Katie + Jeff

I finally got to meet Katie and Jeff a few weeks ago for their engagement session... and i'm excited for their wedding in just a few weeks. Katie's parents and brother and brother's girlfriend came in for the booking and took care of everything. (And her brother and his new fiance are now going to be Fife Photography bride and groom as well!! Love it.)

If you've never been to Oklahoma, you are missing out. We have wind like no other. Well... i guess most of us mid-western states are pretty flat with crazy wind. But it seems to peek out to drive us photographers crazy. Luckily, for the most part we found places and times enough to get pictures without Katie's hair being all over the place.

I have to say, winner of the day goes to Katie's wonderful friend who drove over to a random falling down barn/shed for permission while we started in downtown Norman. Unfortunately, we never got permission, but the daredevils they are, we hopped a fence.

Much to my horror the fence between us and very large cattle didn't reach all the way across. And the bride was wearing RED!!! They were all amused by my anxieties. When i was shooting one with horns started staring me down behind me and started moving toward me. My assistant Ashley decided not to say anything because she knew I'd freak out. Luckily i was not skewered or even charged at, but boy was i glad to be on the other side of the fence when we were finished. Whew! I am such a wimp. I should have taken pictures to prove how gigantic and menacing those cattle were.

Glad i'm alive to have the photos, as well as be around for all my other awesome clients. Thanks for a great session, and thank you Ashley for assisting!

Fashion: Ruby

I met Ruby 6 days after i had my last baby, and she had a cute round tummy herself. Now more than a year and a half, our boys are old enough to roam our houses and make terrible disasters. Amazing how fast time flies.

The two of us have talked for a while about taking pictures, but now we have a quick deadline. Ruby is having an article published about her fashion... being chic but modest at the same time. Of course she needs photos!

Dustin and i got to shoot together, which doesn't happen too often with our kiddos!! Ruby, you are gorgeous. Thank you for being so incredibly easy to photograph!!

Easter Joy

There's something beautiful about seeing new dresses and suits for Easter. It's wonderful to catch the smiles and joy when kiddos are looking so sharp. I also love to shoot in people's homes, because they can see and remember their homes even better. I hope everyone had a Happy Easter. :) :)

Happy Easter

What's in YOUR easter basket this year?

This little man was so adorable during his session this week. He was so snuggly with me!! I tried to convince her to swap her my 19 month old, but for some reason she wasn't interested.

Thank you to all our wonderful friends and family and clients and students. We love you all, and are so grateful for you. Thank you. God loves us.

love, the fifes.

Happy

I just realized there are soooo many shoots i haven't blogged about yet! Many more to come, but i just wanted to say how happy i am with what i get to do... my clients make me so happy, and i feel so blessed to get to meet so many wonderful people. :) Thank you all! Good night!

Dancing Queen

Sweet snack for working in the office... All thanks to winning a social dance competition 10 years ago. I was lucky they still took the gift certificate!!

I just might have to post pictures sometime of me from my ballroom dancing days...




Sweet tastes of jamba. Yummm!
You want to know what was really embarrassing? With my gift certificate, it came to like 73 cents. I was the only one in there, and business was going slow for them.

I look in my change purse and I see only 2 quarters and a bunch of pennies. And I just recently took out my bills for the fair with the boys.

Sheepishly I told him I'd have to get the smaller size because I didn't think he'd want to run my card for $.73. He said it was fine, and I piled all my change into his hand. I think it came to $.61 or something. After about a minute later, 3 new customers walked in the door.

Had it not been completely empty when I arrived, he probably wouldn't have taken pity. Or I would have gotten super flustered and felt bad for making a scene. Either way, I walked away unscathed from the whole experience, still in love with my jamba juice.

Who else loves jamba?

I'll definitely be giving an extra tip next time I'm in...

Perks of teaching

I have loved teaching the past few weeks, while my adorable husband has been able to spend more time with his phd and his boys.

Tonight Crystal Boles took this shot of me during class. Isn't it sweet?? I'm sensing a new profile picture coming on... :)