Families
The Day You Turned Two
- I saw a glimpse of who you will become A smile so bright it filled my soul with delight, to know I was your mama and you were my girl. On the day you turned two, I ran my fingers through your still baby wispy hair. The smell of lavender from last nights bath still lingering. How can it be? [...]
3 Easy Ways To Capture the Moment Without Posing
- It's the Little things that make life special. Before little D, I didn't think our life was really worth documenting. We didn't do anything remarkable, at least I didn't think so. Once she burst upon our world I realized that it's not the remarkable moments that matter. It's the every day moment[...]
Denver Candid Family Photographer; Thole Family
- I love and feel so incredibly grateful to be invited into families intimate lives. Their every day life full of joy, struggles, negotiations, and endless snuggles. Life, motherhood, parenthood are filled with all kinds of moments and it's these seemingly mundane moments that shine the brightest fo[...]
Discovering Motherhood; The early days
- Beginnings can be delicate or explosive. They can start almost invisibly or arrive with a big bang. Beginnings hold the promise of new lessons to be learned, new territory to be explored, and old lessons to be recalled, practiced, and appreciated. Beginnings hold ambiguity, promise, fear, and hop[...]
A Life Lesson In Goals
- Can it really be New Years Eve already? Twenty fifteen just hours away. Subzero temps are attempting to make me believe, but I'm still in denial. Denial that another year went by and we are at the threshold of another. This time of year has always had mixed emotions for me. Panic and disappoint[...]
Denver Family Photographer, Olson Family
- Anything which parents have not learned from experience they can now learn from their children. The mundane is boring. Your over worked brain and body go on auto pilot ninety percent of the day. Routine becomes your ritual so dependent upon that to live without it seems odd and slightly horrify[...]
Holiday Traditions; Cookie baking
- It's easy to get wrapped up into the commercialization of the holiday season. Running around buying this gift and making it to that holiday party. Wondering how you'll pay for all those gifts and why on earth people give white elephant gifts. Your heart longs for something simpler and less hectic[...]
Discovering Motherhood; Sweet Anticipation
- 'Go Confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.' - Henry David Thoreau. You don't even realize it's happening until you look around maybe just weeks before baby is due to arrive, or maybe it's m[...]
Denver Newborn Photography; The Stanley Family
- Babies have a way of rock'n your world from before they breathe their first breath. Our hearts expand just a little and they crack our hardened hearts wide open. The first shows you how much love your heart is capable of, the second shows you that love is endless. The more you love them, the more[...]
Denver Family Photographer, Andrews Family
- We race and chase after children, jobs, relationships, and life. We know we need to slow down and enjoy life. We know that these small moments matter and are what we will want to remember when we're old. But the rat race of life takes hold quick without regard for our wants. It is a beast that d[...]
Project 52, Week 42 Life Before You.
- I got to thinking about life before you the other day. Honestly it's hard to remember and I wonder what I ever did with my time, because life with you fills my days to over flowing. Even as you get older and you already don't need me as much as you once did. You can play by yourself for hours[...]
I'm the best mother and so are you.
- I'm writing because I feel a heaviness and a calling in my heart to say something. I'm the best mother. You are the best mother. We are all the very best mother we can be. Some days we fall short of an invisible expectation and feel we don't deserve these beautiful children. Or maybe we s[...]