It’s always a good day when I finally take my own advice and get photos taken of my own little family! I’m so grateful for my friend (and associate photographer), Haili, for snapping these at an amazing little nook I found at Palmer Park. I’m a HUGE fan of the white rock versus the red […]

I can’t believe it’s that time of year again to start thinking about holiday shopping! I’m so grateful to live back in Colorado Springs again because I can’t think of many more magical places in the winter. I’ve heard several people talking about wanting to do their best to shop local this year and invest […]

Well… apparently I make all big announcements with a letter board now, so that’s a thing 😉 (see the journey to full-time photography). I literally don’t know where to begin with sharing this journey of ours that is leading us back to the beautiful state of Colorado. I’ll be honest that I’m overwhelmed with the […]

It felt like I waited forever, but then all at once—everything changed. I didn’t realize it for many years, but entrepreneurship has been in my blood my entire life. Once upon a time I was a little girl taking on the world via souped-up lemonade stands by adding chocolate chip cookies + full loaves of […]

I grew up in the Colorado Springs area and have been drawn to the mountains like a magnet ever since. It’s sad to think it’s been almost 10 years since I’ve lived in the state, but I’m grateful that I’ve had the opportunities to go back several times each year to visit. Over the past couple years it’s mostly been at Thanksgiving or Christmas to spend the holidays with my family so we’ve gotten to ski and such, but it was time to get back there for more than a weekend over my favorite Colorado season: summer. I had told my husband that I’d be spending a week in the beautiful state this summer if he wanted to join 😉 I’m sure glad he opted to come.

Thank you thank you thank you to any of you who have booked a photo session with me in the last few years! It’s largely thanks to you that my husband and I can finally say that we are DEBT FREE! We have tried to make payments that were a little more than what felt comfortable EVERY chance we felt like we could since we got married over 4 years ago and we’ve been hoping and praying for this moment. We could not be more grateful that it’s finally here!

I am beyond blessed to be so close to my mom, sisters and mother-in-law. How unusual (and awesome) is it that we went on a girls’ weekend trip together and everyone had a blast! Here’s how it happened… my husband had some vacation time that he was going to lose if he didn’t use it […]

Even though I’ve lived in Kansas City for 3 years now, last week was the first time we made the quick drive over to St. Louis. While we didn’t get too far outside of the Union Station area where this conference was held, I definitely got the feeling that I like KC better 🙂 It […]

At the 2017 Shutterfest conference in St. Louis they had this program called “Rent-a-human.” Sure it may sound sketchy, but I think it’s meant to be humorous because that is literally what you do in a totally non-sketchy way. The photographers will out a form with what type of model they want (ex. I selected […]

This Kansas City photographer finally took her own advice and got some updated family photos while we were in Colorado Springs. Of course we had to include our 3 year old pup, they wouldn’t have been the same otherwise!