{The Schmids | Motley, MN Family Photography}

Aunt Gayle is one of my mom's sisters, and I have lots of fun memories with this family, including camp-outs in the back yards, sledding down Uncle Kevin's luge, canoe trips down the river, playing toby for hours, fishing, us girls hiding from the boys ;) and so many others. This year they all were able to make it up to our house for Thanksgiving, and so we took a quick time-out after dinner to shoot a few family pictures. We're very blessed to have such a great extended family! Love you all!

{Happy Monday | Personal}

Happy Monday everyone!

Life has been so crazy lately, like one of my friends said, "geeze, feels like I have to get on your waiting list." haha!

Busy with photography, working on this lovely session right now... aren't they just so adorable!? This is my third year photographing their family, and I just love spending time with them. I pulled up to their house last week, and all three kids race out to my car before I even step out... "guess what!? we got baby cows!" "I'm four now! and she's three!" "Lets go look at the horses!" "do you like my cat? Our other cat ran away!" "We had popcorn for a snack!" Pretty much stealing my heart.

This Saturday I'm looking forward to Jon and Carol's wedding. It's an intimate little gathering in Isle, MN that is totally and uniquely THEM, and I am SO excited that I get to be a part of it. Can't wait!

I'm training for a 10 mile race, that is in LESS THAN TWO WEEKS! >_< It's my first race over a 5k distance, and I'm both nervous and super excited.

On Wednesday some friends and I are going up to Park Rapids for the Impact World Tour. Check out the website if you're interested in going! http://www.impactworldtour.com/Groups/1000087595/Impact_World_Tour/locations/United_States/Hubbard_County/Hubbard_County.aspx

I also started a new job.. I'm now managing for the swim school that I work for (www.splashschoolusa.com), which I think will be a great fit for me. I'm really excited to get to be a bigger part in the school. But it means I am back to three jobs...Apparently I can never last very long with just two. haha!

And one last thing....I read this in Jesus Calling this morning, and it was so good for me today:

"Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! They walk, O Lord, in the light of Your countenance. In Your name they rejoice all day long." {Psalm 89:15-16}

Remember to rejoice in His name, ALL DAY LONG!

{The Groebner Family | Princeton MN Family Photography}

The Groebners are like my other family, and I was really glad to get to take a few family portraits for them last week. Love you all!

These next two pictures were an attempt at re-creating an old family picture... obviously the kids were a lot smaller then ;)

{My Family | Motley, MN Portrait Photography

Finally getting around to sharing these :) It's always challenging to take self-timed family pictures.. but my fam is pretty great at cooperating and waiting patiently for me to run back and forth between my camera and the group {yes, I should probably just buy a new battery for my remote}. I really love how they turned out, and they just make me love my fabulous family even more. I'm so grateful to God for planting me in this family, and for the opportunity to be the oldest. Love you all so much!

{The Z Family | Kimball, MN Family Photography}

{The G Families | Motley, MN Family Photographer}

It's taken me a long time to get these up... but I did this extended family earlier this fall, and they are a bunch of fun people!

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