Tharp Extended Family Portraits // Lake Rebecca Park in Hastings, MN

​Have you heard that it’s important in life to have relationships like a compass? If you haven’t, I promise I’m not crazy and let me explain what I mean. To explain it very briefly, we need to have relationships of people ahead of us in life that we can look up to, behind us in life that we can pour into, and those in the same stage of life that we can walk alongside with. Ultimately, each of these relationships we pour into and are challenged to grow as well. One such “same stage of life”  compass relationship that we have is with the Wong family. Now you see the title above that says Tharp is the last name of this group, and you’re not wrong, Lori is originally from the Tharp family. Her awesome parents, Colleen & Kim, live on a farm in Hastings and her brother, Jason, also lives nearby. Lori met an amazing man named Stephen while in college, got married, and moved back into the Twin Cities area 6 years ago. They now have four beautiful kids. Getting to photograph their family the past few years has been an honor and now getting to also photograph her brother and her parents? Even more so!

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