Flowers and a little girl

T is now 18 months! She has such a fun and CRAZY personality. As soon as we set her in the forget -me-nots she decided that she didn't want to be in them and face whined for about one minute then her mom started throwing flowers at her and she was fine.

 Helping dad throw sand back into a hole.

MIA

So I realized that I have not posted in a while. I will have to be more on the ball from now on. I have a few more wedding photos, three children, a family, two seniors, and a group of 76 teens that I have to blog about. Today I did a practice run with 76 teens and I want your opinion on what could be changed a bit. I already have some ideas... Sunday is the real photo so I have a little bit of time.

In November I did engagement photos for M and S. They were such a fun couple to work with and in April I traveled 450 miles to photograph their wedding and had SOOO much fun!

 I was very lucky to capture this moment between the two of them. You can just tell how much they love each other.

 M and the girls. It was supposed to rain and it had all day on Friday so we were so happy for the sun...or at least everyone else was but me...I like fog.

 S and his men.

 The shore of one of the great lakes made a perfect background.

 And a marina! I was so excited to get to photograph the couple at one of my favorite locations...water, boats, docks...who can not LOVE a marina.

You can just see the love between these two! I was so happy to be able to spend your special day with you. Thank you so much M and S!

Wedding day morning

On the morning of my wedding day we got ready at my home. I had a friend come over to cook breakfast for about 15 girls. We got our hair done, ate, and got dressed. Then the photographers nightmare...late groom. But even with D being an hour late I wasn't worried...I had planned for this and we still had three hours of photography for just D and me.

My flowers, shoes, head piece, ring and grandmothers necklace.

The window was one of my favorite places for K to take photos.

Our first look.

Just a small sneak preview...

These 5 photos are less than 1% of the photos that K and W took on D and my wedding day! I was so lucky to have such fantastic photographers! I sure like being on the other side of the camera though, it was hard not shooting myself but both girls did an amazing job! These are just a few for now so enjoy!

A beautiful spring day in April

Two weeks ago I traveled to photograph this wedding. K got ready for the day at her parents home and I found this trunk and just had to use it for some of the details of the day. I loved her red shoes and flowers.

 K and J's first look.

 This was my favorite spot to photograph K and J. I just loved the brown for the background. K and J took a few hours to be photographed without the bridal party. I love when a bride and groom do this because lets them spend some time alone (of course I'm there along with my assistant) on a crazy busy day.

 After photographing the cat tails for almost an hour...hehe we headed into the woods. The sun started to come out and the wind died down. There had been rain in the forecast but we were lucky and it held off for the most part!

 Bridges! I love bridges! Plus the red brush in front of them...LOVE!

 K and J were so much fun to photograph and the wedding party was a hoot.

 Last stop in the park was by this fence.

 Someone brought this french toast from one of J "favorite" places to eat. It traveled 500 miles to make it to his dinner plate!

K and J thank you so much for letting me be a part of your special day. It was such a fun and relaxing day for the first wedding of the season.

Second shoot *Not my photos

As a photographer I had so many ideas for photos that I wanted, and I still didn't get to do them all...poor D. I'm so happy that he's such a good sport about my couple hour photo shoots in 30 degree weather! Oh ya, and the hat I wanted him to wear! That's just one reason that I love him.

My assistant K took these photos. We had a couple of pictures done earlier but I needed a few without snowflakes in the air for our wedding announcements so K was willing to do another shoot. Thanks a bunch K!

Yes I purchased yellow rain boots, that I will be wearing on my wedding day! We are going to be in a couple of locations that rain boots are going to be the preferred footwear.

I could not have engagement photos without a camera...hey it's hard for me to go on a photo shoot and not be taking pictures. So K didn't mind that I took along my Canon AE-1 and took some shots of D...it's different using film, were D's eyes closed...is the exposure correct...I never thought I'd be saying this five years ago but I LOVE digital photography.

Thank you again K for taking time to photograph D and I! Also thank you L for coming along and using the reflector and holding my coat ready for when I needed to be warm again!

My "new" nephews

A couple of weeks ago I took H's pictures again. This time he had his little bother O to show how it's done. H and O are going to be my nephews in two months! They are some of the cutest kids I've seen.

3 Months already!

So last week I did my nephew Z's three months photos. I can't believe how fast that time flew by. My sister also wanted to attempt a family photo...hehehehehahahah that went wonderful! T is almost sixteen months and loves to run! So trying to get her to sit by Z was almost nearly impossible...most of the photos were like this.

Elizabeth and Dave *I did not take these photos

I did not take these photos...because they are of me and my fiance'! My assistant K did our engagement photos and she is going to be doing my wedding! I am so happy that she is going to take on my wedding, I could not imagine anyone else photographing me and D on our special day! This first picture was actually taken by W, she is going to be K's assistant. K knows my style so well it's almost as if I'm taking my own photos...hehehe I love this one how she focused on the trees instead of us.

And this one...LOVE it.

K and W thank you so much for doing this half of engagement photos...more to come in a little while... I am so lucky to have you girls doing our wedding photography and I can't wait for May 14th to hang out with you, my fiance', and of course a couple of cameras!