Dave & Jared have known each other for a long time – they went to NCA together. We ran into Dave in Wal*Mart one night and got talking – he was engaged to a sweet girl named Jenna and they were really frustrated with the price of wedding photographers. Definitely a God appointment! They came to the house a few nights later to look at my work – which there wasn’t much of – and said – YES!

We started to hang out with them and became close friends.

Jenna is from Troy and almost everyone from the Troy area has heard about me because of Jenna – who told a friend of a friend of a friend about me. Jenna & Dave really helped my photography get off the ground and spread the word about me – which is one of the MANY reasons I love them!

Dave is from a very large family – 10 kids! Their family has grown lately with some new grandbabies and they needed an updated family photo. Getting the whole family together is difficult so we only had a small window to do photos. And then it rained. Now – we need the rain but I couldn’t reschedule this session since Kathryn and her family were leaving to go back home the moment it was done. The skies cleared just in time for our shoot! Praise Jesus!

Which is another AWESOME thing about this family – they LOVE Jesus!

The crazy thing is that they are ALL beautiful!

Cousins and all the grandkids!

Dave & Jenna are the ones in brown!

They are all YANKEES fans – so they had to get a photo to represent that!

Thank you so much VanLoon family for being awesome!