Sam & Ben {Seattle Children's Photographer}

These kids are growing up faster than I can keep up with!  We met up at Olympic Sculpture Park on a super cold day, and they were so good!  Beautiful as ever, silly, sassy, loving, and sweet.  I'm so happy I get to photograph them so often! 

Kim & Jon

Kim and Jon have been together for 22 years (though you could never guess it from looking at them)!  I think the secret is that they play together. These two were SO much fun to photograph.  They took everything I said to heart and really leaned into the experience.  They were silly and loving and open and honest.  The result?...I love them.  I want to put them in my pocket and take them home with me.  I want to have double dates and dinner parties and be their best friend.  Oh, you mean the photographic result?  Right here...

Karlee & Matt {McMinnville Wedding Photographer}

Remember Karlee & Matt? Well they got married!  WOO!!!

Karlee once thought I was the coolest person ever (What? I’m not exaggerating!) because I drew her a horse.  Now I think she’s catching up with me.  I mean look at her.  She’s stunning, clearly smart (I mean look at the guy she chose), and is unapologetically who she is.  I adore her.  She is so freaking cool.

Matt adores her too.  He was so confident that Karlee was the one (and that he could snag her) that just a few months into their relationship he bet one of his groomsmen $1000 that he’d marry her.  Pay up, buddy!

This wedding was so much fun.  The ceremony was full of smiles.  The reception full of great food, mingling, dancing, and a photo booth!

Karlee and Matt's pretty mommas put so much work into making this wedding amazing.  They even put together a surprise candy bar (which was one of Karlee's very first ideas for her wedding that had gotten put on the back burner.)

The wedding party was SO much fun.  And I even heard one of the guys say, "We're not letting these girls get more photos than us.  We're photogenic dudes!" HA!  (But so true!)

I absolutely could not narrow down the photos to a regular length blog post...so here's a little slideshow.  Congrats Karlee and Matt!!!!

Anna & Scott

I'm working on something new.  Working really hard.  I can't wait to open it up to everyone, but for now, here's a preview of the kind of images we're getting from it. 

This is Anna & Scott.  They've been together about a year and did this shoot just for fun.  I could see how they feel about each other with every click of the shutter.  I hope you can feel it too.  Pretty cute, eh?  I can't resist these sessions.  It is so much fun to bask in the love of two gorgeous people.  My job pretty much rocks.

The other side of the lens...oh, and I'm married!!!

Hi All!  I feel so happy to be back to the blogging, Facebooking, email returning, photo editing, real world that I call work.  I missed my camera and my people while I was away!!  But, I must say, that I had a pretty good excuse for being gone so long.  I am officially no longer a single lady (no matter how many times "All the Single Ladies" gets stuck in my head!).  As of last Saturday I am a married woman.  And a happy one at that! 

I just wanted to take a minute to mention that Kyle and I spent a good portion of the day and night on the other side of the lens.  Smiling, smooching, doing all of the silly things I make you all do.  We laid on the ground, clambored over hills and through waist high grass, tried to sit still while bugs crawled up our legs...all to get "the" shot.  And I'm not gonna lie, I kind of loved every minute of it.  Not only was it fun to see it all from the other side (and see how much more relaxing it is to be the subject than the photographer!...following directions is much easier than giving them!), but it was fun to get all dressed up and make out with my man.  Oh, did I write that? Oops. 

Our photographers were amazing.  We adore them and would totally hang out with them if they weren't MOVING!! (SO SAD!)  But if you live in Minneapolis (who am I kidding, I don't know anyone who lives in Minneapolis!) or even if you don't, look them up.  They're sweet, genuine, and amazing photographers!  So without further ado, here is the preview of our wedding photos!  I am in love.  Oh, and I like my husband a lot too. :)

Our amazing, wonderful, sweet, awesome photographers: Bb&Company

And just because a post isn't complete without a picture, here's one of our engagement pictures also taken by Bb&Co.  Did I mention that we love them? :)

Happy Mothers Day!

To all that give everything

Miss Saskia I will miss your smiling face!

This little lady and her family just moved away and I'm so so so sad!  Luckily for me, before she left, we got to play!  Her photo shoot was a two day project that took us all over Seattle.  We had so much fun even though it was cooooold.  It was a little hard editing these photos because I miss her little face already!  Kansas City, you'd better take good care of my peeps!