Not to mention he is super sexy…especially when he does the dishes.

photography by www.joshmccullockphotography.com

This is Melissa, our new assistant!

 She will be doing everything from keeping up with our e-mails, blog, and Face book updates.  Melissa will also be assisting with all our photo shoots! We are excited to have her as a part of our team!!  With her help, we will be able to stay more organized and help us continue to grow and expand!!!

Right now, there are three of us in my marriage, Jeremy, Myself, and the Marine Corps. Sometimes I love the Corps and sometimes I hate it, but I knew I wanted to capture it in our lives and not in a typical way.

The Marine Corps will soon no longer be apart of us and in some ways I’ll miss it.

Jeremy and I took Wyatt on his first duck hunting trip. Wyatt just turned one and if you don’t already know, Jeremy has been working and training him since we brought him home. I’m so proud of how well he did yesterday.

I don’t know why my dad is the only one who looks like he had a good time….we all did. I guess its just that tough man face they have to give…even Wyatt!

Kate Spade, these shoes have stolen my heart

Craig and his date Hannah

The Crandalls

Jeremy talking too much…

Part of the birthday ceremony, several marines dressed in past uniforms and stood in the center while the announcer gave us information about their history

Jeremy got the camera and well….I’ll just have to apologize ahead of time for my very white girl dance moves

There is no explanation for this…not even alcohol since I was the DD…Mom, I’m sorry if I’ve embarrassed you.

Cannon Crewman taking in a little brithday bliss…

Jeremy and I have been to other balls, but by far this one was the best.

here we are in 2005

No one can relate to me unless they have been through a deployment. Doing boudoir, almost 50% of my clients are military wives with a deployed spouse. I look at them and I remember all that hurt, I just want to scoop them up in my arms and tell them its going to be okay.

I’m not the only woman in the family who fell for a man in uniform, this is my grandma and grandpa

I’m even more fulfilled when I find out how happy they are with their session and how excited they are to send the book to their husbands

It really gives you something to look forward too, and getting it shipped off and knowing its on its way is a little milestone closer to that day that he gets home. I promise it will be soon.

I used to measure Jeremy’s deployment time by the next holiday, I’d think “If I can only get past Christmas, then just a few more months”, “first comes Thanksgiving, then Christmas, then New Year, then Valentines day, and we’re practically there! Just three more months after that and he’ll be home”. I remember how my heart felt torn and empty, like a huge hole in my chest, I was like a machine, each day going through the motions waiting to be alive again.

Just keep moving forward, there will be days when you wonder if it will be like this forever, but it won’t. He’ll come home.

Now he’s all grown up….when he was little I use to paint his toes, dress him like a girl, and tell him that boys wore panties and he believed me.