Keye, Jen, Ella and Rex: Love

I've known this family since before there was Ella. I met Ella when I came home from college and she was a tiny baby with the cutest face. They moved away and Jen got deployed to Afghanistan when Ella was only a year old, and I read Keye's hilarious blog about surviving as a military husband. I saw them reunited (over Facebook of course) and later stalked pictures of their new little cutie, Rex. Then two weeks ago they came to my house and I said "Hi Rex!" and he looked at my coyly, smiled, ran over and held his arms out to me to be held and then cuddled up for about a minute before he ran off to the next person. 

Then we took pictures.

Derek and Ruth

About a year ago I did a shoot with Derek and Ruth and each of their boys, it was a great shoot, and so when Derek called me up about a month ago I thought maybe we were going to do something similar again, but he had a very different idea this time! I helped him plan the whole thing and last Saturday, I sneakily set up at Bok Tower Gardens to ninja-photograph Derek asking Ruth to MARRY HIM!

Obviously she said yes.

Then we did engagement pictures and it rocked. The moments right after a proposal are incredibly sincere and full of raw emotional love.

I'm so happy for both of you!