“I growd in your tummy, Momma?” He said?   I scooped him up into my arms and snuggled him tight and said “No, sweet boy you didn’t”   And then he said, “I sleep on your chest when I a baby?”   And I always say “Yes! you spent months snuggled up right here!” As […]

Adore… I absolutely loved meeting and spending time with this sweet couple! This session was about capturing their love for each other… and celebrating the start of their adoption journey. When I first got her email about what she wanted to do for their session… it was totally inspiring. And she worked so hard to […]

THE RISK… This whole process of foster adoption has been refining. More refining than I ever had imagined. The emotions have been so hard to articulate let alone communicate. It has been a process that I have been working so hard to be surrendered to. Most days have battled between hopeful and intensely frustrated… some […]

I had such a sweet… sweet time this past weekend! This is a bit of a personal post… I met up with our social worker from San Joaquin County and we were able to capture mini portrait sessions for 12 kiddos in local foster and foster adoptive families. For years Jared and I loved serving […]

Welcome!!!  This blog series is something that has been growing in my heart for some time! We are hoping to bring you stories that are real and authentic. The heart for me behind this series comes from a couple of different places… first, we have been getting so many questions about adoption and I feel […]