Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas! Hope you have an amazing time with your family and friends celebrating the birth of Jesus the Messiah! :)

The Cheney Family | Family Portrait

Meet the Cheney's! This is a sweet, sweet family - I love them! :) We met the Cheney's this past July - in fact, they were some of the first people we met here in Arizona when we moved! When I first met their son, Josiah, he was only three months old - it's crazy how fast time flies and how fast babies grow. :)

So Anna and I have been in contact and I knew they wanted pictures and we finally got together to make it happen. We went to a random area right between the store "Buffalo Exchange" and a Farmer's Market, where there are some interesting walls and some rail road tracks - we had a great time. I love family portraits, because after the initial awkwardness of taking pictures ends, they just play together. So, I hope that you can see the love and warmth of this family through these pictures. :) I know that I smiled practically the entire time I edited them! :) :)

I love this next picture! :) :) :)

Mmm...tasty rock. (yuck!)

Josiah got some air on the next shot! :)

Anna - you are so beautiful! Your eyes just stand out so much!

I asked Anna to come up behind Scott and tickle him...and apparently he's really ticklish! :) haha

Had a great time Cheney's! :)

Stephanie | Christmas Mini Session

Everyone, meet Steph - the girl that never stops smiling! :) 

Steph and I met here in Arizona and she's become one of my closest friends here. She is such an awesome person - I'm so glad that I've been able to get to know her in my time in Arizona. 

So, since we see each other a lot, she told me that she really wanted to get some pictures with a cactus. Being from the west side of the states, cacti is not something you see very much! So we went hunting and found a few. We had a lot of fun! 

Thanks for looking - enjoy and leave Steph some love! :)

This next one to the right is my FAVORITE from the shoot! :) I love her smile! You're so cute Steph!

We found some cacti! :) Yea!

You always have to do the jumping pose! ha! :)

It's not too late to get your mini-session for $75! I'll be doing them through the end of December, so send me a message! Be looking for two more family sessions soon! There are some adorable kiddo's that will be gracing the presence of this website!

Have a great week! :)

Feels like fall...not like winter! :)

I've heard on the radio a lot lately the song, "It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas..." and today I didn't feel that!!

I went shooting with a friend in downtown Phoenix today and it was so nice. I think it was in the 70's, which is crazy for December. And then seeing beautiful color like this, didn't convince me it was winter time either! :) haha

So I guess winter doesn't really exist here? Or maybe this is winter and I just have a different idea still. Regardless, I'm okay with that, because I really don't like the cold. :) So it's good that I'm here! ha!

Hope you're enjoying your winter season so far - more pictures to come soon of some really awesome people! Stay tuned!

SNOW!

Call me crazy, but I've never made a snowman before until yesterday!

If you have been watching the news, then you would know that a lot of places have been hit with massive amounts of snow in the past few days - Dallas was one of them! It was SO much fun yesterday playing in the snow. This is a luxury that I never had growing up in Houston. You NEVER have snow and if you do it never sticks - especially this much!

Traveling to work was surreal, as everything looked like a postcard. Snow fell hard all night on Wednesday, all day yesterday and into the night tonight. It is crazy how the snow is still outside on our lawn! It's beautiful! :) I love it.

So as I mentioned before, it was my first time to make a snowman. Here he is:

    

His eyes, nose, smile and buttons are made out of cough drops! ha! That's all we had! :) We got creative. My husband and I did it together. I don't know if he's still alive in our front yard, but it was SO much fun making him! :)

Anyways, I had to share! Hope you enjoy your weekend!