Resolutions Blog

Wendel Family

I have photographed this family a few times before, and it's always a bit of a three-ring circus (such is life with little ones!), but it's always fun. I love the bright colors this mom picked out for indoor shots!

I didn't tell Rudi to stick her tongue out for this one, she just did it, which makes this photo even cuter!

Makenna & Harper

Makenna and Harper are such sweet little girls! It's always fun for me to photograph girls!

Harper is right in the middle of those hard-to-photograph years, but she is so incredibly cute! WHY are kids always at their cutest when they don't want to sit still long enough for me to take their photo? So cute!

Noah & Grant

When you are photographing kids, some sessions are better than others...it just sort of comes with the territory. I have photographed Noah and Grant a few times before and they are always so easy-going and fun to work with. Plus, their mom always does a PERFECT job of picking out the best clothes for them!

Karter, Chloe and Reis

My cousin brings her kids in for a photoshoot at the end of the summer usually. It's always fun to see her and to see how much the kids have grown since the year before!

We went from the studio to my favorite sunflower field. I have this recurring dream some nights where I am trying to finish a photoshoot and the sun is going down (it is sort of a nightmare because in the dream, everything is going wrong and the sun is slipping down and I am running out of time). This night, I was living out that dream (although nothing was going wrong, thank goodness!). We had a later-than-normal start to our session, and I was furiously snapping photos and keeping one eye on the sun. If you can handle the anxiety of the situation, it's always such a pretty time for photos.

Then, with only a few minutes left to spare, we headed over to one of my favorite bridges. I love the golden glow the sunset gives to these photos!

This is one of my favorite girls to photograph. She is so pretty, and doesn't even have to try. At all.

If you have an October or November session with me...

If you have an October or November session with me, please take a moment to email me at resolutionsphotography@gmail.com to get your email address back in my database. When I got locked out of my old email account, I also lost all of your email addresses I had stored. I apologize for the inconvenience.

NEW EMAIL ADDRESS

Most of you know that the primary way I keep in contact with all of you, schedule my sessions, and do just about anything related to my business is through email. The reason I do this is because as a stay at home mom, I never know if it will be a good time for me to answer phone calls (i.e. kids not screaming in the background!). This week, hotmail decided to lock me out of my email for good because they were convinced that someone had hacked into my email account. I tried numerous times to recover my account, but I was unsuccessful. I now have a new email address: resolutionsphotography@gmail.com If you have emailed me about a session and not received a response from me, please email me again using the new email address. I apologize for any delay in getting back to you.

Isaac, Graham & Grayson

Last summer I had all of these plans to do a late-summer sunflower shoot with my boys. Being about 349 months pregnant at the time, I just didn't quite get around to it. This summer, I made it happen. When I first sat down to edit these photos, I think I was over-analyzing them, and over-editing them. I am the type of person who likes PERFECTION when editing my photos. When I looked back at my first edits, I hated them and started over. The second time around, I did almost nothing to each photo...and I was in love. It was a good lesson to me that sometimes less is more, and sometimes perfection is in the real.

This one is SO my Graham. I feel like this was the first summer I really found out who my little boy was. At his birthday party this year, he had a bad bike accident and ended up with a broken arm and was in the hospital for two days. He ended up having two surgeries, but through it all he was so strong, and so brave. I am not the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" kind of mama. If anything, I err on the side of babying my little boys (their future wives can thank me later). But he has this inner strength, and I have no idea where it comes from. I was so proud of him over and over for showing so much resiliency during his accident and recuperation. I love this boy more than my life.

And here's my Isaac. He turned nine this summer, and he is changing every day. I am so proud of him every day. He is so incredibly smart, and so sweet. The name "Isaac" means "laughter," and he has always been the laughter of my days.

And here's little guy. He wasn't in the best of moods for this particular photo shoot, so I only have this one photo, but I sure do love it. Could that light be any more perfect? And, is it just me, or is the sun in the form of the cross? Thank you, Heavenly Father, for this beautiful gift of my three boys. They are the joy of my life!

Esperum Family

This sweet little family has been through so much recently. I hope and pray that the time they have now with their new little one is a time of healing and joy for all of them.