Look at this gorgeous mommy to be!!!  She is 25 weeks along with her first baby, a boy expected to make his grand entrance this Summer.  We will be doing a serious of sessions to document her growing belly!  Daddy is deployed and she wants to make sure he’s able to see her progression and experience this pregnancy even though he can’t be here for most of it.  I’m just so happy she’s letting me document this special time in their lives!

Get ready for a long post.  I have a lot to say but I’m not a great writer so I’m going to try to keep it short and sweet.

What an absolute amazing year I’ve had!  I’ve met so many new people that I’m lucky to call clients, some even friends.  I’ve fallen even more in love with my job and my life and have each one of you to thank for that.  I feel like my business is headed in the direction I’ve always hoped it’d go.

I’ve loved each family session more than I can express.  All of the giggles, tears, tantrums, fun, hugs and kisses, laughs, and loves… I truly love each moment.  Especially those ones where I catch you being you!  I call those imperfectly perfect moments, they are my favorite and I just adore them so much I can’t stand it!

 I’ve loved every single engagement and wedding.  Seeing love so new and exciting and being able to share such fun and tender moments never gets old.  I will screech with excitement over a perfect sunset shot, I will cry at each father daughter dance, and I will walk away with tired feet and feeling lucky after every wedding.  I might also stop for some fast food on the way home.  It never fails.

I don’t know what it is about real estate that I love so much.  I swear if I wasn’t doing what I’m doing I’d be in real estate of some kind.  I love walking into a brand new house.  Fresh paint on the walls, new hard wood floor smell, big windows, bright lights and me all alone to scope out the place.  I love natural light so much that I refuse to shoot houses any other way unless I absolutely have to.  I’m so lucky to have met some amazing agents that hire me from time to time so I can drool over their listings.  Don’t worry, I clean up before I leave.

Boudoir.  These sessions have really taken over my business and I love it.  I never intended to love boudoir so much, somewhere along the way it just took center stage and I can’t get enough!  I’ve shot too many hotties this year to count!  I love the whole process of boudoir.  Meeting for the first time, talking about their session, picking out sexy little outfits, going over hair and make up.  The day of shooting is so much fun and full of laughs.  It’s always fun to see that moment… right when I show them that “wow” shot you can see the change and feel their comfort level rise.  That moment amazes me every time.  Those eyes start giving the “come hither look” as I like to call it, hair starts whipping around, fake laughs (if you’ve done a session with me you know what I’m talking about) turn into real laughs, clothing becomes optional, and the fun and  sometimes dancing ensues.  I just love seeing that transformation, and of course I love hearing what the boyfriends, girlfriends, moms, sisters, friends, and hubby’s all thought.  I have a feeling I’ll being doing even more boudoir this year and loving every second of it.

To sum it up, I guess I’ll just say that I’m one lucky girl.  Thank you to every client this year that supported me and my business.  Thank you all for being so kind to me and sending gifts, thank you’s, and referrals.  I can’t wait to see what this year brings!  I hope to see you all again this year!!!  I thought about sharing a photo from each session I’ve done, then realized they were mostly boudoir soooo I changed my mind  I decided to choose 12 memorable moments.  Not that I didn’t love each one, but for one reason or another these 12 had a special meaning to me.

I’ve been so busy I haven’t been able to really share my experience working on Film!  It was so crazy, so fun, so exciting, so exhausting, so entertaining, and such a great learning experience for me!  It was amazing getting to see how these incredibly talented photographers, stylists, and artist work.  I was so lucky to be able to assist on some episodes as well as associate produce a few.  Really, it’s amazing how much people in this community are willing to do to make these shows happen.  Everyone works their butt’s off, taking time away from their jobs and families to scout locations, models, and find anything else that the photographers may have needed for a shoot.  Many local people and businesses donated their time and spaces for us to shoot in.  I never realized how much time and effort is put into each episode.  I wish I would’ve filmed behind the scenes each day so that I could share it with you.  There’s really no way to appreciate it unless you’ve experienced it first hand.  I’m lucky to have had that chance!

These are a few photos that I wanted to share… a little behind the scenes, some of the models, and a few of the photographers and hosts in action.  I’m in no way taking credit for the styling of these models!  That goes to the amazing Tia Reagan!  She styled each model for each episode!  Hair, makeup, clothing and accessories… she’s incredible at what she does!  If you’ve never heard of [Framed] or Film you should check out the website at [F]NETWORK and watch for yourself.  You’ll have to create a log-in to view the episodes but it’s free and anyone can do it!  The Framed show really is amazing and covers some insanely talented photographers from around the World.  You don’t have to be a photographer to enjoy it!  Anyone would be amazed and inspired by many episodes.  So much giving and generosity and just great stuff going on all around.  You can catch me in episodes 2,3,9,10 and 16 of Film.

I recently helped my friend and fellow photographer with a trash the dress shoot.  Something, believe it or not, I’ve never done before!  It was so much fun and something I’d love to do more of!  Here are a few shots I took from the evening…

Here’s Stephanie in action.  One fact about her, she’s AMAZING at newborn photos!!  You can visit her website at Stefani Marie Photography.

I’m sooooo in love with this session!  After having to reschedule a couple of times we ended up having the perfect weather… yay lucky us!!  I had the most fun trying to get this adorable little girl warmed up to me (I think mom and dad did too).  I simply heart her.

There’s nothing like spending a beautiful Friday evening taking photos of a great couple!  I said it during the session and I’m saying it again…. these two are sooooo sweet, cute, and EASY to work with!!  SO excited for their October wedding (hence the black and orange) in Oregon.  They (we) couldn’t be a better match for each other!

Is it really March already?!  The months are flying by and soon enough it will be spring yaya!!  I know I’ve been MIA lately and felt I needed to post an update.  I am part of a huge project that has taken up a lot of my time, and I’m also working on some other exciting ventures.  I can’t tell you how excited I am to be working with the amazing people over at [Framed].  I am lucky enough to be a part of a few episodes for Season 3 and the new show Film that will premiere on the [F]Network this May!  Something you’ll definitely want to check out… I can assure you it’s going to be amazing!  So, most of my time lately has been consumed with meeting new people and photographers and learning new things about this wonderful and crazy business I’m in.

I also need to make it known that I will be out of town April 14th-19th spending some much needed time on the beach in Florida (I’m really not bragging, promise).  SO if you need to get some family photos in or want to do a boudoir session soon please contact me asap!  I will be trying to relax as much as possible while I’m gone so I am limiting my technology use to the bare minimum.  It just doesn’t seem right making a post without a photo so I’ll leave you with a recent self portrait (something I’m trying to do more of, I’m a weirdo).  Toodles!

A couple weeks ago some of my photographer friends and I did a fun styled shoot in Boise.  I can’t tell you how lucky I am to have met such amazing colleagues… I think I’ve said that a time or two.  We always have so much fun when we get together and I always learn something new!  This shoot, one of the photographers was kind enough to let me tag along and use her adorable model.  I have to say that I really didn’t have much influence on the location or styling, but even so, I’m in love with some of these photos!!  Here are some of my favs…

Is she gorgeous or what?!  Thanks pretty girl for letting me take your picture