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My sweet son, I promise to do my best- To be the best person I can be, and cheer you on to do the same. Someone you can count on for both the honest truth, and all the love I can give. Someone who will do their best to make you laugh, and be a safe place for you to cry. Someone who you can call one of your best friends, and someone who wants the best for you so much that you might not like me very much sometimes. Someone who has shared the same food and air and body with you for 9+ months and will always be grateful for that (even if it was so uncomfortable for both of us sometimes). Someone who will kiss your hurts and fight for your heart and your soul with all I have. Someone who won’t let fear do their job or make moves from what other people might think. Someone who will do their best to protect you but also let you fall and learn from your own failures and victories in life. Someone who will be there for you as often and as long as I can, and someone who will teach you about the God who has always been there for me and will be for you too. I promise. And I love you. -mom
Happy Monday! I thought today would be just as good as any to share this photo of the beach from our family vacay to Michigan this past summer. 😍 I actually like Mondays, but today I’m wishing I was here because, well, the beach. #enoughsaid
About this time today, exactly 4 years ago, I was heading home from the gig that kickstarted my whole business. I’ll give you the backstory... It was 2015, and I was in community college. The major I had finally landed on was graphic design and I had to choose some electives. There was a photography class on the list. I thought it sounded like the most fun so I chose it. I started taking some graduation & family portraits for friends, partly so that I could practice the concepts I was learning in class and partly because it was so fun to go out for a photoshoot and make the vision for their photos come to life. I actually had a pretty terrible experience with that class itself (and that’s a whole other story) but I finished it. I can’t remember exactly what grade I got, but I know it wasn’t an A 😂 Later on that year, a friend asked me if I would photograph their small backyard wedding. I told her that as long as she knew that I had never photographed a wedding before and still wanted me to, that I would give it my best shot. She said she trusted me & wanted me to be there to document the day, so I did it. I shared some of the photos from that wedding on social media and 2 more people reached out and told me that they wanted me to photograph their weddings as well. That was 4 years ago, and still, whenever someone asks if I’ll take their photos, I’m just as honored as the day I first picked up my camera. I love my job. But also, to be honest, I still get nervous before shoots sometimes & as much as I love running my own business, it’s hard too. I have days when I wonder if I should pack up and do something else, but in the end, I know I wouldn’t want to trade this in. So, thank you. 🙏🏻 Thank you to everyone—past & present—who Has given me that chance and supported me & my business in any way. Thank you to anyone who‘s helped me to find out how much I enjoy being an entrepreneur, and has followed along as this adventure evolves & grows in new ways all the time! I may be 4 years into this adventure, but in a lot of ways I feel like I’m just getting started & I can’t wait for what the future holds and I’m thankful you’re along for it.
This has become a mantra of sorts for me over the last few months. Hustling can be a really good thing. Working hard and getting things done is an important part of life, and especially business. But it’s not the MOST important. I believe that tuning in to the heart of a matter will always win over hustling to check it off the list. Acting from heart is knowing that even if your to-do list is five miles long, if your friend, or spouse, or kid isn’t doing ok and needs five minutes of quality time, you give them that time. It’s being in tune with your own mind, emotions, and body enough to know when you’re on the verge of burnout, deciding to take the afternoon off to be alone—or at least only choosing to do things that you know won’t grind you down. It’s taking a different approach to a problem that might not seem like it makes as much progress at first, but it just feels better to you. It’s choosing humility over pride and outsourcing things that you know you don’t have the time for or can’t do as well as the person you might hire to do it. There isn’t always a clearly defined payoff for choosing heart over hustle, but you know it when it happens. There are certain times when it’s obvious what the next best step to take is, and you have the alignment and ambition to blaze ahead, hustle, and take all kinds of action. Those times are great! But sometimes, choosing heart over hustle means putting hard work aside in favor of what your heart is hearing instead.
Isaiah & Grace are so perfect for each other. You guys, I wish you could’ve actually been there during their pictures. They love each other with so much kindness & gentleness. I’m so happy they’re finally married, and that I get to call them both my family! Here are a few of my favorites so far from their wedding day. 💕
Carlee & Curtis had some of the biggest, brightest smiles I’ve ever seen on their wedding day, and while they’re honeymooning it up in Hawaii, I thought I’d share a little sneak peek of these two cutie pies 💛💛
Sometimes, during personal brand photoshoots, jumping on the bed is one of the activities involved. No big deal. 😂 But seriously, I love it when I get a chance to help my clients represent the things that most people wouldn’t think of when it comes to being a business owner. 💼 Anyone who’s owned a business for any length of time will tell you (if they’re really self-aware and honest) that every part of their life contributes to the other parts of their life in some way or another. There is no clear cutoff from where your life as YOU (the friend, brother, spouse, daughter, sister, son, mom) ends, and your life as a business owner, begins. It’s all mixed together. 🌪 You’re someone who does their best to wear all of their hats well. Sometimes, that makes for some tricky and hard to navigate gray areas, but that thin line between the two worlds can be really beautiful too. It’s something we can all relate to, on one level or another. It shares a look into your real life, and it reminds us that no one is alone in this never-ending pursuit of the perfect balance. It proves that it’s possible to be: -The mom AND the CEO. -The dad AND the marketing & design department. -The friend AND the #bosslady. -The daughter AND the customer service department. It looks different for everyone, but we can probably learn a thing or two from each other. There are 10...20...200 others out there just like you who go from making a sale to jumping on the bed with their kiddos. 🤷🏻‍♀️ They need and want to know that they’re not alone-that they’re out here doing this with someone like you. So let’s capture whatever the balance (or, some days, lack of balance) looks like for you. Let’s find the best ways to represent both sides of your world and celebrate the unique mix of roles that is your life. 😉
It’s wedding day for this sweet couple! I can’t wait to capture their love & all the specialness of today for them! 💛 Here’s to my last wedding of the year!
It’s Emily & Steven’s wedding day! These two are so perfect for each other and I know their marriage is going to be built on love and their commitment to each other and to God. That’s a solid list if you ask me. 💛 Emily & Steven, I’m so honored to be able to memorialize this day for the two of you in photo form, and I can’t wait to witness your wedding!

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