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i don’t know about you, but for me, the new year always brings with it a feeling of freshness. i love that we get to have the year’s slate wiped clean and we get to start over on goals, renew relationships, and breathe new life into our pursuits. i’m going to be doing so with this little photo blog that i’ve got here. i’m going to post a few photos from past sessions with a few new twists, and i am looking forward to all that this new year has in store for future sessions as well.

what does the new year have in store for you and your creativity?

oh this fun family! these are friends of ours from our orange county days and i really like erin a lot. she’s so sweet and unassuming and just really has such a good heart. i loved being able to capture her and her family (those adorable little girls!) a while ago. we had an interesting session, as the girls weren’t loving the situation, but in the end i think we had a good show.

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copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

thanks, you guys, for a wonderful time!

…posting some beautiful photographs of this awesome family. i mean, come on, who has a kid with a mohawk named hubert?

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yeah that’s right, these guys do. it’s totally trailer park. and totally awesome.

so enjoy the awesomeness that is the d family.

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

thanks for the fun, you guys!

i know, i know, shayne, i’m sorry that i only have one to share so far. just hold tight!

in the meantime, enjoy this face. seriously, i love it.

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i know you’ve been dying to see these, tawni! so here you go. just a small sampling of the adorable photos that i got of not only your sweet little new baby boy, but your sweet little girl (and you!) as well. i had a lot of fun doing these and i hope you like them as much as i do!

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copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

copyright 2009 laurel lakey photography

is he not the cutest little thing you’ve ever seen?? seriously, tawni, thank you so much for letting come and capture these memories for you guys!

there will be more where these came from, i can promise you that.

this weekend we took a little walk around our neighborhood and i snapped some of my boys. my three-year-old has ZERO patience for the camera, so all i get of him lately are silly faces or blurry ones because he is running away. oh, and i’m also privileged to get to photograph the back of his head. i’m so lucky.

since i live in southern california and it’s a million degrees all year round, i was so glad to have it actually cool down a little while we were out. and by cool down a little, i mean it was about 75 degrees instead of 90. yee-haw!

luckily it’s been nice since last night, but we’ve been informed it’s not sticking around. i swear, i’m about to pack up the kids and move to colorado! then at least i’d get some semblance of fall and some crispness in the air.

but i digress….

here are some fun ones to share:

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copyright 2009 laurel lakey

hope you all enjoy your wednesday! i’ll be off on a road trip with my boys this weekend to visit the great state of utah and hopefully soak up as much FALL weather as i can handle. wish me luck with 2 little ones and a 10-hour drive!

in the church that i belong to, we have men and women called missionaries who take 2 years out of their lives to serve a mission for our church in some part of the world. that means that where we live, we have missionaries assigned to our area. we like to have them over for dinner as a service as well as a fun time to get to know them while they’re stationed here.

these two elders (that’s what they are called) are such great guys to be around. and since they were over at our house for dinner one night, they saw my lighting equipment and asked if i take pictures. yep! was my reply, and they asked if i’d take a couple of them. and i do mean a couple, we had a mini-session that lasted all of 8 minutes.

here are a couple from that session. again, it’s nothing major, we didn’t even use a backdrop, just the wall of my front room. but it was fun to play around a little bit.

i will be having a couple of great sessions coming up soon, so stay tuned for those!

*typing from my husband’s computer, a pc of course*

well, this week has been interesting. my mac is in the shop because it was freaking out and not working properly. they’re replacing the entire motherboard. ugh.

so needless to say, i haven’t been able to work on the things i was going to work on and post here, which is a huge bummer.

what have i learned? that i will not promise things on my blog, even if i think i can deliver them. because i hate having that feeling that i’m not doing getting it all done. and yes, this time it’s because of things beyond my control, but i suppose i worry about what you (my loyal blog readers and first-time readers alike) will think about me.

SO, i’m going to hit this blog up with some new stuff as soon as my machine is back home and running smoothly. it may be a few days, it may be a week. i’m not promising anything. in the meantime, here is at least one photo from the upcoming renee + lewis couple shots. i really had a great time working with them and they were tons of fun! i just hope i can get my computer back soon so that i can share the rest with you. because i really love to share! (wish my 3-year-old would grasp the concept!)