Beautiful Aveyda

 

Baby Aveyda is such a little DIVA!!!!  She is so much fun to photograph, and always has the best outfits, I love it!! Can't really go wrong with a shirt that says "peace, love and lip gloss."  Her parents and family are all so sweet and I am so glad I got the chance to photograph her again.  

Can this family get any cuter??

Love this series with her mom

Check out the yellow shoes, love it!!

one of my favorites!!

can I call them family?

So let me just tell give you a little history about this family. I met them when I first moved up here way back in 2001. They were looking for a nanny, and my friend Megan gave them my name. The next thing you know, I was watching their precious little boy Matthew, who I think was 2 months old at that point.  I have heard it said that God brings people into your life for a reason, and the Bernier family was definitely one of God's blessings on my life that year as I started photography school.  Needless to say, our relationship has grown over the 7 years that I have known them, and I now consider them some of my closest friends. They have been there for me through my ups and downs, and I am continually amazed at how loving and giving they are.  I cannot believe how much Matthew and Mitch have grown up to be such big boys. Watch out girls, they are going to be heart throbs someday.  Love you guys!!

love it!!  so adorable

can you say Gap ad??

he lost his first tooth, how exciting!! I had to get a picture of that :)

WOW!!  look at those eyes

boys will be boys

Jay + Amy:Married

A couple weeks ago Jamie and I photographed another fun wedding for bellagala. The wedding day was beautiful and the weather couldn't have been anymore perfect.  Jay and Amy are so much in love, and they are totally meant for each other. Thanks so much for letting us spend the day with you and document your perfect love :) 

This was Jamie's view of the first look. Loved their expressions when they saw each other for the first time. I love it when brides choose the option to have a first look. It is always so much more intimate and makes for extra time to capture just the two of them in a more relaxed setting.  

They hired a driver for the day from Classic Auto Limousine Services to escort them around in a Bentley, I would tell you the year of the car, but I'm not for sure.  So if any of you out there are looking for a sweet ride to escort you around in, give this company a call, they're awesome!!

love this perspective!

Once again, another FUN wedding party!! 

loved the car and detail shots that Jamie captured.

Their wedding was at Oak Ridge conference center in Chaska. Such a beautiful place to have a wedding, they really do a fantastic job with all the details, and the food was amazing!!
This picture of the purse was a really neat story that the grandma told us. She said that she needed a fancy purse for the day to go with her dress, and she knew her mom had used one long ago, so she went into the closet and found this one.  Little did she know that when she opened the purse there would be a wedding program in there from Amy's parents wedding day. How special is that. Love that story :)
Amy and Jay had fireworks to top off the night. Such a great ending to a fabulous day!!

Gindt Family: Rockin' it!

So last week I photographed one of the most fun families!!  They totally rocked it, and I fell in love with them and this session. I love it when families are willing to try new things and be creative along with me, it makes my job so much more fun. Shawn has been such a sweetheart to me through this whole process and I think I have made a new friend in her :) She cracks me up and I can tell that her and her hubby are doing an awesome job raising the three boys.  Thanks again Shawn, you and your family ROCK!!

such handsome boys!!

love this one!!

just picking on little brother having a blast!!

One of my favorites from the session, just because it isn't a "normal" family portrait

are they totally working it here or what??

Tracy & Chris: Married

Okay so this wedding that I shot for Bellagala took place about three weeks ago now, and I have to say it was right up there with my favorite weddings of the summer. Tracy and Chris have such a special bond, and it was an honor to get to spend the day with them. Love just radiates from the two of them, and I know without a doubt in my mind that they were meant to be together forever.  Thanks so much for letting us spend your special day with you. We had such a blast!! 

Tracy did such an awesome job with the details of the day. They even had a signature drink called the Penntini (their last name is Penn)  How FUN! Oh and they had matching bobble heads for each of the groomsmen and themselves. 

Is this image rockin' or what?? Jamie captured this one!!  We totally walked right onto this farm property that was across from the church. I went up to the house to ask permission, but no one answered so we acted like we owned the place and started taking sweet pics!!

Such a FUN wedding party!!

Love the casual feel to this one

Love the emotion in this picture!!

lil' cuties

Just wanted to share a few pics from a session I had last week. I am so bad at blogging, and I promise to put up pictures from my last month of sessions, but I wanted to share a few of these with my fun blog readers. Nothing says cute any better than a little blonde hair boy who is rockin' the mohawk! Him and his sister were such cutie pies!!