Beautifully Mundane | Arizona Finding Joy In Chaos Family Retreat | Motherhood Session | Family Photographer

Earlier this month, I hosted my first out of state Finding Joy In Chaos Family Retreat in Gilbert, Arizona. It was everything I dreamt it to be and turned out even better than I hoped! There were 14 ladies who came and I have a deep love for each of those ladies. I spent time with them on 1:1 FaceTime calls getting to know them and their goals for 2020 and when we all met, I literally cried. It was such a wonderful group of ladies and all the friendships that were developed made my heart so insanely happy!

We did 3 sessions, 1 indoor, 2 outdoor. Here is our short indoor session! I couldn’t have asked for a sweeter family to model for us. McKenna’s love for her children and all the mundane moments are clearly seen here. I am so thankful she allowed me to use her family to teach all these ladies about the different moments in each persons lives that matter.

Hang tight, while I post more from the workshop in future posts. :)

Martinsen Family | Mesa, Arizona | Mini Session | Finding Joy In Chaos Family Retreat

I photographed this beautiful family 2 years ago when they came to Utah for a vacation and I was so excited when I remembered that Abbie and her family lived in Arizona! They were so kind to model for us on Peter’s 4th birthday! He was such a good sport about it. We made it a quick little session to play with some stunning light! I’m a little obsessed with all of them but little baby Thomas has me so excited for my baby boy to come this April!

Finding Joy In Chaos Retreat - Schmidt Family - In-Home Lifestyle Session

There are two things I’ve developed a huge passion for in 2019, in-home family sessions and teaching. This was my 4th workshop for 2019 and it was definitely one for the books. I’ve been craving to shoot Kara’s family for sometime and once I saw their home they has started building, I knew I needed to make a shoot happen. I even based my retreat in Park City, Utah because it was somewhat close to her home so we could shoot there. Selfish? Nah!

Teaching other creatives how I see and create family imaginary is an honor and it brings me so much joy. When coming up with the name for this workshop, I wanted it to relate to how others see family sessions - chaos. I want others to see the joy in all types of chaos and not run from it. There will be so many more opportunities to attend future workshops but for now, I need to show all the pretty created.