Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t meet your best friend at a library story time. Pagelyn and I met when our oldest boys were babies. They are 1 month apart in age and became best friends, possibly without choice as we started hanging out together all the time. We both added an additional […]

I woke up on Saturday to the sound of wind battering against the windows. Thankfully, when I checked the weather, it was supposed to die down a bit by the afternoon, but it was still chilly. Carleen scoped out this location and I love the options we had, blocking as much of the wind as […]

As the luck of the calendar would happen, the day I set aside for mini sessions was Taylor & Stanley’s first wedding anniversary and I was soooo excited to see them again! It’s been one year since their stunning backyard tented wedding in Cedar Falls, a day I would redo again and again because it […]

Melanie and Dan are not new around here. You may remember their stunning wedding several years ago and, since then, I’ve photographed their pregnancy announcement with Maya, a family session with Melanie’s parents and sister, and now, in this beautiful season of waiting for their second child to arrive! The last time I saw them […]

The thing about photographing families repeatedly is that the kids begin to warm up to me quicker each time. Last fall when I photographed the Vos family, we had both a cold day and a shy little girl so we all had to work pretty hard to get some smiles. I walked away from that […]

We had one day to make this shoot happen and it was forecasting thunderstorms. (We all had major deja vu; remember their rainy engagement session and then a derecho in Iowa the week of their wedding, knocking out power to their venue???) Three hours before the session, the rain was still holding off, with high […]