The big date is FEBRUARY 4th, 2011!  The day before Tori’s 3rd birthday.  Tori will be making her first debut as a flower girl and Ty will be the ring bearer.

Check out the rock…

Maybe Ty shouldn’t carry the real deal huh? 

Want to see their fun side?

Jamie has a contagious laugh and I love it.  Shane agrees.

Jamie made me really happy by bringing some hats.  I love her in hats.  I remember when she was a little girl she had this hot pink zebra hat that she would wear to school sometimes.   Despite a fair amount of teasing over that hat, she held her own and wore it anyhow and I was always proud of her for that.  Besides that, she really does look GREAT in hats. 

Shane is preparing to be a fireman and has been working hard at that goal.   Jamie and I thought he should strike a fireman pose for us.   Jodi declined giving him experience delivering Cooper though.  Drew a real firm line about that. 

She’s sassy…

and ALL girly girl…

and I love to watch Shane watch Jamie.  And he does it all the time.    True love.

I was listening to Lady Antebellum’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” when I was watching the slideshow of all their proofs tonight.  As I was looking at them it occured to me that I had processed very few pictures of Shane looking at the camera.  Turns out…Shane wasn’t looking at my camera much during our shoot and I barely noticed because I am so used to seeing him watch his bride to be.   He is her hero and she is his sun.  Just the way it’s supposed to be.  Wishing them a lifetime of love where every year has a deeper intimacy than the year before.  They are well on their way wouldn’t you agree?

On Easter weekend, Shane proposed to (my cousin) Jamie!  Woooohoooo!  She has been sporting that left finger with a pout for QUITE some time and we were all very thankful when Shane turned her frown upside down.   I have a cute video of Jamie giving a personalized version of their engagement story but I haven’t loaded my video software back on my computer yet.  Her ROCK is ggggggoooorrrrggggeous!

The three of us took a sunrise trip for this shoot and had so much fun.   We didn’t exactly make sunrise (which gave us some challenges in terms of lighting in the Valley of the SUN) but we gave it a worthy effort.   My favorite thing about these pictures are the very natural interactions between the happy couple.   They are a RIOT to be around.  When Heidi was visiting, we had a dinner date with them and Heidi and I laughed til we cried at these two.

I am so excited for these two to wed.  I was 16 when Jamie was born and she and I have always had a very tight bond.  In fact, I GET TO BE A BRIDESMAID in her wedding (and I don’t mind bragging about that).   I got her to say her first word (which was doggy much to her mother’s dismay) and can easily say I have more pictures of her as a child than any other child short of my own babies.  She was my practice baby. 

Just a couple of sneak peeks…