is my sister-in-law, dean.
and here is the thing about dean....
she HATES having her photo taken... she doesn’t see any need for that kind of thing.
and she married my brother. she got ME as a sister-in-law.
and my sweet niece, victoria, will be growing up thinking that her aunt lealea has a HUGE black tumor growing over her face. she will also think that “canon” is how you spell aunt lealea’s name....
but that doesn’t bother me.
because look at these photos...
it is like photographing the very breath of God. and even though dean HATES to have her photo taken, she lets me take her photo every now and then. and whenever she visits us at the beach or in town (she and jeff live out of town) she will let me have multiple photo shoots with victoria.
because she does like photos of that girl...
and because she loves me and knows that i love to take pictures of that girl.
ummm, and did i mention that this summer dean spent a week with me at the beach house (and my friend karen was down there too) and she made us a different chocolate dessert every day.
oh yes, she did.
and it was the best week of my life. it was an isthmus of perfect joy between scrapbooking all day and chocolate decadent desserts all night....
oh, i mean it was a distant second and paled when compared to my honeymoon (just in case adam ever reads this)...
but girls, you know what i really mean....
and i hope you know what i mean when i say that the GREAT thing about having truly wonderful brothers is that they choose EXCELLENT women to marry. women who have ADORABLE babies and women who let me take ALL the photos i want of those children.
isn’t life grand?
my sister-in-laws make me so excited about seeing who my son chooses to marry. which isn’t going to happen for a long long time. but knowing how much i love these gals that my brothers brought into the family makes me realize that one day our little family of five may expand and you know how i always think that the more is much more merrier....
here is a little scrapbooky page that i made for dean this summer. and look i caught her in the photo too! because sometimes i am a bit sneaky... well, maybe all of the time. but i am sneaky with a purpose... i am a veritable isthmus between sneaky and purposeful... one might even say, if they had to work isthmus into their blog post.