I love holding this contest every year!

Make sure you tell the people you submitted – how awesome you think they are!!

I will be offering a special to those of you that submitted a family that didn’t win – I’ve already emailed you the details!

CONGRATS to Angie and her little one!!

Guys – some awesome people love you! Crazy awesome people!

Thank you again SO MUCH! I cannot wait for BEAUTIFUL 2017!!!

I met with Jennifer and her family on a VERY chilly day! But we made it work!

On a side note – I am fully aware that photographing on tracks is not legal or safe. These tracks are purely decorative and lead to nothing – safe.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE those shots!

And – just to show you that it’s not always perfect!

Jennifer – thank you so much for asking me to photograph this BEAUTIFUL time in your lives!

My friend Ashley had a FANTASTIC idea – have a Galentine’s Day get-together!

For those of you that don’t know – Galentines’s Day is from Parks & Recreation – and it’s a FANTASTIC notion!

The day before Valentine’s Day – getting together and celebrating your girlfriends – with breakfast and bacon – and little gifties!

On the show – Leslie says crazy wonderful things to her best friend Ann – so I made a personalized card for each gal!

Leslie makes mosaic portraits out of soda bottles for each of her friends – BUT I’m not THAT talented! But – I just might try next year!

I made portraits for each of my friends – and a ridiculously huge keychain!

Leslie writes a 5,000 word essay about each gal – I made a little booklet documenting what I admire about each woman!

Ashley wasn’t able to make it – friend duties came up and good friends listen to their heart!

I almost kept that tardis!

The cup of coffee turned out AWESOME!

My Aunt L – she loves to write – so hers was a blank piece of paper!

Mara – she loves music!

Becca – that is supposed to be a paint brush keychain!

Sarah wasn’t able to make it to our Galentine’s breakfast – which just meant MORE BREAKFAST DATES!

Shalane wasn’t able to make it either – but no worries – we made YET ANOTHER breakfast date – which I LOVE!

And she gave me a BEAUTIFUL bracelet – inscribed with – ovaries b4 brovaries!

I felt like the fans of Parks & Rec would REALLY appreciate the awesomeness of a Galentine’s Day!

It should really be a national holiday! It certainly WILL be an ANNUAL event!

And I also I sent some Galentine’s out to some of my gals!

LADIES CELEBRATING LADIES!

I’m planning on having a GALENTINE’S DAY breakfast every other month!

And NEXT year – GALENTINE’S day will be EPIC!

I’ve been taking pictures of Arica and her little family for almost 5 years! This fall – we brought the whole *J* family along!

Grandparents are very near and dear to my heart! I was SO HAPPY to capture this for them!

Aren’t they such sweeties!!

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE those shots! LOVE LOVE LOVE!!

OH – those silhouette shots!

Arica – thank you SO much for asking me to capture your family! I’m truly honored!