Holyoak Family

A long time ago in a city not so far away (Orem/Provo), I worked at a place that, believe it or not, I hated. Hated Hated Hated. I think I only worked there because, well, I needed the money. AND my best friend and roommate at the time was also working there. So I thought, what the heck? This'll be great!

And thus fate introduced me to Ryan and Rebekah. Bekah worked with Sally and I at Harris Interactive-- the dreaded place where we randomly called people and begged them to take a survey. We weren't even trying to sell them anything, seriously. Yet people still hated us. Sally and Bekah's boss at the time was Ryan Holyoak. Everybody loved Ryan. He was the cool boss that let us goof off a little when our jobs really started wearing on us.

A little while after Sally and I cut out of there, we heard that Bekah and Ryan were engaged! Yay! We were so happy! We loved them both! Then we heard they were married. And then we heard they had a baby!

I'm so happy for these two and their new little family. I'm so grateful to know these two and now, to have met their little Bronson. I photographed them in Provo about a week ago and I'm so happy with the results-- even though that little Bronson wasn't old enough to sit up, he was GREAT at making eye contact and just so sweet during the entire shoot. And as soon as he started crying, we knew we were finished :)

As an added bonus, I would like to take the liberty of posting a few pictures from a long long time ago when I worked with Bekah, Ryan and Sally at Harris Interactive. Ahhhh the memories :) Thanks for making my life awesome you guys!

Sally and Bekah, obvisouly working very hard.

I know Ryan isn't in this picture, but for the record, he DID tape this random sign up to the ceiling to attempt to keep us motivated. That's Sally on the far left, Bekah in the middle and me on the far right. Awwwwww the good ol' days.

I made these so that we could get a "high 5" every time we got a completed survey. As you can tell, this job flirted with my insanity.

Again, although Ryan is not in this picture, this is the "crown" he made me on my last day. We deemed it the "Quitters Crown". Yes, that IS Dumbo on the top.

Ok, ok enough of the goofy old pictures. Meet The Holyoak Family....

These blue eyes are going to get him in trouble someday :)