So we’re a month into 2012 and it is already shaping up to be a full year of weddings. We’ve booked some really exciting clients and are looking forward to tons of wedding cake and dance music.

Back in December while in the middle of a family portrait session, we found a couple seconds to snap some portraits of ourselves – I mean c’mon, we want updated photographs, too. This location has become one of our favorites. It has a nice urban/rustic, edgy appeal and the colors really make for some nice photographs. And to my beautiful wife, I love your glasses!

This year we added a lot of new faces to our portrait collection – we also saw the return of quite a few familiar kid and adult faces. A few highlights: the Packers won the Superbowl, Angela graduated nursing school and got the surprise of her life, past wedding clients had babies, Christopher bought a cowboy hat and our photography business gained a little more popularity! Thanks to all who helped make 2011 such a great year for us – we hope we were able to do the same for you. We love you guys!!!

And the “Husband-of-the-Year” award goes to Christopher. For the past few months, without Angela’s knowledge, I have been working on a plan to get her two best friends in Wisconsin to pay her a surprise visit to Texas. Angela had no clue what she was in for as her graduation from nursing school was fast approaching. Her friends had not yet had the opportunity to visit her in Texas, so what perfect timing! Special thanks to all who were involved especially Angela’s mom & dad, Lisa & Joel, my mom & dad, Dorothy and Dwanald, and to Angela’s friends Bridgette and Casey, in helping me give her such a memorable graduation weekend.

Thursday, December 15th, was the ceremony officially pinning Angela as a graduate nurse and on her way to becoming a R.N. During the ceremony Angela was awarded the certificate for academic excellence with the highest GPA in the entire 2011 class. I can speak for a lot of people in saying we are so proud of her accomplishments – what a Nerd!!!

Academic Excellence - Angela scored the highest GPA in the entire TCC nursing class of 2011. PRetty unbelievable, but much deserved!!!

Friday, December 16th, we celebrated Angela’s graduation by opening our house to some guests and showering her with presents and hugs. It was so awesome to have her two best friends from Wisconsin in town to show their love and support of her. Even more, we were surrounded by some of our best and closest friends and family from Texas, who we see quite regularly.

Saturday, December 17th, we spend some time in the Fort Worth Stockyards so these Wisconsinites could experience some real cowboys. We did some shopping, checked out some sights, watched the mini cattle-drive and tried our best to decipher the thick cowtown accents – and I’m sure they were wondering what “yous guys” meant!

Show Angela some love by leaving your comments below. Congratulations Angela!!!

So many session with this family, we’ve lost count! We’ve been friends with this family for a couple of years, but it seems like we’ve always known each other. We just love them to pieces, and the two little boys can bring a smile to even the grumpiest of hearts. We met with them in downtown Fort Worth and they totally nailed their session as always. Enjoy some of the photos from their session!

A great big blog welcome to this awesome family! Mrs. A. Martin is a school teacher at our son’s school (one of his favorite teacher). We met them out in downtown Fort Worth, and boy were they some troopers – it was cold, raining and the kids would rather play than pose for our cameras. However, they totally rocked their photo session without much of an effort. Check out some of the photos from their debut!

I’m in love! Meet Jaaziel, the newest addition to the “A-team” (see previous post). I couldn’t wait to get up to the hospital to meet this little munchkin and he was nothing short of everything I could have imagined! Marcheta congrats on the most perfect, handsome and charming little man!! Bring him back… soon! I miss him already.

And P.S. this documentary style hospital photo session should really be a more common occurrence… hairy ears, back hair, flaky skin and bandaids on the feet are things not always captured but totally underrated as a must have memory. End of speech, Meet my Jaaziel!

Every once in awhile a couple finds us on google, with no prior connection and you just know you were meant to meet them!! Nikki and Kevin are so that couple! Sweet and fun and full of love… it’s no wonder they created such a perfect little mini! Meet Liam! We met his parents for a maternity session and have been waiting for his arrival ever since! This session took place when he was just a wee 9 days old and he totally and completely rocked it! Alert and full of spunk this little man took the session under his control and we followed his “little big man” lead. What a joy to have met this family… can’t say enough about them.. but as for Liam, let the pictures speak for themselves!