the orton family

Posted in Family

These are my people. My sister’s family. It’s quite a different experience photographing kids you know and spend a lot of time with, as opposed to the ones you meet the night of the session. There has to be a shift from “Hey, it’s your Aunt Jenny and usually we just hang out and goof […]

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the paxton family

Posted in Family

I had a special excitement about photographing these two lovely ladies. Kelley and Sophia are pretty much the definition of fun, and their genuine smiles and laughter are like magic. It’s been a few years since the last time, and I can’t believe how grown up miss Sophia is! She’s still every bit as much of […]

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the memming family

Posted in Family

I’ve been loving how personal and down-to-earth my family sessions have been lately. Really, they have looked a lot like real life, but with everyone in cute, coordinating clothes (and this family’s outfit game was on point!). We hang out, play with kids, go for little walks, find mini adventures, eat snacks. It’s a good life. 🙂 I get that it can be […]

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the wortman family

Posted in Family

Another sweet and amazing family to share today!! These guys are kind, full of love for each other, SUPER smiley, and sooooooooo cuuuuuuuute. Suk & Sam, have you considered family modeling? Just sayin’! I had such a great time running around, climbing trees, racing up hills and just generally adventuring with these four. Check out Henry. […]

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cord & jenna

Posted in Engagement

These two people are getting married!!!!! What a fantastic decision, because they fit together with total ease. I haven’t even known them that long, but it’s obvious they complement one another beautifully. Their love is stunning. The contentment on their faces says so much, and this image makes me happy.Yeah, girl!  Aw look at you guys […]

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the deriese family

Posted in Family

When I get the chance to hang with a family that has three fantastic little BOYS, it’s such a treat for me. I mean, I spend lots of time doing girly things with my two daughters – I absolutely love it, but hanging with the boys is a pretty fun change for a day. These three brothers […]

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the hassler family

Posted in Family

You know a family is made of solid gold if they stay calm under pressure. Allllll day long the forecast waffled on whether or not it would rain the evening of my session with these rad people, and they showed up ready to go, embracing overcast skies and wet grass. It resulted in the most […]

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brad & elise

Posted in Engagement

Sometimes starting a blog post about the amazing people I’ve gotten to spend time with, making photographic magic happen, is terribly daunting. How do I possibly condense everything I want to say about these souls into a few lines of text? I guess that’s not my job, but I’ll do my best to do justice to […]

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the cederdahl family

Posted in Family

Lake house: check. Relaxed, low-key vibes: check. Gorgeous family: check. Love, a spunky two-year-old and a touch of yellow: check, check, check! This session was SO good for my soul!!! We can talk about the amazing lake house in a bit, but first, how adorable is this crew?! I dare you not to have warm fuzzy […]

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the thomas family

Posted in Family

These are some of the best people in the world, and naturally, they’re some of my faves to photograph. They. Are. Amazing. (See what I did there? But really, click on that last one. Coralee’s newborn sessions is one of my favorites of all time.) To prove how awesome they are, they decided to make a […]

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class of 2017: sam

Posted in Senior

Friends, remember Sam (from that one time I photographed his incredible family being all awesome)? He’s graduating this year, and he KILLED his senior session. We’re talking “made-every-single-image-look-sooooo-good” killed it. Sam, let me know when you figure out how to bottle and sell that kind of confidence. 🙂 I am biased toward this one, because I had really wanted […]

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max & kelsey

Posted in Wedding

In order to have a beautiful wedding, you must start with beautiful people. Loved people. Kind-hearted, genuine, others-focused, “I-believe-in-love” people. Friends, this was a beautiful wedding. Max and Kelsey are solid gold. They are rich in friends and laughter, family and generations, and they complement one another as only they were designed to do. I […]

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the hunt family

Posted in Newborn

Get your cute-people-admiration-goggles on, because this family is maxing out the adorable scale! Newborn sessions – let’s talk about ’em. I walk in the door and it’s like time stops – nobody is in a hurry, everyone is on a tiny human’s brand new schedule, and there’s a LOT of love flowing around. But, there’s […]

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the muller family

Posted in Family

My heart feels all the best feels when I get to photograph families a second time, much less a third or fourth. I love seeing how their kids have changed, even if it’s only been a few months, and each time the dynamic is a little different and I get to know them that much […]

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the janssen family

Posted in Family

These guys are such dear friends, and while I’m not thrilled they moved away from Lincoln (lucky Iowa…), I’m over the moon that they came back through for a photo session with their sweet baby Lila! Lila is just one week younger than my youngest daughter, and it is SO fun to photograph a baby the […]

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the brost family

Posted in Family

Oh hello there, pretty pretty family! These five are the definition of laid back, and we had a morning that was just that. I loooove me a relaxed family. I also love how they coordinated outfits – Go Jenni!!! Starting things off with my favorite… This is Caleb and he’s got the EYES! Such a […]

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the boylan and connell families

Posted in Family

Ohhhhh, if ever a family stole my heart during a session it was this one. I mean, I got teary editing these because these girls are just that sugary sweet and they just melt me! Say hello to Abigal and Grace, little darlings of Andrea and Greg. The stars aligned so we could photograph them […]

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the spare family

Posted in Newborn

And then there were three! Join me in welcoming sweet, curious, cuddly Opal June to the world. She’s an awesome addition to a couple of pretty great new parents, and I had the privilege of dropping in on them as they were all getting acquainted in that first week home. My job is so crazy […]

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