Fox Hollow Photography: Ford Family

I was so glad that I was able to photograph this homecoming. Last fall, I did a newborn shoot for the Ford family just after their daughter Scarlett was born, and then her dad deployed shortly after that. Carly did an amazing job raising Scarlett alone for the first 7 months or so of her life, but they were both just so ready to have Seth back home.

Here's one of the newborn images of baby Scarlett and her dad back in October.

And a long 7 months later, it was time to welcome Dad back home!

We took a few photos at their house before we headed up to base.

Carly took pictures of Scarlett throughout the deployment with her "I love Dad" sign at home and during visits with family around the country, so we had to get one more.

And then that was the end of the sign!

We headed up to Pendleton, and the wait was on for those buses to show up!

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Finally, the buses started driving towards us!

We weren't sure what bus Seth was on, and he didn't have a cell phone - so with 6 buses of Marines rapidly emptying off, it was a race to find him. It seemed like it took an eternity to find Seth, although when I looked at the timestamps of the photos while editing, it was just under 5 minutes. However, when you haven't seen your husband in 7 months, those 5 extra minutes are just torture.

Carly finally caught sight of him and took off running!