We have a flower girl!  Our little girl is going to be donning an adorable dress & tossing petals on the ground for Danielle & Jared.  I’m so excited!  She’ll be adorable. Hazel may not have really understood the situation, but it was a pretty awesome moment for the rest of us.  The day we […]

This post may be a little too personal.  So if you’re here to look at happy wedding pictures, please skip right over this. It won’t hurt my feelings one bit. Last week I lost a good friend.  His name was John, although I never called him that.  Why?  Because I usually said, “Hey man!” instead.  […]

Four years into this business and I still haven’t figured out the ‘best’ method for what to save & what to delete.  I started out saving every RAW file, but then over time I started deleting things in order to save space on my back-up hard drive.  Last week I went through and deleted thousands […]

I have a million feelings, but none of them make any sense.  This morning when I woke up, Josh met me in the hallway and told me the news.  John was gone.  He’d taken his own life. I stared at him.  Clearly I had names confused.  Or maybe Josh did.  I mean, not John. He’s […]

I grew up in North Carolina, but last year was the first time I had ever visited the Outer Banks.  Our vacation plans had fallen through and some good friends invited us down to spend the week with them.  We had the best time, and decided to go back as often as possible.  Of course, […]

For our personal family photos I organize them by month on my computer.  Sometimes I’ll get to the end of the month and realize that I don’t have any photos from that month other than from my iPhone.  It’s a shame, really, when I’m a photographer & there’s no evidence in our personal life.  So […]

Back when we first started turning this photography hobby into a business, I decided to do family pictures with one of my favorite photographers in my hometown– Blue Frame Photography.  They’re a husband & wife team that I met in college & they ended up buying a house right down the road from us shortly […]

I wasn’t sure if the kids were too young to enjoy much at Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, but turns out, they offer things for a wide variety of ages!  These two cousins enjoyed looking at the animals, playing zookeeper, and snoozing in the planetarium.  We originally went because they have a dinosaur exhibit, […]

Growing up, vacations weren’t a big thing.  When possible, we’d drive to Florida to see my mom’s family for a week, but that wasn’t possible every year.  The first time I stayed in a hotel with my family was on my 13th birthday when my grandfather was inducted at the State Commander for the American […]

Last night I posted this picture on Instagram while in the middle of a paleo freezer meal frenzy.  Since then I’ve been inundated with messages & posts asking for recipes & how we went about it!  I started writing a post a few months ago but I ended up too overwhelmed & never finished it.  […]