oh my gosh! i LOVE this couple! they were so much fun!  i am always SO sad when my weddings are over because i love my couples so much!!  we shot their engagement clear back in april.  rachel was getting ready to leave for italy for a few months to study abroad and the day we had scheduled was literally the only day she could do engagements.  well it was raining like crazy that day!! so i called her and gave her some options for the engagement session and she said let’s still do them as planned!  so we started out at the kings english book store in sandy.  rachel and her mom work there and that is where joey proposed!!  then we went out behind the shop for some shots and it had stopped raining for a few seconds at least, then about halfway into it it started a downpour!  rachel and joey changed their clothes and we headed over to sugarhouse park and it was probably one of the worst rainstorms i have seen in utah!!  we shot for probably 10 minutes outside and were literally running from one spot to the next and by the time we were done, we were all completely drenched!! it was as if i just got in the shower with my clothes on and my camera in hand, it was that bad.  but i have to say, it was one of the most fun engagement sessions i have ever shot! not to mention that these guys are both so hilarious so it was seriously so awesome!  thanks for a great time rachel and joey!! i am working on their wedding right now and have their bridals/groomals to post too. 

heather used to work with my hubby (chris) and is also a photographer herself.  she had me do her pictures about a year ago and wanted some updated ones!  i love working with these two.  they are so natural and cute together!

i shot emilee and justin’s wedding back in may and it was such a fabulous day! i love spring weddings!  you don’t realize how brutal the heat is until you all of the july weddings :)  but on emilee and justin’s wedding day we had sun, rain, snow, hail, wind.  but i would honestly take that over 100 degree heat anyday! maybe i am just getting old haha!  i was honored to get to shoot this wedding with the fabulous david perry.  so onto the fabulous wedding….. 

love this! 

this is about the point that is started raining!

so we ran inside the jsmb for some more shots

LOVE this light!!

their reception was at the pointe.  i loved shooting there!  there are windows all around so the lighting was incredible and i didn’t even need a flash until it got dark. 

i love catching emotions, especially crying.  her dad was giving a speech right now and that always calls for a few tears.

i also LOVE laughing shots!!!  maybe even more than crying :)  daddy daughter dance.

love this too.  such a tender moment.  mother son dance

couples first dance

isn’t this car fabulous!!!

let me know what you think…..

whenever someone mentions to me that they read my blog, i cringe.  i am so horrible at keeping up with it when i get this busy  which is pretty much every year between the months of  april and september.  so forgive me!  but i guess the good news out of all of this is 1. i am blogging now and 2. i  have been SO busy!  this is definitely the best year i have ever had in terms of business.  thank you! thank you! thank you!  to all of my wonderful clients!!!!  i would not be where i am without you all!

this is lenox and eden, our best friends tyson and anne’s  kids.  aren’t they SO cute!  anne has such incredible style.  don’t you just LOVE their outfits?!?!  SO dang cute!! these are definitely some of my favorite kids pictures i have ever done!    

my kids with len and eden!!  they weren’t quite dressed for pictures but they wanted one with all of them, so this is what you get

wedding season is in full swing and this is just one of many fabulous sessions i have been shooting lately!  isn’t brittnie just fabulous?!?!   

 my absolute favorite!!

i am a day late posting this because i already had yesterdays blog post ready to go, but anyways….yesterday i was featured on utah bride blog!! i am always so honored whenever i get featured on their site!!  head over to their blog and check it out here!  they featured the airport pictures i did of april and heath with kale fitch!  kale is so fantastic to work with and if you are looking for a videographer for your wedding, i highly, HIGHLY recommend him!! tell him i sent you :)  and thanks a million times to the team at utah bride blog for featuring this fabulous session!!

i shot this wedding clear back in january and i still have a ton of other things to blog, but i thought that this wedding was too fabulous to not post!!  abbey and evan got married at log haven in millcreek canyon.   abbey is a photographer herself and i was SO honored to shoot her wedding!!  it is always a huge compliment when another photographyer asks you to shoot their wedding. abbey and evan have such fabulous style and i absolutely loved the decor of their wedding!   it was all tree themed and honestly so incredible!!  check out the details below and you will see what i mean!  let me know what you think!!

the kids are finally out of school and now it is time to play (and work 10 times more than normal).  i promised them that if they are very good girls and let me work when i need to, that  we would try and do something fun almost everyday, even if it is something as simple as going to the park and having a picnic.  so that is what we did today.   i had 2 shoots this afternoon so we couldn’t do anything too outrageous, but i did take my camera and get some cute shots of my girls playing in the sand.  i love them so much!!!  i am the luckiest mom alive to have the two most beautiful and special girls on this planet!!!

tomorrow we are going to the movies so probably no pictures from that :)  but i will continue to post pictures throughout our summer adventures!!!

i shot emilee and justin’s bridals at thanksgiving point.  it was my 7th session of the week and my 3rd of the day.  but i can’t complain.  i LOVE what i do!!  and aren’t these two amazingly beautiful people.  it totally makes my job easy to have such beautiful couples, as all my couples are!!

aren’t these two beautiful!!!  let me know what you think!!

wow!  this time of year is busy!!  so please bear with me on the blogging!  haha!!  as school is letting out and summer is about to begin, i  like to try and make a schedule of our summer and plan lots of fun things to do with my girls.  they are so incredibly important to me and i always want them to know that and to enjoy our time together.  i feel like when they are in school, particlularly jayde because she is in first grade, i feel like i never get enough time with her.  she goes to school all day then when she comes home it is piano, dinner, homework and then it feels like it is practically time for bed!!  you would think i would be used to it by now, but i am not!!  so i am planning to use my time wisely this summer and make the most of the time that i do have with them while they are still little and precious.  afterall, they are only this age once and i would hate to look back and feel like i missed out on these precious years!!

meet josalin and jason.  aren’t these two fabulous!! i  didnt even feel like i was working during their session because they made my job SO easy!!  they were so incredibly cute together!!  josalin is a photographer herself and it is always such a huge honor to be chosen by another photographer. josalin has incredible style and i know her wedding is going to be incredible!! thanks so much to my bestest friend anne for referring these two to me!!