Hello bloooooooog laaaaaaaand!

I'm so excited to share these with you. They are of my new photo friend, Laura, and her sweet little family! I had been looking forward to this session for, well, months really! I first "met" Laura here on the Interwebs a few months back. We became instant Facebook friends and e-mail buddies and planned a little session-swap (we photograph them in exchange for them photographing us...our session is planned for April). Hooray!

Meeting Laura came at just the right time. You see, as much as we LOVE photography and are so blessed to get to do it...doing photography AND working a full-time job AND doing house renovations AND just doing life in general ALL at the same time... can get kind of overwhelming. It's hard to balance and know where your priorities should be and occasionally, questions and doubts come in to play. I think having some local support and having people to talk shop with, bounce ideas off of, etc... is extremely important. That kind of support and those kind of friends can be hard to find though, especially in small communities, because everyone is essentially everyone else's competition. I was sooo excited to talk with Laura and learn that she too was looking for this AND is just as nice and encouraging as can be! I love it! That's how things should be, ya know? It was just the reassurance I needed to keep pluggin' along! =)

Anyway, back to the session! Laura had been throwing wardrobe and session ideas at me for a while and the more she did, the more excited I got! Even though I was a tad nervous when we got there (hello! shooting for another photographer is kind of intimidating) we had an absolute blast during their session. We hit up a couple different locations, they all looked fantastic, we got to use Laura's newest Craigslist find (awesome gold chair), I got to pet some baby cows (be still my beating heart), and a special adorable little somebody got a lollipop at the end!! =) We couldn't have asked for a better picture day.

Enjoy!