the friends that are family.

This family is like family to us. Eric and Rob grew-up together on Mercer Island. They've known each other since the time they were Max's age. Eric has always considered Rob a brother, and in a way, they really are brothers when you see them together. And all these years later we ended up moving to the same little SW Washington city that they were living in, Camas. The girls have called Eric, Uncle Meis, for years...and then we got married and I became Auntie Meis (doesn't have quite the same, cute ring to it...) Those girls love Max like the brother they don't have, and Max loves Miss A and Miss H like sisters he doesn't have.

It's a rare and beautiful thing. They're a gift, really. Those friends who would do anything for you, and you for them - no questions asked.

It was an easy shoot - our friends that are family.

Thank you, Afflecks.

xo

silly girl.

More from this family session to come...

where i am...

In case you are wondering where I am...
You can find me here for now: www.nowordsjustpictures.blogspot.com
Just some lovely photos...or what I think are lovely photos anyway.
You can follow me. Or not.
Comment. Or not.
But that's where you'll find me hanging out.
I've got nothing to say right now, but still sharing some photos.

52 portraits: two

leaving.

I am leaving this space for now.
I might be back someday. I'm not sure.
Thank you all for all of the wonderful comments on my photos and words over the past (almost) two years.
I will still be posting my portrait series from time to time.
But for now...I don't really feel like I have anything to say  here anymore.
So I'll say thank you, and see you in the blogosphere for now.
xo
a

52 portraits: one

I'm unabashedly copying this great idea from Erika Ray.
He's my one and only. My first and my last.
And I need to capture his cuteness every week.

(That's his "last photo, please?!" face in that last shot.)

the painter.

A blank canvas. Some paint. 

The artist hard at work.

Oh how I love my creative boy.


(And yes, the header has disappeared from my blog...oy vey....) 
(And yes, these are my Linked 52 photo for this week of "color")