A couple pictures of Brooke from the beginning of the year.

Tori is making it difficult for me to get everything in order for school next week.  She flooded the bathroom today with half a roll of toilet paper in the toilet.

Sometimes girls just want to have fun. 

Last week, Jamie and Michelle and I were sitting in Jamie’s room talking about wedding stuff (pretty much the only topic Miss Jamie soon to be Mrs is interested in these days hee hee).  The subject of makeup came up and Jamie and I continued our LONG lasting discussion on the color of lipstick she should wear.  She is a minimalist and well…you know me.  With her fair complextion and hair color, I always encourage a little more color and I happen to LOVE her in RED.  Not for everyday (though I wouldn’t mind it) but when she formals up and sports ruby red lips, I clap.  For real.  Sometimes I even stand up and cheer.  I love it.  That.  Much.

Just for me, she put red lipstick on while we were talking. 

I then noticed the Marilyn gallery wrap on her wall.  My little brain started spinning.  Jamie looked better in red lipstick than Marilyn.  I requested an informal quick shoot at my house just for fun.    This made me very happy.    She can be a beach bumb tomorrow. 

Thank you Jamie and Michelle for endulging me and for watching my kiddos while I got my hair done.  Love you.  XXXOOO.

Here is the inspiration picture…

I am not a big fan of selective color but just for Michelle…

You can’t do Marilyn inspired pictures without the pout pucker.  It just wouldn’t be right.

And I couldn’t do a little mini shoot with Jamie and not capture her sassy smirk.  That wouldn’t be right either.

This picture was all natural light and I really like the way the light falls.

So what’s it gonna be folks?  Hair up or down for the wedding?  Date is Feb 4th 2011!  Did I mention I am a bridesmaid yet? 

Note to Jamie:  When Tori saw this she said “Jamie PRETTY!”

Doesn’t Seth look just like his mama?

Let’s talk about “the” hair for a moment shall we?  I first fell in love with it and 16.  I was walking behind her on campus.  She had it french braided and was wearing a piano keys scarf around her neck.  Shock and awe at first site.  How on earth could hair be that perfect and thick?  The above picture to the left is cute and all but I really wanted you to see the back of it.  All natural curl too.  8th world wonder IMHO. 

AZ sunsets make me happy.

And what were MY children doing during this shoot?

Shocking I know.

My beautiful sister of my heart…

It seems appropriate that I post these pictures in the month of May since Cinco de Mayo is our BFF anniversary.    We hit 21 years this May.   I don’t usually get to post on “inside” beauty because I often haven’t had the blessing of a relationship with my clients so it is quite a treat when I get to share what the heart looks like.

Heidi is kind.  Compassionate and merciful.  She is loyal and can be trusted.  She is a giver and an affirmer (even blog followers are well aware of that).  She is an artist at expressing her heart both lyrically and musically.  She loves to create with her heart and her hands.   She loves people and openly dives into relationships giving more than she receives without worrying about self.   She loves to laugh.  Even on the hard days.  We have laughed and cried all in the same five minutes a zallion times.  She is affectionate and the only person I have every had long conversations with while being 2 inches away from her nose.  It must have started when we were very young – I am sure you can picture two adolescents sitting on a bed leaning way in and talking in soft voices – secrets and outpourings of the heart.  It stuck and we still find ourselves doing it.

I can summarize it best like this.  I have written so many times that I laid my heart before the Lord asking for His pick in my children and trusting that He would gift me with THE children that were always meant for me and me for them.  The same is true of Heidi.  When I was young I yearned for a sister of my heart and I prayed for her.  I asked God to pick her out and bring her to me.  I wanted a Jonathan-David relationship.  I asked my mom to pray.  I asked my aunts to pray.  I asked Grammy to pray.  God said yes.  He said “This one”.   As always, I sit back in wonder at what He chooses.