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Category Archives: Vanoven Family

Open letter to my little sister

Dear Lauren, I can’t believe my baby sister is getting married! I’m so stinking glad that you and Adam foundView full post »

Meet Anne

This week marked the one year anniversary of meeting Anne, and being able to see her the week before when she flew upView full post »

boy meets girl

I met my husband while I was working in the To-Go room at Outback Steakhouse in Jacksonville, Florida. I had just endedView full post »

we do fun.

One of my friends and fellow photographer, Crystal of Pure Photoshop Actions, has a wall decal up that reads: In thisView full post »

I dreamed a dream

Many of you know that I was a single mom. The mom part was an amazing time of growth for me. As soon as Brynn was placedView full post »

Our first snow (and my granny’s hot chocolate recipe!)

Last year, Indianapolis totally sucked in the snow accumulation department…this year wasn’t look much moreView full post »

Chicago – day two!

Continuing from this post—-> http://rachelvanoven.com/blog/chicago-day-one/ We woke up the first day with noView full post »

Christmas is for the birds!

Literally  I made sure to take as much time off during this holiday season, since in years past I worked right up toView full post »

How to have an awesome Christmas portrait

….in only TEN easy steps! Start with a pretty awful, boring shot. As you can see, the focus is ONLY on this familyView full post »

2012 superlatives – part two

I’ve been finding my favorite RVP moments of 2012, and started going through them here, and here is the secondView full post »

Christmas is coming… maybe.

Today started off mildly crazy. And by mildly I mean that at one AM, Josie was stumbling around the house, with her eyesView full post »

2012 Superlatives – Part One

2012 was a c-a-h-r-a-z-y  year here at RVP, both business wise and family wise for me! So I thought it would be superView full post »

Summer 2012 – Us

update on my mom: she was scheduled for a hysterectomy on Friday, but pre-surgery screening showed “numerous”View full post »

May for Us

I pinky promise that I’ll upload some pretty client work soon. By soon I mean, before summer is over. I am havingView full post »

Texas

Two weeks ago I spent 8 days  near Dallas, Texas with my amazing friend, Lidia from Oh So Posh Photography. We taughtView full post »