I am so excited to be photographing this wedding next May…Matt is a very good friend of my husband…they grew up together and there is a group of 6 of them who are still the best of friends. 

Matt is #5 to get married and since Josh was the first in his group to get married…I am the wife who has waited the longest for the rest of these guys to have wives.  We are almost there…thank heavens!  I am actually pretty jealous of his group of friends because they have been together forever and every time they get together it’s like no time has gone by since the last time.  They are crazy and fun and I appreciate their bond more and more all the time…

Marie is going to be a stunning bride…can’t wait!

Matt did a wardrobe change at this point…his mom wanted one shirt and Marie wanted the other one…he decided to make them both happy…

They’re so cute!

And my personal favorite…

Thanks Matt and Marie…had a great time with you as always and I am really looking forward to your wedding day!

It is always so nice to get these girls in front of my camera.   This is Ashlynn and Gracynn…

They are just so darn cute!

This was our first outdoor session together and the outdoors always brings another level of challenges…especially when there are bugs!

I sprayed myself 3 times for moquitos and I was sure I was going to have West Nile by the time I got back into town! 

Love this one!

Ashlynn is such a little character….she had lots of stories about Kindergarten!  Such an exciting time in their little lives. 

I hope the sunset shots we got that Jocelyn wanted so badly were worth crabby kids and all the mosquitos…I definately think they were!!

Thank you Eric and Jocelyn for coming back again and again.  I enjoy you each and every time!

Wow!  Another beautiful senior.  I am having so much fun with the seniors this year and there are more to come.  I have several sessions to edit still!  This is Anna…

And it was impossible to narrow down what to post…this girl doesn’t take a bad photograph!

She always looks so darn cute!

Loved this outfit…

Anna just has such pretty coloring…her hair and skin are awesome!

I know these fountain shots are among her favorites…Anna helped me out this summer with some editing, creating, etc. and she has already previewed her whole session so I know which ones are her favorites…

The breeze was perfect…we couldn’t have asked for a better evening…

Highway shots are among my favorites…just something about them…

I love all of your photos Anna!  Glad I don’t have to choose!!  Good luck with your senior year…I enjoyed getting to know you this summer.

Nick has a very individual style and it was really fun photographing something different.  He is really into martial arts and I’m just going to start this post with my favorite shot…

The water was like glass and looked great!

I was glad to be able to get a good close-up shot of this tattoo…

I don’t think I have ever done a letter jacket shot…

Nick wanted some “mafia” shots as well…

And had a couple of different hats…

He also hopes to one day work for the FBI…he would fit in for sure!  All he needed in this shot was a headphone coming out of his jacket! 

And finally the storyboard…

It was nice to meet you Nick and you too Tammy!  Good luck with everything and I really hope you get into the FBI someday!

Hannah came from the Kearney area for her senior pictures…

This session was a challenge in a way…not because Hannah isn’t photogenic or anything but because she didn’t want anything country, old or anything outdoors.  Since that is mainly what I photograph and I’m very  much a country girl…it was a challenge to come up with a variety of shots while staying in my studio. 

The part that wasn’t a challenge was guessing what she likes and doesn’t like.  She is very open about sharing that which made things easier on me…

I really like the way the khaki background accentuates her beautiful blond hair…

Hannah liked the plain colored backgrounds so we incorporated the blue into her pictures as well…

I love this fun shot…and this background is one of my favorites!

I did talk her into a few outside…

Thank you Lisa and Hannah for driving all the way here and putting your confidence in me to deliver just what you want out of your senior photos.  Good luck with your senior year!

I have taken pictures of these kiddos several times and I just love them.  The older 2 girls are always so excited to see me and have their picture taken…such wonderful subjects!

This is Reagan…she has such pretty eyes…

And how cute is this?  Love the hair!

What a cool sister shot…

It was obvious to us the whole time we were taking pictures that it was going to storm so we were trying to get as many in as we could before we got wet.  We had Daniel in this bucket when it started to lightning so that was the end of bucket for sure!

Another sweet sister picture…

We tried to finish our session inside but before we even got the baseball shots taken the electricity went out.  We had Carrie’s 4 kids along with my 2 in the basement at the time and when the lights went out it was pitch black.  We had crying babies and freaking out little girls…but my husband came to the rescue with a lantern so we could at least find our way back up the stairs.  Good thing Carrie is a go-with-the-flow kind of person or she may never come back after that!  I’m glad they  made it back to Sidney okay…the storm was pretty intense that night.  Daniel is the baby on my website laying in the baseball glove so we are going to do a series of pictures with the same glove and do a storyboard at the end.  I can’t wait…it will be adorable!

Thanks Carrie for braving the storm with me.  Hope the shots we got were worth it!

I have taken these girls’ pictures several times and they are so much fun!  Can’t you just hear the giggles when you see this one of Carli?

And here is Kiersten who has changed so much in the last 6 months…

Kassidy is always smiling!

Amie and Trevor are so good about having individual pictures with each child which I think is pretty cool…so often with 2nd and 3rd children, they just get grouped in with their siblings, but each of these girls will have images with just her Mommy and Daddy. 

Kassidy seems to be enjoying the kisses from her Daddy!

The girls had so much fun when we let them just do whatever they wanted…and I love this image that resulted from that…

Cute family picture…

She is such a happy baby…

Thanks so much Trevor and Amie!  I hope you are having a wonderful weekend at the lake!

Senior season is in full swing…I have so many sessions to edit it is crazy! This is Garrett…

Very quiet…but very nice kid…

He has a really great serious look…

He was up for anything I wanted him to do…

He even leaned into tree branches that probably weren’t very comfortable but there were no complaints!

I love this one because he wanted to have a few with his sunglasses on his head…then I saw him this past weekend with his sunglasses on his head just like this so it is definitely “him”…

I really like this highway shot…the weather cooperated so nicely for us…a little cloudy and we were good to go!  If only they all could be like this one…

Thanks Garrett and good luck with your senior year!

What a beautiful wedding…and a beautiful couple!

I love the way this one turned out during the ceremony…with the focus blurred on the bride and groom…

This wedding was in Chelsea’s parents’ yard here in Chappell…in 100 degree weather…it was a hot one!

Here is Chelsea with her best friend and maid of honor…

Matt is from England and they met through UTube.  I have never gotten emotional at a wedding before but I did at this one…maybe because I was standing so close to them during the ceremony or maybe because the love they have for each other is so visible…

Shortly after the wedding Matt had to return to England and wait for their paperwork to go through…I’m sure it has been really hard on both of them!

I’m actually lucky I made it to this wedding at all.  Chelsea’s mom called me a couple of weeks before they were getting married to see if I by chance had the date open.  I looked at my calendar and assumed I was looking at a Saturday and cleared 3 sessions so I could do the wedding.  I moved the other sessions to Sunday.  Then on Friday morning about 7:44 I got a call from Chelsea’s mom asking me if I was going to take pictures of her getting ready at the beauty shop.  I said yes of course at 7am tomorrow right?  She said no, the wedding is today!  Oh my gosh!!  After a small 5 minute panic attack, I gathered my things, got out of my PJ’s and headed to the beauty shop to start the day.  I was there by 8:00 so I think I did pretty good, especially since the wedding started at 9 am.  I am the kind of person who goes with the flow and doesn’t plan a whole lot and I often “fly by the seat of my pants” which in this case turned out to be a VERY good trait to have. 

I’m posting so many because Matt isn’t able to view the slideshows on his iphone and can’t get to a computer for a few days…so I wanted to show him as many as I could this way…

They are just so beautiful!

The flowers were so pretty…it was hard to pick one of the rings/flowers to share…

Love this one…

Congralutations Chelsea and Matt!  I wish you all the best and for the next 8 weeks to fly by so you can be together again!!

I was soooo excited to finally meet Miss Lily…for personal reasons rather than professional ones…

Lily is the daughter of my very best friend growing up…and the granddaughter of my OT boss…

This was my first official on location photography shoot where I did some shooting indoors…I am loving the way the natural light coming in the windows makes her eyes so sparkly!

Becca (Lily’s mommy) and her husband Eric live in the Washington DC area so we don’t get to see them very often…Eric’s grandmother made this dress for Lily and she couldn’t have been cuter in it!

And this was the first time I got to meet Lily…She is 5 months old…and I just love looking at these pictures because even though she bears a very strong resemblance to her Daddy, I can see so much of Becca in her too.  This was a bonnet that was worn by Becca’s grandfather when he was a baby…so cool!

She was pretty happy for her photo shoot…

And she is doing really well sitting up for only being 5 months old…we had to use things to sit her in because she isn’t completely sitting on her own yet but it won’t be long. 

So cute!

And I wanted to include one of her Mommy Becca as well…I have so many wonderful memories growing up with Becca and it was so special to get to meet her baby and spend some time with them. 

Congratulations Becca and Eric on your sweet baby girl and congrats to Cyndy and Tom as well.  You will be the coolest grandparents on earth!!