Meet the Brown family!  Erin is my first cousin and we are 5 months apart to the day!  Her daughter Emma is turning 1 on October 26 and celebrated her turning one the weekend before.  My husband and I went down there to celebrate and spend time with the family.  I always enjoy spending time […]

You may be thinking that you just saw the engagement pictures right???  You are totally right!!  We did the engagement pictures the day before the wedding.  Christy told me that she works best with last minute things, which by the way is the opposite of me.  I like to know what I’m doing 5 months […]

Christy and I go way back, even without us realizing it.  We met at our previous job which was at the Police Department where we slowly started talking and sharing our interests.  I moved over to where I now work and a few months later she did too.  As we started to talk, we are […]

Did you know that Joyful Memories Photography has an Instagram!?!?!? Every photo shoot that we do we post to our Instagram page where you can save, push that heart and also comment on your pictures.  Make sure you go and check out our Instagram page, follow and see if you are on it or watch […]

This beautiful pregnant woman is Janae.  Janae and I went to High School back in the day and we haven’t seen each other since, but kept in touch through Facebook.  I want to share a little bit of her story without getting into too many details, but Janae is married and has 3 precious girls!  […]

I talked before on how much photography means to me and how important it is to capture “right now”.  Well my husband is alot similar in the same way.  Its not natural for him to pick up a camera or to snap a picture in the moment, but I know its not second nature for […]

 Why is photography so important to me?  As I sit here and try to remember how far back I loved pictures, it was a slow rewind of my life.  It was before cell phone cameras were in our pockets, so I believe it was after my mom died when I was 16.  My mom didn’t […]

You may or may not have caught on in previous posts and on Joyful Memories Photography website when speaking I have said, “we” and then have changed it to “I”.  Joyful Memories Photography is a team of my husband and I.  Even though you may see my face more and I’m the founder behind the […]