My Parents & Their Lifelong Friends

This session was an extra special one for me.

These couples have been friends for more than four decades. Their story starts with a music group they were in together, traveling in a bus and performing together (and releasing 8-tracks and records!). They have been with each other through seasons of having babies and becoming grandparents. Weddings and funerals. Trips to beautiful places and walking through grief together. Big life events and all kinds of everyday moments too. They let me join them for one of their regular dinners, started with a song around the piano and then shared life over chicken and potatoes. I see such beauty in these moments, and as always, it feels like sacred ground when I’m welcomed into these “ordinary” times to capture life for you. Mom, Dad, Rich, Sue, Arlin, Lois Ken, & Marilyn, thanks for welcoming me and my paparazzi-ways into your evening, and for being a great example to me of what lifelong friendship looks like. I have so much love for you all.