8 Tips to sooth a Crying Baby! As my five-year old began throwing an epic fit the other day, I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be nice if I could get him to stop screaming the way I used to when he was a baby?! Although admittedly it never seemed that way at the time, […]

This past summer, I took some time off of working, blogging, social media- and all that other business stuff- to go home to Michigan.  (I haven’t lived there in nearly 14 years, but I still call it “home”!)   Our family had a pretty rough past year.  My sweet cousin Lorie, only 3 years younger than […]

A while back, I got to spend the morning with a couple of awesome ladies – a friend I met while playing at the park with my kiddos after first moving to AZ, who graciously agreed to let me photograph her second baby when I was portfolio building!  (…and whose family I photographed on various other occasions!)  She brought […]

Although I have ALWAYS loved photographing faces and am passionate about capturing children and families, I make no secret about the fact that my MOST favorite subjects are newborns!  Believe it or not, photographing newborns is really hard work.  And I’ve dedicated the last 3 years to refining my skills and perfecting my craft in […]

The tradition of smashing cake! I’ve sometimes wondered where and when “Cakesmash” sessions for children originated.  And then, of course, I realize… Every parent since the dawn of time– ok, since the invention of cameras, I suppose–  has taken pictures of their baby digging into their very first celebratory birthday cake!  The expression on their face when they […]