I did NOT want to take family photos this year. Don’t get me wrong- I wanted family photos of our family this year… I just didn’t want to have them taken. And it’s not that I didn’t want to be in them… I just didn’t want to look the way that I do in them […]

What a special time in life! I know for me, I dreamed of serving a mission from the time I was a little girl. My aunt had gone to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ in Korea and I was always fascinated to hear all her stories of teaching people about Jesus Christ for the […]

I love this family so much. They are part of our church family and have always made us feel welcome and loved from the very first weeks we moved here! I remember Ruth encouraging me when Brighten was first born and telling me about her experience with having her oldest daughter and how special it […]

Hey! It’s that time of year! And you know I have to practice what I preach! Here are my favorites from our very own family photos. A big thank you to Justin Miller aspiring photographer for helping out with the shots that include both Trent and I. I see great things ahead in your photography […]

Ok, it is a miracle that this Blog is up. I’m not even saying that because it’s the popular time of year for family photos and this is a double blog week (even though it is that too). So here is the story: Sage got out of bed or fell out of bed or something. […]

One of my favorite families :). Justin use to be our pastor at church and I volunteered with Amy in the children’s ministry so we have become so close with them. They’re the kind of Jesus-People that make other people want to be Jesus-People because they so effortlessly show how it makes their lives better. […]

This has been such a fun series to review my personal favorites from different categories over the past years. It has definitely been a trip down memory lane and it makes me realize how may friendships I have thanks to photography. I once heard it said that weddings are the marathon of photography. The amount […]

Aren’t these two girls just the cutest. Well, they are as sweet as they are cute. I think the first time I met Penny and Stevie was when I shot their parents wedding! It was so fun to see their sister dynamic again and wonder how Brighten and Sage will be when they get a […]

This wedding was super fun for me because Melanie is my sister! Melanie and Jonathan eloped earlier this year but count on my mom to make the most elaborate “small” reception. The theme was travel and I loved everything about it from the flower arrangements to the little globes. I keep trying to convince my […]

We have gone to church with the Nelson family for about 4 years now and I didn’t feel like I knew them extremely well… until this Saturday started. Throughout the day I kept having little memories pop up of interactions we have had together over the years. Like when Cory taught a class that Trent […]