Brother Sister Love

Tripti is a friend of mine at Purdue. We worked together in the residence halls one summer and have continued getting lunch every so often since then. Her brother is moving out of state for medical school this fall, so she decided to have some photos of them taken for her parents before they split! We roamed around Purdue’s campus for a little while…Here are some of my favorites:

Baby Brighten

This little lady is one of my favorite little ladies!! She is so precious! She was just under 4 months old when we took these photos of her. I know a few of them are similiar, but i just love her facial expressions!!

I’ve been a major blog slacker lately. But, I’ve been keeping myself busy with photo editing and work work work! I proposed (and have almost completed) my master’s project for grad school. Hooray for that!! I’m so excited to have that almost finished and out of the way. That will make the rest of my school days breezy (hopefully). I’m trying not to take on too many extra projects (guilty of that too frequently!). In the mean time, enjoy these photos of Brighten. Hopefully tomorrow will bring more previews!

Babies have such cute little toes!

The First Look

We recently photographed the wedding of Chris and Sabrina, and it was a blast!! It was my first wedding with a “first look” photo, and I have to tell you. It was awesome!!

Chris waited outside for Sabrina and they had a few sweet moments together before their day started. It totally relaxed the moods and settled the nerves!

I am fairly confident this is when he said, “You look hot!”..and she diiiid!

Congrats Chris and Sabrina!! Just wait for their full blog post :)

Ben & Stephanie

In June we traveled to St. Louis for the beautiful wedding of Ben and Stephanie! It was soooo much fun. They had a ton of time between the ceremony and reception which left us with ample time to take tons of photos. They had what I call the photographers dream ceremony location. There were so many windows!! It was definitely a beautiful day (despite the ridiculous humidity!).

Stephanie’s brother married them. I thought that was so cool and special. He had randomly gotten the license to marry people several years ago thinking he’d never use it…Little did he know!

Stephanie ordered flowers in bulk and made her own bouquet (and the bridesmaids). They were beautiful!

Jamie was one of the best Maid of Honors I have seen…

Congrats Ben & Stephanie! I hope you are fully enjoying married life.

Meet the Kenney Family…

This session was SO MUCH FUN! Erin and I are in the same master’s program at Purdue and have become really good friends. She mentioned that her parents 30th anniversary was coming up….and we decided to book a session! It was a rainy stormy day but we caught a few hours in between with some beautiful light…

P.S. They are crazy. But, that’s why these pictures rock.

Curt + Vanessa

So, you may have seen these two already because I got so excited and ended up posting all of their images on facebook! I was just so in love with this session. The location, the love, the fun. Curt and Vanessa are friends of ours, and we really enjoyed taking their photos!! They are getting married and the end of the summer. We’re definitely looking forward to their big day! In the mean time, enjoy this incredibly long post if you haven’t seen their facebook album yet.

Remember this garage?? It gets lots of good use from me during engagement sessions… :)

It’s Sunny and Hot

We thought we’d be OK taking photos at 9:30 in the morning…whew! It was definitely HOT HOT HOT, but it was fun. It prepped us for our fun filled humid wedding the following weekend. JC just turned 5! We took these photos a few days before his birthday. Brandon and I used to work with his mom on campus at Purdue, and we had a blast taking their photos! I think the very last few photos were JC’s favorite.

Brandon’s view:

My view:

JC’s favorite part:

And a few fun series to end with:

In a typical 5 year old fashion…He was off to see a puppy that was on the trail…

Friday Fun

We photographed this beautiful family a couple of weeks ago. We started at their beautiful home and then strolled through Purdue’s campus. It was so fun! Their kids were running around and enjoying the weather, so we paused them every now and then to get some photos. I hope you enjoy! I have so many blog posts coming…

Chloe

Can you believe this shoot was yesterday, and it made it to the blog today?? I think that’s a record for me. I couldn’t stop editing…so I just kept going…

Love love love everything about the photo below…

She had the cutest hair bows. I love little girls!

Kitty cat hat. I love the pink soothie too.

The two below were taken with our 50mm lens. It’s definitely a favorite!

This was our first “in studio” shoot. I put “in studio” in quotes because we had it in the den in our new house which is going to be the photo office/studio, but right now it just has boxes and a random bookshelf in it. I really enjoyed it though. It’s so nice to have a dedicated place to take photos and edit photos. I’m glad this beautiful little lady was our first to take advantage! She is precious!! (And yes, we moved into our house on Friday!! Hooray! We are unpacked to the point of being able to park our cars in the garage, so I’ll call that a success!)

Celebrating Moms.

So, I was thinking about the origin of Mother’s Day, and I really wondered how it came about. So, I looked it up. And, ironically enough the original founder of the holiday in the United States eventually spent her life savings opposing the holiday because it had become so commercialized and ended up far away from her original intent for the holiday of celebrating mothers. If you’re interested…(link here). Long story short, she just wanted the holiday to be a time for children to tell their mom’s that they loved them  and why….

So, in honor of mother’s, I wanted to dedicate this post to some of my favorite mother/child photos and to remind all mothers of how precious their jobs are. And to remember the two mothers in my life. My mom has been my rock in all my years growing up. She’s been the best! I don’t know what I’d do without her. And, Brandon’s mom has been another awesome person to have in my life. I know B looks up to his mom and loves her very much. I love my two families and love the chance that I have to continue to let them know how much they mean to me.

Love my mom. This was my wedding day. My friend took it as we were getting ready.

B and his mom. This is my favorite picture of them because her smile is so real and happy.

Here are some of my favorite mom photos we took this year. I don’t have access to all of my photos since we’re tween homes (we’re moving in friday!!!), but here are the ones I did have on my computer. Thanks to all you moms out there!