So I’ve been holding this secret for a while. Those of you who’ve been here a while know that Jesus has had a pretty big impact on my life. Like he’s sent us signs and guided us on our journey to Marlee. I can honestly say I wouldn’t be where I am today without the …
Behind the Scenes Peek at the Creation of Fine Art Piece Hope
In the busyness of current life and lack of the right conditions for the current shot I have in my mind, I thought I’d share with you the first fine art piece I put together. This is where my The Journey series started and it’s interesting to me that the first piece I created was …
My Top 10 Best Business Decisions
I’d been thinking a lot lately about my business and how far I’ve come. This year will mark my 10th year in business and I’m hugely proud of that. There have been some amazing years and some not so profitable years. But every year, I feel infinitely blessed to have my clients continue to come …
Geekin’ Out: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
It’s been a LONG time since I’ve shared anything I’ve been “in love with” and even longer since I shared any book reviews… So I’ve decided it’s time to start up a new blogging segment called Geekin’ Out where I get to share something I’m kind of obsessed with at the moment. It feels pretty …
How Much Should I Share?
I’ve sat here for a while trying to decide what to share with you all here and I thought I’d get honest for a bit… I know big surprise… that’s kind of been my thing, hasn’t it? The truth is for years now I’ve used this little space I lovingly call The Journal to share …
Marlee’s 10 Month Session | Sullivan, IL
It seems so crazy to me that this beautiful little girl we get to call our daughter is already 10 months old!!! These first months are just zipping by so fast. I was commenting on that to Ryan the other day – how I’ve always known that these little ones grow so fast and so …
A Phrase That Makes Me Cringe
There’s this phrase that people say about adoption and honestly… it really bugs me… For a long time I thought it was only the inexperienced, the people who’ve never been through it and only have a fairytale picture of what it actually is like, who were saying this, but recently I’ve heard those who actually are …
Small Wedding Love
So you may have noticed that over the past several years I have not really shot weddings – nor do I advertise them. One of the biggest reasons I stopped taking weddings was due to when Ryan and I started getting really serious about our infertility treatments. Since my schedule was dictated to me by …
Moments with Marlee
So for the first time ever I’m behind schedule on getting Marlee’s 10 month pictures done. It’s proving to be a busy week so I’m going to attempt to squeeze them in this weekend. But the delay in doing the more formal portraits encouraged me to go ahead and pick up my big girl camera …
New Fine Art Piece: Open Hearted
Today I thought I’d share another image I created as part of my fine art self portrait series called The Journey. This series focuses on the feelings and experiences along our road of infertility like hope, strength, anger, sorrow, etc… The goal being to connect with others and continue to share what this journey is …