I'm sure some of you have wondered where in the world I have been these 10 months I have been married.. (well, and nearly 1 year since I've blogged other than my wedding post!) Well, to give you a little review, in the 10 months we've been married, we've been to 13 states, done 4 weddings, and shot 20 sessions. On top of that, we've also traveled out to California twice(By flight of course)! Yep, it's been a busy year, but a good one at that! So, since I don't have a lot of time to post all of what we've done, I'm going to share a few pictures of where we've been and who we've been privileged to be with from March- July 2016. 

March Happenings-

Mr & Mrs Joseph Gordon

March 5, 2016

The Wedding was held in Joplin, MO

Wayne's first trip to California and the Pacific Ocean!

March 21

Baby Lawrence 

March 29

April 2016 found us traveling to North Carolina to help out with the new release of "Treasures of Darkness". I did the Album Portraits for My Sister, Merilee Barnard

Hey, visit her site to purchase this CD @ www.merileebarnard.com

Another Wedding- April 30, 2016

Mr & Mrs Justin Melton

The Wedding was held in English, IN

A small family shoot for my sister, Mildred, and her family in May 2016

And another session of my Nephew, Canton Barnard. He was 6 months when we did these. :)

June 2016- Another Very busy month for us with our Youth Retreat at our church, and another trip to California

Here are a couple photos from a mini session of my nephew, Jaron

And my dear cousin, Elena, who recently moved to Phoenix, turned 10 in June. So I did some photos of her at the park. ;)

Also, in July 2016, I did a session at Grace and Elena's homeplace before they moved to Phoenix. 

The week before we left for California again, we headed down to Georgia to shoot a beautiful wedding. It was simple, yet very elegant and classy!

Mr & Mrs Jeffrey Kinnaman

The wedding was held in Chickamauga, Georgia

June 10, 2016

On June 30, shortly after getting back from California, I did a newborn session of my newest niece, Julia Dawn Barnard. She was born while I was at the airport headed to California, so I didn't get to take any lifestyle hospital photos... which made me sad ;(

In July, Wayne and I celebrated the 1-year-anniversary of when He proposed to me! We spent a little time outdoors and enjoyed God's creation together. These photos were actually 2 weeks before the anniversary, but were still special to us. :) By the way, these photos were from a picnic we took together at Camp Collum... Wayne had worked that day and was a little tired, but we were glad we still captured the memories.  

One thing both of us immensely enjoy in the summer is fresh fruit and with homemade yogurt, and then also fruit smoothies. Here are a couple photos I took having some fun with my 50 mm lens. 

At the end of July, we shot another wedding together! It was fun to do this, but also a relief to know it was the last wedding of the year for us! 

Mr & Mrs Anthony Atwell

July 29, 2016 

The wedding was held in Waynesville, MO

And in August I did several sessions- one of which was for my brother Martin up in Chicago. I specifically went up there for a day just so I could capture picts of the kids while they were in their own environment. It was fun and also a learning experience for me. 

Then a few days later I did a family session for my other brother, Micah, and his wife, at Adams' Mill. We had fun doing these especially since Canton is getting older :) 

And then 2 days after this session, My sister had a beautiful baby boy. They named him Ezekiel Asher McCarthy. I loved doing these lifestyle photos of him in the hospital and then at home. 

I love it how Kinza is in the background... she was apparently upset that Asher was the focus of attention instead of her. :(

And that concludes my update.. only an update from 6 months time, but I hope to post more soon! Goodbye for now! 

Jonelle Hill