Oh, look at me.  My name is Shannon and I'm all skinny and shit.  No big deal. 
My friend, Shannon, who I've been friends with for 25-ish years, recently lost 100 pounds.  Like ya do. So, this skinny little bitch came all the way down from Maine and got all naked in my bedroom.  What a floozy.  ;)
Shannon, you are so beautiful.  I don't mean the inside kind.  I mean, you are beautiful on the inside, but that's not what I'm talking about here.  You're gorgeous.  Sure, you're straight-up petite now (annoying), but what's most beautiful about you, my darling, is your eyes and your face.  You have a sweet, calm, smart, confident air about you.  You've had this since the day you were born, I suspect, and your body can change in all sorts of ways, no doubt all of ours will, but the beauty in your eyes, my friend, has always been and will always be there.

I've been friends with Martina since I was a little girl.  She is the best friend of my best friend (how annoying is that sentence.  shut up.).  She is so awesome that it kindof bugs me that I write with such hyperbole about everyone else so this rave review may be lost.  Martina is the best.  It's just that simple.  I mean..first of all... look at her.  Hello? Really? Is that your face?  Her family? Don't bother.  Awesome.  Smart?  Went to grad school in France.  Worldly? Read that sentence about France again.  She married Stephen who is confident and cool and calm and handsome and smart and successful. They made Small Will and Small Sam.  They're twins.  They've been around for one year. They love everything.  Mostly taking tubs, crawling, and eating and drinking from their bottle.  They also enjoy squealing in delight, trying to walk, and sitting on a chair together.  They are the most well behaved, giggly, good kids I've probably ever met.  Which...let's face it.. is saying a lot. They live in Brooklyn Heights and I was very very very lucky to be able to spend some time with them at their flat.  Then Martina and I killed a bottle of champagne.  Then I went outside and it was 1:30 and it was sunny and I was drunk.  Wish it was the first time I've ever written that sentence.
Enjoy. Thank you. Love.

I am so lucky.  We know this.  To be able to photograph this family adds me in the 'so so so lucky' category.  Brad is the brother of my best friend's husband.  He and his (gorgeous, funny, kind, smart, cool) wife, Maureen, live in the sweet lil hamlet of Osh Kosh, Wisconsin.  This is the second year I've been out to photograph them and it's sooo fun!   And can we stop it right now with the cute level of Collyns.  It's not right.  And we don't need to talk about Maureen, right?  My best friend calls her beauty 'distracting'.  I can't agree more.   Anyway, enough of that.  Here are the pictures.  Enjoy. Thank you. Love.

Love me some Armstrong family, I do.  Krissy and Nick and Sophie welcomed their newest little one, Mary Kate, a few days before Christmas this year and good lohhhd is she sweet.  I wonder if I'll ever get used to how damn small we are when we first arrive.  I've been able to photograph this family over the years and it's been so awesome to get to know them.  They are kind and strong and positive and deeply in love.  It's an absolute honor to even spend a moment with them, never mind photograph them.  Every time I see an email from Krissy I'm excited. It's just that simple.  Here's what I saw this time. :)  Enjoy. Thank you. Love

Yay!  One of Hitched Studios' favorite couples of all time up and procreated.  How rad.  Jill is an incredible singer/songwriter, a beautiful wife,  and SUCH a natural ace at being a mom.  Ramez is a doctor, a great husband, and a total natural at being a really great and loving, gentle dad.  Seeing these two with their son was so beautiful, I think I smiled all day.   Anyway...here's what I saw.  Enjoy, thank you, love.