Les, Ashley & Everett - Oklahoma Photographer

I haven't been able to take a lot of maternity portraits but it was good to start out doing these wonderful clients of mine Les & Ashley. I started photographing weddings in 2004 so a lot of my clients are now starting to have kids. It is such an honor to 'grow up' in a since with a lot of my clients as their families grow. I love hanging out with Les & Ashley and getting to be 'their photographer' as they put it. Recently they had their little boy, Everett. He is as cute as a button little boy. I am so grateful to have met Les & Ashley and can't wait for all the future pictures we have to take of their lives. 

Here are a few of their maternity session we did...

& 4 days after Everett was born I went over to their house to welcome Everett into the modeling world of Jared Wanzer Photography, he is already a pro.

Looking forward to many more pictures to come, what a great job I have getting to be apart of so many great peoples lives.

Texas Weekend

This last weekend I went down to visit my friends, Mandrae, Karissa & Anissa in Forth Worth, TX.
Anissa had her baby dedication at church and I hadn't been able to meet Anissa
yet and so I decided this would be a good weekend for me to go down and visit my friends.
I have been friends with Karissa for about 8 years now. I met her through her sister, Katrina, who is also one of my best friends. Karissa has an amazing voice and a great heart & she is one great moma. We sang in my home church once together & then we also sang at my mom's wedding together as well. We worked harvest together for two summers. We have had lots of laughs & I am so glad to call Mandrae, Karissa and Anissa my friends & get to be apart of their family.
Karissa's parents, Clare & Rhonda, also came down and they were watching my friends Zak & Katrina's little girl, Parker. It was so great to see Parker as well. She is hilarious. 
It was such a nice relaxing weekend just hanging out and spending time with friends. I love getting to be apart of my friends lives. They make me feel apart of their family and I LOVE getting to hang out with their kiddos. Of course since this was the first time I had met Anissa, a lot of pictures were taken....Well, who am I kidding I take tons of pictures no matter what. It was a great weekend full of fun, laughs & some new memories. Zak & Katrina you were missed. 
Love you guys. Thanks for being such great friends & always making me feel apart.

Here are a few pictures from the weekend.

I am in the processes of trying to get a new, really good picture of me with each of my friends & while I was down there I did a few pictures of The Collins Family & then I jumped into this one.

I love this one as well. 

Anissa Beth

Look at her little face, one of my favs.

Parker Grace

My Birthday - 24!

This blog is a few weeks late, one of my favorite days of course, my birthday!
July 21, I am now officially 24.
24 Random things about me:

1. I love gummy worms.

2. I love traveling, I wish I could go on a photography road trip around the USA.

3. My walls are covered in pictures.
4. I can eat a stick of saltine cracker without even thinking.
5. I save quotes. Anytime someone says something, TV quote, I write it down.


6. I shook Kelly Ripas hand when I was in NYC. She is even more beautiful in person!


7. I love TV. If I start watching a show I watch allll 11 Seasons.
8. I want a Pepsi right now & it is 8:42AM!
9. I don't believe anyone has time, I believe you make time.
10. I love the DVR and the I-Phone...how did we live without them?

11. I have never picked up a hitch hiker.
12. When I hear a song I love I listen to it over and over again.
13. I LOVE Stromboli

14. My mom and brother are my best friends!

15. I could eat cheese & salsa with every meal!
16. I love hot tubs.
17. Summer is my favorite time of year!

18. I am so thankful for everything and everyone in my life.
19. lime sherbet shake at Braums if my favorite, but they hardly ever have it!
20. Yellow is my favorite color.
21. If someone could get me Beyonce's phone number, I would appreciate it.
22. I am extremely sentimental, I have more scrapbooks, I should maybe check the world record books, seriously. 
23. I was able to know 5 of my great grandparents!



24. I have the best job in the world!

July over already?

July came in went for sure! 
My month was very busy. I started it off with one of my amazing brides, Suzanne, her bridal portraits. She did such an amazing job, she worked that camera and we found some very unique locations that I had never been to before. I love new locations. These portraits were so cool for me because everything just popped, the colors, here eyes, her dress, everything was just perfect. 


Also this month of course I did the promo video shoot.
I am in the process of redoing my website & revamping my business. One of the first things was this video.
It was a great weekend, so many of my amazing past brides & grooms were able to make time to come & I found the amazing Chris Clark to do the video, which he did more than I could even ask for, I am so excited to see the final result. 


Another project I am starting is, a new blog. I want my new blog to be more current and have recent pictures of my family and friends & so the latest project will be to do just that, have all my family and friends do some photo-shoots with me. I started with processes when my friend Dacia came up to visit me one day, so one photo-shoot down, and many more to come, get ready :)



Another amazing photo-shoot I did this month was my friend April & her little girl Taylor. April & I went to high school together and she was one of my models back in the day in high school, she also got me started in the wedding photography.
I love photographing them because they are just two amazing girls and fun to work with, also seeing my friends and clients kids grown up and get to take pictures of them through the years is also one of my favorite things to do.



As I talked about earlier with Suzannes Bridal Portraits, I also photographed Ty & Suzannes Wedding this month as well. They are two of my favorite people, I love working with them. This may sound odd but sometimes my post favorite people to photograph are people that don't necessary always love having the picture taken or always have a camera in their pocket because making it fun for them is exciting because I get to take the day even more special for them by making something they don't necessarily normally love to do.
I started off the day in Blanchard, OK. The groom, groomsmen and a few of the guys in the family all golfed in the morning until about noon. I followed around in a golf cart and just took pictures of them enjoying the morning. 
I then headed to Guthrie where the ladies were getting ready. It was a little warm because the air-conditioners went out at the location but it still was a perfect day. I love working with their families and friends. I appreciate them always spreading my name and coming back to me. They are a pleasure to work with. Congrats Ty & Suzanne, you are a fantastic couple!



July always brings around my birthday, July 21st. I love birthdays. I do love my birthday but I love celebrating anyone birthday sending birthday cards. I also LOVE receiving birthday cards, it is the only month other than Christmas that you really get something in the mail besides bills. I had so many friends and family call me and my mom took me to lunch. MA, Mike, & Sean all took me out to eat at Chili's. It was a great 24th birthday. 




I spent the end of the month in Missouri, my dad had a co-op meeting and asked if I wanted to go. It was a Tantara Resort. It was a nice time to just get away and relax. I love traveling to begin with but I also just enjoyed getting away and not working and having some time to think about all the projects that are on my list of things to do. I also ate a lot food while I was there, love me some food!

Another photo-shoot I was able to this month is Kyle & Erin, I went to the area I grew up and Erin had mapped out some cool locations close to where she lived & we also explored some other locations as well. It was for sure one hot day but we had a great time!





Well, that is my month in review & a good month it was. Can't believe how fast this summer is going!

MY MAMMAWS CHURCH

My Great Grandma, Mammaw, Cora Bell Waggoner would have been 91 this month. She was the most amazing woman I have ever met in my life, probably anyone that knew her would tell you that. Most people do not get to have their great grandparents in your life, My Mammaw was a big part of my life, she passed away when I was 17.
I have so many memories about her, we always went over to her house on Christmas & anytime I was down where she lived I had lunch with her on Monday. She always made you feel special and was always so glad to see me as I was her.
Another great thing about her was she was a Pastor of a church for a very long time, I am not sure on dates but for a big part of her life. I always loved going to her church, if I was down visiting it was always on my list to go on Sunday. She loved the Lord so much and you could always count on her to be on her knees praying for you, now I am not talking about ‘Lord bless my family’ she took the time and she called out everyone’s name. She was just an amazing woman, it will definitely never be the same without her here, but I am so thankful she was apart of so many years of my life.
Since I started doing photography for my profession I have wanted to take pictures of the church. If you don’t know me I am extremely sentimental to begin with, I think that is one of the many reasons I love pictures because I love the way a picture can take you back to that moment in time. I never saw this church with the pews full but it was always a place that was such a happy place to be. A lot of my blood built this church, the pews, the cross, my mom grew up in this church. It just has so much meaning, not only because it is a place of worship but because of all the hands that built it. It does make me sad that the doors are now closed and the the organ she played each Sunday is no longer being played but the memories are always there, sometimes remembering is what is important.

This last summer, my Great Aunt Sonya, my Mammaws daughter, passed away & I went down to the funeral. After I was able to go back and take pictures of the church, which like I said I had really wanted to do for quiet some time. I wasn't sure if I would be able to go back to the church because the church doors have been closed for a few years now & you just never know, so I was very grateful that I was able to take these few pictures.

Even though it is so simple it is such a beautiful place to me.

The sign is still in place and still has all the writing still on it. 

Mammaw was talented in so many ways and one of them was in music, every Sunday she played the organ. I wish there was video, maybe there is, of her playing because you could see in her eyes that music brought her joy.

The alter, where everyone came to give tithes and offering.

At the beginning of every service she played this song Unclouded Day, I found it in the hymnal.

(left is the first picture of us together after I was born & our last picture together on the right.)

This collage also has a picture of her chair at her house. Every Christmas she sat in the chair and just watched everyone open their gifts after she made her famous biscuits. As you can see in the picture of the two of us together she is sitting in the chair.  The picture of the chair was actually taken the first year the chair was empty.

I am so bless to have had this great woman in my life and to have loved and be loved by her.