3 Generations

I have 50 things to post and no time to do it. I am trying to get caught up after a few family sessions, camping with my family and cleaning poop off of everything that Kai spread it on...AGAIN! Disinfectant here I come!

A few weeks ago when my Mom was in town we had a few pictures taken by my friend and fellow photographer Molly of Luminaire Images. Kai was a bit more than a handful and LA traffic proved to be a formiable challenge, so we ended up in a random little church somewhere by UCLA. Molly proved her talent, yet again.

Last Post

I have decided to merge the 2 blogs into 1, so this will be the last post on this blog. We had a family blog and a photography blog, but now it will all be at one place. The new blog is www.katwillcoxphotography.blogspot.com

Please drop by and say Hi :)

Today marks a Year

Today gives me so many more reasons to be gr8phul but also to be sad. Today is the 1st Anniversary of Alese Coco's passing. She fought a long and hard battle with Hodgkin's disease. Alese used her life in such a powerful way, that a year after her death, she is still able to motivate, encourage and inspire. She and her family have touched people in such a deep way, that you feel the touch of God through them I really mean that). They have started the Fight 2 Win Organization, to help raise money and awareness for Hodgkin's Lymphoma, also known as Hodgkin's disease. They have worked so hard to put this organization together and I have never heard them complain about it. Here is the website, www.fight2win.org/private.

Cathy Coco is one of the most remarkable women that I have known in my lifetime. When I first met her I knew that she had just lost her daughter and my heart ached for her, for her family, and for their loss. I have loved and lost someone, but I can't imagine loosing a child. Everytime that I have had the priviledge to talk with Cathy, I walk away so encouraged and lifted up. Cathy and her family are so gr8phul, even in the face of such a huge loss. Gr8phul! They exude gr8phulness and that amazes me. Not fakey grattitude, but deep and sincere grattitude. That is a hard choice for a heart to make when hurting so bad.

If you have a moment today, please pray for them. Pray for the Fight 2 Win organization and God's plan and purpose through it all. Also, please treat yourself to Alese's Blog/Journal. She fought her battle bravely and with intense faith, and honesty, I for one, and humbled by her amazing spirit and I have such hope that God's purpose will be fullfilled.

Taaaaa Daaaaaa

I am SO excited for this day to have arrived and for the new blog to be rolled out there and launched. I think that it is incredible what Maddie from Better in Pink was able to do. She reached right into my head and got the direction that I wanted, then the next time I saw the design ,my jaw was on the floor. She is so talented and she really understood the look and feel that I was hoping for. Well, she exceeded my wildest expectations!! She blew me right out of the water. Plus she is just a dream to work with. She is FUN and CREATIVE and PATIENT and an EXCELLENT LISTENER!! I can't think of a negative thing to say about the world.

It is 1 in the morning and I am kinda out of it but I wanted to see it launched!! Can I get a little whoot whoot!

A New Look

The 1 stop shop blog for the Willcox family and business has had a MAJOR face lift. You should drop over there and see it fo your self :) You are definitely invited :) We are pretty excited about it.

www.KatWillcoxPhotography.blogspot.com

Happy Easter

Sorry about that! I up and disappeared. Travis and I decided to merge the family blog with my photography blog, it was just getting to be to much to maintain, and my business is something that I take pretty personally so it seemed like a logical step... plus it was to much for Travis to edit 2 blogs. I am horrible at grammar and spelling and punctuation and all that, so he looks over it for me. What a sweet heart!

Here is the new address http://www.katwillcoxphotography.blogspot.com/ We will hope to see you there :)

My new favorite song is the Itsy Bitsy spider, because he gets soooo excited!

Ok, I have become one of those Mom's who can go on and on and on and on about her kid. So in an effort to restrain myself from "sharing" every story and gushing about how AWESOME, AMAZING and ADORABLE I think that he is, I am going to share some funny videos from this week and let them speak for themselves. Kai has had us overwhelmed with laughter lately, his personality is really starting to come out and he is a TRIP! He gets this *literal* twinkle in his eye and I think that when it happens that the world should stop and notice, well, maybe just me because I am the one who has to chase him and clean up after him. ;)



Listen and watch for him to throw his "shaka" sign, it is only approriate, he IS pillow surfing.



Travis loves to play the drum as much as Kai.

I have a few more videos but I am having a hard time loading them, so they will have to wait for another day. I have to go think happy thoughts after watching Rendition with Reese Witherspoon... it was disturbing. The movie wasn't that great but the documentary in the special features section made renting it worth its while. My heart breaks when I hear of injustices like that. I am so gr8phul for my freedom and I believe that God knows every persons struggles and cries of their heart, I pray he be with all the broken hearted people affected by injustices.

Settlling back into the Groove--kinda!

We are back from vacation/working wedding in Kauai and the laundry is mostly done and the house doesn't look like a bomb went off. Well at least it doesn't look like we were ground zero. And now Trav's parents are in town. So our days have been filled with park visits, marveling over Kai, eatting and more eatting and the occassional game of Go Fish.
We also have some of our favorites friends in the area in from Georgia so we have been driving back and forth to San Clemte to hang out with them. It is good to have a life full of friends but it definitely makes for a busy life. It has been really cool to see the Hall family and Rena's Mom Lee. I just wish that we lived closer. Here are a few pictures from my little P&S camera that I have been meaning to upload for a while.

The pictures of Kelly & Lee's (A.K.A-- Grandma and Grandpa) visit will have to go up later, I am tired and heading to bed. :) Sweet Dreams!

One picture from Hawaii that I wanted to share. It was fun to be with good friends and enjoy "girl time!" The girls are Lissa, Liv, Stacy and then Me all enjoying being on the beach.



This is Zach and Liv in the "rain forest" of Kauai doing their best impression of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden--having to cover their naughty bit.



Once we were back in CA we enjoyed some time with our friends Luke and Kristen, and as you can see the boys were enjoying playing in the box.



On Valentine's Day Kai got a new stuffed animal from his super sweet Grandma is NC and he loved it from the minute he laid eyes on it (and mouth on it--it is a great teething toy--monkey's nose)





Hanging with the Halls! :) Here is Rena with her ADORABLE son Noah.



Grandma Lee is sooooo adorable. She loves every fiber of Baby Noah and it is so fun to watch her interact with him. The joy and loves she gets from him is contagious.



Noah post bath..playing in a towel being even cuter that thought possible.



Noah the future Heart breaker.



I hope you liked ALL the pictures, sorry it was so long. This was a bit of a catch up post...

Last night our plane touched down at LAX and so we are officially home from Kauai. Travis and I are very happy to have that flight behind us, Kai was a screaming wiggle worm and we will be telling him stories from that flight for years to come.
I am starting to edit the pictures from the wedding and I thought I would share a couple :) Sarah was a STUNNING bride and Tyler was so taken with her. It was a beautiful Hawaiian wedding and I am looking forward to going through all the pictures.

Another Beautiful and Fun filled day!

As soon as the sun came out, I have been to busy playing to post anything. We have been playing in the sun, swimming in the ocean and just soaking up all the goodness from Ksusi. Well, tomorrow is the BIG day that Tyler and Sarah get married, so I thought that I would do one last post from Kauai. Because tomorrow night I doubt I will have any energy left to put anything up.

This is Zach and Liv cuddling oceanside, they are such an AWESOME couple. They are so much fun to be around and so fun apart and even better together!



Stacy and Liv have been so much fun to be around. They have had me laughing non-stop!



Of course I have to share a picture of Kai oceanside! Je actually went all the way in today.



Trav and Kai checking out the waves and playing at the beach.


Have I mentioned how beautiful Kauai is?





Just taking it all step by step, day by day! It is sooo nice to relax and hang out with friends in such an amazing place!

Day Two was pretty much a Ben Stiller movie, where he is the underdog and everything goes pretty wrong for him. We are just hoping that today is the beginning of the REST of the story that ends with a happy ending. Here are a few examples; Zach threw up in the ocean, Kat got punched (by accident) in the nose, everyone ended up at a beach that was beyond questionable with some really shady characters, Zach tripped and fell through the sliding screen door, Stacey and Liv got hit on by a few 15 year old boys and then ended up in a crack addicts bathroom, Kai tried to throw himself from his highchair, and the whole time Trav was surfing.
After being grumpy Zach and Liv and I went for a drive to try to blow off some steam and that was definitely where the highlights of the day happened.




The scenery is gorgeous and we are gr8phul to be here with some gr8 friends but today we are going in search of some SUNSHINE :)