beautiful girls, old barns + boots :)

lady luck

owen & georgia

drumroll...we have a winner! :)
wow!  a lot of unique guesses!  "maddie is eating cheetos.""deary spaniel bassett I love you so much.""dear aspen illinois bakery. I love you so much.""i love micah driesbach so.""maddie is Christopher.""driesbach, I love you so much."plus, more...I suppose this contest was more for my amusement than yours? :)but the winner is Kathe Pearman who guessed correctly!the first one was:"maddie is trying to sleep."and the second one was:"dear special blankey, I love you so much."she wins the grand prize of a mini-headshot photo shoot complete with an 8x10!congratulations

green grass + baby smiles
ricc and holly are good friends of matt + me so it was a total privelage to shoot them this weekend...and it probably was my fastest + easiest shoot to date...mostly because of noah's amazing ability to smile ALL the time!  his little face totally lights up everytime ricc or holly talk to him!  and as long as we kept him off the grass he was super easy to photograph!  grass + noah = not happy :)  but, mom + dad = total sunshine!

rest
"...and what was said to the rose to make it unfold?  was said to me here in my chest...so be quiet now and rest..."so be quiet now.  and rest.

kreatid's first contest!
I deeply love my daughter Maddie.  And I genuinely like her too.  :)  This weekend my son has been sick so we've had a lot of "rest" and "quiet time" and "homework time".  Maddie is learning to read and write in school right now...so a lot of phonetic learning.  These two signs cracked me up in cleaning up after her this weekend.  She is simply adorable and I LOVE the way her mind thinks...it's like you can hear the cogs in her head sometimes. :)So, that leads me to the contest.  If you can correctly decipher BOTH Maddie signs (Luci cannot guess or tell anyone b/c I already told her what they were ;P) then I will take your headshot (or you can

the wedding - part 1
one the absolute highlights of my year this year was getting to photograph my younger brother's wedding to his beautiful new wife.  God is simply SO good to my brother and it was incredibly special for me to be a part of his day this way.  to top it off I got to shoot the wedding with my amazing younger sister who God has blessed with an incredible eye for detail and capturing the not in-your-face moments...super amazing to have her their for the day!I just love her. :)