You probably recognize this gorgeous mama from other shoots on my website. Caitlyn and I have been best friends for about 20 years and we could not have been more psyched to find out that we were having baby girls only 4 months apart! If you know Caitlyn, you know she is the ultimate girl - she loves pink and bunnies and flowers and sugar+spice+everything nice! We were all relieved to know she was having a girl and we could go all out on the girly-ness factor of her baby shower! I'm so grateful that I am currently on a (kinda) maternity leave right now so that I could focus on showering this mama-to-be!!

From Reeve herself ;-) "THREE MONTHS OLD TODAY!! I'm growing way too fast! Almost 16lbs and wearing size 3 diapers already. I'm a super busy baby doing sit-ups when dad holds my hands, bouncing in my jolly jumper, kicking and dancing around during yoga class and still fighting naps like a champ. The last couple of days I've started blowing spit bubbles back at mommy when she does it and singing along with her when she sings! Mom thinks I'm a genius for understanding that already... I just think it's hilarious to make farty noises with my lips and hear myself talk!

Baby boy coming so soon!

This girl is all smiles and chunk!! We are thoroughly obsessed with her!

A whole month with the cutest little stinker!!

Just a few sneak peeks from Rachel+Steve's wedding day!

Film: mix of Fuji400 + Portra800 // Richard Photo Lab

7 whole days with my whole heart. This girl is brand new but already showing so much personality! Also, maternity leave is awesome.

Our baby girl arrived (get, this) on our one year wedding anniversary!! Her name is Reeve Colette Sinnard born May 29, 2017 at 11:01pm weighing 7lbs 15oz and 20 inches long. Black hair, blue eyes, pouty lips, chunky little perfection.

(Yes, you can follow her on instagram @ReeveCoco because I just can't overload my work instagram with baby photos!)

Read on if you are interested in my detailed account of our birth story that I tapped out on my phone in between breastfeeding and snuggles in this first week that we've been home with her. It's an amazingly powerful story for me for many reasons obviously but I wanted to share it in the hopes that it encourages any and all women who read it to fight to have the labor that they want and to truly believe in the strength of their own bodies!

I just HAD to share some of Brandon+Nicole's film scans from their beautiful day!! Feast your eyes!

Film: mix of Fuji400 + Portra800 // Richard Photo Lab

Alli+Rob are the kind of couple everyone wants to be friends with. They are just overflowing with sweetness and smiles and adventure! Their wedding day had so many unique little touches (like beer brewed by the groom!) and romantic-meets-industrial vibes with Alli's gorgeous lace and blush dress and feminine florals and macrame ceremony backdrop within the raw industrial space of Smoky Hollow Studios. I'm so grateful that I get to have such fun and creative clients!

These soon-to-be parents are two of our very best friends! When we found out that we would be having babies due just TWO DAYS apart we were so so excited to have close friends to go through each step together! We can't wait to meet little baby boy Lyon in just a matter of weeks (days??) and introduce him to our little girl (a.k.a. his future wife, duh)

Welcome to the world sweet little Cole!

One of my very favorite Manhattan Beach families is expecting #2 in April! A little boy! So we decided one last girly mama+me session was in order while little Andi was still an only child.