Everyone, we’d like to introduce you to: Brian & Jayme!

Last Saturday we got to hang out with them at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Scottsdale.  Such a great couple!

Here’s a little background about my relationship with them . . . well half of them anyway.  It was the first time we’ve had the pleasure of meeting the incredibly cute and sweet Jayme.  Brian and I were roommates way back in the day.  We lived together with three others guys in our “bachelor pad” about 8 years ago while we were attending some collage courses.  It was a 3 bedroom house in Mesa across from MCC.  The garage was extra special.  It was converted into an air conditioned, carpeted, 600 square foot room with brick walls.  It had a pool table, TV, and all the instruments and sound equipment you would need for a local coffee house band.  Oh yeah, the room also had a bed where I slept for a few years.  I have so many fond memories of that old place.  Seriously some of the best years of my life were in that house.  :-)

I was so excited to here from Brian last week when he contacted me on facebook asking if we could do a last minute portrait session with him and his new “lady friend” last weekend.  I’m so glad we weren’t too busy and had the chance to photograph them.  Jayme and Brian met at a church function a while back.  He has been pursuing her for about the last six months. Just in the last couple of weeks they made it official that they are “dating”.   Okay, enough rambling on I can’t take it anymore, these two are seriously cute!  SERIOUSLY. Check ‘em out.

Friendly message to anyone who cares: adding some extra color is awesome – Absolutely LOVE the yellow shoes!

I loved the walkway under the palms.  We were all having so much fun!

Next we walked back inside to get out of the heat.  I really like all the furniture in that place.  Just relaxing as if at home.

This mirror shot was pretty sweet.

Exposing for the bright backlight  = tasty silhouettes.  LOVE this one. :-)

So sweet.

Once we were able to pry these two off each other for a couple seconds we took a few silly shots.

We have come here a lot and have never been to this part of the resort.  Pleasantly surprised.  How cute are they???

Then we headed outside to brave the AZ heat for a couple.

This next is one of my favorites.

Hope you all enjoyed!  Thank you so much Brian & Jayme!  We had so much fun hanging out with you two and catching up with Brian! We’ll leave you with one more of our favorites. So adorable.

On Saturday, we spent the day hangin’ out with the family and took advantage of the time to get some more recent shots of our adorable niece Makena.  They turned out SOOOO cute I just had to share a few!

She has grown up so much in these last few months.  As you can see from the above photo, she’s got teeth coming in.  She’s crawling like crazy and standing up on her own.  We were making bets on how long it will be before she’s walking and poor Amy is chasing her around the house.  You just know she’s gonna be TROUBLE!

She’s looking more and more like Amy every day, but there’s still a lot of my bro-in-law Jim in her too.  Exhibit A: the pouty face :-) ha ha ha!

Peek-a-boo!

My absolute favorite :-)  Does it get any sweeter than this face?  I think not . . . love it!!!!

On Saturday, we got up nice and early to meet the Combs family at Freestone Park in Gilbert.  Afton and Jake contacted us a few weeks back about doing some photos of their little boy Merrick who had just turned one.  Since the whole family was available to come along, we decided to get the whole bunch involved!  It was a lot of fun getting to know all of them and playing with the kiddos.  Here are a few of our favorites from their session:

We found out pretty quickly that 6 year old Zia was quite the ham :-)  Check out the pose as she hugs her little bro . . .

And Merrick was such a cutie pie!

He REALLY wanted to go for a swim with the ducks in the lake, but Mom and Dad had a little different plan in mind :-)  He looks pretty determined though doesn’t he?

Zia was rockin’ her favorite sunglasses.  Afton told us that she never leaves the house with out them.  (Sounds like someone else I know . . . uhm, let me see . . . RYAN!  Ha ha ha!)

Merrick looked like he wasn’t quite sure he wanted to try out the swings with his sister, but he warmed up to the idea pretty fast.

Kids and swings – endless hours of entertainment!

The swings were fun, but I think Merrick could have sat and played in the sand all day!

We did manage to pull him away for a few minutes to hang out with his big sister on the slide.

Did I mention Zia was a bit of a ham?  This shot cracks me up!

A few more of the little man:

He seemed to be having a pretty good time hanging out with his Mom & Dad :-)

Grandma & Grandpa came along to help out and got in on a little photo fun too!

Thanks to the Afton & Jake for getting up so early to spend a lovely Saturday morning with us!  We had a great time with you guys and really enjoyed capturing your sweet family.