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15Jul/097

Happy Independence Day!

Yeah, yeah, I'm a little late, but if you saw how late I usually am on personal pictures you'd be shocked to see these up so soon. It was the first time I've ever actually photographed fireworks (and I've somehow missed most of the last 5 years of celebration, once flying over the pacific ocean and missing the day entirely), so it was fun to be able to do this.

Fireworks, however, are not my specialty . Favorites?

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17Jun/095

This is Houston

Who's up for a shoot in Houston?? I never knew how much I would love this city, but I do. So far. My BYU photographer friend Whitney who's in town for a few months wanted to go on a walk along the Buffalo Bayou trail (I think that's what it's called) from her apt to downtown so I took my camera along. After about 30 minutes I seriously regretted it, but once we got to the rockin' parts I was SO happy. These are all taken with my brand spankin' new Canon 5D Mark II (which I'm in-love with) and the Canon 50 mm 1.2.

These were all either IN downtown or really close to downtown under the overpasses. I LOVE those overpasses.

Please forgive us for being in running clothes with no make-up or showers, but I didn't expect to love these pictures enough to blog them!

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15Jun/098

Claire Nicole

Is the name of this little beauty...

In the first picture she's only about an hour old and the rest she's 24 hours old. If you've called or emailed me without a response, this is the reason why. With labor starting on Thursday, but no baby until Saturday night (and only about 5 hours of sleep for me), plus a wedding 2 hours away (and barely making it back in time for the baby's birth), I've been a little distracted .

She's the lovely product of my identical twin sister and her husband and I nearly cried when they told me her full name. Those are quite the cheeks, eh? 10 lbs 3 oz of adorable baby chub to love. She doesn't even fit into the newborn clothes we have for her . I'm sitting here in the hospital on a tiny little love seat to sleep on and I'm so so glad to be here. Welcome little girl!! You are so loved.

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4May/094

Max

Here are a few pictures of the little guy as soon as he came home from the hospital at 2 days old! He weighed in at about 5 lbs 12 oz. He was born on April 24, so now he's 10 days old! Can't wait to see him again.

Daddy with the new big sis while Max took a nursing break.

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3May/099

It’s official!

I graduated! Granted, I could have graduated much earlier, but if I had I wouldn't share my graduation day with the birthday of my newest nephew (born at the U of U hospital...our rival).

For those who don't know the story, this little guy surprised us all by coming 4 weeks early! My sister and her husband and 2 kids were moving to Minnesota from California when her water broke in Winnemucca, Nevada! It was a bit of a frantic day for us all, but they made it to SLC and she delivered safely early the next morning. 6 lb 4 oz, 19 inches long! Besides being a bit yellow he's perfectly healthy. It was so fun to all be there (my mom, my pregnant twin sister with our other sister on the phone, and the baby's dad of course) when the kid popped out and we discovered he was a he! He got down to around 5 lbs 12 oz so I'm going to have a tiny little peanut to photograph when I get back to Utah in a couple of days! Stay tuned for lots and lots of pictures.

Unfortunately, due to not sleeping the night before, I fell asleep plenty of times during my own graduation, but hey, I graduated!

And no, he still doesn't have a name. Update. His name is Max.

Welcome to the world little man!