Tea party in a magical fairy garden - {Albuquerque child photography}

One giant school carnival down, one to go! We had a seriously great elementary school party last night. I'm still exhausted but it was a great success and hopefully everyone had a great time. One more to go this next weekend...

This week I went with this darling little girl and her mom to this beautiful garden. My smallest assistant, who came along to help me, right away realized that it was a fairy garden! She had a tea party and we half-expected to see fairies out of the corner of our eyes. We figured that they would like the smurf cookies the best, because they're strawberry flavored. :)

Family lifestyle photography - {Albuquerque family photography}

It's that busy time of year again. Obviously I've been having a hard time keeping up with blogging. This time of year would be busy for me even if I didn't have a photography business - I have three soccer players this year, five practices a week and three games (with so much overlap, unfortunately). It's school carnival time for both the elementary school and the preschool, and I'm in the middle of those. I feel kind of maxed out on my volunteer hours right now, but it's all stuff that's important to me so I can't quit. I find myself sitting at the computer late at night after all my meetings are over, trying to keep my eyes open and get sessions sorted and proofed, not to mention marketing, etc... I feel like I'm working at a snail's pace and I apologize to clients who may be waiting. The school stuff will slow down in a couple of weeks and that will help.

This family came to one of my school fundraisers. Their session was so perfect. I love it when I can capture children like this. Their girls started out blowing dandelions and from the first second I loved everything they did. I'm always hoping to capture the relationship between family members, and I thought this session was a great example. A lot of fun and a lot of love! As I was sorting through what to blog I was ready to post them all :) (but luckily I restrained myself... a bit...)

Summer vacation days - {Albuquerque family photography}

On the first day of September, I feel like reliving my summer vacations! We had a great time visiting family in Colorado.  It was sooooooo beautiful there - everything was green and lush.  (It was hard to come back to dry dusty Albuquerque!) 

I'm so lucky to have such gorgeous nieces and nephews.  This is my youngest niece, my youngest brother's daughter.  It's so fun to have a baby around!  A baby in a meadow... I wish I had a meadow here! 












Before we headed up the slopes we had some fun in town.  My brother had a summer job driving the Kona truck and we all enjoyed that.


We love to eat breakfast out on the porch - my daughter loved the butterflies warming themselves in the morning sun.


We tried so hard to catch a fish.  They jumped, splashed, and totally taunted us, but nobody even got a bite.




My kids created this delicious treat - it's a food sculpture of a campfire.  Mmmmmm.


We love the little pool.  It was pretty busy until our big group showed up - then, surprisingly, everyone else left!  They left us to do all the splashing, and lollipop-eating, ourselves.