You all know her well. She’s been to the last 40 weeks worth of photo shoots and weddings. She was responsible for the lovely big belly, and now she’s in my arms. Let me introduce to you our precious baby daughter, Roni Victoria. Her name means “My song, my joy, my victory,” and we pray that over her life. She was born at 2:29 am on April 17 - 8 lbs. 3 oz. 20.5 in. Today she’s 8 days old, and we love her so much already. With her in these photos are her proud big brother, Abel, and me, the adoring mommy.

I love how the “getting ready” part of weddings is such a huge part of the tradition of weddings. It’s the ladies having a morning of pampering and fun together before the big day. Love it!

Such cool, deep red flowers!

For some reason, I tend to photograph in locations with lots of willing lady bugs. Isn’t it funny how we’ll totally ooo and ah over a lady bug as we let it crawl all over us, but if it didn’t have the red with black polka dots we’d freak out and shoo it away? Anyway, I think lady bugs are cute and a welcome addition to my photographs!

I’ll definitely be sad when all of these awesome wild flowers leave southern California! Just a couple more weeks and I’m sure they’ll all be gone. But, I’m glad we got in them when we did. Shawn and Joanne were a lot of fun to photograph. I can’t wait for the wedding!

Apparently, the sand right next to the Santa Monica pier is a pretty popular place right before sunset. There were photographers and couples everywhere. It was a little unreal actually. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were at least 8 photographers trying to squeeze their clients in the perfect spot while tons of other people attempted the same. But, who can blame them? I was right there with them, and the sunset was out of this world.