Today I got to visit with a friend from my ole high school days. She is busy raising three girls (and a puppy to boot). It was so fun to see her in action as a mom and with a daughter nearly as tall as her!! We compared notes on raising kids, the chaos and the beginnings of our achy bones. Her daughters were very energetic and very sweet. 

I've come to realize in taking portraits, that i adore to document life as it is, rather than how we want to show people it is. You know that feeling when you see a photo of a family, everyone is matching, smiling, heads tilted and you get a pang of jealousy that your life is never that picture perfect? Yea, those moments are few and far between. Again, I prefer to show the joy, and the love of a family. The sneak peeks I am showing here might not be those models of perfection, but in the joy captured, perfection lies within.

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