’t pay attention to the two moms by the trampoline talking– they might be there awhile. OK, now listen: Giggles, laughter, running. More running. A gleeful shriek. A parent’s voice having to transform to a loud speaker calling their child in. “Coming” replies the trained […]