the girl behind the camera and your ultimate hype girl

hi, i'm lexi

a few things you should know about me...

child of God
wife to the sweetest man in the world
fur mama to the two cutest fluffs
iced coffee connoisseur
"the office" lover
Avid Romantasy Reader
the ultimate encourager
body positivity advocate

photos are so special to me. i mean, duh, i’m a photographer. but it goes deeper than that. i did not grow up in a house with photos on the wall, yearly family photos, or any sort of sentimentality. i am by far the most sentimental of anyone in my family. and the one of the things that hold significant value to me are photos. i want my kids to be able to look back and see photos of their mom and dad before they were born. our early years of marriage, our dating period (though very short), our first house, our fur babies, i want them to be able to see it all, because with a picture, there is a story. a story of what happened that day, what we were going through during that time, the people in our lives at that moment. photos tell stories and those are the stories that i want to capture for others. because your story deserves to be told.

why photos?

my husband and i get our photos done every year near our anniversary. it was something that we agreed to before we got married. i wanted to be able to fill a scrapbook of all of our years together. after five years of marriage, we now have a little collage on our wall of a photo from dating, engaged, wedding day, honeymoon, and every anniversary after that. it’s one of my favorite things, it helps us to reflect and see where we’ve come from. 

that guy over there, that’s my husband Ryan. he’s my better half, my biggest supporter, and a true gift from God. we’ve been married since november 2019 and it’s been a rollercoaster to say the least. since getting married we have; graduated college, moved away from our hometown, started careers, bought a home, added our fur babies to the family, left careers, sold our home, moved back to our home town, went back to college, graduated again, and started putting roots down in our church. it feels like we’ve lived more life than a lot of people have at our age, but i wouldn’t want it any other way. through all of the ups and downs, Ryan is my constant and i can’t imagine going through this life with anyone else.

my hubby

now the fur babies deserve an introduction too. first up is our first baby, Clarke, a Russian Blue rescue. we got her less than a week after moving away from our hometown and she was the perfect first pet. she is Ryan’s baby, she still seems to think that my side of the bed is hers. and yes, she is a girl named Clarke. she was named after one of our favorite characters in the tv show “The 100”, which was one of the first shows that Ryan and i watched together.

now onto my baby, Guillermo. he is a pomeranian mix and is just the sweetest thing you’ll ever meet. we adopted him when i was in a deep depression and he helped me find myself again. we truly are bonded for life. he is extremely rambunctious and loves to play all day long. he is named after our favorite character from the tv show “What We Do In The Shadows”. please ask to see photos of him at our session, i have a gazillion!

my fur babies

is it strange that i’m including my favorite tv show as a whole section in my about me page? maybe, but iykyk. “The Office” is my ultimate comfort show. i genuinely cannot remember a time in the last ten years where it wasn’t playing in the background at some point in my day. i have fully lost count of how many times i have watched it all the way through, but i want to say it’s above twenty and probably closer to thirty. i can quote any episode from any season and will probably be able to tell you the name of the episode and where it fits into the season. one of the last lines in the whole series talks about how there is beauty in ordinary things and that is truly how i feel my photography can be explained. i love finding the beauty in the ordinary and the mundane because it is always there. “The Office” shaped me from a teenager into a young woman. it’s been with me through so many life changes and it’s extremely special to me.

the office

in 2021, i started putting a larger emphasis on body positivity in my own life and now i want to encourage other women to join me on this journey to loving our bodies and what they do for us. as women, we have so much pressure on us to be the right size, have the correct proportions, have healthy, beautiful hair, have perfect skin, eat the perfect amount, and so so so many more things. with all of this noise coming at us, it is so hard to see our bodies as the gifts that they are. God knew us before we were even created. He formed us in our mother’s womb, knitted us together. We are FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE. God does not make mistakes. God is perfect and He makes beautiful works. Every part of us is in God’s creation. Our stretch marks look like bark on a tree. Our acne scars look like the stars in the sky. We are in God’s creation BECAUSE we are His creation and how can that not be beautiful?

body positivity