If you know your pop culture references, you’ll know why April 25th is the perfect date; “it’s not too hot, not too cold, and you only need a light jacket.” For Laura and JD, April 25th was their perfect date to celebrate love after loss. “We are both widowed, so we understand the journey of […]

There’s something especially wonderful about spring in Iowa. The long, cold winter finally gives way to the chirping of birds and a landscape that starts to wake in a riot of color. We hit those early spring colors with the blooming crab apple trees downtown and the tulip field at Wilson’s Orchard and all of […]

Last fall, I met up with the White family for a family painting session in the woods. Lincoln was pregnant at the time with baby Rockwell, whom I got to meet this past week. He is such a sweet little boy; the third child who will 1) sleep through any noise and 2) will spend […]

I was so excited to meet baby James! I first met the Walsh family when big sister Evelyn was a newborn and I’ve been so lucky to get to photograph them many times in the years since. In October, we did their family photos, including Maddie’s perfect baby bump. Now, at exactly one week old, […]

It was the perfect way to end the year–literally–with Amy and Jace! When we did their engagement shoot last winter, a year away seemed like so long! But it snuck right up and Amy and I were messaging back and forth about how excited we were to see each other again and, obviously, for the […]

As I was looking over the 150+ books I’ve read this year, trying to narrow down my top 30 (not an easy task!), I was struck again with why books are so important to me. In a world that is constantly getting more fraught and contentious and where the gap between rich and poor becomes […]