Well, Christmas Cards have finally been sent, so now I can show you all the fun I’ve been having!! I love designing cards. It is just one of my many creative outlets I have/need. Do you ever have one of those days where if you don’t do something creative you might just go crazy?! Well I do, especially in January and February when photography is slower. I wonder what random  piece of furniture I will paint or what fun item I will find on  the side of the road to claim as my own. Ahhh……the possibilities….
But for now, I have been extremely busy photographing lots of super cute families and designing fun cards for them.
Here is just some of what has been keeping me busy this month:


. . . and, of course MY Family!  I love pictures of my kids! The family picture was taken by the wonderful Brain Harr . (It was weird being on the other side of the camera!) So happy to have such a cute picture of my family.

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I LOVE Christmas Time! Especially now that I have kids. I  have enjoyed getting to tell Owen about Santa {he is still not so sure about him though, he doesn’t like men in hats with beards…} and also crack up every time he puts baby Jesus into his toy train for a ride.

I also love Christmas because I get to photograph SO MANY beautiful families! The hardest part is waiting to  blog a bout them since I don’t want to  spoil their super cute Christmas Card pictures! So,  since I can’t post  pictures quite yet I will show you newest idea. CHRISTMAS CARDS!!

This year I began designing Christmas Card templates. Some of my clients were looking for an extra special way to display their photographs  from our photo session together. So, I began to design a few and then the creative juices just started flowing! {I always love when that happens!!} 

Want to know the BEST PART?!? I am offering TWO FREE 5×7 card template for you right here! You can simply add your own photo and print! Print it at home, or send it away to be printed. You just have to order it as a 5×7 photo.

You can check out more of my card templates on my ETSY !

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

To download: Click on either image below and it will open in it’s own window. Right click and choose “save image as” and save it somewhere on your computer. Open it up in a photo editing software like Picassa{free} or Photoshop and add your own photo!

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Having great roommates is SO IMPORTANT!! We’ve all had our fair share of no so good ones, so when we have nice ones we appreciate it! So many of my roommates have been so encouraging to me and my photography. One of the first weddings I photographed was for one of my roommates! She flew me to Arizona and that’s when I realized that I was the luckiest girl alive. I would get to make money while doing something that I LOVE!! Thanks to her I pursued my passion for photography and now I am a Professional Photographer. All that to say that I was very excited when another old roommate of mine asked me to take some pictures of her cute family! 
I loved getting to meet her adorable family!! Her daughter is GORGEOUS and so happy! I really enjoyed catching up with her and felt so blessed to get the opportunity to photograph them!

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This is my son, Ryder, 1 week old. I could not wait to take this photo. I proudly wore this shirt while pregnant, but had purchased it for the purpose of taking this photo. It makes a point, and makes it boldly. I understand the controversy that comes along with a statement like this, which is why I was not sure if it belonged here on the blog. I try to keep the blog filled with joyful moments filled with lots of family love, but to me this picture is EXACTLY that.
So here it is:

LOVE  for LIFE, no matter how small. 
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I am pretty sure it is every photographers dream to shoot newborn TWINS! Well, at  least it has always been MY dream. I LOVE photographing newborns. They are so cute and pliable! So when my friend Sharon told me she was pregnant with  twins I was  ECSTATIC!  I am looking forward to capturing these twins as they grow! So stay tuned for more of these  cute kids!

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