Introducing Baby K

This photo shoot was such a fun experience! Baby K is three months old and she has got the most beautiful, dark hair - and so much of it! She also has the world's biggest brown eyes and some fun facial expressions; at three months that's generally hard to get out of babies and it was hard at times, but those times that we caught were great! She was also such a sweet-tempered baby and let us do just about anything to her - outfit changes, in and out of baskets, you name it.

I hope that you see just how adorable this baby is and agree she is going to grow into such a beautiful little girl (:

This monkey was a family heirloom, I thought it was a sweet idea :)

Love Story

As many of you may now know, Dave and I announced our engagement publicly yesterday. It's been a crazy week letting everyone know and there are still so many people who don't know. I don't think that either of us could be happier at the moment! Sorry in advance if this post is covered in exclamation marks (!) because that's just how I feel :) if you don't want to read sappy, lovey-dovey stuff may want to look away now :)

Most people ask how we met, and so while I feel like I've mentioned this before, I'm going to tell you all just so you know. It's kinda an ironic story and makes the both of us believe in fate and destiny just a tiny bit more ;)

Last June I was looking for something to do (most of you know this) that would get me out of the house and out of school and around people my own age - not that I don't love my classroom and my school kids but sometimes you just need a break from being a teacher, especially at 22. I'd noticed signs around town that mentioned an adult league for soccer in Tooele. Since I graduated high school I have been relaying my woes of not having soccer for adults to anyone who would listen. I knew if I didn't sign up then I'd be miserable thinking why I didn't, but I was also scared - I hadn't played since high school, I was out of shape and had no one to play with me (which if you know me, is completely out of my boundaries to do stuff on my own). I drug my feet signing up and almost missed the deadline.

I didn't hear anything else about the league until nearly September. And then I missed the first game or two (I really can't remember why). So when I showed up I felt out of place and very young (no offense to anyone on our team!).

I hope I get this part of the story right, because I've been telling people the story....At the end of July Dave was supposed to be coaching a camp in Eagle Mountain and was notified that he'd received an academy position and that they wanted hin to run the camp in this little town known as Tooele. While there he met a family that was in charge of the adult league and they convinced him to register for the fall. I'm sure he didn't expect to be on the underdog team of the league, nor one of the best players on the team (I'll brag for him).

I'm not going to lie, in fact I'll be pretty darn honest - as now that we've been together I know most people do this - I fell in love with an accent (that was really about it because - and again I'm being honest - half the time I couldn't understand a word he was saying). We went out a couple times with my friends as just friends and when he left we started messaging on facebook. Oh facebook. Now when I say messaging I mean it. Think of your best friend and how you can talk to them all day every day and not tend to run out of things to say - yeah that was us. We talked between a 7 hour time difference, all day, every day. He'd wake up and message me then I'd message him until he fell asleep. Repeat. Most people don't really tend to believe me. I even had a friend just a couple weeks back who's known about our relationship who didn't realize till that night how much we talk, she was like "What are you doing? Writing a book?" as I texted him back lol (love you Em!).

By January I knew how I felt, that oh my goodness, this could be something. Strangely enough when I mentioned this to him in April he said he'd been completely oblivious until 2 weeks prior to our dating. Just shows you the difference between men and women ;)

When he came back in March it was a rough few weeks before we even hung out and I doubted that what I'd thought was something wasn't anything. Slowly we started doing things on the weekends and eventually I (yes, me) told him how I felt. I think to this day he kicks himself for letting me say it first, as that day we had been watching movies all day and he'd been trying to gather the courage (darling) to actually say anything. We joke now that the whole of Tooele knew we were together before we knew we were together. Literally.

I'm not going to lie, it's difficult with him gone for camps but I think we're built of tougher things. Our relationship hasn't been conventional from the beginning and I think that it's made it stronger, we definitely built a very strong friendship before ever building a relationship. He proposed to me in my bedroom (when my sister found out her words were "Really Dave? That's kinda lame!"), I thought it was cute! We were running late for a movie (2nd time we were trying to go to the movie by the way) and I was like let's go, let's go. He was in this mopey sort of mood and wouldn't budge. It took about 15 minutes for him to ask (by which time I'd kinda picked up on what was going on). Again, unconventional, but we wouldn't have it any other way.

Our (tentative) date is set for April 25, 2015. We want his family and friends there and I want time to plan. We're so excited to start this next chapter of our lives and hope you all are willing to be a part of it :)

I love you David, I know you'll be reading this (one day we'll appreciate that I actually wrote it out)! (And please correct me where I'm wrong).



We took forever to choose this ring, but choose it we did - together :)

Baby Emma's 9 Months!

Where does the time go? I swear it just seems to fly! I feel like it was just yesterday that I was doing Emma's 3 month photos:


Emma at 3 months

And then we did her 6 month photos:



Emma at 6 months - she can hold her own head and sit up - sometimes!

And now we just finished her 9 month photos and are about to work on getting her invitations out for her 1st birthday! I am so excited to show you these photos, it's been so much fun watching Emma grow up - her personality has blossomed so well and she's generally such a great baby that you can't help but feel good being around her. Lately she's started mimicking other people and it was fun to see what she would mimic for our shoot (:

Before I show you her photos I'd like to just mention that we have a contest going on on the facebook page here. Basically what it is is a free photo shoot! And who doesn't like free?! If you go and like the page and then comment on the status that mentions the give away you will be entered. Plus if you share the status and your friends like the page, comment on the status, and tell me who referred them you'll get more entries! It's really a win-win situation (: this doesn't work towards pre-contracted shoots and can be given as a gift to someone - shoot comes with 15 edited photos on a disc and a one hour shoot. Check it out!

Without further ado here are Emma's 9 month pics!

 

Still haven't moved out of the stage of that look - I've been getting this look since she was a baby - anytime I take her photos!

This is a mimicked face for sure!

 



Like I said, such a beautiful little girl! Make sure to like the facebook page for your chance to win and get those likes out there!

Growing Up: A Little Girl's First Communion

I'm so excited to let you all in on all the work I've been doing lately! It seems like this summer has really boomed for me when it comes to photography and there's been so much to post and edit that I feel I've been falling behind. I did this shoot about 2 weeks ago and it was such an easy simple photo shoot that it reminded me how much I love photography.

Growing up Catholic, I know just how important a First Communion is to a child. Especially to little girls. It's a symbol that you have more responsibility, that you're accepting more of your own beliefs, and moves you closer to Confirmation. It's the first time (for most little girls) that you get to wear a really, super fancy dress and get all dolled up.

Mia is a beautiful little girl, and her naturally sparkling personality just shown through on this photo shoot - it probably goes without saying that this was probably the easiest shoot I've ever done, no offense to others! She was always wanting to try something, she'd be like can we do this? Or how about this? I loved that she took it into her hands too! I hope that you can see it in her photos and enjoy them!

Before I post them I'd like to let you know that I have recently done another shoot for Baby Emma (9 months) and will be doing another baby shoot tomorrow for a 3 month old. So please stay tuned for more photos and be sure to like my page by clicking here.

I love this bible! I think it's adorable and Diana (Mia's mom) showed me how awesome it is on the inside too!

This was a Mia suggested photo, and it turned out darling!