'09 Christmas Card

Here was our Christmas card this year! I shared it on my family blog but forgot to put it on here. I hope you are all enjoying the New Year!

Parker and Meegan

Miracles still happen! I'm actually posting a shoot!

Seriously I have 15+ shoots that I haven't blogged. I really want to put up at least a few from each shoot and am hoping I will find the time.

This wedding was so wet and cold but Parker and Meegan were great sports to let me get as many shots as we did! I felt so bad for Meegan's feet. She had the cutest little green shoes on and her toes were wet and freezing. We took a few breaks in between shots to go inside and warm her up! They are a beautiful couple and I loved her colors! Green and gray!!! Check out the bridesmaids dresses and her dress!

This first picture I had fun playing around with. The videographer was getting one of them walking together so while he was working I decided to play a little! I kinda like it!

Aren't these gorgeous dresses! I love how the skirts are all unique in their own way! They are made by my friend Jess at Jessicamaybridal.wordpress.com She has made some adorable dresses for my little Bailey that are some of Bailey's favorites. She also made the brides dress too!

Joe, Mandi, & Emerson

So back in October I went out to Denver for about 5 days and did 5 shoots. It was crazy busy but I got all the shoots done and edited and left them there with the families. So it was pretty much a business trip with a "little" play!

I went out there to visit one of my good friends that I met over 9 years ago when I was a camp counselor in New York for a summer! Mandi and I hit it off right away and we have been close friends ever since. It's fun to keep in touch and visit each other now and then. They added Emme to their family just over a year ago and isn't she a doll! She has the cutest face and I love her big brown eyes. Here are a few that I took of their family while I was there. Hopefully I will get some of the other families on here sooner than later.

Eden, Isaac, Eliza, & Halle

I love these kids and I love their mom! I have been taking pictures for their family for the past three years. I did Halle's newborn pictures and it's been so much fun to watch her grow. I love shooting for these guys because their mom (one of my good friends) always has cute stuff to bring.

I love when clients bring lots of clothes and even props to show their individuality! It adds so much character to the session.

Our Governor and Our First Lady...

Gary Herbert and his wife, Jeanette Herbert are so nice! They invited me up to the Governor's mansion to take some pictures of them with their grandkids for their Christmas card this year. I also was able to get a tour (and see their living quarters which most of the public is not allowed to see) and it is all gorgeous! I have been doing their family pictures for the past 3 years now. Their children and their grandkids are all so sweet and cooperated great for me, once again. They are very easy to be around and very easy to talk to.

Their daughter, Shannon is one of my good friends and I have been doing her families and kids pictures for quite a while now too. While we were shooting we were able to capture a few individuals of those cuties as well!

Dax - newborn

This is my adorable new nephew, Dax.  He is going to be about 5 months older than my baby.  Yep, you heard that right I am pregnant again and due at the end of March.  Pretty exciting but that's one of the reasons my blog posts are few and far between.  I have been so exhausted this pregnancy, it's been very different.  We're super excited to add another one to our bunch.  

Dax sure has made me excited to have another newborn around.  I am ready to hold another little one in my arms.  

I went to Denver a couple of weeks ago and still need to post some of the shoots I did while I was there.  Hopefully I'll get around to it sooner than later.  It was a fun trip visiting an old friend and meeting a bunch of new families that I was lucky to photograph.  

Today is a little different day being that it's the 5th anniversary of my sweet angel boy that returned to his Heavenly Father 5 years ago today.  It's been a little emotional but I have been able to spend the day loving my two that I have here with me and being able to look back on the memories that we were privileged to create with Payton during his short earth life.  We visited Payton's grave tonight with the kids and they love to give his picture kisses on his headstone.  I love that my kids know who he is and that he will always be part of our family. 

Thanks to all of my friends and family that have given me calls or texts to tell me they are thinking of us on this day!

I love when newborns open their eyes and stare right at me!


This was near the end of the session and he was starving.  He found his thumb and sucked on it for a few minutes... pretty dang cute! 

Angel & Kurt - bridals/groomals

Angel was so fun to shoot and so comfortable in front of the camera.  I am so glad the weather was good for us even though it was a little chilly.  There were so many from this session that I loved, too many to share all of them.  It was fun to have Kurt tag along and get some of them together before their big day!  

Sonnenberg - family

Adorable girls!  I did the youngest's newborn pictures, it seems like yesterday.  They grow up so fast!  These guys were so fun to work with.  I keep telling myself to just post a few but it's so hard.  I know how anxious everyone is to see there pictures so I always share more than I plan on.

So long to sunny Cali Millers!

This is one of my good friends and her adorable family.  They just decided to take off and move to California.  (well it's for her husband's work), but anyway, I was sad they had to leave Utah.  So before they left we HAD to get some pictures of them with the Utah farmland that they've lived near for the past 6+ years.  

It was a beautiful night and we got way too many good shots.  Basically I didn't get rid of nearly as many as I should have.  So Brandi, you have a ton of pictures.  

This first picture on the right here shows the personalities that Caden and Ashton have.  They are two goofy little boys, making kissy faces when I told their mom and dad to kiss.  You can see see Melise's head running back to her parents she didn't want to sit still for very long for me.

Bigler - family

This family is so fun and look at all the grandkids!  This is my sister in laws family and it was fun to see them all in town together being that they live in 3 or 4 different states.  They aren't all together as often as they'd like.  

We had a successful shoot even with all the kids, they were great!

Wheatfill - family

This is the second year that I've taken this families pictures.  This year it was the "little mister" that made me work for my paycheck, not Mylie the adorable only sister.  This family is a lot of fun, the older boys are such good kids and did everything I asked them to do and were so patient with their little bro!  

I had to share a few more of the two youngest because I was really excited how many dang cute pictures we got!  Mom brought Lollipop's for the end and they sure loved them!  Lily, no need to stress anymore as you can see we got tons of good ones...

Kate - ONE

Kate has come to me since she was a newborn.  She is now "1" and so adorable!   We just did a mini session and we got so many cute pictures in a short amount of time.  Alysse, I love photographing your kids!

Binder family - rain or shine!!!

We had to reschedule once because of weather for these family pictures.  We almost had to reschedule again but Claire, the mom, said that we were going to do it and she didn't care if they were soaked at the end.  And... soaked they were.  Seriously when we were almost done I thought we were going to have a tornado, ya in Utah!  Then, a southern rainstorm came, it reminded me of the storms in Texas... then lighting struck and hit my in-laws house which was about 100 yards from where we were hiding.  Which we were hiding underneath with the pigs on the farm.  It was a very memorable photo shoot. 

In the end we got tons of awesome shots, this family is absolutely gorgeous, seriously they could be a model family.  The kids were so well behaved and followed directions perfectly.  Right before we were leaving a rainbow came out so we had to get one last shot.

Cassidy, Kate, & Brooklyn

These adorable girls are from California and I am so glad they're mom called to schedule them in while they were in town visiting family.  I mean look at all of these girls, they are gorgeous and they have the sweetest and cutest personalities.  Once again I took way too many pictures and with faces like these it was too hard to narrow it down so I had to do a few collages.  

The lighting, location, and color choices of outfits were perfect!

Katie & LIly

These are two of my many gorgeous nieces.  This photo shoot was so much fun, I was seriously laughing half the time because these two are such goof balls.  I kept quite a few goofy pictures but also got rid of a lot.  I love these two and it has been so much fun to watch them grow up!

There are so many pictures but I really had a hard time choosing which to post so I just kept going.  Look at this first picture it pretty much sums up the photo shoot.

Willis - Family Better late than Never!

Here's another session from a couple of months ago.  I am so sad that I never posted these.  It was the only family shoot I did this year while the orchards were in bloom.  I thought it was so pretty and these kids were adorable and had so much personality.  

I guess it's better late than never.  I really am going to try to catch up with lots of old sessions, it's kinda fun to see what I've been up to the last few months, life is so busy but fun!

Trying to play catch up... Ty - newborn

I cannot believe how behind I am on blogging.  It seems to be the story of my life right now.  My family blog has kinda been forgotten and I don't know if I will ever post on it again.  (hopefully that's not the case.)  And, well, this blog I am seriously going to try and play catch up.  

I love this family.  I have done pictures for them for the past few years, family and newborn.  Ty, the newborn, is actually 2 months old now.  How embarrassing that I am just now posting these.  Sometimes when it's been that long I just let it go and don't post them but these boys are too cute to not share.  Don't worry they had their pictures a long time ago I just never got around to posting them.  

He was an average size baby but in Daddy's hands he looks tiny!

Amanda - Baptism

This is my absolutely gorgeous niece, Amanda. She was born one month before Jeremy and I got married.

When we went to California last month I told my sister in law to bring Amanda's baptism dress so we could take her pictures on the beach. I am so glad we did! Even though it was a cloudy and windy day I love all of them. I wish we had a beach here that was clean and pretty and pure like Amanda looks in all of these.

Aurielle & Brett

This reception was so pretty.  It was a beautiful night and their backyard was awesome.  I only did the reception for Brett and Aurie and I was so glad they asked me.  This wedding had great decor, great food, and the whole atmosphere was perfect.  The bride's mom did almost everything from making all of the dresses, vests, ties, decor, and she took the bridals and engagements and the temple pictures.  Talk about an awesome mom!  

Thanks for letting me be a part of you evening!

Kirstie-bridals

Way over due, meaning that I just photographed her wedding this past weekend.  Yep I'm so far behind but am still trying to catch up.

 This is Kirstie, one of the sisters of the double wedding I did this last weekend.  Kirstie is so pretty with her big brown eyes and olive skin, she is a beauty.  I will say it again, La Caille is an awesome place to shoot and I am so glad that Kirstie and her sister Elisha (her bridals are two posts ago) chose to do their bridals there.  Plenty of options for two beautiful brides!

Keep watch for their weddings in the next couple of weeks, but don't hold your breath because when I get too busy my blog is the first thing I neglect.  I know it's sad but true.  I am trying to do better, but time just doesn't allow right now, maybe one day.

Chayce

Cute newborn, cute kid, cute family calls for a cute announcement.  I have been loving blue and orange together lately sot this is what I came up with.  These kids were super easy to shoot and reminded me why I love shooting newborns.  Lindsay thanks for being patient in my weeks of craziness.  I really am hoping to get caught up on my posts...   hopefully sooner than later.

Elisha - bridals

How fun would it be to get married a day apart from your sister and have a joint reception?!!  That's what Elisha and Kirstie are doing and I am the lucky one that gets to capture everything for them.  I had a great time shooting Elisha's bridals!  She is such a beautiful bride.  They decided that they wanted to do their pictures at La Caille and what a great choice, they can't go wrong there.  La Caille has so many places to shoot and I wish I had more time to do even more.  

It's late and I'm getting sleepy so I will only be posting Elisha's on here tonight.  I will do Kirstie's tomorrow night sometime.  I am trying to play catch up on my blog.  Seriously while I was resizing and getting them ready to put on here I almost forgot what I was doing it's been so long since I've blogged. 

Our vacation was great!  I wasn't quite ready to come back to real life yet, it's way too busy!  But I had to and I edited 5 shoots in a day and a half.  I can't say that I've done that before or that I ever want to do it again.  But, I can say it feels good to have all of those done. 

 

I am so behind on posting right now and I will hopefully get caught up in the next week or so.  Right now I have more seniors, newborns, families, and brides to post.  But, as for now I am in California enjoying Disneyland and the beach with my family.  I will be back to normal life (well at least as normal as my life can get) early next week.

So to all of you that are waiting on your pictures they are coming, I haven't forgotten about you.  Thank you so much for being patient and allowing me to have a blast with my kiddos and my husband and some of his family.  We really are having so much fun and don't want it to end even though we know it will sooner than later.  

Be back soon!

Nicole - senior

Seniors, seniors, seniors...

and more to come. I have been bombarded with senior sessions lately and I'm loving it!!!

I was so excited when Nicole's mom called to see if I would shoot her senior pictures. She is so gorgeous and has such a fun style that I knew it would be a fun shoot. I love this blue and black checkered dress she brought. Thanks Nicole for letting me do what I wanted, you were a great model!

Tauna - senior

I have been meaning to post these forever. This was such a fun shoot. Tauna is seriously the smartest girl I've ever known. For real, I think she's probably 10x smarter than me and she has the funnest personalitly. She was so photogenic I was loving it! She has read a gazillion books so I had her bring some of her favorites to try a few different things with! I love so many of them so here's a few...