Beautiful bride

A couple weeks ago I got to take Ashley Acton's bridals. I'm not gonna lie, I was a little nervous. Bridals seem a little more important than pictures of my kids, so I really didn't want to screw them up. I think we got some really great pictures! It's hard to screw up pictures of a beautiful bride I guess, but I just wanted her to love them. Although I'm sure Heber never looks at my blog, I decided I'd wait to post them until after the wedding just in case. He can't see her in her dress before the wedding after all. They were married on Friday so I thought I'd post a few of my favorites. She looked beautiful, and down town Ogden had some great places for pictures.







How pretty is she in this one! I love it!

If anyone actually looks at my blog, leave me a comment and let me know what you think! Suggestions and advice are happily welcomed! Stay tuned for wedding pictures!

Jolynne's family

Last week I got to go take pictures of Heather's sister Jolynne and her cute family. I'm so glad we found the location we were looking for because it made for some awesome backdrops! So urban! Thanks again Jolynne! Here's a little sneak peak. Hope you love 'em!

My Camryn

My niece Camryn was up a couple weeks ago for her birthday and I got to spend the day with her. We went shopping, had her favorite lunch (panda express), and then came home and had a little photo shoot. When she was about 3 years old, and I still lived in Blanding, her and I were best friends. She hung out with me and my friends all the time. Now, we don't get to hang out near enough, so I was excited to spend her 10th birthday with her. She is such a cute girl. I love you Cam! Here are a few of the pictures we took. I was trying out a few new effects in Photoshop. Let me know what you think.

2 red haired little boys

A couple weeks ago I took some pictures of my friend Elyssa's 2 cute red haired little boys. I knew we wouldn't have a lot of time before the 2 of them gave up, so I just snapped as many as I could and I think we got some really cute shots.

This is Josh. He is an energetic little 4 year old. He is such a fun little boy and is good friends with my kids. He loves Scout and is so sweet to her.


Getting good pictures of him was easy. He was such a little poser and very cooperative (for about 20 mintutes :)

And this is Tyler. He's just as energetic as his big brother. This kid is a dare devil and will do anything. I don't think there's anything he's afraid of. Him and Maxon are good buddies, he's just 4 months younger than Maxon.

And here's a couple of them together...

They are such fun little boys. Hope you liked the pics Elyssa!

Oh baby baby!

Thanks to Heather and her PLC, I have gotten a lot of practice at shooting babies recently and I love it! These are the 2 girls of the bunch, and were both so sweet. They are going to have to toughen up a little to hold their own against McCoy and Bryce in a couple years! This is baby Alayna, she was almost 2 months old when we took these.

And the caboose of the foursome, little Anastyn! She was just a week and half!

Thanks for all the practice ladies! Keep 'em coming!

Nicole and Trent got married..

My cousin Nicole got married last weekend and asked me to do the pictures after the wedding. Talk about pressure! Her photographer couldn't be there that day so the bride and groom went to the temple the day before to do bride/groom pictures, so at least I didn't have to try to pull that off. I figured the other pictures are just big group pictures and there's nothing artistic to that so I could probably handle it. Still a little stressful though! The wedding was packed full! I think I heard 87 people were packed into the sealing room. Needless to say, it was a little chaotic trying to take pictures with everyone after! I did learn one thing that must drive wedding photographers crazy though, it is near impossible to have everyone looking at you in any given photo. Because there are usually like 5 other people with cameras standing behind and around you taking pictures, apparently no one knows which camera to look at and you end up with a bunch of pictures where only half the people are looking at you. Other than that minor problem, I think I got some decent pictures! Nicole looked beautiful as always. They both were on cloud 9 and just so happy!

My grandpa was able to seal them. His memory is slowly going, so he was very nervous about the whole thing. He did great and made it through it. He even managed to crack a joke as he walked into the sealing room, saying to Nicole, "I don't know if we're going to be able to seal you two with Keith (Nicole's dad) going around kissing everyone!"

The bride and groom with all 15 Ivins neices and nephews!

The Ivins siblings

Nicole and all her Blanding girlfriends!

Hey buddy! Can't forget Teresa! Love her!

They had their reception that night in my parents backyard. We were all a little nervous about the weather, but it turned out to be a beautiful day!

Nicole put her sister in charge of flowers and she did awesome! She went all out and put a lot of thought into each flower (and branch) she picked. Her and a bunch of Nicoles cousins and aunts were at my parents house the night before putting together center peices until about midnight. They looked amazing!

2 of the cute flower girls. The swing set got a lot of use out of it that night!

And here's the beautiful cake, made by Kaleigh Fisher (Trent's aunt)

All the cute little flower girls running around all night were so dang cute! Oh, and of course the big girls were cute too!

The whole wedding turned out so great. It was such a great fall event and all the pretty fall colors made for some good picture taking! Thanks for letting me be a part of your special day Nicole!

More cute babes! McCoy and Bryce

A couple weeks ago I got to go take some pictures of some more cute babies. My nephew McCoy was one of them! He is such a little cutie and after taking all these pictures I've decided he looks just like big brother Cohen.




How cute is he?! His big sister has super blond hair, and his big brother's is red, and he was born with brown! Diverse family!

When I took these pictures Heather also invited her friend Lawni over who has a little baby, Bryce, who I think is just a little older than McCoy. He was bright eyed until the very end!




Look at all that hair! Such cute little buddies! I'm sure it won't be long before they are raising havoc in the neighborhood.