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Lifestyle Family Films – Empty house filled with love.

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Lifestyle Family Films. Close your eyes and imagine selling the home you brought your children to from the hospital. Those walls are filled with memories, so it is only right you give it a proper goodbye, right? Half this film was documented on their last night in this home, when the main living spaces were empty with […]

Colorado Family Films – 3 Little Monkeys

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Colorado Family Films. 3 little monkeys jumping in the bed… I will just stop there because no one fell off and bumped their head. The best thing about watching family films is hearing their little voices and the littlest monkey in this family is the PERFECT age to record an interview. I wish I had […]

Denver Family Films | Home is wherever I’m with you

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Denver Family Films. Who remembers last summer when Kayla came to visit and filmed my family? This Spring I traveled across the Atlantic to visit Kayla and her crew, with Chloe in tow.  You can see a few personal images with her in them from May’s 10 on 10. It was exactly what you would […]

Denver Family Photojournalism – Watching my Vimeo channel

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Denver Family Photojournalism. We spent the long Memorial Day weekend hanging out around the house.  James’ mother and sister came to visit so we had fun introducing them to a few new #LafayetteLocal restaurants and our new favorite board game Catan Jr.  Our pool didn’t open until after they left today, so Chloe wasn’t able […]

Get in the Damn Photos – Thoughts from Instagram

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Real talk: I don’t think anyone feels glamorous after delivering a new human (or two) into the world, but as the mother of a seven-year-old I can tell you it was the happiest.  Visiting Hours (sessions) are about the new baby and while I place a LOT of emphasis on the sibling meeting (if applicable), they […]

18 months and counting with June

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When I met June in January of 2017 the most exciting thing to do was watch her kick her legs, make noises while daddy read The Cat in the Hat, and inhale her bottle.  Fast forward to April 2018, now she runs around the house, feeds herself waffles and fruit, and gets in on the […]

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