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!

"W" is the first letter of her new last name...

...of course it was the first letter of her old last name too, but never mind that! Jeremy and I had the privilege of photographing our first wedding together this past Saturday in Kilgore, Texas. He did a great job and we had a lot of fun working together. It was a very emotional day. The ceremony was beautiful with so many personal touches. The bride's father is the pastor of the church and officiated the ceremony. He surprised everyone, including his daughter, with a very intimate heart to heart on stage in front of all the guests...I don't think there was a dry eye to be seen.
Thank you to the bride and groom and their families for trusting us with such a special day and allowing us to document the beginning of the rest of your lives together! We hope you enjoy this "sneak peek" of your beautiful day! We always love to get feed back if anyone feels like leaving a comment thanks again and we love you Bill and Amanda!




The ever so handsome groom.



The groom and all his studly boys.



Jeremy had a little extra time with the guys (they don't take quite as long to get ready) so he took them to a local gas station for a couple fun pics...who doesn't love a good icee?!?



The beautiful bride getting ready with the help of her girls.









The lovely mother of the bride giving a helping hand as well.



How stunning is she!?!













I love these next two. Jeremy captured such a precious moment between the groom and his father and brother. And the picture below that is the exact moment he saw his whole future at the end of the aisle for the first time.






Here are a couple of that intimate "chat" between the bride and her father.












Father daughter dance.







Their first of many dances as husband and wife...congratulations!