Most of you wouldn’t have known that the theme this week was supposed to be Broken. However, I’m playing boss again and I’m changing topics. But seeing as how the last 5 years of our life have pretty much revolved around James’ education… I am so so so happy to be celebrating his graduation from the University of Idaho! He completed a bachelors degree in Anthropology with a minor in Natural Resources. He was accepted to several Masters programs in the UK and we are currently in the process of loads and loads of paperwork that will land us in…. London! Yay!

So this week is all about James and his great accomplishment. For anyone that has gone to University and those of you who have done it while raising children, you can probably grasp what an incredible feeling it is to have completed this important part of our journey. And James, you did it really really well. I am so proud of you!

So, we are off. Another adventure, another continent, another degree. Europe- here we come!

Thank you to all our friends and family who have been such wonderful support. Your encouragement and love have been so important to us. We love you all!

I think that so far this week is one of my favorites. Cavan’s favorite musician is one fabulously talented Mr Jason Mraz. It seemed fitting then to let him emulate a musician he admires in our interpretation of an Album Cover. He sang all afternoon (and all evening). We looked at photos and videos of Mr. Mraz performing and we talked about his creativity and passion. Then, because we got distracted, we frantically drove around racing the setting sun, looking for a patch of light. We did pretty good I think.

Cavan,

I hope that your love of music and your own creativity & enthusiasm stays at the forefront of your life. Because you were born to be this delightful little man I see in these photos.

Love,
Mom

And the full shot of the “Album Cover”

This week… our sweet little Declan turned 4!!

The project theme coincided beautifully, telling me that I needed to be photographing children or play for this post. Easy-Peasy I love to see my kiddos play.

And so, in honor of Declan week:

Hello, Mr. D. How old are you?

RUN!!!

We love you, Little Man <3

As a photographer, I love light. It is yummy. Did you know that light can be yummy?
One of my favorite ways to use light in portraits is to backlight my subjects. I love me some gorgeous rim lighting like in the second photo. And I LOVE a well done haze shot. Now I just “may” be partial but this is quite possibly one of my favorite hazy photos I’ve taken this year. I don’t share them often as the ones I usually shoot tend to be just for me, but this one felt like it needed to be shared since its inspiration was derived from this weeks theme.

I’ve been seeing this quote quite a bit online recently and it never fails to bring me peace. It lets me take a deep breath and be so so thankful for my life and the incredible people in it. Thank you to all of you who bring me happiness <3

"I think we like to complicate things when it is really quite simple; Find what it is that makes you happy and who it is that makes you happy and you're set. I promise."

This makes me happy.

With a house full of boys, we don’t have an abundance of pastels in our home. That being said, as I planned out this week’s photo I realized there is one pastel shirt that makes an appearance and I love to see it. It comes on the form of my oh so handsome hubby and while he mostly sticks to darker dress shirts, he busts out the peach one pretty often and he totally rocks it.