Archive for August, 2011

We are all given one life to live and it is our responsibility to live it well…

Throughout these last four years I have had an incredible opportunity of meeting so many wonderful people. I feel truly blessed and honored to do what I do and provide people with memories that will last a lifetime. For me, I don’t feel that I am in the “picture taking business” but rather one of creating memories. With each client that enters these doors, a friendship begins, and they are no longer just “clients” but rather, friends.

Each person that I have had the privilege of photographing holds a dear place in my heart. Particularly this family.

I first met Jayme a little over a year and a half ago for her maternity session. It was a surprise for her husband, Ben, who had been encouraging her to document this incredible time in their lives. I love being a part of surprises like this! They are so much fun and he loved it!

I then met Ben and their beautiful baby girl, for Elle’s newborn session and immediately saw the love that Ben had for Jayme and their daughter. He adoooored his new family. Every once in a while throughout the session I would see Ben give Jayme a little hug and a kiss on the forehead as they gazed at their daughter. It was so sweet… a moment I was grateful to be a part of.

It is these intimate moments that I so cherish about my {job.} Moments that seem fleeting, but last a lifetime.

During the next year I was invited by Jayme and Ben to document their precious Elle’s first year, which I was SO excited for! I absolutely love getting to see these precious babies every three months and hear how things are going at home. It is such a blast!

During that year, however, I also witnessed Ben fight for his life with brain cancer… Throughout the year and a half+ that I had the great honor of knowing Ben, I saw a husband with an incredible love for his wife,  a daddy who absolutely adooores his little girl and would do anything to protect her, and a strong and courageous man who fought hard for his life…

We are all given one life to live… And I am SO thankful that I had the privilege and honor of knowing a life that was lived well.

Ben,

You will be truly and dearly missed…

Thank you is not enough for how grateful I am to have photographed your precious little girl and sweet family and provide them with memories that will last a lifetime… Thank you…

Michelle

{image taken: August 4th, 2011}

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Last Saturday my husband and I celebrated our 6th Wedding Anniversary, so we decided to start our morning out right by venturing out as a fam to the Snohomish Pie Company for breakfast on 1st Street! We made our first visit there a few weeks before and ended up sharing one of their NEW ITEMS, their cinnamon rolls. And Oh – My – Word, are these good!!! So last Saturday we headed back for these YUMMY rolls!

Can you say YUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMM?????

Their specialty, of course, is their pies!

This would be my daughter’s excited face re: Snohomish Pie Company’s Cinnamon Rolls!! =) They only make them on Saturday morning so don’t miss out!!

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I feel compelled to write this…

We live in a day and age where outward appearances have become so distorted that young children have eating disorders. Clothes now “define” us and place false prestige amongst our peers. Photoshop has become so overly abused that users depict bodies to young girls, boys, men and women what their bodies “should” look like…

This makes me so angry and very  sad.

YOU are BEAUTIFUL! You were made perfect in every way, shape, and form. YOU were beautifully and wonderfully made whether you can believe it or not. And as your photographer, it is my job to capture that authentic you and no one else.

It absolutely breaks my heart to see so many people struggle with their self images because the World has told them what their image should look like.

As your photographer, I promise to photograph the natural beauty that you poses. The beauty that comes from within and touches the lives of those around you.

You were beautifully and wonderfully made and I look forward to capturing the beauty that YOU possess.