Solana Beach or bust!

We went for a short but great stay in Solana Beach, north of San Diego, this past week. We were on the beach all three days, digging, swimming, walking, and relaxing. We love the beach, which means us living in Arizona makes no sense?! At least it is only 6 hours drive from Peoria! We stayed at the Courtyard by Marriott which is walking distance to the beach. Really nice hotel, but don't have breakfast included (their breakfast at the hotel is mediocre.) One restaurant that we did really like was the Pacific Coast Grill. The food was really good and they made a mean sangria (for me) and my husband liked the supreme margarita. The high all week was 68, and it actually got a little cold on the beach the middle day. Sooo hard to come back to 113 degrees after temps like that! Solana Beach was great-- a well needed rest! Half of these were taken with my phone and half with my Canon gear...

Bill and the kids beginning a castle.

Tyler and Katie sitting in there sand dwelling.

Katie laying in the bottom of her sand dwelling.

Almost got in trouble for this one...lifeguard came by and said 'Get out of there!'

Loved the little crabs! So cute!

The four of us, taken with self timer and camera propped on a backpack.

100th Blog Posting

I just noticed that this is my 100th blog entry. How exciting!

I was going to do a regular post of my son when I noticed I had 99 entries. I am still going to blog my son's photos. My daughter has been blogged numerous times; it is Tyler's turn finally!

I shot these at the end of April and never posted any. Must have gotten busy. We took these because his grandma (my mother-in-law) needed current photos of the grandkids to take on her trip to Okinawa to visit our families there. We did this shoot in under 30 minutes, because that is all an 8 year old will give his mom! Tyler gave me a ton of expressions (especially silly ones!) World, here is Tyler!

Jess

This is a senior shoot I did in mid May. I just received her order for prints, and realized I had never blogged it. My favorite is the black and white of her doing her artwork and looking up at me (her name and the year are in red on that one.)

Pre and Post Stork

This is one of my favorite wedding couples from a few years ago. In mid April, I photographed their maternity portraits. And about a week ago, I photographed their newborn daughter. She was a challenge because all she wanted to do while I was there was eat, and then eat some more! But we managed to get a few cute baby shots in between feedings. This will be neat to see the before and after!

Little Miss Elizabeth

Back in March, I did a maternity shoot of Sarah and Eric (one of my past bride and grooms). So I have photographed them a few times now. But this time we included one month old Elizabeth. She was the perfect model baby, awake part of the time for portraits and asleep part of the time for the artsy shots. We had tried to do newborn photos, but our schedules both kept getting in the way. But one month old is still new and beautiful and miraculous. She just had grown like a weed in that first month!