The JOURNAL

Six or seven years ago (it’s all a blur), I remember talking about dream jobs with Jeff and Jamie and some other friends over lunch. It was a time in all of our lives when our aspirations and career dreams were just starting to formulate. We dreamed together about what it would be like to do […]

Sometimes life happens in a way that’s amazingly unplanable (Yup, I made up a word). But sometimes amazingly unplanable happenings are God’s blessings for our futures. For the Clinard and Watson families, life’s amazingly unplanned blessing is that every single one of them is pregnant….. at the same time! Whoa. Let’s get a head count […]

Last year, November marked the time of year when Christopher decided to sport a mustache. (You can view last year’s mustache here.) I thought maybe it had gotten out of his system, but one morning early in the month, I walked into the kitchen to find a mustached man eating Christopher’s breakfast. “Wonderful,” I thought. […]

I love photographing engaged couples more than anything else (besides weddings, of course) because they’re SO FUN. I’m learning more and more, that engagement is a time when two worlds–marriage and singleness–begin the collision process… and it can be tough to navigate. For one, there are a LOT of things to think about when planning […]

Today, I got to spend the afternoon with Jeff Clinard and Jamie Struthers at Caspers Wilderness Park in San Juan Capistrano. I had so much fun, I wanted to share a few to whet your taste for all the sweet blog posts I have planned this week! 🙂 Enjoy!