Family Session :: The Darling Family

This session has been in the works for about 2 years now! I first met Becky when I started teaching at Overlake and she is such a great person! The next year, her oldest daughter was graduating from high school and I was lucky to do her senior photos. I had so much fun with Julia and Becky! This last year I was able to do her son Byron's as well! It has been so much fun to see all these kids grow. We had planned to do family photos at some point, but as with everything in life, things kept coming up and we didn't get to them. This year though, some big changes were happening within the family which if we didn't get photos done soon, would make it really hard to get everyone together again!

My clients are always such troopers! I drag them along to all these random places, make them jump rocks, hike trails, get wet, you name it! The Darling's were no different. We had so much fun in this location! I haven't  been there in a while and didn't realize how many people would be there, nor that there would be so many bugs, but we still had a great time (if for an accident or two).

I hope you enjoy these photos as much as I do! They were a blast to take and this is definitely one good looking family!

One of the very first photos we took - I love when they turn out amazing!

I love the relationship that Chad and Becky have, they work so well together!

Kat is the youngest, she is going to be in 7th grade this coming year!

Byron just graduated high school this year, he plans to go into something in the IT field.

Julia is next. She just moved out to California to continue her schooling.

I had never met Thomas before, he is the oldest!

Always gotta have a kissy photo :) 

As well as a bored kids photo haha

 

Thank you again Darling Family! I was so excited to take these photos and hope you all love them just as much :)

A Wedding Story :: The Hastie's

I have to just preface this entire post with I don't actually shoot weddings! Engagements, sure :) but just so no one gets any crazy ideas haha not that I wouldn't love doing your wedding, but I have so many friends I can recommend to you who are better than I am at weddings - so if you want that kind of info let me know :)

Eileen's wedding is the only exception :) I thought it would be really nice and she had already asked loads of other people to do photos so I told her I would focus on set up photos but not the random ones that people take throughout the wedding itself. She was totally on-board so that helped a lot to relieve the stress I feel whenever I do weddings (I've only ever done one other one and that was enough to realize it wasn't for me). I tried to capture those meaningful moments, but also the ones that you're going to want to put in an album. I had so much fun taking photos, and I am glad I had the opportunity! So without further ado, here are the photos I took :)

Eileen you're absolutely gorgeous!

Probably the only smiley photo I got of Amy!

A true Scottish thistle.

Loved the details!

Love these two!

I actually really love this photo haha

But this is my absolute favorite!

Thank you Eileen for letting me capture some of your special day! I had a blast :)

Seniors :: Handsome Doug...Finally!

I am so excited to finally show these photos off! I work with Doug's mom Patty and she had gotten a hold of me to just do a few photos, but when she approached Doug about it, he mentioned he wouldn't mind getting a few photos of himself aside from the ones she needed. I was so excited! Doug is Patty's youngest and he is such a laid back kid!

Unfortunately, Doug and I had the HARDEST time getting photos actually taken! It rained...and rained...and rained! Plus he was getting ready to go on his mission so he was working really hard to save up money and our timing was just terrible. We ended up doing two different sessions - one with him and a few missionary pics he could send in with his paperwork and his cap and gown for graduation.

It took about another month to actually get the next part of his session scheduled and I was so excited with how those photos finally turned out! I haven't heard anything about his mission call yet, but I know he was hoping to go to Australia or Japan. I can concur with Australia, but he is sure brave to want to go to Japan! I think that would freak me out a little bit haha.

THANK YOU to both Patty and Doug for being SOOOOOOOO patient with me and the stupid weather! I couldn't have asked for better people to photograph :)

I looove this one :)

I love the lighting in this photo!

Again, thank you for being so patient! I hope you love them as much as I do :)