Isabella
Last week I got to run around one of the beaches in Santa Cruz with Isabella and her parents, and by the end of the evening everyone was pretty much encrusted with sand. Which reminds me - I still need to vacuum about 10 pounds of sand out of my car!
Isabella has these fabulously luminous brown eyes and four front teeth that are well – too cute for words, so how about some pictures instead?

There was a small grove of "beach trees" (a botanist I am not. I don't actually know what kind of trees these are, I just know that I always find them near beaches) where we took a bunch of photos before heading down to the actual beach.
Down on the beach, Isabella had a grand 'ol time just hanging out, and crawling around on the sand
I enjoy this image quite a bit because Isabella looks like quite the little explorer!

One more photo of the whole family on the beach:

Thanks to Isabella and her parents for making my job so EASY, and thanks for so patiently waiting until I get back from my vacation to see the rest of the photos... I promise that as soon as I get a handle on my jet lag I'll get right down to editing your images!