My last family shoot in Dallas for a while...

I had my last family shoot this past Monday before we move and I couldn't have ended our time living here by shooting a better family! This is our head pastor and his family, (Jeremy's boss up until a few months ago when we stepped down from the church). They are such an amazing family and so genuine and fun to be around. We hold a special place for them in our hearts and will greatly miss them! They were an absolute joy to photograph. I loved watching them interact with each other and laugh at ALL their dad's jokes...really ALL of them, he's a funny guy! Here are a few favorites from their session. Hope you enjoy your "sneak peek" and we look forward to seeing you one more time before we head out of Texas.









How GORGEOUS are these girls!?!



I had so much fun shooting this last one...I think I was laughing just as hard if not harder then they were!

North Carolina (Personal) PLEASE READ!

SO, there have been some BIG changes for those of you who follow my blog and are used to me being a "Dallas" based photographer. For those of you who just enjoy checking out the photos from places outside Texas this won't effect you all that much...unless you live in or close to North Carolina! For the past four or five months we have been in transition. For those of you who might not have known, my husband stepped down from his pastoral position at the church here and we have been praying and seeking God's guidance for the next season in our lives. It was a desire of ours to move closer to family (not above being in the center of His will however), so we went back and forth for some time about moving to Ohio, (where his family lives), or somewhere close to NC, (where my family lives). We thought about Nashville or Indiana, places that were closer than Dallas, we also considered that God might want us to stay here longer as well, just ministering in a different capacity.
So to bring it back around to my point, after all this time and a recent visit to NC, we have sold our house and will be moving on September 1st to North Carolina. The plan is to take my business there and focus on it, possibly pick up some more weddings and events. Jeremy will look for a job once we get there and as for a place to worship, we will be joining a great team of three other families to help plant a church in Holly Springs, (Just outside the Raleigh area). So that's it in a nut shell. We would GREATLY appreciate your prayers as we drive across country with our little camry in tow and our 18 month old in the cab of a moving truck. Thank you so much to all my wonderful local clients who I have had great joy getting to know and photographing you and your families! I know this was a long post and I appreciate you all taking the time to read it. Here are a couple pictures of my family from the beach we visited while we were in NC.









This is my 14 year old sister...for those of you who remember her very little...isn't she BEAUTIFUL! Oh, and you see my dad in the background peeking around the pole...that's so him to do that!



Here are a couple pics of my other sister's family.

So sorry to be behind on my blogging again! I have spent the last couple weeks in North Carolina with my family and a few days at the beach! It was very nice and Graydon LOVED playing with his cousin Jordan and tossing around the sand...but I'll blog about that later. Right now I want to introduce you to an awesome family that Jeremy and I had the privilege of meeting and hanging out with while in NC.
I was very honored to photograph you all and we had so much fun taking pictures of you and playing with your kids. Your family is just beautiful! A BIG thank you to Gabe who is in the Air Force and shipping out overseas soon. Your service and sacrifice is appreciated more than you know...you will be in our prayers. We look forward to seeing you all again soon! Well, enough reading...ON WITH THE PICTURES...enjoy your sneak peek!











Time for Mom and Dad!



I know I don't have to tell you Gabe, but your wife is GORGEOUS!!!









Thanks again and God Bless!

Family Pictures!!!

Here they are at last!! If you haven't been keeping up with my blog your wondering, "What's here at last?" BUT, if you have been keeping up then you know I said I was going to post some recent pictures of my family that our wonderful friends Tim and Shauna took for us while we were in Las Cruces. Tim and Shauna own Vision Yard Studios and are exceptional wedding photographers in the Phoenix Az. area....However, they are not limited to Phoenix and often book shoots and weddings in New Mexico and other locations. Point being that if you love there stuff and want to hire them, they will travel! So, if you haven't checked them out yet please click on their names after your done catching up on this blog and enjoy their work too! By the way, Tim started his career as a wedding photographer with the documentation of OUR wedding!! (Shauna was in the wedding so she was not able to assist her talented husband!) I think he still has our wedding slide show posted at the very bottom of his slide show page on his site for anyone who wants to see OUR wedding pictures from 2005! We were married in Connecticut in November. Ok, enough talking...check out what you came here for...the PHOTOGRAPHY!!! Oh, and we LOVE it when you leave comments!

Vacation to Cruces

As I mentioned in a previous post (for those of you who follow regularly), my family and I took a trip back to our beloved Las Cruces , NM. back in the beginning of the month. It was so nice to visit some dear friends, eat at some of our favorite restaurants, and visit some of our favorite spots again. Among a couple favorite spots to visit while we were there was the beautiful Organ Mountain, Old Mesilla, and White Sands. Here are just a couple fun pics of Graydon and Jeremy at White Sands National Monument. For more pics from our trip click on the link to my husbands blog over on the top left of this page! Also check back later today for some of our family pics that Vision Yard Studios took while we were in New Mexico!!

I Know, I Know...

Ok, I know the wedding was a couple weeks ago and I promised to post pictures of us that my friends Tim & Shauna took next, BUT, I just finished all the wedding pics and I had to post just a couple more. Man it was hard choosing some of my favs to post! I just have to say one more time...isn't my bride BEAUTIFUL!!!! It was so fun shooting this wedding with Jeremy and I can't wait to shoot another one with him. We love you Bill and Amanda!

Best Friend...

I was so excited to be able to see one of my best friends and her lovely family last week when my husband and I went on vacation to our beloved Las Cruces, New Mexico. Although our time together was too short we had so much fun hanging out with them and meeting their newest member of the family. During our short time together we did manage to do a little bit of a photo shoot trade. Tim and Shauna are incredibly talented wedding photographers in Phoenix, Az They own Vision Yard Studios and if you have never heard of them or seen their work you HAVE to check it out! (Just click the link here after checking out this post!)
Anyway, they were gracious enough to photograph my family then I had the privilege of turning around and photographing theirs! Unfortunately their two little munchkins were napping at the time...so I took some pics of just the two of them. Don't worry, the next morning I was able to grab a few of the whole family!
I will be posting some of my favorites of the pictures they took of Jeremy, Graydon and I soon, but in the mean time I hope you enjoy a few of my favorites from their session with me! We love and miss you so much Tim and Shauna and pray of a day that we might at least live in the same state! Don't forget to leave a comment!















Ok, I wouldn't be truely representing Tim and Shauna if I didn't include these last two pics!

A Mother and her Beautiful Daughters

I had a lot of fun photographing these three lovely ladies! The two girls are not only sisters but best friends and man do they love to laugh!!! Of course that thrilled me to no end because I could easily get natural smiles out of them. I posted a few of my favorites but it was hard to narrow it down to just a couple. Photographing genuine laughter is one of my favorite emotions to capture...it reminds me to not take life too seriously and just relax. Laughter can not only reveal something about your relationship with a person but also really show a closeness and love that you share. Although I can't post them all, I certainly had a lot of laughing and giggeling pictures to choose from!
Okay, after having said all that about laughter, I have a couple other favorites I have to post too. Hope you gals enjoy your "sneak peek"...it was a joy to photograph you. By the way I think I counted about 15 bug bites from our time together but it was definitely worth it :)








I LOVE the attitude in this one...bring on the sass!