Story of Now

I am blessed to have this unique role in peoples lives; I get to capture the beauty and the essence of who they are! On Thursday October 9th I photographed Kaitlyn and Luke! Little Luke loved playing with the leaves, it was hard to get him to even look up. Kaitlyn enjoyed getting her picture taken and loved playing with the horeshoes and jumpin' in the leaves! These two are so cute! On Saturday October 18th I took some pictures of two fur boys...Murray and Zack. We had a lot of fun running around in the backyard! This is Zack... This is Murray.... I just love capturing the beauty of life! Beauty is not caused. It is. ~Emily Dickinson

This past weekend I had my bachelorette party. Emmy and Amanda (Maitron and Maid of Honor) put on an awesome party...they did quite the planning. We went to a place called "Retro on the River". This house was awesome, but what was so cool about it was the women that joined to celebrate with me. Everyone had their part...bringing food, wine and laughter into the house! I just want to say how very blessed I feel to have so many women that I can count on to celebrate with or to call on when I need a friend! I am thankful for each of you! The weekend was trully special and memorable! Top from left: Emmy, Marianne, Emily Bottom from left: Leisha, Teri, Nicole, Beth, Bridget, Me, Amanda, Natalie Me and Amanda Marianne, Emily, Bridget Late night Karaoke Jacquie and Denice Natalie, Karmen, Me, Nicole Edie, Me, Denice, Mary, Momma Denice, Mary and my mom have this habit of closing their eyes when the flash goes off, so they have figured out if they look above the camera they are...

Here is a little preview from Tj's Senior session yesterday. He is so easy going and has a very kind heart. He loves animals. He rescued Gulliver, this Golden Retriever/Shepard mix. It was fun working with you TJ! Hope your Senior Year is fun and memorable! Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. ~Abraham Lincoln

Well I guess I have fallen behind on blogging...so there will be quite a few pics here. On September 19th, we went out to Chino Latinos' for my brother Lances' B-day...he was the Big 30! It was Lance, Juliana, my mom, Eric, Matt and I...Brian had to work =( Here is Lance and Juliana...they like to be silly sometimes! My mom and Eric... Matt and I... Saturday night (Sept. 20th), Lance and some of his friends headed out to do a pub crawl. Matt went along, and of course needed a costume. He custom made Lance and him helmets and they wore them along with painter suits. He just totally cracks me up, and he is soooooo creative. I told him he will be making our childrens' halloween costumes for sure. I have yet to see pics of Lance in his outfit but here is Matt!! On the 23rd my mom and I headed to Duluth so that I could get a hair and makeup trial, we had fun! This is the only picture I can show you because I wouldn't want Matt to see what my hair will be like...gotta ke...

Tonight we had our cake tasting...it was sooo much fun! We tasted our cakes and made our decisions about what flavors we would go with and what it would look like and then Matt and I just talked with the cake lady and her husband for about an hour and a half...they were so nice and just good people! They recommended a little pizza joint right down the road from them so we ate there. Yep, tonight we had our dessert before our dinner! Over our Pizza we talked about how wonderful this whole process is and the nice people we have met. If you don't enjoy meeting with the vendors and reaping in their expertise and the love for what they do, you surely would miss alot. We are blessed!! Enjoy what is happening in your life right now because you will never get these moments back!

Last Tuesday, I met up with my fellow photographer friend RaLynn. RaLynn and I met about a year ago on a forum after the 35w bridge collapsed and everyone from MN on the forum was checking in. We thought we'd get together and just do some shooting together. She's got three kids and so we used them for our subjects...we had a lot of fun, but we definately did not have enough time before sun down. Here is RaLynn, Bill, Alex, Hanna and Hayley...what a good looking family! Alex... Hanna... Hayley... And Princess Hayley... Thursday night, we had a shower for my friend Michelle from work at Khoury's Restaurant . It is always so much fun to get together with people from work...away from work!! Check out this fantastic cake.... Michelle got some really nice gifts. This stork picture frame was so thoughtful and will be a keepsake! Great idea Mary! Michelle and Grayson and Karmen and Addison..both boys were born on the same day! Grayson has the most beautiful big eyes! Yep, got ...