Welcome! I'm Shawna, an on-location natural light photographer from Kent, WA serving the greater Seattle and South Sound area. My passion is for birth photography! In birth or family sessions, I strive to capture details and the spontaneous moments that truly reflect the beauty in your life, and that you will treasure for ever. Sit back with a cup of coffee and enjoy my musings, or better yet - pop me an email and introduce yourself. I love meeting new people!

More tidbit catchup!

Tidbits 15-27  (Apparently losing power for four days has me a bit behind.)

Sun 15th: How is it that the girls put on footy jammies and suddenly they're one year younger and completely cuddleable?

Mon 16th: Tracking foot prints in the snow. It's amazing how much wildlife is all around us, and how much we miss without the snow to record everything.

Tues 17th: Music holds our lives together. Lia is already taking to singing music, but when she and Bella were sitting in a boat together, she asked Bella to sing. A new understanding opened between them and suddenly they were off in their own world.

Weds 18th: Snow day! Lia looked like a giant pink marshmallow, and every time I saw her, I had to give her a big squishy hug. There's just no way around it.

Thurs 19th: So grateful for our amazing friends, opening their homes to keep us warm and dry during this incredible storm.

Fri 20th: Away from home tonight. Lia wants to sleep on my belly to fall asleep. Okay, snuggle baby. If you insist.

Sat 21st: It seems as if nature has turned on herself, sabotaging her amazing and beautiful work. It is heartbreaking to see the trees broken, fallen, beaten, just by ice and rain. But to her, it's just another part of the great cycle.

Sun 22nd: Oh my sweet sweet baby fell asleep in my arms, with the whole hubub of the house swirling around her. I can't remember the last time that has happened. Being trapped by a baby is bliss.

Mon 23rd: When we're listening to CDs or radio, one second between songs is one second too long for Lia. Song?

Tues 24th: Apparently, Lia has decided that if she is not grumping, she's going to be the world's most hilarious comedian. (Oh, I so dearly missed her goofies during these last few months of teething.)

Weds 25th: Sometimes it's hard to believe we live here. We really do. I look up at the jagged piney tree tops and sniff the cool, rainy air and I'm instantly transported back to my childhood vacations, riding in the car, dreaming someday I would live here. Now I'm living the dream, dreary days and all.

Thurs 26th: Giant squishy nap with my girls. We must be on the same sleep cycle, so I got to lie there and listen to the girls waking up. The both smacked their lips and squeaked the same way before waking. The same as they did as babies, too.

Fri 27th: Sitting in the sunbeam. Babies asleep, Bella reading an ipad book aloud. Watching this video (on my phone, no less) and giggling. 

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Tidbit #14

My parents came over for a sushi extravaganza tonight.  It's amazing to have them so close. I hope girls will never remember a time when we couldn't just call them up and invite them over for dinner.

Sidenote: How does anyone ever get full on sushi? By the time you've prepared it, you're hungry enough for three more rolls!

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Tidbit #13

Learning yoga is not so easy in the presence of a toddler who thinks you are a shape shifting jungle gym.

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Tidbit #12

Long long day with the girls. Some days I feel like flying out of the house the second Dave gets home from work.  And yet...  
That feeling vanishes at bedtime. That moment before I put Lia down for the night, it's nearly impossible to let her go. Tomorrow she'll be just a little bigger, her body a little longer. She'll never again fit just so on my shoulder as she does today, relaxed and snuggled close for comfort.

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Tidbit #10 & 11

Tidbit #10:  Amazing how quickly magical moments escape the memory when you don't write them down straight away.  Despite many wonderful things I smiled at, all I can remember from today was how beautiful the great golden moon was as it rose into a clear, starry night.

Tidbit #11: Another sunny day!  We headed to the park, and as soon as Lia saw the lake, she shouted, BATH!  That would be one cold, cold, bath, my dear.

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Tidibit catchup!

swinging in the sunset.
Jan 1 in my Project 365

Tidbit #1: It's a new year. We are so far past the intensity of 2010 that I feel like I can breathe.  This year's word is engage. I plan to be fully engaged in whatever I have chosen to do at that moment, working, playing, or just being. There's going to be a lot less multitasking this year!

Tidbit #2: Instead of directing her feet into her shoes, Lia grabs her foot just as I do and tries to shove her whole and and foot in the shoe. It's been less than successful so far, but oh-so-cute.

Tidbit #3:  When the fog rolls in ("it's froggy!") or clouds slip past the moon, or Bella squints so her eyelashes haze everything over, she calls it melting.  "Look mommy, the clouds are melting the moon!" "Hee. Hee. I'm melting you, Mommy." It's quite the perspective.

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Tidbit #9

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Editing a most beautiful, rewarding (pitch dark) birth tonight. The genuine strength, energy, and love at a birth are amazing to witness.  Births are truly my favorite thing to photograph.

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