just another day......

with my dearest friend Marisa. One who brings such sanity to this crazy world of mine. One who I need to talk to at least once a day and would love to see more then once a week. So what better way of taking my weekly dose then going to the fields with the kids and capturing what they do best. Being themselves. Call it a day at the beach......Chelsea's beach.

Gotta love the difference between the boys and girls and what they collect. Or maybe the difference between Marisa's kids and mine. Mia brings a hand full of snails and Wyatt collects wild flowers for me. It was awesome.

My absolute favorite picture of the day

Then the second is this. You can't help but smile or laugh when you see this. This way I love Marisa so much! So now you see why I have a new header.....thank you Marisa

Oh how I love my boys

We could not leave without taking a group shot. In a nutshell, this is the gang. One that I wish I hung out more often.

I think the kids were a little too excited to be done...maybe a Wyatt a little more then the rest

your turn colorado

I'm heading up your way. I'm going for only a weekend, March 28th, wish it was longer. But I will be doing mini-photo sessions. If your interested email me at chelsea@chelseabiggsphotography.com

and now it's my turn......

for family pictures. It's a love hate relationship that I have with family pictures. I love taking other families pictures, but hate taking mine. However, I want them so badly. And I love the out come of them too.

So now we have them!

Lydia was so kind enough to take them. And to deal with my awkwardness. (You would think I would know what to do with myself because I tell other people how to stand. It's like I become a dummy when it's my turn. Maybe I have a little stage fright).
We have a little trade thing going on that I love. And she did a such great job capturing what I had envisioned. And I thank her for it. So here's just a few of my favorites. You can see more on her blog as well.







The picture below is my favorite!







So just a little sad story to tell you. While Landon and I were taking some couple shoots, Wyatt thinks that it would be really cool to climb up on the window. The moment we saw him up there we told him to get down. We assumed that he would just climb back down.

No!

He chose to do a belly floop down, landing on his chest and face.

So the picture below is of his slipt lip. It looks like nothing in the picture though. He had one fat lip. However, I love the picture still!

nine years ago.....

to this day I met my best friend, my husband.
Now the only reason I know that it was Feb. 25Th was because it is printed on the picture. We met on a blind date. My friends mom and Jayne McCook were on a chat room and planned a blind date for their kids. They thought they would add a twist and have four of their friend come along. Well I happen to be one of the girls from Corona to go on this date.
I remember thinking.....how are we going to do this?, What if we all like one guy from the group? How do we pair up or know if any are going to be good looking?
We were so nervous that night....at least I was.
And we were rolling high that night too. We started out at Chuck E Cheese.
So the girls got there first. And we watched like a hawk to see when they were coming. (Oh the good old days of the excitement of boys)
As we saw them approach I noticed that one of them had this full on Amish looking beard. Believe it or not that is what attracted me to him. At the age of 18 this guys could grow a full on beard. I love facial hair.
And it sound so cliche, but we have been together since.




Wow we look so young!




Right after high school I moved to Hawaii and opened up a Halloween Store. One in Oahu and the other on the big island. I had this dream of mine to go to Hawaii. I didn't care how or when I was going to Hawaii. Who would of thought that it was to open a Halloween store. So before Landon left on his mission I left for Hawaii. I missed him so much! However, Landon has always seemed to surprise me in some way. So when my mom came out to Hawaii to see me, Landon just happened to be on the plane as well. I had no idea. So we had an amazing two weeks together in Hawaii before his mission. We might have worked a lot. But we had this favorite beach together, and one of these days we will go back.



So here is a little fake happy anniversary to us!

a belated valentines post

My husband has learned a little sad truth about me. I say one thing, but completely mean something different.
I say "no you don't have to buy me that".....what I really mean is : "you don't have buy me that, but I would LIKE it".
So I say "don't buy me flowers". But what I'm thinking is that: "flowers would be really nice".

So after 5 1/2 years of marriage I got flowers for valentines day. I love my sweet heart!

(We really don't celebrate valentines day. We actually trade with me sister-n-law. They go out on a date on valentines day and we watch their kids. Then on Feb. 25th she watches our kids while we go out. Now you ask why Feb 25th? Well that is the lucky day that changed my life forever......about 9years ago. The day I meet Landon on a blind date.
So instead of fitting crowds of people, we spend it with the kids. I like it that way. And this year we had 9 KIDS this valentines. If we have 5, what is four more kids, right? And actually it was a lot fun being with them.)
So I don't have any pictures of the 9 kids I had all day, but I do have some shoots of the flowers that my love gave to me.

Flowers make great subjects. They stay put and don't move. I like this getting flower thing.....

oh so in love

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of taking Kacey and JJ's engagements pictures. What a cute couple. Even though Kacey had booked me for their wedding a while ago, I didn't meet her in person until the day of the shoot. And what a cute couple they are! Here are just a few of my favorites. And it was too hard to decide, there were too many of my favorites.

I had to take a shot of the ring. It is absolutley gorgeous and massively huge!

Love it!

The Ginn Family

About a month or so ago the Ginn family asked if I would take their family pictures. All the kids and grandchildren will be in southern California for a baby blessing and wanted to take some pictures. I was so happy to do so. They are the sweetest family....all of them! And if anyone wants some really good teriyaki steak, go to the Ginns. Dave makes the best! Here are just a few of my favorites.
























Thanks again!