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 …
Out in the World…
You know, there’s a lot I’ve done over the past several years I’m really proud of. I’ve built this portrait business, which quite honestly I still struggle to grow. I’ve created this online space where I’ve shared my heart and journey with you and I’ve had so many reach out to me with how that’s …
Asher & Brinley Turn One! | Decatur IL Photography
Oh my goodness you guys!!! I LOVE all these sweet babies that come to me but – oh my heart! They all grow so dang fast! It kills me a little! A little over a year ago, I was photographing these sweet twin’s newborn portraits! And here we are documenting their first birthday! For Asher …
Daily Bible Reading
Over the past several years, one of my new year’s goals had been to read my bible more. I would always do well with this for a period of time and then life would happen and I’d get busy and my bible studies would peeter off. This was partly because I didn’t want to just …
Unfinished Projects…
You may have noticed over the years I’ve been writing here that I’m a big believer in personal projects. You’ve seen my work with my Gratitude Project. You’ve seen me explore painting. I’ve shared our own family albums and Christmas cards. I’ve shared my fine art series with you too. I think having these …
New Fine Art Piece: Openness
Between the busy season and the holidays – my schedule was so full I hadn’t had time to work on my creative series. It’s been long overdue, but I FINALLY managed to put together another piece for you all from my self portrait series called The Journey. This series focuses on the feelings and experiences …
Ryan’s Birthday 2017
This weekend we celebrated this amazing man that I get to do life with. This was his first birthday as a daddy and so it was a little different than birthdays past. Before Marlee I always did my darnedest to make sure his day was special – filled with friends and fun and usually a …