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Elena Renee is here!! She was born 8 weeks early so she was in the NICU for a while, but now she’s home and doing SO well! Elena is absolutely beautiful and I couldn’t be more excited for my friends Amber and David. I am excited to share my favorites from their at home mini […]

Can you believe that this was my very first snowy engagement session?! In SEVEN years, I’ve never had the pleasure of getting a beautiful snowy session on the calendar…until this past week when I met Kristen and Scott at the Lincoln Park Zoo for their session! As most of you know, I’m originally from Tennessee and […]

All blog posts are fun for me to write, but this one is EXTRA fun! Vince and I are so excited announce that we’re expecting our first baby! This has been the hardest thing to keep under wraps for the past 12 weeks, so I’m thrilled that it’s now public knowledge 🙂 Baby Nord is […]

  I married my husband when I was 20 years old and was just finishing up my sophomore year of college. After our wedding, I moved to Nashville where he was attending Vanderbilt University and then only a year later moved to Knoxville so he could attend law school. As you can imagine, moving my […]

After meeting one another through mutual friends over 2 years ago, Tony proposed to Maggie in London. Soon after the proposal they began to plan their wedding at The Geraghty. Knowing their love for Chicago and the industrial feel, we ventured west of the loop for their engagement pictures. We began the session on a rooftop […]

Yesterday night, the Chicago Tuesdays Together group met to support the non-profit company Letters in Motion. L.I.M’s goal is to bring awareness to the literacy gap and to encourage the children in Nepal and Kenya to advance academically. We also wrote our letters to these orphans and small children to bring them hope, encouragement, and love. […]

I knew I loved these two from the first time I met them, but their Chicago engagement session truly confirmed that they are one amazing couple! It was raining pretty hard that entire morning and afternoon, so like I do with all of my clients, I gave them 2 options: cancel or wing it! And […]

Yesterday night, 25 entrepreneurs gathered at Lex Nelson‘s home in the spirit of community over competition to celebrate the 1st birthday of The Rising Tide Society and Tuesdays Together! It’s amazing to see what all this group has gone through together over the past year! I love that there are new faces every single meet up and […]

This past weekend, my sister and her husband came to visit me in Chicago for the fourth of July.  We had always talked about doing a part 2 to their engagement session (You can see their engagement session from 2014 HERE!), but since my move to Chicago, timing just didn’t work out for a second session.  Now […]