Joe and Tiffany

  Joe and Tiffany were married on May 9, 2008

We started the day at the golf course with the guys, I love to drive the golf carts! They had to split into three different groups while they were on the course, so Ryan and I got to drive back and forth to the different groups, so fun! I don't know that much about golf but Joe and his groomsmen were having a great time.  

After the golf course, I went to Tiffany's house for the getting ready pictures. Tiffany's nieces and nephew where there getting ready, they are so cute! 

Tiffany is a beautiful woman, she has that classic movie star look to her, she was also one of the nicest people I've ever met, that just made her even more beautiful!

She even helped her bridesmaids get ready! I love this picture because its usually the other way around. 

The reception was very romantic, the whole room was lit with red lights, very pretty!

Ryan and Melissa's Engagement Pictures

  

Ryan and Melissa are getting married this August, I'm really looking forward to it, we had so much fun with the engagement pictures.

We went to Mullarkey's, the bar where Ryan works and also where he and Melissa met. It's a really cool Irish pub in downtown  Willoughby, the owner was nice enough to let us come in and take some pictures before the bar opened. We also walked around town a little, and even played on the swings for a while. 

 

Mallori's Maternity Session

 

 

I did a maternity session with Mallori and Harvey and I wanted to share some of the pictures. Mallori is one of those perfect pregnant women, she looks radiant and seems to be enjoying every moment of her pregnancy. I can't wait to their birth session!

 

 

 

Winter Wonderful

      

Last Sunday was a wonderful day! My brother Rick and his kids came over and we had "Super Breakfast" (the way my dad makes it, yumm!! its potatoes, eggs, cheese and anything else you feel like putting in). We don't have it very often but there's nothing better!!

After that we all bundled up and went to the park for some sled riding. It was such a nice day, not to cold, just cold enough. I brought my camera of coarse so I got some great pictures of my brother and Tom (my husband) going down the hill with the kids and also some of the scenery. Tom is very tall and he had a lot of trouble keeping his feet in the sled so he was kicking up tons of snow which all landed right in Nadia's (5) face! When they went back up the hill she made in cover her whole face, eyes and all with her scarf. Now that takes guts! Its bad enough to go down the hill and not have much control, but she did it blindfolded! Silly girl!

I haven't been on a sled in about, well, its been so long I don't even know but I had a great time. My nephew Brent (6) and I went down the hill together and I'm not sure what happened but just after we started down the hill the sled turned completely around and we went backwards the entire way. Rick said we almost knocked out four people, we were laughing to hard to notice.

Afterwards we went to Duffy's for some hot coco and then we went to see The Spiderwick Chronicles. I think it was just a little to old for Brady, he's 4 and some of the little monsters were scary to him, so to take his mind off of it we went back to the park for more sled riding! I wish everyday could be just like this!!

 

  

OH Baby!!

          

Yesterday at 5:00 a.m. I got the phone call I had waited all weekend for! I was "on call" for a birth and it was time! I hurried and got everything ready and was out the door and at the hospital in no time.

This was such an incredible experience, I did Stephanie's birth pictures when Christian was born, well the labor anyway, not the delivery, and that was wonderful but this was the first time I saw a baby being born. It is so completely different when you are NOT the one in the bed, but  it was, well, INCREDIBLE!!! Hey did I say it was incredible LOL!

I really want to thank Molly and Chris for being so sweet and allowing me to document one of the most important and intimate days of there lives. I will never forget a single minute of it!

 

Just a few of my favorites.

 

     

 

It's been a while!!

 

 

You know how it is when you should do something but your so busy with everything else and you put it off?  You tell yourself "I'll do it tomorrow night" and then two weeks go by and you say "oh man, I really should do that" and then two more weeks go by. At this point you start to panic because you've left it way to long and so even the simplest thing is to overwhelming to even think about. Well, that's about where I'm at with my blog. I have had tons of things happen since my last entry so I have more than enough to talk about, I just don't know where to start!

 

We have moved out of the studio and into an office at Shan and Steph's house and I've been working from home a lot. That is proving to be more of a challenge than I thought it would be, I'm having a hard time separating work and home, I just keep thinking I should be doing the laundry or something. It's an adjustment, for sure! I would be lying if I said I didn't love it though! I've never been able to go to work in my pj's before.

I did a very interesting senior portrait session last week, we went to the IX Center. Ashley wanted someplace with a lot of color, difficult in February in Ohio. She saw an add for the IX Center and thought it would be perfect and it was! Every one was so nice there and the gardens were beautiful, good call Ashley.