This past week I turned another year older. I really wanted some portraits of our family to capture this unbelievably fun yet crazy time in our lives. With two outlandishly cute boys and a smoking hot wife, life is good.

Boone was in Seattle for the weekend and Ashley arranged for a little birthday gift to me of some time in front of the camera with Boone. We hit up a park in Capital Hill and Boone rocked some sweet images that really capture our family. There’s a lot of love, laughing, energy and a bit of boogers as well. Thank you Ashley for the perfect gift and thank you Boone for your time and your eye! I’m thinking a fat canvas wrap will do the trick… especially when we get a new place in Ballard (but that’s another story for another time).

Really, what's cuter than an 11 month old with a runny nose in a tight-fitting Burberry sweater!?

Family Portraits : Bellingham, WA : large version

Yeah, unbelievable. Those cheeks just don’t stop! This little guy was so stinkin cute and he just wanted to stick his tongue out at me most of the morning. I couldn’t help but smile the entire time. Sara and Jim found us through our good friend Kirk over at the Practical Westcoast Blog. We had a great shoot the weekend before last at their West Seattle home and over the phone realized that we all went to college together. Check out the darkroom slideshow.

Boone and I shoot a select amount of seniors and families each year and so far we’ve had super-rad clients for 2008. You can look forward to some more awesome seniors up on the blog in the near future as well as maybe a family or two. Still have a bunch of weddings to post as well!

I love this parting look that he gave me as we packed up to leave. Perfect.

This is Dave and his beautiful newly wed wife, Elisha. Dave and I played in a band together in college so you can imagine how much I enjoyed shooting him at their wedding. You can look forward to more images from their sweet wedding soon. But for now…

I’m glued to the computer this week to clear my desk. We have a sweet July lined up with a few choice weddings in the Seattle area, dropping in on two different family vacations including the San Juan Islands and the Oregon Coast and to top it off, we’re having our First Annual Company Family Summer Picnic!! Haven’t figured out if we’re going wheel barrow races or potato sack hopping but either way it’ll be a great time for our families to hang out and talk some gabriel boone world domination 2009. We’ve still got a lot of images waiting to hit the blog and some little announcements that we look forward to updating everyone on. But for now, it’s work-city so I can go enjoy time with the family and take in the Pacific Northwest which we love love love.