Montana & Arizona Wedding and Portrait Photography

This weekend, it was my birthday. I love my birthday. Actually, it might be safe to say, I love parties, and I use my birthday as an excuse to throw one. ~ Every year – a different kind of party. A wine tasting party, a cocktail party, a fiesta . . . and the list […]

~ I remember those moments so well. Those moments of being tucked in the nursery corner rocking . . . and rocking. . . and rocking. Even now, when I have a baby put into my arms, the gentle sway of rocking my sweet babies to sleep comes back to me. ~ ~ Most of […]

My husband I got married two weeks after he graduated from high school.  We went to Disneyland on our honeymoon. We moved from our hometown and got an apartment. We finished college, had babies . . . We had been married eight years before we bought our first home.  During all those years before we […]

“the grass is always greener on the other side . . . “ ~ the straight haired girls say, “i wish my hair was curly.”  while the curly haired girls say, “i wish my hair was straight.” small town voices cry out that their is nothing to do, while the people in the big city […]

“When are you going to settle down, plant your roots?” ~ We just moved to Arizona, as many of you know, from Montana – where we had been living for the past 14 years.  The move has been – well . . . .an adjustment. ~ When we were in Montana, we lived in a […]

. . . between the black sky and the blue . . . i love you.   Several years ago, I started this blog – I started it for the reason most other photographers start blogs- to share pictures. I wanted a way to share my pictures with  my clients and with their families and […]

When my husband sees this many words – he immediately skims down to the pictures. “Nobody wants to read that much,” he says. ~ I hope YOU do. ~ I hope you pause for a few moments – breathe . . . and find yourself in some of this story. ~ i bet some of […]

Who was that character on Charlie Brown whom always seemed to have a swirl of dust circling around him?  Pig-Pen? I feel like him today.  This morning, I am Pig-Pen. As many of you know, we have made a huge move – small town Montana to big city, Scottsdale – HUGE.  I still have quite […]