I met Sheila years ago when I volunteered at the University of Iowa hospital with a program called Cherished Portraits. Sheila headed up the program from the hospital side and I instantly adored her. She has a huge heart, the happiest laugh, and she gives the best hugs. When her son, Hogan, married Morgan in […]

I’ve been lucky enough to know Tarrah and Jake for many years now, photographing several of their milestones together, starting with their engagement, then wedding, then pregnancy with Milo and later newborn session. They are getting ready to welcome their daughter very soon and I loved seeing them again to document this newest milestone! I’ll […]

Susan and Nate have been patiently waiting for snow for months. I had 4 couples who wanted snowy winter engagement photos, but we just kept…not getting it. So when we had a snow storm that randomly hit us in mid-March, we all made some very last minute schedule adjustments so that we could meet up […]

It’s been a couple of years since I saw the Mulder family and I was so excited to see them again. Stella has doubled her age and is so much fun and sassy. We met on a gorgeous morning at Kent Park where the leaves were just starting to turn. (I had been to the […]

Katie and Shane just celebrated their 3rd wedding anniversary and I was so excited to see this whole family again! The kids have, of course, grown, but even still, whoa! (Three years in kid years is a whole lot of change!) We’ve had unusually warm weather (read: summer temperatures) so everyone who scheduled fall photos […]

Laura and Kevin met online two years ago. “After that first initial contact, we were messaging paragraphs to each other every night for about a week before we were able to go on our first date,” Laura said. “Our first date was a dinner date at Thai Spice in Iowa City,” Kevin recalled. “I was […]