a North Dakotan girl through and through, wife, mother and die hard Catholic.

Yes, we are packing our bags as now as a family of four and trading the ID mountains for the ND prairie! The Merck’s are officially moving back to North Dakota! You’re right my friends, that means Root & Bloom Photography is based out of North Dakota once again and boy oh boy are we […]

When you support a photographer you aren’t JUST paying for a provided service or money to poured back into an expensive for the business for monthly software is need, updated gear, rentals, you name it. Although those things are a sliver of what that money does… Often times I think the creative industry although it […]

We’ve heard it (or maybe said it ourselves) many different ways on many different occasions…get your milestones documented. Let me tell you what, I didn’t understand on a deeper level how important it is until I got married and Mason and I started a family of our own shortly after. I’ve heard it about a […]

It has been almost six weeks since we’ve welcomed our new little helper around here and on July 26th, 2021 Mason + I welcomed our Peter Daniel at 6:39pm in the evening on the feast day of Mother Mary’s parents, saints Anne + Joachim. We put Fulton down for bed Sunday evening and a few […]

Can I tell you a secret? This isn’t my first blog post..I know, I know shocking but somewhere in my deep past way back in early high school I started a blog where I’d talk about my faith and maybe (I’m just guessing here but like) three people read it, haha! I loved being able […]