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i feel like i need to just come out and say it. i don’t do big families. there. you have it. it’s out there on the table. but when one of our closest friends asked me to do his.. i couldn’t say no. i didn’t want to say no, and i am so glad i didn’t! i absolutely loved spending the morning with bunker and his family and finally meeting and putting faces with all the people we talk about. i still can’t believe after all this time i hadn’t met a single one of them!

bunker is 1 of 7.. yeah i know right? and just today i learned that his mom had the first three of them within less then three years. wow and wow. wonder woman, and i think now i will stop complaining about having two so young.

mom and dad.. aren’t they so cute?!

the thing about all the kids though.. they are all like crazy smart. jared in the plaid and bunker in the middle with the stripes (who are only 13 months apart mind you) are both lawyers. his sister melanie with the brown hair is in law school. trevor in the brown is a computer engineer (that’s right, right?). lauren in orange is a nurse in arizona. derek, the youngest of the bunch, just served a mission in jersey and is studying at byu, and andrea can run a household of 6 like you wouldn’t believe. the hardest job of them all in my own opinion. but seriously. all of them. so smart.

and look at all these gorgeous grandkids!

ridiculous right? they should all be models!

thanks again guys for asking me to do this. those moments for all the group shots where every kid was perfectly still and pleasant and cooperating actually may have convinced me that i like big family shoots. never have i had one this easy!

{ auction is officially over! a big thank you to everyone who bid, and a huge thank you to elizabeth for her generosity. although i have to admit that i am a tad intimidated considering she is one of my fave photographers that i have been following for quite sometime.. in other words, she is uber talented! thanks again everyone}

i’m a mother. and my biggest fear is losing a child or my husband. biggest. so i was mortified when i heard the news about emily jones losing her husband after a climbing trip with his family over thankgiving weekend at the nutty putty caves in utah. you can read about the whole store here.

emily and john had a 2yr old, and were expecting another baby in june. how do you even? my heart really hurts for her, for him, for the kids, the family, for everyone.

not too long ago my friends sister lost her daughter to a drowning accident. she was the same age as my little emmy. my heart hurt for her, especially as i read her blog and rode that journey with her. i have seen so much strength and courage from a woman who went through my worst nightmare.. something i don’t know that i could ever recover from. stephanie from a daily scoop is a strong strong women that i aspire to be. truely.

how do the two of these people fuse together? two strangers, suffering different loses? well stephanie has decided to pay it forward for all the love and kindness that had been shown to her while she was going through her own tragedy.

stephanie is hosting a memorial auction on her blog where 100% of the proceeds will go to the emily jones and the family.

and i donated a photo session.

you can go to her website to bid on over a hundred different goods and services to contribute to the memorial. go take a look, make a bid, and help a family out. it’s christmas for goodness sakes.

my session auction is here.

the rest of the auctions are here.

or you can donate directly here.

because they grow up waaay too fast. including this guy who just hit 6 months.