Actress Katherine Heigl enjoyed lunch with her mom Nancy Heigl and sister Meg in Los Feliz, California on March 30, 2010. Katherine looked to be in a great mood as she stopped to pet a dog that waited for their owner outside Little Dom’s restaurant.

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CANDIDS > Out in Los Feliz – March 30, 2010

I added scans from Entertainment Weekly:

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CANDIDS > Out in Los Feliz – March 25, 2010

Thanks to Li-Shann!

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CANDIDS > On the Set of her New Film – March 24, 2010

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CANDIDS > Leaving her Home – March 23, 2010

It’s official: Katherine Heigl has left Grey’s Anatomy.

“I am done,” the actress tells Entertainment Weekly in its new issue. “We just finalized our agreement. Everyone had been working really hard to find an amicable and gracious way of letting go and moving on. It’s sad but it’s what I wanted.”

In the end, Heigl decided to leave the hit ABC show because of her family — and not necessarily to advance her film career. “I started a family and it changed everything for me,” she says. “It changed my desire to work full-time.”

In Sept. 2009, Heigl and husband Josh Kelley adopted their daughter Naleigh from South Korea. She also took a three-month leave from Grey’s Anatomy to spend time with her family, an experience that made her want to focus on motherhood, she recently told PEOPLE.

“I think I’m just gonna try and keep it a little more mellow,” she told PEOPLE, “and be a little bit more of a mom, since that’s a big part of my life now. I took those three months off and I realized how very, very important is my family is to me and I want to be more available to them.”

Speculation had grown recently that the actress was planning her exit from Grey’s after she did not return to set following her maternity leave. “The details, the timeline of that — it’s all shades of gray,” a source told PEOPLE at the time. “The terms of her exit are still being sorted out.”

And if fans are expecting a big farewell arc, they may be disappointed. Heigl tells Entertainment Weekly that her Jan. 21 episode was her last — and that she is no longer appearing in the season’s final five episodes. “I know I’m disappointing the fans,” she tells EW. “I just had to make a choice. I hope I made the right one.”

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Whether or not her time at Seattle Grace is officially done, Katherine Heigl says her future plans involve caring for her daughter.

“I think I’m just gonna try and keep it a little more mellow,” she told PEOPLE of her future plans, “and be a little bit more of a mom, since that’s a big part of my life now.”

Heigl and husband Josh Kelley adopted daughter Naleigh from South Korea in Sept. 2009.

Though nothing is confirmed, and Heigl could not discuss whether she is indeed leaving Grey’s Anatomy, rumors have been mounting that she is finished with the show. Peaking the speculation, Heigl was a no-show on the ABC set this month after taking a three month maternity leave.

“I took those 3 months off and I realized how very, very important is my family is to me and I want to be more available to them,” she said Thursday at Las Vegas’s ShoWest convention while accepting an award for Female Star Of The Year.

Her family “is wonderful,” the actress says. “They’re the icing on the cake.”

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I have added the first few pictures from last night’s Showest Awards. Katie looks gorgeous! She also took home the award for ShoWest 2010 Female Star of the Year, so congratulations to her! Check back later for more:

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CANDIDS > Out to Lunch with Josh – March 17, 2010