Robyn and Sonny are two of the kindest, sweetest people you could ever hope to meet.
Hayley & Derek Wedding - Oklahoma City
Something Hayley and I have in common is our love of Disney's Tangled. That's one of my all time, hands down, favorite Princess movies.
Monument Rocks, Kansas
Monument Rocks is unusual and beautiful, stark and otherworldly, surrounded by prairie under a wide blue sky.
Hayley & Derek - Crystal Bridge Myriad Gardens - Oklahoma City - Engagement Portraits
ALL, EVERYTHING THAT I UNDERSTAND, I ONLY UNDERSTAND BECAUSE I LOVE.
— LEO TOLSTOY
Roundrock TX and the WEIRD Open
On the way down we found the house from the Texas Chainsaw Massacreremake. It's kind of an underground attraction
Dinosaur
But each night before bed he places the dinosaur on my nightstand and says, "I'm going to leave him right here."
Muir Woods National Monument - California
Forty minutes north of San Francisco is Muir Woods, part of the Golden Gate National Parks in California, home to redwoods and moss
Robyn Icks - Portraits - Oklahoma City
WEAR YOUR HEART ON YOUR SKIN IN THIS LIFE.
— SYLVIA PLATH
Raven & Skyler - Myriad Gardens - Oklahoma City - Engagement Portraits
Finding the love of her life has made her glow, like fireflies and moonlight, and the distant but growing sunrise.
Acorns
Magical distractions and toys; thrown and caught, rolled and kicked, dissected and exclaimed over.
Trick or Treat
We leave my apartment as we returned to it the night before, fully costumed and carrying pumpkins full of candy.
Turning Point
We rounded a corner and found the sea; stopping because I couldn't see it and not feel it, because you couldn't pass it and not photograph it.
Small Things
I finished the day sitting on the floor of my kitchen eating watermelon with my son.
Considering Motherhood
The title is unimportant because it is the arms that reach for you, the smile that greets you. Biological or found, loved despite differences and time.
Graduation
Growing up is never easy. The world roughs you up before it spits you out a mostly formed adult.
Divorce Analogy
When you look back you can see markers on the road. Sometimes there is peeled rubber stuck to pavement, places where you suddenly stopped.
On My Father's Birthday
He is the voice at the end of the line when I panic, someone who will always try to find a solution.
Memorial
The man that I knew was Uncle Eck. The Eck from before I could speak properly and it became Uncle Ed.
Burning
A lighter appeared, produced with anger and frustration, his dark eyes reflecting flame.
Arrival - Rota, Spain
The heat hit me first, then the scent of oranges and hot asphalt. Going from the shaded interior of the plane to the steps that led down to the runway jarred me