Phoenix Wedding & Lifestyle Photographers | Session Nine Photographers

If you’ve followed us for any amount of time, you probably know that we work with local stylist Alexandra Evjen with AVE Styles A LOT. She brings magic to our photo shoots and any chance we can work with her, we do. Her hubby Ryan is pretty amazing too. What you most likely don’t know, is that we’ve known these two since BEFORE they got married. Since before we were professional photographers and since before Alex was a professional stylist. Alex and I used to get coffee and sit and talk and LONG for the day that we could be artists full time. The fact that we get to do it together now, is seriously a dream come true. Alex is one of my (Jess) best friends. One of those friends that will be a lifelong friend, for sure. So can you imagine how excited I was when she called me to tell me that her and Ryan are going to be having a BABY??? Holy moly, we can’t wait to meet this little one!

We were so stoked when Ryan + Alex asked us to do a little photo shoot to help them announce the gender of their little one. Creative as always, Alex had the idea to use pink and blue ice cream from Mary Coyle to show whether it was going to be a boy or a girl. Such a cute idea. So we met there for the photo shoot and she finally got to tell me in person what she’s having!! And since they have already announced it to the world, Jason and I are SO super excited to share that she IS having a baby GIRL this September. I’m pretty sure I jumped up and down while hugging her upon hearing this news. But I would have had the same exact reaction had she said she was having a boy. Truth be told, we are so excited that they are having a healthy little BABY. This little girl is already so loved and is seriously going to have the BEST WARDROBE EVER. Check out the sequence of photos that we shot and that they used to announce to all of their friends and family, that Baby Evjen is going to be a beautiful little girl! Man oh man, I can’t wait to snuggle her.

After our shoot, we all grabbed dinner at The Vig afterwards to celebrate as good friends. Have you ever been there?? Whoa that place rocked. Definitely a great double date spot, for sure.

Congrats Ryan + Alex! You two are already the best parents ever. I SCREAM, YOU SCREAM, WE ALL SCREAM FOR A…. GIRL!

Can’t wait guys.

Allie brought out the big guns. And by big guns we mean being freaking awesome in front of the camera and totally being up for anything. This girl has joy and cool factor neurons pretty much oozing out of her pores.

She also brought along some items to her senior session that meant a lot to her, including some musical pieces and family heirlooms, and together we found some beautiful places to incorporate them all, which made the afternoon with her genuine and truly her. Her sister Megan even jumped in on a few and it was so cool to see what an awesome relationship they have together.

Allie is part of the student ministry that we serve in and help lead at our church, so it’s been such a rad time being able to be around her infectious personality for these past couple of years. We’ll be sad to see her go when she goes off to school. BOO. Hooray for school. BOO for good friends moving away.

We gots mad love for you Allie! The world is literally your oyster and it’s like you’re the world’s greatest oyster hunter. You’re for sure going to make a fantastic impact, whatever you put your heart into. :)

Allie….

You may have heard us talk about our friend Mike Olbinski before. He’s a fantastic photographer and colleague of ours and he and his family have become very dear to us. We’ve gotten to know them rather quickly over these past few months and have watched their own story evolve in such incredible ways. And a very important part of their story all came down to THIS special day. On April 12th, Mike & Jina asked us to be there to document the finalization of their adoption of their darling little new baby boy, Eli. This little man stole our hearts almost immediately! With that full head of dark hair and cheeks as chubby as they come, Eli is the perfect addition for their family.

So we met up with the Olbinski’s in downtown Gilbert before the hearing began to do a quick session with them as a family of four. Then we got the opportunity to follow them into the court room to watch them, under oath, promise to commit their lives to taking care of this little boy. Eli slept the whole time until all of their friends and family cheered after it was finalized, when he was jolted awake. But we never heard him cry. Perfectly at peace in Jina’s arms, this little man belongs to THEM. What an amazing experience. We have grown to deeply love the Olbinskis and are SO excited for them and their newest addition.

And now that it’s completely official… Welcome home Eli. You have the most amazing family ever.

The Alleys are some of our BEST friends. To say that we love them would still be a huge understatement. These three are special people to us and we love spending time with them whenever we can. Caelynn, their second little bundle of joy is due to arrive any day now! We can’t wait to celebrate with these three when she does. I (Jess) have been asked by Cody and Andrea to be in the delivery room to shoot their birth, like I did for their first, Linnea. What an honor. I can’t wait until its time for me to rush to the hospital to meet baby girl #2.

Cody, Andrea, and Linnea, you three are so special to us. We love you tremendously and can not WAIT to meet Caelynn. Maybe it’ll be today!! I know you’ve got your fingers crossed.

The Alleys…

We had been excited about this shoot ever since Ryan asked us to so a session with him for his Senior photos. And after a little brainstorming hangout together, we decided to head up north for this shoot. WHAT A FUN DAY. We got to spend the whole afternoon with Ryan up in the woods and it was such a blast. This kid is the real deal. He’s funny, a blast to be around, musically talented and has a heart bigger than anyone we know. Ryan has faithfully served alongside Jay in the high school group at Scottsdale Bible Church, always ready and willing to play drums for various venues that Jay leads in. He’s amazingly talented and we’ve loved getting to know him over the past couple years that we’ve been at SBC. And while we are SO sad to see him graduate high school and leave the youth group, we are stoked for his future ahead.

Check him out. Mr. Ryan Hubner….