picture purge...

moments i don't want to forget...

remember when i was a workin' girl??

my senior year of college jake and i invested in a 'starter' camera...i really wanted to learn enough to be able to take good photos when we started having babies:)  that year for my birthday my mom payed for me to take a photography class at a local school and i FELL IN LOVE!!  i started BEGGING people to let me take photos of their kids and families just so i could get more and more practice...then all of a sudden people wanted to PAY ME to take their photos...what?!?  it was all kinda taking off ahead of me...i wasn't ready for that...i was just having fun...BUT we were also trying to get out of debt at the time so i though what an amazing opportunity that has seemed to just fall in my lap to help us get out of debt faster!!!  so i went to photo seminars, i went to a small business class in our city, bought some nicer equipment and traveled 4 hours a way to have a photography business bootcamp with a photographer i really admired.  Jake and i then set up a super cute website and i was set!!!  I started getting quite a few shoots a month and even some weddings! I was still working full time on top of taking photos, but i kinda thought this might be the perfect part time career once we have babies!  Well about a year into my business, jake and i come home from a doing a wedding in Texas(where i felt 'off' the whole weekend) and i found out i was pregnant!!  Totally exciting!....but i immediately start getting sick!  So sick that i would come home every evening from work lay down on the couch and not move until bed! Good thing that wedding was for a very good friend because it took me about 2 months to get her wedding edited and out to her!  I had to start turning down jobs because i was so sick...and i finally decided to 'take a break' from jobs and focus on growing this baby so i did my last wedding 7 months before piper was born, with full intentions to get back into it:)   weeeeellll i didnt:(  i got busy with babies....babies that i love so very much!  anyway all that to say...a few months ago Jared(our lead pastor) asked me to do some family photos for a church mailer and for Frisco Fields Church website!!!! i was so nervous!!! but i think they turned out ok!!

THEN....a few weeks ago a couple in our church who needed new headshots for their business asked ME to do them!!!  i assured them that i was totally out of practice and they could completely throw them out if they didn't like them!  well i guess they did because they are up on their website!  www.freshstartfrisco.com 

blue...

the 2 things people notice about Piper right away is the dimple in her chin and her beautiful blue eyes!! I have tried to capture them from day one...and haven't really been able to do them justice...well when piper and i woke up this morning the light in our room was perfect!! I ran to get the camera and got this photo!! I did a small about of editing...but i purposefully did not touch her eyes(or the spit up on her lip ;)...how am i ever going to resist those piercingly beautiful eyes!!!

Piper Lately...

ohhh and by the way....PIPER ROLLED OVER TODAY!!!!! :)

two reminders...

1. how awesome Randy Coleman is...
2. how beautiful Piper Ann is...

up and coming....

when jake and i wanted to find a photographer for baby S...we heard about our new friend Randy through Ali & Zach! Randy is an amazing up and coming photographer...he practically just started, although it looks as though he was born to do photos!!!! In the post below is a small preview of the awesomeness that he did for our "belly photos"...for more go check out his BLOG. And of course you have got to go to his rockin' website and Book him RIGHT NOW...before he becomes to famous for us OKC folks ;) If you mention that you heard of him from my blog...he will give you a sweet deal of 10% off!!!!!!!

ripe....happy...and in love....