WRITTEN FOR MY GIDEON, ON HIS 16TH BIRTHDAY I was twenty-three. It was June and I had all the doors and windows open to the summer. I took the test, flipped it over, and walked outside to pick a few wild flowers for the bathroom vase. I didn’t even make it to the porch before […]

Sometimes you just need to book the dang girl’s trip. The laugh-till-you-pee, talk-till-you-cry, shop-till-you-drop, dance-party-in-the-car kind of thing. So this month we did. We had a blast tromping around Joshua Tree and taking a break from the regular grind of life. It wasn’t a work trip, but I managed to talk everyone into looking cute […]

The shoemaker’s children have no shoes, the mechanic’s car is leaking oil, and the photographer never takes photos….of their own family! Hanna and I have both experienced the truth of these statements. When you spend so many hours behind the camera, sometimes the last thing you feel like doing is hauling around expensive equipment and […]

In 2021 we have 10 kids between us that range from three to eighteen. We are on year 11 of Relic. Life is crazy. Work is crazy. Any given day Heidi is locking herself in the bathroom to take notes on your session, keeping a cool, professional demeanor while her 3 year old is chucking […]