Christensen Clan: Salt Lake City Family Photographer

If you are thinking to yourself right now that this is the most beautiful family of all time,

you're a smarty pants.

You either love em, or you hate em, because you really want to BE them.

This is my brother and his beautiful family. I just love and adore them to the ends of the earth. When I was in Utah last, I had the wonderful opportunity to take pictures for them and some of my other siblings, which will be coming soon! I'm so fortunate and so blessed to have such a wonderful family! No one loves their siblings more than we love each other...

I assure you.

Take a look at this AMAZING session at Westminster College in downtown Salt Lake.

True love.

New Website

Have I told you about the new website?

Well, if I haven't, I am now :-)

I launched the site a little while back and I'm thrilled with the results. It's everything I could have ever wanted, and then some.

You can now set this has your home page, your photography bookmarks, your favorite site

hah! only teasing, but just a little

Come by and take a look!

www.ElizaJPhotos.com

Lots more posting coming soon..

The Johnson Family: Orange County Family Photography

This family is so beautiful, it hurts.

What started out as a wonderful idea on this particular day, quickly dwindled into a horrific experience lol. Lucky for me, the Johnson's were SO accommodating, SO easy, and just PERFECT for this crazy situation. Turns out, the location we had in mind in Laguna Canyon had just experienced a crazy flood, so the gate was locked and no one was allowed in!! Well these two drove over an hour out of their way to come see me, in traffic, with a baby, on one of the only days hubs didn't have to work blah blah. There was NO way we were turning back now! So here's where it got a little crazy...

I had to tell them to park a freakin' coons age away from the actual location, since the parking wasn't available behind locked gates. So they park, even further away than I did because they had no idea where the heck they were going right? HA! oh mercy. So then, we find each other on the side of the busy highway, J WALK across the crazy traffic filled street with a baby and all our garb in tow, AND THEN

do a little illegal trespassing ;-/

So sorry city of Laguna Beach. Please forgive us.

I know you will once you see the result...

It's BEYOND fabulous.

TOTALLY worth the trek

and heart melting no less.

These colors blow my mind. This still proves to be one of my favorite spots (thanks to a dear client who showed it to me! wink wink, Doosa)

mud slides and all

Thank you dear, sweet, baby carrying, hike partaking, mud laying, grass stain obtaining, illegal trespassing

Johnson family.

:-)

I owe ya one.

The Gabaldon Family: Orange County Family Photographer

I absolutely ADORE this family...to say the least. Stephanie started out as a client and quickly turned to a friend. We've gotten together for a lot of different things and she has a photography business herself, making it all the more fun for us to be friends! Finally getting to meet her charming family was just the cherry on top for me. Now she's even bigger and better and greater than she already was in my mind, and that was hard to beat. Love this girl.

I loved this shoot. It taught me a little about what family is all about.

For this crew, it's snips and snails and puppy dog tails!

And sometimes, "Family" looks a little like this...

Or even this..

Aaannnnd even a little bit of this...

Sometimes the load is a little heavy to bear..

But when you have the perfect companion by your side, you realize you can do it all!

And as the motto goes for me and my family,

"I have no idea what this life is gonna look like,

but I know that it has the both of us in it, and I choose us.

The plan doesn't make us great.

What we have together, that's what makes us great."

-The Family Man

And truly this family

was

great

Family. That's what it's all about.

And while we're on the subject, I suppose I'll fill you in on some news..

My family is growing PLUS ONE!

WE'RE PREGNANT!

So excuse the absence, the missed calls, the un-returned emails and the lack of blog updating.

I've been hibernating and cooking a bun in the oven. Hopefully these first trimester blues pick up soon so we can get back on our feet!!

But in the mean time,

we absolutely

positively

could not be more

ECSTATIC!