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Do me a favor and help welcome these two, Riva and Brooks, to the blog world. They are some of my best friends, and they have started a journey to become full time missionaries to LITERALLY the other side of the world. They will be working with missionary families, specifically, MK’s. Not military kids, MISSIONARY […]

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I remember when I first met Amanda. I remember thinking she was so cute! We’re both JMUers, and involved with Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. We both lived in the Dude Ranch [we name houses at JMU]. And we both had crushes on guys in the Nut House. But what can I say about these two? This […]

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Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. ~ Paul Tillich, German Theologian I have been realizing lately that I am much better at the concept of OBEDIENCE than I am at DISCERNMENT. And that might be true of everyone, but the realization just manifested itself in my life. Chad and I […]

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I’m starting to experience how fun it is to shoot in the same town in which you live. I love having a chance to scout out a few places to shoot before I arrive. The shoot goes by SO fast because only a small percentage of time is spent finding the light. Laura and Pete […]

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The only bride I’ll ever meet who was glad it snowed on her wedding day. A wedding that was supposed to be outside. Because TR proposed on the ski slopes, she was happy to have the snow as a little reminder. She giggled as she told me how he fell a few times and was […]

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This is Elizabeth. Two weeks ago, she married her best friend. Love this shot on the left by my second shooter, Sarah.

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Get ready for this one, readers. It might get emotional. And I have way too many images, but I really had trouble narrowing it down! Diana is my childhood best friend. We grew up riding together. We had sleep overs and talked about boys. We sang to the Grease soundtrack and Michael Jackson cd’s using […]

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A few months ago, I posted about a luncheon that I attended. [Click to read about Broken to Beautiful.] I auctioned off a portrait session with one Fine Art Print and a DVD of images. I heard, as they announced the winners of the 100 some items, that a girl named Ali had won my […]

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