It was my sister Paula’s birthday and what better place to celebrate than the new Hooley’s Irish Pub in Grossmont Center. What a place! They really did a nice job. Lighting, mood and food were all perfect. Guinness, corned beef, bangers, chips, Harp, mash, darts…and authentic Irish plasma TV’s!!

Paula is out from Kansas and we haven’t seen her for a while. We shared lots of stories, food and drinks….a great time.

Happy birthday Paula!!

We put a little something in Paula’s Lemonade…

Give me that sandwich…

Little Miss H, also known as “Princess and the Pink” (see image below), is one of our Bebe members. She was so content and happy during her 1st session with us, and I absolutely loved the pink bow she had in her hair. While we were thrilled with all of the images from this session, we knew there was something unique about her sleeping in the sea of pink material. James entered that image (titled above) in print competition at the Professional Photographers of Sacramento Valley and won Best of Show in January. Can’t wait to see what her next session brings!

We were invited to a birthday party by the Pulley’s at Wacky Tacky. What a crazy place! Perfect for our crazy girls. Clowns, ballons, pizza, cupcakes and everthing else that make little ones go wild. Thanks Pulley’s!!!

We photographed the Goering/Shirhall extended family right after Thanksgiving(um…yeah, we are really behind on blogging!), when they had come together from all over California to celebrate and, as a bonus, be photographed together. We have to thank Terri for organizing this extended group and doing such a great job on everyone’s clothing coordination. They were a fun family willing to follow us around to what may have seemed like odd places to be photographed…and it resulted in some fun images! Not shown here was a family dog that was present for some of the individual family portraits…posed like a champ! Don and Jean, you have much to be proud of in your beautiful family.

The latest in our Cutest Kid contest, miss Sophia. Mom brought an incredible array of clothing options and we just loved this dress. Sophia did fantastic! Vote for Sophia HERE.

Yet another cutie in our Cutest Kid Contest. Miss Savannah impressed us with her willingness to perform in front of the camera…and she’s not quite 4!!! Maybe she can give our Teagan some lessons…

Vote for Savannah HERE.

Better late than never I suppose…

Hey, I would have posted it Saturday but was busy with our super cool senior fashion shoot (more on that soon). Anyway, here is our little lovelies showing off their stuff. Hope you and yours shared some love.

Next in our Cutest Kid contest. Last time we saw Madison, she was sharing the spotlight with the cousins. Today was her turn to be the star! Vote for Madison HERE.

Meet our latest Cutest Kid contestant Camryn. She was more than happy to show off her toothless smile, and some lovely curls to boot! Vote for Camryn HERE.

Gabby is a 2009 senior graduating from Woodcreek High. We met Gabby last year when her parents brought her and her 2 beautiful sisters for some portraits. They were such a wonderful family to work with and we’re thrilled that Gabby is the oldest….that means we’ll get to see them at least 2 more times! We established such a great relationship with them, in fact, that the youngest Fastiggi sis is our girls’ new favorite sitter. Oh, and is it any surprise by looking at her portraits that Gabby was Homecoming Queen this year?? Way to go!