This year I have gotten quite a few requests to do pictures for extended families.  I even did my OWN extended family pictures!  These are a challenge for any photographer.  It’s hard to get a large group looking the same way and it’s hard not to lose the interest of younger kids who have no […]

A month ago Jenell got some devastating news.  During a routine checkup her physician found cancer.  What?  She had no symptoms!  She is too young!  It isn’t fair!  Yes to all of those things, but cancer doesn’t care.  F#$k cancer. Here’s the thing.  Jenell has a big heart and is always the first in line […]

If feels like summer has just melted away.  I guess that’s what happens when you are gone for two weeks!  How can it be that we are already supposed to be school shopping?  Sheesh! I usually do a night out with the girls but this year I think we are going to have to do […]

The second half of our story finds our heros in France.  (That sounds quite grand, right?)  On Friday morning we took the Eurostar train from London to France.  The train only took 2.5 hours and was a lovely way to travel. The station, in France, however, was not so great.  It wasn’t a great neighborhood […]

Last Christmas we gave the girls a gift that they have eagerly been anticipating.  An Epic European Excursion.  In July the time had finally arrived and we were so ready! While we were prepared for so many things (we had 75 protein bars, rain coats, bandaids, etc.) we were woefully unprepared for the heat.  There […]