Baby Michael’s newborn photos and our first official family portraits!

Michael’s neutral woodland theme nursery was inspired by our love of the outdoors and has several generations of family history.

About 6 months ago I was scrolling Facebook and I saw an ad for the new R. Riveter Brand Ambassador program.  I paused in my aimless scrolling and decided to click through to read about it. Half a year later here I am as a full fledged R. Riveter Brand Ambassador and I’ve got to […]

It’s hard to believe, but I have been home from vacation in London, Normandy, and Paris for almost a month! What is not too hard to believe is that it has taken me this long to blog about it 😉 This vacation was a bit of a departure for us because we were not going […]

International traveling can be tough. The airports, hours spent on an airplane, navigating a new city where all the street signs are in another language… After each trip I like to do a quick review of what went well and what could be improved.  If you are looking for honeymoon travel tips, these 7 items […]

{I originally wrote this post some time ago, but it resonated with me this morning so I decided to pull it out and share it now.} I woke up at my usual time and went to the gym, just like I do every Monday morning. I was tired from the weekend – standing all day […]

{Great news, you can purchase photo posters or panoramic canvases of any of the images in the post just by clicking on them!} I have been back from our backpacking vacation in Glacier National Park, Montana for four days and I have to admit, my brain is still in Montana! If you have never been […]

Starting in 2015 I decided to offer special creative portrait sessions for my birthday. The idea behind the sessions was to give both me and my clients a special opportunity to do something fun and out of the ordinary. Last year I offered two dramatic outdoor portraits, a grown-up cake smash, a 4 elements concept […]

I was seventy minutes into a ninety minute hot vinyasa class and all I could think about were my hips. We were in a variation of  Eka Pada Rajakapotasana, or pigeon pose.  The room was just over a hundred degrees, I was dripping with sweat and my entire world had shrunk to a tiny sphere encapsulating me, […]