“I love portrait and wedding photography in order to provide my clients with marriage-saving and family-making photography.  I’m passionate about taking pictures that are more than just pictures, that are memories that serve to keep the passion aflame in other families and marriages.  I love photojournalism for so very many reasons.  With photojournalism I get to tell a story with my images and see my work published at least once a month.  In the process I get to see awesome places, meet awesome people, and taste awesome food too, can’t beat that!”

“In many ways becoming a mom improved my photography work.  It helped me streamline my process and focus on what mattered most about my business.  I learned to follow my gut more as I edited because I didn’t have time to tinker around with every preset or setting, I now strive to choose what feels right from the get-go and run with it.

I’ve also never loved wedding editing.  I love photographing the wedding and taking care of all the correspondence but the hours upon hours of wedding editing was not my cup of tea.  In honor of being the best mom I can be I started hiring a great friend and fellow photographer to handle my wedding editing for me.  She edits the weddings as if she were me, it’s perfect.  This way I don’t get frustrated with my babies when they’re making it impossible for me to get work done.  I’m more than happy to pay my friend to do it too!  Better to put my money in the pocket of a buddy than a stranger I think, especially when she does a perfect job.

Having kids, particularly hosting the daycare at my house, has forced me to be wiser with my schedule.  I like that I know more what to expect out of each day.  I have the daycare Monday through Fridays, I edit and otherwise work while kids are napping and playing nicely, I do my photoshoots on Saturdays and I take 2 Mondays off of daycare a month to do photography as well, then Sundays I take as a Sabbath completely.”

“Starting the daycare was entirely a God thing.  He put the little idea in my head as Maisy got older.  I entertained taking on a kid part time as a guaranteed play buddy for Maisy during the week.  It never became something I pursued though.  One day on my Natural Mamas Facebook group a local mom posted that she needed a caregiver for her newborn, someone who cloth diapered.  I replied to her post simply asking what days and times she needed care to see if it’s something I thought would work for my work life and family.  Next thing I know another mom, who saw my reply, asked if I would take her two girls Monday to Friday.  Me and all my friends and family thought I was crazy for saying yes to four kids (including Maisy) under 3 years old.  All I knew is that I felt the Lord asking me to say yes, so I did.  And man am I glad I did!  The income is a side note for me, I feel so blessed to have such amazing playmates in my home every day for my fervently people-oriented and extroverted toddler.  Now, one and a half years after I said yes to daycare I have two of my own kids and five others in my care all day every weekday.”