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How To Stay Warm in Snowy or Cold Weather Photos

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Tips

I live in Iowa so it’s inevitable that the months of January through March are pretty cold. We have days of beautiful fluffy snow and 30 degrees and we also have days of blustery wind with highs below zero (as I type this, it’s -6F outside). There’s no predictability and, for that reason, I’ve always […]

Tayler & Travis

A Rural Iowa Farm Snowy Winter Engagement Shoot

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Engaged

“It almost happened immediately,” Travis said. “I knew on our first date,” Tayler added. For Travis, he said it almost happened immediately, “but also slowly over time. She was so supportive right off the bat, but the way we clicked, it’s nothing I can really explain and do justice. I had never really experienced a […]

Erin & Tyler

A Wilson’s Ciderhouse & Venue Snowy Winter Wedding

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Weddings

Erin & Tyler are some of the kindest, sweetest people you’ll ever meet. It has been so much fun getting to know them and work with them throughout their engagement and wedding-planning season of life. Their original wedding date was set for February, but they are both pilates in the U.S. Navy and when they […]

Perrin : Four Years

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Personal

Happy birthday, sweets. Time keeps slipping by and you keep getting older and I keep being shocked how quickly another birthday comes around. As cliche as it is, it really does seem like just moments ago that you were placed in my arms, all fresh and tiny and feisty. And here we are on your […]

My Top 12 Books of 2021

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Personal

After easily meeting my reading goal last year of 25 books, I decided to double it this year and aim for 50 books in 2021. It turned out, again, to be a very achievable goal. In an unexpected twist of genres though, I found that going back through my top-rated books, most were non-fiction! I […]

The Sewards

A Winter Farm Family Shoot

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Photography

We struggled with coordinating our calendars this year, which is why we ended up doing their family photos in December instead of early fall like we have in years past (here and here). However, the colors we ended up getting were perfectly coordinated with their outfits so it’s basically like we planned it perfectly. I […]

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