“I have dreamed of this moment,” my dear friend Jen said as she glanced down at her sweet baby boy. The room was quiet yet filled with love — these moments of solitude and normalcy were everything she could have hoped for, and more. The miracle sleeping on her chest was less than an hour […]

A room filled with tearful surprises, unconditional love, countless heartfelt moments, and life’s greatest gifts can’t afford not to be documented. Baby Oliver entered the world about a week back and a few hours after his arrival, his parents graciously welcomed me into their room. Oliver’s two big sisters and grandparents would arrive shortly thereafter, […]

If I pause to think about it all a bit too long, my heart skips a beat. I’ve followed Sara and Geoff into the operating room three times in the last three years, and I’ve followed them out with each of their beautiful babies in their arms. I’ve watched tears roll down her face three […]

“How is she?” Maura asked as her husband met their baby girl for the first time. “She’s wonderful,” Heinz said as tears filled his eyes. He’d always wanted a girl. He nestled his face into 4 pounds of perfection and whispered his first words to her in Swiss German. Heinz speaks only his first language […]

Of course she’s having twins, I thought to myself this past summer. My heart fluttered a bit while I stood outside the post office with my babes ~ they were throwing rocks into the river and I had just received a message from Shawna, a bride whose wedding I photographed in 2010. From the start, […]

He paced back and forth, her eyes filled with tears. I was just a bystander who knew deep in my heart, today would be the best day of their lives. Sometimes life is just too, too good. Worlds collide and two good friends fall in love. I witnessed their proposal, their wedding and now, the […]