I grew up in a place where family meant everything. With four other sisters, it was dinner around the table every night talking about our day. It was cleaning the house on Saturday mornings, while singing along to Fraggle House Rock and my father’s rock and roll records on the player. It was my parents constant and endless support in all my endeavors. And it was even piling in our van for three week trips across the country.
When I entered into public high school at the age of 14, who knew I would have met the love of my life? We met in the bleachers of our Friday night football game, he was an all-star golfer and I was one of the new girls in school. His family life was a mirror image of mine and it seemed almost like our night was made in the movies. The game that night escaped my memory, but by the end of the evening we decided to give love a try.
For us it just worked. It was like a match made in heaven. Something I would have never expected, but here we are all these years later still in love. Now married, we have our own family, and we’re so blessed to have our son and two daughters. We couldn’t be more excited to teach them what it means to be a family. What it means to support one another through everything. And what it means to love each other like God loves us.
Along the way, I never wavered in following my dream to be a photographer. It was like it was ingrained into my DNA. Almost as if life just didn’t seem right without it. It was a part of who I was meant to be. I know that because of that, I find true joy and fulfillment in documenting life’s unwritten moments. I know there are so many along the way!
Echo by Design