Oh precious lady… You truly are my firework. Go ahead…let those colors burn. I love you to pieces and I’m beyond grateful for you.  And EVERY last one of these facial expressions.   This entire shoot?  Maybe 20 minutes.  All of these facial expressions and moments?  Completely and utterly normal for her…within a span of […]

Sometimes in life you go on crazy adventures. And April sounds like a great time for one of those. Our little family is road-tripping back to Chicago for just such an adventure and I’d be all kinds of honored to have the opportunity to document your amazing self (and possibly your loved ones) while I’m […]

This past weekend my little lady gave a presentation to her first grade class.  She wanted all of her friends to KNOW. Today…there are more than 27 million people slaves in our world.  She’s not okay with it. I’m not either. I’ll be writing about it more in the weeks to come, but for the […]

Today I turned 31. Little ones sang. Sweet friends called, sang, sent messages and the like. I got to tell my mom thank you for waiting 2 extra weeks for me to come out. My kids cried. And we watched Kung Fu Panda. Though nothing about this day was “ideal”, it was so beautiful and […]

Once upon a time, I entertained visions of Pinterest grandeur. This is my story of my epic Pinterest FAIL. You see, my sweet little man has been craving snow.  Begging for it.  Praying for it.  So I figured I would step in and be the hero.  Like you do when you’re trying to be supermom. […]

I’ll be back.  Pinky swear. I’m just in the midst of growing.  Of healing.  Of God rewriting so much of me.  Of learning how to be more present in all that I do and create. It’s beautiful.  I’m grateful.  It’s hard.  It’s worth it. But…this.  This is the biggest why I’m not here… These two. […]

She was faced with a choice. Be crushed.  Or be crushed and take a step forward with a knowing hope that the crushing feeling would one day be a memory – not an all encompassing feeling. She chose the latter. And she has partnered with God to write such a beautiful story.  One of hope.  […]

“She even lost her wedding photos.” I read those words and I just knew…I had to do something.  I can’t give her back her wedding pictures.  But I can give her the gift of a session and document now.  This love that’s carried through losing everything.  And if we can find her a wedding dress […]

I squealed.  Audibly. Upon reading her email and hearing all the exciting news I knew nothing could keep me from coming back to Wheaton again to document their engagement. Because…well…they’re amazing.  Gracious.  And just plain awesome. It all started in high school.  When tutoring turned into ice cream dates which turned into long conversations which […]

Sometimes…life just hits.  Death and life and beauty and pain.  That has been the past few months. My cousin died of a heroin overdose. Ted had an emergency appendectomy. I felt like “me” again. I drove from Atlanta to Chicago and had grown up conversations. I sat with precious friends and snuggled up in a […]