It wasn't until recently that I realized that the power photographs hold was instilled in me thanks to my Grandmother. Grandma Lois, pictured above with my oldest daughter Blaire, her first great-grand child, kept photo albums of every year of her married life. I have vivid memories of being a young girl, paging through the delicate tissue paper pages, dreaming of one day experiencing the love and laughter that was on display in her photos.

I met my best friend on the first day of college, and to this day she tells the story that I called out her name, waving my hand profusely over my head, and danced towards her. Imagine me doing that now...calling your name, emphatically waving my hand, and us beginning our lifelong friendship! 

As a kid, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, my answer was "a mom" and "a photographer for National Geographic". I have two hilarious little girls, and two incredible older bonus kids, so I can check off being a mom!

As for being a National Geographic photographer...well, over time my interests and passions shifted from wanting to photograph exotic animals and far-away lands, to wanting to photograph the people in my daily life (and yours) that are just as special and unique as anything you would find on the other side of the world.

"Family is not an important thing. It's everything." - Michael J. Fox

Hi, I'm Caeli!

As a lifestyle family and newborn photographer, it is my goal to create images for you year after year, documenting your family as it grows so you and your children have a physical reminder for each of you to look back on that will trigger your unique memories. Photographs that will bring back the overwhelming feelings of awe and unconditional love when you held your newborn baby the first weeks of their life. The images that will allow you to revisit the incredibly rewarding, yet exhausting, days of chasing a toddler around. 

It is my goal to provide you with photographs that capture the love, the joy, and the connectedness of your family so you can have these memories to look back on the rest of your, and your childrens' lives.

I have continued in my Grandmother's footsteps and have photo albums for each year of my life, and now each year of my daughters' lives as well. It absolutely fills my heart to see my kids choosing their photo albums off the shelf to look through - studying each photo on each page. The photographs in those books are their story. They are filled with photographs of the people who have loved them from the start, the experiences - big and small, that they will have to look back on and gain a greater understanding of exactly where they came from.