Every time I drive home after shooting a wedding, I always end up reflecting on the day as a whole.  For me, this is the first time I have met most of these people.  It may only have been the second or third time that I have met the couple.  But all the while, I’ve […]

I think a lot of the time, we just forget. We forget that a wedding isn’t just two people starting out a new life together.  It isn’t just different families suddenly intertwining as one.  It isn’t just a day to mark the future that lies ahead. A wedding isn’t just the beginning of a story…it’s […]

This month, my husband and I will celebrate our 12th wedding anniversary.  And when I think back to the various things that we’ve gone through, I believe that nothing has changed us more as individuals or as a couple then the birth of our children.  Nothing shaped us…tested us…and pushed us more than becoming parents.  […]

A few months ago, I was sitting in a room amid downtown Tacoma, Washington.  A group of absolutely amazing women sat in rows on wooden fold out chairs.  With all of their eyes looking intently upon me…I uttered four words that surprised even myself… “Art saved my life” I can remember being taken aback as […]

It was report card day in our house yesterday! Report cards used to make me so anxious as a kid.  But not these guys!  The two of them came leaping off the school bus with their brown envelopes in hand.  The four of us curled up on our couch together with wild anticipation while the […]

My husband and I have talked about it before; the idea of moving into a more rural area. I am a city girl, through and through.  Even when I lived in a smaller town, I almost always lived in the heart of it.  But my husband is a country boy and every time we head […]