Breathe.

It's been a while.

Other than on my personal social media, I've been quiet. No blogs. Not a lot of pictures, other than of my own family. We’ve weathered a lot of changes over the last several years and I’ve taken a lot of time to love on my babies, refocus on my marriage and really just live.

To breathe.

But...

I missed taking pictures, and I really missed writing. A lot. More than I realized, in fact.

Then, this spring, my husband bought me new equipment. I've been working with this new camera and falling in love all over again. He and I have also talked a lot about what I’d like to do with this shiny new tool. Before I started my photography business in 2011, I spent a lot of time blogging. I wrote about my kids, parenting, marriage, and I enjoyed the connections I made through that medium. It’s something I loved and miss.

I also really really love capturing moments like this one for your families; these frozen moments in time feel so messy, chaotic and hectic to you at the time (especially with small kids) but are truly some of the most treasured of all family heirlooms. Candid out-takes, those seconds in between the smiling poses where everyone is comfortable and being themselves... those seconds when you can breathe.

In a nutshell, that's lifestyle photography. And this is my new lifestyle photography blog. This is where my two passions intersect to (hopefully) create something special.

I‘m actively booking sessions again and I’m going to share them (along with lots of other stuff) here.

This is about life - yours and mine - and photography. It's about remembering what real life looked like years from now because we have a tendency to forget its messiness when we look at our perfectly polished studio-made family portraits. It's playful and spontaneous and doesn’t always smile. It's dirty faces and freckles and skinned knees. It's belly laughs, but it’s not always happy, because sometimes life’s a real shit show. This is real life.

I want to capture your real life on camera. Contact me to to schedule your session. Click “let’s chat” to reach out.