This little family is dear to my heart. I captured their beautiful winter wedding back in 2011 and have been honored to photograph so many special moments for them since then–maternity pictures, baby pictures for their first daughter, and now newborn pictures for their second born. I am flattered every time they book a session, […]

Being a photographer has given my eyes a new perspective. I remember back to years before I used to do what I do for a living now–I’m pretty sure I never appreciated the beauty that I now am drawn to. I don’t think I used to look at the beautiful early morning or late evening […]

One boy. Two boys. Three little boys. Sounds a lot like my family, eh? These blessed kiddos were adopted into an amazing family–and while they were really rooting for a little girl (hmmm. . . that sounds a little familiar as well!), little Mr. B came along and they scooped him right up and fit […]

I watched him with a warm smile as he walked into the room. Paper graduation cap on his head. Trying to contain his proud smile with a little grin. And waving to me the whole time as sweet a little bird. My Carter. My middle guy. The one who is so tiny and cute and […]

Photographing these two was a mini adventure. It was fun, it was tough, but in the end I felt like I had conquered the course set out for me. Because in the images in this blog post, you can tell that mom was on one side, dad was on the other side, and we were […]

Today I spoke at my mom’s group meeting. Yes, I’m in a mom’s group–laugh all you want 🙂 I wasn’t the “main” speaker–just one of five that was asked to share a story.  I am not a speaker. I write. Hence. . . the blog. When I speak, I sweat, I shake, my voice is weak […]

May seems to be full of celebrations in this little neck of our woods. A couple of weeks ago, I was honored to take part in a Mother’s Day celebration at Carter’s preschool. They pampered us, sang us songs, made us smile, gave us a gift, and let us all go first through the food […]

Levi was a teeny tiny bundle of love, and one of the very last newborn sessions that I shot at my old “studio” (which, of course was really just my converted living room!). He slept for the first part of his session like a champ, and then decided that he wanted to join our little […]

Today’s post makes me teary. And I’m not a teary kind of gal–I don’t normally wear my emotions on my sleeves. My friend Mindy wrote a blog post a couple of weeks ago. See. . . she lost one of her son’s to a battle with brain cancer. She knows the true value of living […]

The other day I was commenting to my friend that it was really tough for me when Sawyer was in the 12-18 month range–he would constantly be taking things out of draws and sprinkling them all over the floor, only to leave three seconds later with a tornado of a mess in his dust. Clearly, […]