I still may not have had the ability to shoot a new fine art piece, so I’m continuing to share some old ones! Before the creation of my self portrait series (The Journey) I was working on another series for others called the Your Story Project. This series was designed as a collaborative art expression. …
Tyson & Kathleen Maternity Photography | Decatur, IL
Oh my goodness you guys! I’m seriously so excited to get to share this session with you! I seriously adore this couple and I could not be happier that they are soon going to be welcoming a handsome little man into their family! I am always beyond honored when anyone trusts me to capture their …
National Infertility Awareness Week 2018
I am now and forever will be one who speaks up for those like me who struggle to grow their families. While growing closer to God and being blessed with our beautiful little girl has certainly healed many wounds, there will always be a part of me that is broken and hurting because of this …
Ten Years Married
My dearest Ryan, Ten years… That’s no small thing. And honestly – I look back at these last ten years of marriage and I’m proud of us… I’m grateful for us… for you. I look at couples who’ve experienced far less adversity and not made it this far, and yet, here we are…fully surviving and …
Marlee’s Birthday Party
Well if you were here on Monday, you know our little lady turned one last week. So we celebrated this special milestone with a little party for our immediate families. I feel like I balanced between going all Pinterest mom and being laid back about it. We did some pretty minimal decorations and kept all the …
Marlee is One!!
This past week was full of excitement and happiness and a little sadness too. As of 9:51 on Thursday morning, our big girl officially turned one-year-old! I don’t know how the past year managed to zip by so fast! It really doesn’t feel like a year ago that we were rushing up to Detroit to …
The Your Story Project: The Man with a Million Ideas
I still may not have had the ability to shoot a new fine art piece, so I’m continuing to share some old ones! Before the creation of my self portrait series (The Journey) I was working on another series for others called the Your Story Project. This series was designed as a collaborative art expression. …
Lily M. Senior Photography | St Teresa Decatur IL
I am so incredibly excited to share this gorgeous young lady with you today. I was thrilled when her mom contacted me about capturing Lily’s senior portraits! Lily is a senior at St. Teresa High School this year and is one incredible person! She’s a pretty smart gal as a member of NHS and active …
My Top 7 Business Mistakes
A few weeks ago now I shared my Top 10 Best Business Decisions. It’s really easy to talk about things we’ve done well. It’s harder to admit the ways we’ve failed. But let’s be honest. We often learn way more from our mistakes than we do from our successes. So today I want to share …
Easter 2018
Easter was a little later in April last year and we were actually up in Michigan during the holiday. So this was our first year celebrating Easter at home which was nice. A lot of things have changed since Miss Marlee’s arrival and celebrating this holiday is different too. We actually split up time with …