No, life is not like what I had hoped it would look like, but we're still doing what we can to invest in our boys. In the dark, in the heat, and long past bedtime, we're convicted to raise them to be godly men in men's bodies. This is just one, short glimpse of that.

Ralph and I come from divorced families. Ralph's parents separated when he was in elementary school, mine when I was fifteen, and again within the first year of our marriage. The emotional pain is hard to describe. The impact those divorces have made on us still to this day....The broken pieces we have had to pick up for each other...

If I am being honest, I regret bringing many of the things into our home that I did in order to keep my three boys occupied every day. It created unnecessary chaos, but I digress. There is one object, however that I look at daily and think, “I am so thankful this was brought into our home.”

I hid in plain sight by keeping myself covered up in a hoody and sunglasses with my back to her, photographing my niece, who was facing them as they were walking up to the spot that Zach and I pre-planned. ... I simply turned in their direction and started photographing this precious moment in their lives...I was especially amused when Teresa realized, after Zach finished proposing, that the photographer was me...

Since I was a very little girl, singing for Jesus has brought me to life more than anything else. For most of my adult years, I would be so intensely nervous that I would ask myself why I allowed myself to be put in this position.

I was so grateful to be hired to do another job in Florida. Doing photography work in Western New York is far easier because I had spent sixteen years photographing.