Two weekends doing fun family stuff....

It feels like all we do is work...and we love our work. I LOVE my work. But it is nice to take some time and do fun stuff together as a family. We finally decided it's time to initiate the kids into the live music realm, and we had two weekends in a row of it! We took them to the Not Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park, it was so much fun. Dirty and crowded, but fun, and PLENTY of 'different' people to watch. We were able to see one of our favorites, Sam Beam from Iron and Wine, and Isaac was excited that he knew a couple of the songs...Avi was very busy flailing about. By the end Avi and I had to do some twirling to some crazy fun Gypsy/Russian/Latin madness. Super fun. Isaac played frisbee with the boys.

The second set of photos is our past weekend with our beloved LA family friends, the Clarks. Steve is in a Kindie Rock band called Egg (www.eggmusic.net) and we saw him play twice! Super fun, and the turn outs were great! Looks like they'll be coming back here to play again in a few months!





Sam Beam of Iron and Wine...he was on his way to the Port-A-Potty....I used my zoom.


Avi is feelin it.

Get into it girl.

Avi's feet at the end of the GG Park festival. Yummy.

See! I exist in front of the camera too! Andy took this for us.

I got hit in the back of the head minutes after this shot. Isaac swears it was not on purpose, but he's got the most amazing precision, so I don't believe it for a second.


THE CLARKS VISIT





AT THE EGG SHOW AT RECESS IN SAN FRANCISCO




ok, that's me, R took this photo.

a mesmerized fan...

Crackerjackskids.com store is OPEN

As many know, my good friend Elizabeth Helm owns Crackerjacks clothing store in Oakland, just off Piedmont Ave, at 14 Glen Ave. She has decided that it's time to open her store to more than just the locals and to sell online as well! She has some really great stuff...tees by her own brand Crackerjacks, and also Young Punks, Oaklandish, Zion and others! You can order the tees right here online. Make sure to check it out at www.crackerjackskids.com, and also enjoy the photos...I did them. :) I know, I know, Avi keeps showing up everywhere...but she cooperates, mostly.

AWESOME KIDS CONCERT THIS WEEKEND!!!

Come see EGG, the super fun Kindie Rock Band, perform this weekend at Recess in Portrero Hill in San Francisco. Steve, the drummer is a great friend of mine and the music is kickin. The kiddos love it! Go to www.eggmusic.net to hear a song or two.

Admission is only $2 per person, you can't beat it!
When : 4pm
Where : Recess Urban Recreation (amazing kids play space!!!)
Address: 470 Carolina St. ( at 18th St.), San Francisco, CA 94107

Wonderful Family....

I photographed these guys a couple of weeks ago, but have just figured out how to publish photos on this blog nice and big...thanks to my dear friend and ever patient Bonnie Berry, www.bonnieberryphotography.com. She lives in Austin, TX and is an amazing photographer and is more prolific than anyone I know in the photo world.
Anyway...The photos I am posting are from a session I did a couple weeks ago, with a super chill family in San Francisco. This is the second time I've been with them, and their kids Teddy and Lilly are great. Totally into the session...I barely had to bribe them. :)






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Studio Shots! a few samples...

I am getting super excited about my studio - I took some quick snaps of the inside of it now, it's coming along. Also, photos of Isaac and Avi in there...they were not having a good afternoon.... The light is great in there, nice and glowing - it definitely helped to paint a bit in there, and to clean up the room a bit. It's super versatile, and I'm so excited to start creating some of the scenarios for kids photos that I've had in my head for years! I've had ideas locked up in my brain since I left my art director post at babyGap, so now I have a place to play around with these ideas. Hopefully I can have some clients come by and try it out with me. :)

Our weekend...the kitchen, soccer, hangin with Bea...

So, maybe I went a little crazy this weekend with the photos. This whole blog thing makes me want to shoot like crazy....now that I know I have somewhere to PUT all the photos! I only picked a handful though. So, some are from the fam at the table...my favorite place to photograph the kids. They are contained and I get crazy good light at the table. I can't help myself. Some photos are from Isaac's soccer game, but not a ton, because.....I was the referee for the second half. Amazing. I have not been "in" an official soccer game since my playoff game my senior year in high school. I had a blast. Turns out I am a soccer mom, and I love it. And then there are some photos in here of the kids at our BF's house in the city. Playing with Bea, crazy, loving Bea. Until the next time...! Which will probably be tomorrow.