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Lauren + Jake {engagements}

Lauren and Jake were my Deserving Bride Contest Winners. They are such a fun, amazing couple and I am so glad I chose them!!! Earlier that morning I did one of my angel baby sessions for Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep and it was really hard. I was not feeling very happy or energetic. BUT as soon as they got there they were so excited to see me and do the pictures that their happiness was contagious. They were a perfect distraction and we had the best time! We drove all over Ogden where Jake’s grandpa used to be the mayor. Jake even threw out the first pitch at the new Raptors field when he was a little boy. Then we ended the night in my favorite orchard and got perfect evening light to have some fun sun effects, which Lauren loved. I can’t wait for our next shoot!!

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Locke {1 year}

Locke is such a sweetheart! He was SUCH a good boy for us during our almost two hour shoot and even gave me a big hug that literally knocked me over 😀 I thought I sprained my thumb-luckily I didn’t! We did a few locations, then ended with some birthday cake-which was NOT his favorite. I’ve only had two babies hate cake and he HATED the cake! Such a funny memory though!

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Alayna {senior pictures}

I was so excited to do this shoot. For one, I love this girl and her family. I shot her sister Kayla’s wedding in October and I seriously feel part of their family now! They all came, which was really awesome to see them all again. I wanted to make it extra special, so I got some amazing friends/wedding vendors to help me out. Sam from Something Vintage Something Blue {who if you don’t know him is one of the NICEST people you will ever meet, really!} brought two of his fabulous vintage cars for us to use as props. They looked perfect with three dresses we borrowed from Betsy at Modest Couture by Elizabeth and fit Alayna perfectly. After we did her “normal” senior pictures in her regular clothes, my bestie Hannah Goodrich did her make up/hair for the vintage dresses and I seriously don’t know what Hannah does to make eyes pop they way she does, but Alayna’s eyes were popping! She looked so gorgeous! It was REALLY cold and poor Alayna was such a trooper through the whole thing, even when I had her step into what I thought was a few inches of snow and she was up to her knees in the snow seconds later! I took a picture right after-it’s the one where she looks like she is knee deep in snow off the side of the road laughing, thankfully 😀 Thanks everyone again for making this such a fun shoot!

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Rachael + Thai {engagements}

We started this shoot at Rachael’s mom’s house. It had just snowed the day before and we were so excited because we wanted snow for these picts! I was making a heart in the snow and found their fire pit and was hip deep in the snow-luckily that wasn’t caught on camera! They brought their cute dog Oakley, who was hilarious. He would get so sad when we stopped him from running around to take more posed shots-you can literally see it on his cute puppy face. After we went skiing/snowboarding at Wolf Mountain. I found out the fun way how not fun it is to ski with a heavy camera bag on my back….and how really scary it is to try to take the backpack off, not drop my poles, on a 2 person chair without a safety bar! Good times! I ended up head downhill buried in powder at one point, BUT it was great powder for people that love skiing in powder 😀 Rachael and Thai were so fun to watch together and my favorite shots are of them just having fun together playing around. They were such great sports and put up with my old lady body that needs to start working out again soon-man I am starting to feel old! Travis Richins came up with his brother in law and did an engagement film for them too. I can’t wait to see it! He is amazing 😀

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Magnifique Moms {workshop}

After a few things that have happened in my life recently, I decided I wanted to do a workshop that is focused on moms or other people that want to know how to take better pictures of their kids. With most of my kids pictures on my phone, I know I need to be better at capturing actual moments in their lives, rather that just pulling out my nice camera for them once a year to do portraits for our Christmas card! So many moms get decent cameras just to take nice pictures of their kids, but then they get frustrated with all the menus, buttons, the thick manual, so they give up. I hope that I can be better and hope that I can inspire some moms to be better at taking the time to capture those fleeting moments we have with our kids. Click on view full post for the details!

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