We have wanted our friend Patty to photograph the girls for years because she is simply my favorite photographer. Somehow it hasn’t happened. I’ve been worried about where we would take the photos. What the girls would wear. If the weather would be right. And on and on and on.

And then Patty posted pictures of her boys at Asbury Park. Please click here to see these pictures and you’ll understand why I called her and said, “I want the pictures that you took of the boys but with the girls in them.”

So one day this August, the girls and I headed down to Asbury Park with Patty. My only regret is that Rob was at work. I really don’t like staged pictures and didn’t think that I wanted any posed family pictures but I was wrong. We missed Rob and Patty and I joked that maybe we could photoshop him in. I’m thinking we will schedule another session with Patty soon so that Rob can be in the shots but for now, here are a few examples of the amazing photographs that Patty took that day.

I loved each picture more than the next. The girls did too. I told Patty that I wished she could have heard us as we looked through the gallery. We kept saying, “That’s my favorite one!” “No! That’s my favorite one!” We really couldn’t choose. But here are a few that we really love.