What an honor it is to photograph clients repeatedly through the years.

It's so much fun to"grow up" with a family. Years ago, we had an amazing time creating a portrait of Natalie Slate and her family in Santa Barbara. Since then, we have created some of our most innovative images with Natalie. We did the one below when she was pregnant with her daughter, Tatiana...and that's obviously Tatiana in the portraits above. Natalie is a clothing visionary, and always brings me plenty of things to choose from. So when I saw the clothing she brought for Tatiana , I knew we'd have an opportunity to capture another very special image.

What's the story of your family that we should capture?

We first photographed Michael and Alison Kenney in 2005. You can imagine how happy we were to create a painting of their beautiful daughters Reagan and Shannon. When they picked up their painting yesterday, we knew they were happy, but then Michael called April this morning and said, "we didn't want to go to bed last night because we just couldn't stop looking at the painting. We are just ecstatic." That made our day.