Mine | Elk River Children's Photographer

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My kiddos bday | Elk River Photographer

I don't post much from my own life on here, and it's a goal of mine this year to capture more moments from my own family's life... Now that my boys are a little older, it's easier to carry around my camera and just step back some and watch.

My oldest turned 7 recently, and it has just flown by. We had an awesome birthday party at SkyZone... so perfect for getting energy drained out of these kids! 

I can't believe we're rounding the corner to the end of 1st grade, and my youngest starting all day kindergarten. I tell new parents at pretty much every newborn session how fast it goes, and I know I was told when I was first having kids. I guess you just don't realize it until you turn around, and your kids are both in school how fast those first years go! My, how I miss the chubby cheeks, and the wobbly first steps. We've come into a whole new age now, with school drama, missing teeth, and inviting girls from school to birthday parties. It's all new to me, and I still can't believe how old it makes me feel some days. I am so grateful for these amazing boys, and how healthy and happy they are! They are like energizer bunnies- and I so wish I could bottle their energy in a pill! If you know me at all though, you probably know I heart my coffee, and I am not sure how I would make it through a day without. lol... Or maybe I just wouldn't want to :) 

On a side note, when working on personal images, I can stray from my usual editing a little, and have some fun. A great place to find some awesome actions, textures and other tutorials is the coffeeshop blog. 

You can find it here:

http://www.thecoffeeshopblog.com/

 I was having a little fun with the CoffeeShop Soft Velvet Matte FREE action from the blog. There is a lot of free stuff on there, and if you love it, show her some love and donate a little for sharing her hard work and talent with everyone for free :)

Hope everyone had an awesome St. Patty's Day this year, and is staying warm... I'm about so sick of the snow here in MN, I'm ready to move...  like I say every year... 

 Kaden had their 100th day at school, where they can dress up like an old man/woman. So he wanted to look old :) hahaha, which meant of course he needed a mustache

 

Been a while.... | Styled Sessions Revisited

It has been a while since I posted anything on here... I keep saying I'm going to get better, and here I am again, saying it's been forever! :( Maybe someday I will keep up on blogging! lol

I've got an awesome workshop coming up for a small group of photogs to do a 2 day shooting and editing mentorship, and I'm so excited about it! 

We've got some adorable models all lined up for the Friday evening outdoor portion, and another adorable little girl for the Saturday in studio before we hit the editing portion. A lot of ground to cover, but it's going to be so much fun! 

I love pulling together styled shoots, so as I was going over some ideas for some styled shoots I have coming up, I revisited a couple of the styled shoots from last year :) I have several more, but these were two that I just ran across and thought I would share some of the images I never shared before!