Tarrah and Jake were one of the lucky couples who got married in 2019, never having to deal with the stresses of rescheduling their wedding or significantly cutting down their guest list. But they did have to delay their honeymoon (twice!) and, when they decided to start a family, becoming pregnant became a longer journey […]

I cannot tell you how thrilled I was when Grace reached out about a pregnancy announcement photoshoot! Almost one year ago to the day, we did their engagement session at the fossil gorge and their outdoor wedding last fall was unbelievably beautiful! (Remember when we had mid-60s in November?!) Grace and Blake just keep sticking […]

We did not luck out with weather for their session, but (!) it ended up being just fine. Typically we are out of the cold weather by this time, but this year, the cold and rain is tightly clinging on. So, what should have been a sunny spring morning, turned out to be cold and […]

I’ve gotten to photograph the Vos family several times over the years (here as a family of 4 and here announcing baby #3) and I was so excited to be able to shoot Andrea’s first maternity session out of all of her pregnancies. (I’m so excited to be heading to them again this weekend for […]

I was so excited to see Alice & Abhijeet again, especially to photograph their growing surprise! This past May, they celebrated their marriage (finally, after rescheduling from fall 2020 because of the pandemic) here in Iowa and when Alice contacted me about doing pregnancy announcement photos when they came back to town to visit family […]

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 […]