The day after Tiffani & Jake’s wedding I had the privilege of photographing a couple that was part of their special day.  Leoni & Jeremy live in a town called Bonny Lake.  Doesn’t that just sound like the cutest town ever??  Well, it seriously was so gorgeous…just green green green!!  AND although Jeremy has a strong dislike towards them, dandelions everywhere!!  I loved it!!!  I met them at their house and they drove me back into the mountains to a beautiful forest (remember me saying that I thought Edward might jump out!!)!!  Then we stopped at a fun little park on the way back to their house for some shots and then of course we had to get some pictures of their super cute pups!!  I LOVED that they wanted to do some fun pictures as a couple before they start expanding their family with some little munchkins!!  Couples should have great photos together beyond their wedding day!!  They have been super patient with me finishing their images with the move and everything, so I am thrilled to be posting these to the blog because that means their CD is headed to them tomorrow morning!!!  Here were a few of my faves from our afternoon!!

How amazing is this forest!!??

If I had sum up these two in an image I felt like this one was it…so perfect and fun!!

Get after it girl…

I love this image on the train tracks…something about embarking on a new adventure!! 

These next two are my FAVORITES!!!!

Love those Dandelions!!! 

Thanks you two!!  Once you start that family of yours…I’ll have to make a special trip up to photograph your growing family!!!

Blessings!

Janelle

Wow…the last few weeks have been a whirlwind!!  The next few will definitely be as well (we’re moving and I’m less than 10 weeks from baby #4…yikes!).  Just so you know that I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth I wanted to share a few things that I have been working on.  I just got back from Washington where I had the privilege of photographing one of my best friends’ little sister’s wedding!  I took a teensy-weensy time out with my hubby to hang in Seattle and enjoy a Starbucks (or two or three or…I lost count, seriously!).  I’ll post some pictures of our little adventure in the next week or so.  On another note…I was so proud of my man who has helped capture the last two weddings with me and is educating himself as much as possible with both literature, practice, etc. to shoot more and more with me!!  So, much fun to have a built in date while you are working AND just so you know that I am not exaggerating, my next wedding post will include some of his pictures as well!! 

Well, I have lots and lots of work to be working on so, I will keep this short!!  Here are some pics of things in the works (more to come very soon!!)

Jordyn & Jamie (gorgeous Sedona wedding!!)

Carlton & Ronda…headed for Senior Year at Boulder Creek

Tiffani & Jake’s “First Look”…this seriously was the sweetest moment of the day…thank you Washington for giving us intermittent sunshine!!  Totally love that mom, sister & niece were all watching this moment from afar!! 

Leoni & Jeremy…L & J were both in Jake & Tiffany’s wedding  & wanted to do some fun pictures just the two of them the day after the wedding…they took me to this amazing forest and seriously I thought that Edward was going to jump out at us…hee hee!!  But FOR REAL we were only 3 hours from Forks, WA (for those non-Twilight fans - that is where the books take place!)!!!

Ok, now here is a test, did you notice anything different about these images??  How about my NEW logo!!  What’s up??!!  :)  So, excited that the fantastic Aleta worked me up a way fabulous logo!!!  Here is the final version…Seriously, couldn’t be happier!!  Check her out if you are looking to revamp your own look!! 

This is about the time when I hear that little voice saying, “get back to work!” and so, I must!!  Can’t wait to do some fun blog posts on more images from the sessions/weddings I just did sneak peeks of!!  Hope you are having a fantastic week!!  BTW…Happy Birthday to my BIG BOY today…I can’t believe that I am a Mommy to a SIX year old now!!  Love you, Buddy!!

Blessings!

Janelle

I am going to date myself here, but almost 11 years ago I had an amazing thing happen…my best friend and love of my life asked me to be his wife.  One of the happiest moments in my life!!  I remember it like it was yesterday…I’ll have to blog about that story another day because this post is about someone else that had one of the happiest moments in her life just happen…That’s right…Jaimie is getting MARRIED!!  I have had the pleasure of knowing Jaimie for a quite a while now.  She is a fabulous stylist at DollyRockers…which my hubby’s family owns.  She is absolutely gorgeous, but don’t hate, because Jaimie is one of the sweetest people you will ever meet.  A genuine heart and just a delight in so many way…hmmm I wonder why Mike is smitten with her?  I met Mike for the first time at our engagement shoot and what a sweetheart he is (oh and he isn’t so bad to look at either).

Ok, total sidebar right now…when I processed these images I noticed that Mike has the most gorgeous amber colored eyes…I think Jaimie might have found herself a hot vampire…LOL!!

I loved watching him and Jaimie laugh, smile, and get lost in each other!  I couldn’t be happier for both of them!!  Some of these images are my favorites ever…and seriously wanted to just pretend I was Jaimie and put the picture up on my FB, yes she is that beautiful!  Well, I’ll stop blabbing, because I know most of you have skipped over my rantings and gone straight to the images…Congrats guys!!!  Seriously, can’t wait till next year…Jaimie you are going to be one fabulous bride!!

Thank again, you two love birds!!  {HUGS}

Blessings!

Janelle

Yeah…I finally got my sample album!!  I just posted Dave & Amy’s Engagement Session on my blog and I thought they would be the perfect for my sample album to show clients!!  They are the cutest couple and we had some amazing images from our session!!  This particular album is a 10″ leather flush mount album with 20 front and back pages.  I love it!!  Here are a few sample pictures so, you can see too!!

PS…my NEW logo is completed!!  I can’t wait to share it with you…very soon!! 

Hope you are having a wonderful Wednesday!!

Blessings!

Janelle

I have had the pleasure of knowing Dave for just over seven years now.  He came on to the Glendale Fire Department at the same time that my hubby did and they were in the Academy together.  Well…Dave met a girl.  After a few years of being on the department Dave became a mentor for the new recruits at the academy.  Well, Amy worked in the Fire Science office  at GCC.  What started out as merely friends for six months…Dave finally asked her on a real date.  The rest so they say is history, but more than that they have been each others’ support through the last five years of ups and downs, school, promotions, graduations…they are the best of friends.  Dave’s proposal was sweet & perfect at a cabin overlooking Lake Arrowhead in the mountains of California.  He got down on one knee with their dog Brewer by his side and asked…She said…“yes” (and probably…“it’s about time” haha - I had to add that, Amy!)  They are a perfect compliment to each other and I can’t wait to be a part of their BIG day this September when they say…“I do”. Their wedding is at The Windmill Winery in Florence, AZ and I think I am just as excited as they are because the picturesque scenery is to die for!!  We are going to have so much fun!!  Speaking of fun…we had a ball doing their engagement session!!  It was actually back in December, but I am FINALLY posting it.  We started out at the beautiful Boojum Tree, then headed to Historic Downtown Glendale, and lastly ended up at Station 157.  So, without further babble from me…here are their pics (and yes there is more than normal…we had WAY too many fabulous ones!!)

Thanks so much you two!!  I can’t wait for your wedding in September!!  It is going to be all sorts of fabulous!!

Blessings,

Janelle

Again, I realize how much I have lacked in blog love the past few months when I still have a slew of sessions to post.  I will get there eventually and I don’t want to skip out on posting these sessions even though it has been a little while.  In the meantime I am working on some different things for my business as I have had some wonderful down time.  My husband and I just recently celebrated 10 years of marriage and had an amazing little get-away in California, but a post on that a little later.  However it gave my hubby and I some time to talk about our life, family, goals, work and our direction for the next little bit.  Although we realize that God is driving where we will go over the next few years, we are praying through some of our “soft” decisions and goals.  I am working on a post of that too!  Basically, I feel like I have enough things to post for the next few months, so now just to get my booty in gear (like my hubby who is doing P90X Plyometrics in the other room as I write and I’m so jealous…ok not jealous of plyometrics that particular workout it killer, but maybe I should at least be doing some prenatal yoga instead of nothing at all…hee hee!) and get these posted.

So, here is a wedding that I was able to photograph back at the beginning of November.  A beautiful ceremony filled with love and centered around Jesus.  I was delighted to be a part of it.  Right after the ceremony we ran over to Saguaro Ranch Park for some beautiful scenery.  Here were some of my favorites from our time at the park.

Thanks, Mr. & Mrs. Carrothers for letting me be a part of your day…Congrats!!

Blessings,

Janelle

So, for obvious reasons when I am with Katie & Brandon I want to just repeat over and over again…”The beautiful people…the beautiful people…”  The answer to the question you are thinking if you know who sang that song…is no I have never listened to that artist’s music, so NOT my genre, however that is the only line of that song that I know and it fits!!  Haha!  Well, they are beautiful people not just on the obvious outside, but completely on the inside too!!  These cool cats were game for whatever as we strolled the streets of Old Town Scottsdale and did a little sneaking on the outskirts of a gorgeous cotton field.  Also, a HUGE Thank You to The Garage by Ivy for providing the exquisite bouquet for our shoot!!   I have been dying to post these and although I had a whole slew of them I narrowed it down to a several faves from our afternoon together.

Thanks again you two for a fabulous session!!!  I hope that you are enjoying married life to the fullest!!

Blessings!

Janelle

This is something to celebrate!!  25 years of marriage.  The perfect post inbetween my little challenges.  I met C & P last year around Christmas to do family photos at their home.  They have three beautiful kids and two adorable grand-daughters.  C called me because this month marked a momentous occasion.  Their 25 year wedding anniversary.  Fabulous.  This is something to celebrate, to document…to remember.  25 years takes a LOT of work…Congratulations to you both!!  Thanks for letting me be a part of the celebration!!

My favorite of the day…

I love the way P is nestled in…

awwwww…

She knows how to get him to laugh…

This one just makes me happy…

P designed C’s wedding ring…beautiful!

I hope your trip was amazing!!!  Congrats again!  Enjoyed hanging with you two so much!!

Well, I hope that you have been able to implement Challenge 1 & 2.  Honestly…number two has been hard for me because the things that we did had to do with things we no longer own and no longer want to do…hmmm…I have another idea, but it is in the works.  So, here is challenge #3.  Love this one!!  I know that my hubby needs words of encouragement so, this is so up his ally!!  I need a good challenge to make sure I vocalize those things that make him an amazing guy!!

Project #3
You da’ Man

Spreading Great Gossip About Your Guy

Your Project:
Say something nice about your husband to someone else. Make sure you tell him what you said, and to whom.

Getting Creative
Who are the important people in your husband’s life? Your kids, his parents, his friends? Be intentional about who you chat with when you brag on him – it’s almost as important as actually doing it.
Having a hard time coming up with something? I still brag on my guy for things he did years ago. He loves when I tell the story of how brilliantly he proposed (there were waterfalls and stuffed portabella mushrooms involved…).

Here are some other areas to think about when crafting your brag:

• His parenting skills
• His patience level
• The way he treats your mom
• His culinary ability
• His job
• His loyalty to you

Here is a session I am editing and will finish up in the next day or two…celebrating 25 years of marriage!!!

I got to head out to the beautiful Phoenician for this family’s session.  Love all the green and trees, we didn’t do much exploring, but this spot was just down from their room…so pretty. Here is Mr. William.  What a good little guy…not a fuss out of him the whole time!!  How many babies love being naked in grass??  This guy didn’t mind one bit.  He just lights up when Daddy talks to him and it is obvious that both mom & dad are head over heels for this little man.  Their “first” baby came out for a couple of the family pictures and she was so cute I couldn’t help, but snap one of her all by herself.  She had the softest ears, I just wanted to curl right up with her and cuddle!  D & B thank you so much for letting me capture Mr. William!!  I can’t wait to see how big he is in 6 months…probably running  around all over no doubt!!

This first image is my fave from our session…I love it for a bunch of reason…