Meet Meagan.  Meagan and I met working with Opportunity Camp 2 summers ago.  She has become a sweet friend to me & I love our long conversations about life & prayer.  Turns out, she’s going to the International House of Prayer (in Kansas City, KS) for a program that seeks to marry prayer + missions!  I am so excited for her in this new adventurer.  She has promised to update her blog during her time in Kansas City & her time internationally putting their class room work to ACTION!  Follow along here:   blog

as always, thanks for embracing my really rocking cool friends!

what a joy it was for the Kitchens to be my last family session of the break!  Allison, Justin & Cannan are some of our good friends and are in our community group at Stonegate!  We have fallen in love with their sweet family and think you will too.  They have an amazing story with Cannan.  He had a major surgery just 2 months ago & you wouldn’t even know it now.  Beautiful gift from the Lord.  Read more about their journey on her blog: http://wearethekitchens.wordpress.com/

What a sweet time with my good friends Shannon + Curtis as they are waiting for their first son, Ian.  This is why I love what I do, getting to be a part of such special times in families lives!  Ian – we can’t wait for you to enter the world!  We love you already!

It was such a blast to get to be with the Brown family again!  Back in the day, I was Allison’s teachers assistant at the school all 4 of her children attended.  I would get to see these fun kiddos every day and I sure do miss them!  We had a blast out at the barn where Grace Ann (the oldest!) spends a lot of her time with her horses.  Such a fun time with a big family.  I can’t lie that I was trying to imagine our big family getting family portraits done one day

Sweet Rosalie.  This girl is bound to be a daddys girl.  I was reminded on this cool morning why I love what I do!  To get to be a part of some of the most important times in a families life is so valuable to me!  I had a great time with Rosalie’s mom & dad, my friends Ashlyn & TJ.  That girl sure is loved!  Enjoy!

The B family.  Oh what fun we had.  Sweet Elizabeth sure is good with her two big brothers – being tough and a pretty girly princess too.  Ian & Eli sure are active!  It was so fun to watch Eli (younger brother) do exactly what his big brother did.  Precious precious family.  Thank you B family for allowing me time to get outside and play with yall!

Bethann & Will.  and Mary Claire.  oh how I love this family!  These kiddos and their sweet parents have captured my heart.  I love them & it was an honor to take their photographs

So I keep getting calls for sessions so I thought I’d officially make the announcement that starting June 1st, I’ll be on maternity leave!  I am finishing up my last few sessions and will be taking a break to be a mommy!  If you haven’t heard yet, we are now getting TWO babies from Ethiopia!  We don’t yet know when we will go for court, but once we get “the call” we’ll be about 3-4 weeks out!  So I just wanted to be able to wrap up this spring so I can be ready!  I don’t have a date of when I’ll be back to photography, but I WILL be back!  I’ll be blogging these last few sessions in the next few weeks then you might not hear from me for a while!  To check in, visit our family blog  & follow our adoption journey: http://elderadventures.blogspot.com/

Aren’t this brother & sister comb cute?  You might remember them from Trey’s newborn session.  My has he grown up into such a sweet little one!!  It was time for an updated photo & we had fun playing in their beautiful yard!  Doesn’t look like Midland, does it?  

this is alison.  I know you’ve heard me talk about her.  she is my sassy africa photog friend.  it was a true honor to travel to rwanda & ethiopia together this past new years and I am so excited that while on that trip, God called her to MOVE there.  she will be living & working with Noel orphanage in Rwanda, home to 600 kids.  I can’t wait for her journey to begin!  I will miss her oh so much however.  I joke with her and tell her that I have a habit of making really good friends & then them moving to Africa.  but that’s what facebook chat at 1 am is for….chatting with missionary friends.  head over to her blog: http://sassandcrafts.com/ and see how you can follow her story & even join her team!