The best place for family photos is the place you feel the most comfortable.   The best place for family photos is where you feel happiest. The best place for family photos is where you love to be together. The best place for family photos is the place you play together. The best place for family…

It started as a Pinterest conversation.  Meghan and I swapped inspirational images last summer in preparation for their annual family photo session  and – somehow – our inspiration became reality. We dreamed and schemed for months, we planned and hoped (and stressed) in the final weeks, and somewhere along the way the reality was so much more…

Family is spectacular.  The glory of similar yet different, the power of shared experiences and mutual memories, the variety of personality and yet the similarity of disposition. Childhood is wondrous. Who better to stop and smell the roses than a child? Who else can make an entire room burst into laughter without saying a word?  When else do we humans…

This is love. College sweethearts, life partners, parents of four. Husband and wife. While their four munchkins ran circles around them, while the twins chased squirrels through the park, while the sun set gently behind them, these two gazed into one another’s eyes and relished their togetherness.  And it was perfect.   Perfection lies in…

    The song started almost immediately.  Dad didn’t start it.  Mom didn’t start it.  Older brother didn’t start it. But the song was there, background music sung by baby brother. Karissa and her dad were having a turn for photos together, Silas started singing, and Malachi joined him.  The brothers serenading Dad and sis as…