Who’s a swimmer?
If you have ever learned to swim any stroke, you know that swimming is not an easy sport. There is so much skill to do it well. My husband and I have done countless drills to learn to swim back when we were doing triathlons, including the Boise 70.3. Some people did that one 100% backstroke, we won’t name names though…he finished!

Ethan is a special kid! I have had the pleasure of watching him grow up for the last 10 years. I’m honored to be the one capturing his senior year as he is part of our “Season Seniors”. This short session was all about Ethan and his love for swimming. My infamous “one more time” got his heart rate up as I had him do different strokes in the water to get different shots. These are some of my favorites!

Thanks for allowing me to capture you and your love for swimming, E!!

SMILE often
THINK positively
GIVE thanks
LAUGH loudly
LOVE others
DREAM big

This girl is all of that an more!! Her love for life is contagious!! Surround yourself with people like Carly!!

Carly is class of 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣ and one of my “Season Seniors”…mostly. 😉 She is doing Summer, Fall and Winter and skipping on the Spring since the Wood River Valley is a bit mucky that time of year.
Carly loves coffee and we happen to be near one of the coolest chain coffee shops in Idaho. We started off at the coffee shop in Sun Valley and then went to one of my favorite places to shoot in Sun Valley to get some water and flowers to represent Summer.

Of course the water there is frigid cold 😱 but it wouldn’t be a session with me if you didn’t get dirty or wet!! It just happened to be a beautiful spot to lay down in. 🤣 Of course! She was a good sport!! We had so much fun capturing her fun personality, her sassy self!!

Her Fall session will include Family portraits. I always suggest updating Family Portraits when we do senior portraits. I hear after kids head to college it is very challenging to get the family together. At least everyone together at once. Covid has changed that this year, silver lining!

Dirt bikes and baseball!! ⚾⚾ Doesn’t get much more American than this!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

Garrett is one of our 2021 “Season Seniors”. His summer session was all about two wheels and a baseball field. This field should be called, “Field of Dreams”…wow!! What a beautiful field. Garrett kept saying, “man, I sure miss baseball.” Covid has cancelled seasons for kids and adults all over. Such a great outlet and a great sense of being when with your “team”. I know I miss being the cheerleader mom on the sideline. But to be honest, being on the baseball field and the catcher equipment in front of me sure brought back some really great memories. I miss playing. I miss diving for balls, throwing people out, framing the pitch, and getting dirty.

Since I have a new love for riding dirt bikes and I was a catcher for many years, I was super excited about capturing these activities for Garrett. Garrett goes to Borah and rides a Kawasaki, so we of course incorporated green powder on the whoops he was riding. Poof! Poof!! Poof!!! Pretty cool, huh?!?!

I look forward to Garrett’s Fall session. We will be getting some family portraits along with capturing Garrett alone. No activities to capture but we will capture Garrett as he will be at the beginning of his senior year. Should be an interesting one! Time will tell!

How many hobbies did you capture in your senior portraits?

I recently looked at mine and had forgotten that I had a picture taken with my camera!! I guess I have always loved photography! So fun to look back on who I was and who I am now.

Meet Peyton! This handsome 2020 senior was a little tough to pin down to capture his BIG milestone but we did it! Since it has been such a strange year, it was okay! We had fun juggling all the things! Peyton loves his dog, plays guitar, enjoys the freedom he has with his little green truck, loves to play baseball as a pitcher and snowboard, enjoys welding and is quite a hard worker with a few jobs!

Yes! We did it! We captured all of this in about 1.5 hours…at most! The boys love just getting their senior portraits done…quickly! That is what we did!

I hope he looks back at these one day and smiles at this person, “back in 2020”. Smiles at the person he has become. Smiles at the changes in life.

Little Miss Grace was a blast to work with! She is tiny, yet mighty! She loves to read, gymnastics, practice Chinese writing, art, and LOVES noodles! 🍜 We talked about capturing her eating noodles but didn’t happen.

If you were to get a picture of yourself eating your favorite food, what would it be?
Me? Do I have to pick just one item???!! haha! I would have to say Bacon! mmmm Bacon! 🐷🐽

I joke that when you finish a session with me you will be dirty, wet…or both! Of course we had to end in the water. But as you can see with her smile, she had a blast!

We started the evening in a beautiful dress, changed to her sweater and jeans, an outfit to do some gymnastics moves in and ended with a cute shirt off her shoulders. My favorite thing that she wore was her SMILE!
What a sweet girl! I’m so thankful our paths crossed!

Grace is a 2020 graduate and plans on going to school for hair! She is going to do awesome! I can’t wait to see her follow her dreams! Keep dreaming BIG, Grace!

It isn’t too late for Class of 2020 senior portraits.
It’s not too early for Class of 2021 senior portraits.

Are you a senior? Or are you a parent of your first senior like me? aaaaahhhhh…bittersweet, right?!?!?

Meet Bella…Eagle High School, Class of 2020

Bella was more of a downtown girl. So that is where we went! Downtown is a bit different these days but we made the best of it. Not very busy, score! But other things aren’t happening or allowed. No fountains going and the colorful equipment at JUMP is blocked off. With a few adjustments in the camera, we were able to still get some fun colors behind her but super blurred out so she is our focus!

Bella was a shining star on this beautiful May evening. She has a heart of gold and a smile that makes you smile!

I’m excited to see where her life journey takes her. Have fun, kiddo!!

Fall and Winter were his choices for senior portraits! I like his style!

His Fall pictures he had a mustache and winter he shaved it off! This kid is just a treat to be around. He is so funny! Like most boys, I was able to bribe his smiles with food talk. I had his favorite snacks for when we were done! haha I’m all about bribery when it comes to pictures!

We were headed up the mountain for his senior portraits and it was so pretty and clear and then at the top it was super foggy!! UHG! We did our best and got a few shots on the chairlift and skiing down but ended up going up a second time to a bluebird day. We waited a bit for the sun to be at the perfect angle and ended up with some amazing shots of him.

Enjoy the rest of your senior year, Carter! Thank you for being you! You are one cool kid!!