Sometimes (well, actually all the time) I am really in awe of the beautiful gifts the Lord has given me.  Photography was introduced to me when I was a new mamma, trying to capture every moment I could of my little guy’s life. If someone would have told me I would have had my own photography business when I sought out to learn this skill, I would have laughed at them.  But it wasn’t in His plan to just leave that gift to be used with my little people, He wanted me to use it with families around me.   And oh how I have been blessed by this journey. I am not saying it is always easy.. I feel mamma guilt a lot in the heat of my busy season.  The enemy tries to sneak into my brain with all kind of lies as I try to be all that I can as a momma, friend, teacher, and wife during the craziness.   And I am still working on setting my limits.  But as I wrap up my season and I reflect on emails and text messages from clients about their photos I am reminded what an amazing honor this job gives me.  Photography gives me a glimpse into the stories of my families.  Some are in hard seasons, some are in the middle of beautiful beginnings, some are full of heartache, and some are trying to hold onto the few years they have left with their little people at home.   But what I have found to be the truth is that photos truly allow families to sit back and remember that despite it all, these little (or big) people are all that matter. My prayer with every session is that my families walk away falling in love with their families all over again. It is so easy to get distracted in the busy life.  It is easy to forget how precious the people we have right in front of us are.  And that nothing is more important than the stories we are helping to create for them and the biggest part of that story is knowing how loved they are.  My goal is to capture that love… so that in 1, 5, 10, 20 years down the road my families can look at the photos I took for them and say, man, that was a crazy season of my life, but we sure loved each other.  xoxo

So with that being said, my website has been down for quite some time. There was a big crash on the hosting sites end and I lost everything from my old website.  (fun fun) I am in the process of making this site exactly what I want it to be. It will be adding sessions over the next few months.  So please be patient with me as I continue to tweak things.  In the meantime, I want to start sharing some of the sessions from the past six months.

This first session … well, it makes me cry.   It was so much fun photographing some of my favorite people of all time.  You see their biggest is heading to high school next year and their little guy is one of Jacob’s (my son’s) best friends and just a few years behind his brother. Mom and Dad are holding on with all they can to the moments they have in these final years with their boys. Because, you know, it goes way too fast.  One day they are five and sitting in your lap reading stories and building forts with you …and before you know it they are four years away from heading off to college. Sometimes we fly through these “middle years” and forget to capture as much on camera as we did when they were all cute and cuddling and little (not that teens aren’t cute 😉 ).  I have found myself guilty of this with my own little children. But goodness, these middle years count just as much.  These are some of the best years to look back on… when we get to watch our little babies becoming the big people we have worked so hard to help them become.    So much joy capturing this beautiful crew. Their hearts are just as beautiful as they are.  Praying these are photos to be treasure for years to come. …at the end you can see more in their video. xoxo

…..and if you want to see more of this cute family check out the video below