(on the 10th of each month, I will be joining a group of amazing mothers and photographers, and posting 10 pictures…of both the ordinary and extraordinary moments taken throughout the day)
Here is the story of Clara and her BSFF Sophie, celebrating their tenth birthday by going an overnight trip to the American Girl Store with their mommies. They were born only 3 days apart, although I do like to tell the story of how her mom budged in the labor line, and decided to give birth 3 weeks early, while I was going on 12 days overdue! Hard to pick only 10 pictures. I have so many from this memorable day with my girl.
Now please go visit my beautiful and talented friend Rowe Timson…you may get to see some pictures of Bali where she is currently living with her family.
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Gorgeous Rebecca!!!!! The blk and white of the girls holding the dolls with crowns, awesome!!!
The one with the girls walking out of the AG store…omg. LOVE!!! They are all so wonderful, so full of a beautiful day.
Aww!! I love these! My favorite is the one of the two of them on the window sill. What a beautiful friendship.
I love the American dolls. Olivia has a Mapelea (Canadian version) and she goes everywhere with her!
LOVE the window shots!
I think I see these dolls in my near future. 
That last one… awwwwww! And I agree, the image of them coming out of the shop is perfect, Bee!
aw what a fun day! i love the milkshake photos and the last one is just perfect 
oh, my i love these. reminds me of my daughter and my niece. we are dying to go to the AG store. LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!
you nailed something so real about this age. such a touching side to your work here. the two portraits at the beginning are so still and amazing. xo
love these! what a lovely story for the two of them. how great that you captured this day. love the one in the windowsill. and the milkshakes!
this day will be forever etched in clara and sophie’s hearts. what a gift! your natural talent for capturing what’s real without altering the core feeling of a moment intrigues me. it makes me want to know you better. i run out of adjectives to tell you how much i adore what you do…
Ha! My best friend and I had babies on the same day! She wasn’t due for 3 more weeks and I was a week overdue! She had her son at 6 am and I had Harp at 8 pm. So rude! I love every image but my favorite is drinking milkshakes.
isn’t it nice to have the one on one time…meaning not other siblings…so fun. love the one of them walking out dolls in hand and the crown covering her eyes…as always your images are so full of life…love
Your such a fun mom!!!! What a special day & spending that one on one time is such a gift!!!!
the first one of her in bed with the puffy eyes made me feel awfully emotional. a quiet moment where you see your child from a different perspective and feel quite full of love….and the last one made me laugh out loud 
♥
what a special day for your little lady. I just love the idea of the whole day and their birth stories. So great lady!
firstly, i must say how much i admire clara’s style. the coat, leggings and boots. so cool. what a special and fantastic way to celebrate 10!! very lucky and clearly adored young ladies. love your work, as always. xo
what a special birthday indeed… i adore claras face in that 2nd last one and the way her crown is just covering her eyes but she doesnt care cause she is in a state of bliss! audrey will be 10 in july… its exciting but a little scary at the same time! wish i could slow time just a little…
So lovely. The b&w with the milkshakes and crowns is amazing! And this is the first I’m hearing of American Girl, so I’ll be googling when I’m done here!
such a great day! we are getting an american doll store…these are great! xo
Spent nine days in Phoenix to round off our Spring Break. I love the sunshine. I love swimming. I love being barefoot. I love wearing summer dresses. I love ordering buckets of beer poolside. I love waking up and laying in cozy beds. I love ordering room service. I love watching my kids run amuck and play hard. I love that my hair doesn’t get frizzy in the dry desert heat. I love holidays with my family.
(lots of pictures…my apologies…I tried editing them down)
Met up with my Facebook, photographer friend Jenna and her beautiful children. I met my match with picture taking obsession. And she could drink a beer pretty quick too. XO
I want to take pictures exactly as you do. I love them all deeply. Like, in a tingly kind of way.
Oh Ashley Meiners. You’re so funny. This thing is, I want to take pictures exactly as you do…so there! XOXO
Love it! We’ve just arrived for 2 wonderfully sunny weeks in Arizona
What a fun Spring Break. Nothing is better than spending time with family, right? : ) I love that they had cousin fun! I can hardly wait until the pools open here. The kids love it so much : ).
Pools are the best! And the sunshine. And of course, some good family time. Thank you for your sweet comment on my blog. XOXO
Have a great trip Leslie! Say hi to the sun and warmth for me. Can’t wait to see some pictures…XO
Oh Rebecca…how I love looking at every single one of your pictures, and I soooo agree with Ashley!! Your kids crack me up. Every time I scroll through a set of your pics, I get a smile on my face and a chuckle here and there hahhahaha! You are fabulous and I want to steal your children.
Love them all but for some reason those ones of your daughter just slay me. Maybe because I’m realizing how quickly my own daughter is growing up.
Beautiful job and it looks like you had a fabulous time. xo
Thanks Stacey! I feel the same way about my daughter too 
XOXO
Thanks Jackie. YOu can steal my children anytime. I just want them back at some point. XO
We are a group of passionate photographers who are setting out to document details of evidence that Kids Were Here. It is a fabulous idea introduced by the very talented and creative Ketti Photography.
So here is evidence that Kids Were Here the last 2 weeks of March during Spring Break. One week skiing and hot tubbing in Whistler and the last week swimming and running around barefoot in Phoenix.
“in the the moment is is easy to get frustrated with all the mess and clutter that results from living with children. this set reminds me how quickly it will all pass. one day the toys will be in totes no longer played with. i will miss this. i’m reminded to slow down. to not stress about it. my happiness is not dependant upon everything put back into place and a neat and tidy home. one day we will have a wonderful reminder. evidence left behind written upon our hearts and minds of our children. photographs that will bring us back to this very day, when our kids were here.” -jude wood
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Your so amazing that it hurts!
yup..you pretty much never fail to amaze…
I love these!!!!
what a fun project! I’m in love with all of these!
These rock!
so glad you have such a great vaca Bee!! they are all awesome, especially the light hitting that shark!
Your images totally sucked me in, adore every single one! It felt like you took me on a journey with the details. Love the gate left open with the sign and those sweet wet footprints! Hmmm, now you have me craving In-N-Out!
love them all bee…wow your kids have the “cool kid” messes
amazing!
I felt like I got to know a lot about your kids by looking at these images, and I loved that! omg, that Justin Beiber on the ipod cracked me up, and I loved those dolls in their “beds”!
These are amazing! The blow up shark in the bath!! Fav!
woah! how am i just seeing your blog? these rock! so excited to get to know you through this project!
WOW! These are all so amazing Rebecca! The one of the kids’ handprints at the pool is just the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. Beautiful post!
seriously that floatie in the bath tub…and the ketchup..so awesome!! your life always makes me so intrigued..I’ve got to come meet you one of these days!
I’m going to have to agree with Rebecca xxoo
you are amazing, these are gorgeous, looking forward to getting to know you through this project <3
Bee. your images. amazing. every single one! so happy to have found your work!
Where we love is home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts-Oliver Wendell Holmes
I’m kind of obsessing on this session. Maybe it was their dog that looked like a character from a Dr. Seuss book, and wanted to be in all the pictures. But I think it was the family. This most lovely family (and a really quick moving 17 month old), who made my job so easy by being relaxed and doing their thing and loving each other. I cannot wait to meet the newest addition (and take some pictures)!
big fan of this sesh. beautiful work – love that dog! xx
These are fabulous pictures!!! I love the dog in all the pictures…do you know what he is? I am guessing he might be a griffon wire hair, but not sure. I would love to know!
Thanks,
Christine.
Hi Christine! Thanks!! The dog is actually a labradoodle…just a really big one. XO
oh yeah you work that light girl.
by bee