I *heart* FALL!

I'm BACK! Yay! We survived the wedding chaos and now instead of stressing about wedding plans - I can relax and enjoy my favorite season - FALL! I walked around Irvine Park today and snapped some shots of the beautiful colors. It's pretty gloomy and cloudy out though. Hopefully the sun comes out for the two sessions I have this weekend!
Here's a few photos - and there's more on my Flickr site.



And "tis the season" for beautiful fall-foliage photography! My good friend and wedding photographer Tiffany Brubaker took some amazing photos this week - you can see them on her Flickr site too! (hers are way better!) =)

I'll be posting photos from our honeymoon soon!

One week to go...

With just one week before we walk down the aisle, you'd think we'd be running around like chickens with our heads chopped off - finishing up last minute details. But - we are pretty much set! So we decided to take advantage of today's beautiful fall weather and take the kiddos down to the school playground. We initially attempted to fly kites - but that didn't work so well without wind. =(
It felt pretty good to know in one week we'll be Mr. and Mrs. - yet we're able to actually enjoy our last weekend of single-dom relaxing and having fun with the kids.




Getting this shot was harder than it looks! (These things swing around!)



Caitlyn was Miss Model... "April - take a picture of me HERE!... Okay, this would be a good picture over HERE!..."

I also realized after these photos I need to invest in more hair ties for her - her hair is constantly in her face! Oh well - it's more "model-esque", right??? =)

Billy was having more fun climbing the wall than posing for my camera.


Boyd and I cozy up on the bench and reflect on the fact in just one week, we'll be married! Crazy!


....PS....when we got home, I quickly snapped out of my "la la land" mood and snapped into reality when Caitlyn threw up her lunch...all over her bedroom floor. Lucky for Boyd, he was out picking up supper - so I got the honor of cleaning it up. Ahh...the joy if "instant-motherhood" =) It's a crazy road, but I'm still loving it!

Josie Amelia

Last night I had the best time with my first "official" portrait session! Meet lil' Josie - the "almost 1 year old" daughter of my good friend Jessica. It's hard to believe this little bundle of cuteness is almost one year old already - I still remember visiting her in the hospital as a premie weighing just over 3 pounds!! This session gave me some good experience and I really have to thank Jessica and Josie for putting up with all my 'demands'... "okay, sit here....no - the lighting is bad there....can you move over here?...hm...nope...let's go somewhere else" =) But I had so much fun shooting these photos, and Irvine Park in Chippewa Falls was a great location! Thanks again Jessica and Josie!!

Enjoy!










There's more! Visit my Flickr account!

Lil' Minnie

While at the family gathering a couple of weeks ago, there were a ton of thrift sales going on in the area. One of our friends came back with the cutest Minnie Mouse costume for her daughter. Once she put it on it was NOT coming off! She spent the entire afternoon in her new dress. So cute!


And "Minnie's" cousin was happily playing with his new toy as well!

At the playground

We were back at Boyd's brother's house this last weekend for a family-get-together and decided to take the kids to a near-by playground. I LOVE this time of year! Just cool enough to be comfortable in jeans and a sweatshirt! Perfect! =)