Sneak Peek at the two cutest ballerina's ever

This is one of my favorites that stood out to me tonight as I was editing Grace & Olivia's pictures. More to come later this week!

3 reasons to look at this cutie again

Lots of reasons to show this cutie again. One is because he's adorable, two because I just got this new storyboard and I love it and I wanted to see how it looked on the blog, and three because I get to take this cutie pie's 3 month old pictures in just a week, I can't believe he's 3 months already!

Then it all went crashing down

You might remember a few weeks ago when I wrote about my dad's silo that had been iced down and made into a climbing competition. The other night my dad called to tell me he had heard a HUGE thud outside, when he walked out this is what he found. THANK GOODNESS no one was around when it fell. Last year it slowly melted off and was much more calm, this year it went out with a bang!

Chris, Andrea, Izzy & Wyatt

This afternoon Matt and I got to spend some time with Chris, Andrea, Izzy & Wyatt. Izzy and Wyatt had a ton of energy, so we had quite the time keeping up! They were up for just about anything that we suggested, gotta love people who are up for anything!

The whole family







Andrea wanted a few pictures of just her and Chris, I LOVE this idea! It's not very often that parents will get pictures alone, it should definitely be done more often!


The kids



We headed outside for a few pictures. It was only about 40 degrees and VERY foggy, but we worked with what we had!





And then we headed to "the rock". Unfortunately rock had a lovely moat around it, but that didn't stop Wyatt and Izzy.



The result of 'the moat'. =)

Thanks for a fun afternoon Chris and Andrea, can't wait for the jeep shoot this spring!

California Trip

We had an amazing time on vacation this past week! It was 70 degrees and sunny in California every day, it was about an 80 degree difference compared to Iowa! Here are some of my favorite pictures.

This is the best picture that I have with my awesome aunt and uncle that we stayed with. We celebrated Matt's and Mark's birthdays- make a wish!



Breakfast outdoors in the sun, need I say more?


Disney!!! Oh how I love Disney! Matt had never been to Disneyland before (or Disney world) so I was so flipping excited to show him everything! I worked at Disney world for 5 months in college so I was so excited to show him everything that I had learned to love!




Getting ready for the 3d bug's life show- loved it!




The San Diego Zoo's wild animal park. So neat!




We were able to go on a segway tour through the "Asian" animal part, it was a blast!


Matt completed his first race ever- the Pasadena 1/2 marathon. It was so neat to watch him accomplish this. I nearly cried with the gun started, and when he finished too.


Hanging with Buster- my aunt and uncle's cat, love him!

Off to California!

Matt and I are off to California today!! I CAN'T WAIT to get some awesome photographs while I'm gone. I'll try to post a few favorites while I'm gone, otherwise I'll get some up as soon as we get back.

A wintery, foggy mix

A few weeks ago we had some crazy weather here in Iowa. I was out at my dad's farm and got this photograph. I think it depicts a perfect, wintery Iowa day. And although at this time of the year I've had just about enough of winter in Iowa, it is darn beautiful sometimes.


And this would be my dad's dog Wilson (who I picked out as a puppy at the shelter one day when my dad was out of town). He is now the best dog EVER! He is a huge sweetie and LOVES to ride around with my dad while he is working. This picture was taken during the ice climbing competition (you can read more about it here on my personal blog). He was EXHAUSTED and landed on this couch in one of the barns- too cute!