Love Birds

Flowers are blooming, the birds are chirping, and a there’s a warm breeze blowing… wait, are we sure this is March?  It is!  And I’m loving everything about this early spring – or should we say summer?  Our unseasonably warm weather makes me more excited than ever for this year’s photography season.  After my winter break from shooting, it felt so great to get out there and spend an afternoon with these two love birds.  At about 65 degrees, it was a “cool” weekend day compared to the 80’s that we started getting used to last week.  Even still, it was so wonderful to see the trees budding with little green leaves, almost fluorescent against the dark landscape that is just starting to come to life.  Whitney and Mike were so great together, and I think you can tell by their photos that they are head over heels for each other!  Planning an end-of-the-summer wedding for this year, these two made it easy to capture their love and how much fun they have together…

My camera nearly broke when I had to take a picture of Mike in his Bear’s jersey 🙂 … but I’m thankful that he has Whitney now to help set him straight!

On another note, we continue to be amazed every day by our sweet little girl.  Seven weeks old to the day, she has also been enjoying this amazing weather.  It was so neat taking her to the park this past week.  We are lucky enough to have a park less than a block from our house where we can play ball with Mya (our other baby).  We brought Ensley along and just laid her on a blanket and let her take in all of the new sounds and things to look at.  I never dreamed that I’d be able to take her for walks in her stroller during the middle of March!  We can tell that she’s learning new things every single day, and we absolutely love the fact that it seems like her favorite thing to do lately is smile.  Mitch and I were even lucky enough to hear her giggle in her sleep last week, a preview I’m sure, of many more giggles that we have to look forward to!

I am so happy to finally be back in the swing of things!  Getting back to blogging has been something that I’ve been looking forward to for so long now… and I don’t even want to mention the date of my last “real” blog post!  Needless to say it’s been a busy year!  When I look back on all that’s happened since spring of last year, I am just so grateful for all of the opportunities that I’ve had.  I work with some of the best clients ever, and because of this I am looking so forward to this coming season.  In the past few months I’ve worked on the new identity for Don’t Blink Photography and I’m so excited about the new look, website, and blog!  I know that the new site will allow me to keep sharing stories and photos with you throughout the weeks.  I already can’t wait to post the family sessions, high school seniors, little ones, and love birds that I’ve had the chance to work with!  I want to thank you so much for following me to this new site.  I promise that it will be worth your while, and I can’t wait to have you share in all of the fun along the way.

I’m going to start getting back into the blog by posting sessions from last summer and fall in between recent photo shoots as well.  I’m going to do my best to post as often as I can because there are just so many fun photo shoots to share!  In honor of the upcoming nice weather that we’re expecting this week, this post includes photos from an engagement session that I was able to take this past summer.  Brent and Kristi are not only a beautiful couple, but friends of mine from college too.  It is always so special to be able to capture memories like this for friends, and I’m honored to be the photographer for their upcoming wedding in the Twin Cities this August.