This session is really special to me. It’s special because sweet Kali was a 2014 #snbride, and I’ve adored her since the first day we met. I loved being a part of her life as she prepared for marriage, and photographing her wedding was an honor that I’ll never forget. I try to keep up with my […]
One of my greatest delights is photographing the evolution of two people in love over the years. It means the world when a couple chooses me to photograph their wedding and continue to trust me to document their lives as their family grows. I photographed Andrew and Tavikka’s wedding in 2014, and it was a […]
The season of life when you’re literally carrying another human inside your body is amazing. It’s a testament to how strong and capable and incredible God has made your body, and I believe it deserves to be photographed beautifully. So someday, your children can look back and see themselves before they were even born. I […]
When I was pregnant, I read exactly one million birth stories (give or take ;)). I refused to read anything that wasn’t positive, because I didn’t want to fill my brain with the thousands of scenarios that could go wrong. So, for a long time, I hesitated to share my birth story, because it’s not exactly positive…
Everything changed the day I saw those two pink lines.
And yet, for a long time, it felt like nothing had changed at all. Since I still looked more or less the same, and the people I came in contact with every day had no idea that there was a little person growing inside of me, it was easy to forget that it was happening.
Maybe it’s the number of times I’ve moved, but over the years, I’ve found myself becoming more and more minimal. I don’t like having extra, and a clean space with just a couple of high quality, useful, beautiful things makes my heart SO happy. So when I got pregnant, I knew I wanted to keep things minimal and simple…
Now that our little baby girl is here (and has been for over a month!!) and my pregnancy is officially over, I finally feel ready and able to write about the entirety of my third trimester. In a lot of ways, it feels like forever ago that I was pregnant… but in a lot of other ways, it still catches me off guard sometimes to find myself NOT pregnant.