Before I get into this gorgeous session… can we all give me a little smack on the face for how awesome I’ve done at blogging this year?  Good grief.  JULY?  I last blogged in July?!  Man… I’ll be honest, in the craziness of life and business, that Instagram is just so quick and easy sometimes that I’ve really fallen back on that as good enough, but the truth is, it’s not.  Each session tells a STORY.  And the whole story cannot be told in an image posted here or there.  That’s what a blog is made for, to tell a story.  New Years goal for me is to set aside time every single week to blog.  I have dozens and dozens and dozens of sessions I want to share and new ones coming in all the time so I’ve got my work cut out for me.  I can do that.

Alright, here we go.  If you follow my work, you know this family.  I don’t mean to play favorites with what I blog, because I LOVE my clients, all of them.  But this family quite literally is family for me, and my dear friend Danna ALWAYS has a great new idea for her pictures, and I can’t pass up sharing.

This family loves to camp.  That’s their thing.  They love to pack up their little camper on the weekends and head wherever they want to head.  I love that sense of careless adventure they have and I wish I had more of it.  We wanted to make this shoot as real as possible so I had no idea what they were wearing, what we’d be doing, they just told me where to meet them and I met them there to document.  It was FREEZING cold.  And in Southern Utah, that’s saying something.  But the cool part was that no one cared.  Everyone was dressed in warm, comfy camping attire, they snuggled together made hot chocolate, a fire, all the things they would have done whether I was there or not, and I am absolutely in love with what came of it.  I hope you feel the same, and I hope you’ll bring me along to hang with your family doing your thing sometime.