Vail Family Photographer - The Stroker Family at the Eagle Vail Pavilion

When you move to the other side of the world, it's always a rare and special thing to meet someone from your homeland.  When I started working at The Ritz-Carlton Club 5 years ago, I met Rachael.  Not only is Rachael from New Zealand, she's also from my the same home town as me.  On top of that, we even went to the same high school!

We talked about taking some family photos when Eli was born in November last year and we made tentative plans them in April.  Given the crazy weather that we had this spring, we must have scheduled 5 different times to take the photos before we were finally able to capture everyone, in one place, with great weather at the end of May.  It seemed like it was never going to happen, but we got there.  Even Kaia the dog made an appearance.

Today is Rachael's (21st?) birthday.  Happy Birthday Chica!

To see more family photos from White Starfish Photography, go to The Family Photo Collection.