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I'm a wife of 12 years to my very best friend and a mom to 3 (almost 4) awesome and crazy kids. I’m a hopeless romantic that loves my date nights and all things romantic. I’m indecisive, an organizing wanna be and a self proclaimed terrible cook whose working to change that persona every week (ok, just some weeks). I love Mexican food and family down time so long as it doesn’t involve the TV on too loud. I have two very smart, yet crazy boys who are obsessed with video games and their dad, and one girly girl who loves her mama and melts my heart with all her sweet toddler cuteness. My career began in the dark ages when you had to nail your exposure the first time without looking on the camera display; and pay for every frame of film and it’s processing.

In 14 years of photography I've learned that while I have largely perfected my craft, I will never be done learning. Education and improvement can never be complete and I will always strive to learn and challenge myself in my work. I want my photography to not only reflect who you are, but more importantly I want to capture relationships and the emotions that exist within them. These days, photographers are a dime a dozen, what makes me any different? Aside from many years of professional experience, I would say my style is unique, clean and timeless. I want my photographs to look great for years to come and I keep my editing "real", not overly saturated, vintage or any other "sign of these times." My clients like that their images are enhanced, yet true representations of themselves.

Your photography experience doesn't have to, and will not end with your session. We can work together to create wall galleries and other custom products that reflect your personal style and show off your photography in a creative and artistic way. It’s not always easy to know the best way to display the art we’ve created and I work individually with you to help you decorate and display it tastefully in your home. The best compliment I receive is for clients to have my work complimented by their loved ones with the beautiful wall galleries and custom products we've created.

I’m so blessed to do what I love and meet such great people along the way. Thank you for considering me to seize moments of time so that you may enjoy them for years to come.

Coming back…

August 9, 2009

It’s true, I’m coming back, back from the “almost dead but nearly recovered”…and really is SUMMER REALLY OVER? Maybe I’m in denial as I’m still waiting to take a summer vacation (though it’s round the corner), but really I feel like my summer went much too fast and my kids can’t already be going back to school!!

So, just when things are supposed to be easy ’round here like the WHOLE MONTH OF JULY in which I had no shoots scheduled and plans to get all kinds of things caught up and finished, then there comes the curve balls which really consumed much of the month! Well, you never do plan the unlikely events we encountered, but alas they come and frankly what better time to come when I had nothing better to do?

We had tremendous love and support after my father in law’s passing and really appreciated the time we could spend together with our family remembering what life is truly about. About the same time he passed I came down with a very what I thought was “average” cold/virus. Well, it was anything but average and I am STILL working this bug out of my system!! And really, I’m not a total wuss, in fact for the first week I was a trooper vowing to not let my illness put further burden on my husband’s recent loss, even if that meant short nights of sleep and long days/nights with pounding headaches, ear infection, blowing my nose a full toilet paper roll each day and unable to breathe. I showed up to everything needed and did my best to be his support and help for the kids. And then came week two. Now a total sinus infection that even days of antibiotics offered no relief. Nor did the up to 20 pills of over the counter meds each day. After a second round of fevers, a 3rd visit to the Dr. and an unexpected force to the ER by the Dr. thankfully things started to look a little better and now going on week 3, though I’m still working out the congestion =) I feel A LOT better than I was feeling, I wish it was all gone, but I’ll take what I can get.

This week MUST look up from the previous few, I mean I can BREATHE again, so that’s a huge sign in the right direction =) So, I’m hoping that I truly can get a few new posts on here this week and get all caught up on orders that people have put in. Thanks for being patient with me lately, I sure hope with school brings some more normalcy around here.

And for some comic relief, watch this video…I didn’t have this…A MAN COLD, I really try to be a trooper through illness, it very well could be the reason it takes me so long to recover, I slept a lot more than normal, but I’m pretty sure that isn’t saying much coming from me.