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The first full weekend in January, I planned a last-minute spur-of-the-moment trip to Arizona to see my brother (without Andrew).
He’s been living/working in Afghanistan for almost 2 years; recently quit; and moved to Colorado to go to school January 9.
But that tiny couple-day window between Afghanistan and Colorado he was in Arizona, [...]
We did Christmas Day with Andrew’s family, and then that evening my parents came into town!
Which means we got to do Christmas morning all over again on Monday (which was the Federal holiday so I had the day off)… Christmas morning with only 4 of us (and Mom and Dad had already opened [...]
Lets go back a little bit and look at photos from the holidays!
Christian has family in Santa Clarita, so he and Avalon came down for the holiday and we got to meet them for breakfast! Christmas Eve fell on a Saturday and miraculously both Andrew and I happened to have off work ….
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I know that most of you already know this …. but I still wanted to make it blog-official!
Andrew and I are going to have a little nephew in a few months!
I’ve always said I wanted to be an aunt before I became a mom – and luckily Andrew’s sister Kaitlin pulled through [...]
We didn’t get a Christmas tree this year.
Wait, let me explain.
Between not really having the floor space and potentially having to start packing any day to move into our new house, we didn’t really feel up to getting a big ol’ Noble Fir and dragging our boxes of ornaments and lights and [...]
(Psst! Merry Christmas Sunday! I still intend to blog my stories in order, though …. sorry but we’re going back to Thanksgiving weekend! )
Once we had decided we would be heading to Phoenix for Thanksgiving weekend, I was able to book a portrait session with this sweet family ….
I photographed Zach and [...]
The Friday after Thanksgiving, Andrew and I got SO early to drive all the way to Phoenix!
We had a full weekend planned and wanted to be able to see as many friends as we could while we were in town …
Once we were in town, the first stop was to visit our [...]
Um …. does it seem like this post is a little late-ish? I guess we’ve just had a TON of stuff going on!
Thanksgiving this year we spent with Andrew’s family in Santa Clarita ….
Julie – bless her heart – planned our Thanksgiving dinner for early in the afternoon so we could go [...]
Our friends Betsy and Justin had a little baby girl at the end of October and we got to meet her when she was about 3 weeks old ….
Both mine and Andrew’s first time holding a baby in a very very long time …
But she was so sweet and calm and adorable [...]
Kevin makes friends everywhere.
He arrived in Edinburgh about 3 or 4 days before the rest of us and spent all that time in the city by himself.
He went to some pubs and some Fringe festival shows….. and along the way he made some friends.
Including 2 guys from California! Jesse and Richard [...]
“last summer” as in 2010!
I found a roll of film recently… I keep my to-be-developed film on a shelf near the front door with my to-be-read-next books. Somehow this roll of film from summer 2010 got lost in between the books and we just re-discovered it when we were getting the film from [...]
One of my favorite newer Autumn traditions has been visiting a corn maze!!
This is something neither Andrew nor I did growing up, but when we lived in Arizona, Michelle introduced us to the wonder and glory of navigating a corn maze after dark …
Last year (2010) Tucson corn maze (2007) Tucson corn [...]
When we arrived on Friday, I read in the check-in materials that we needed to turn the water heater on. Every single outlet and appliance had an on/off switch – including the water heater.
So, since there would be 6 of us showering, I turned on the water heater ASAP Friday night.
But then [...]
Babies, EVERYWHERE!
Tons of our friends are having babies this year (or next year, or last year, even). I guess we’re at ‘that age’ …
A couple weeks ago, I went to a baby shower for our friend Betsy and her to-be daughter Elora … Such an adorable pink, princessy themed baby shower! Betsy’s [...]
As a wedding photographer, sometimes I take (and keep) photos that are not flattering to the photo subject. That may seem unprofessional of me, I know.
I don’t even care.
Those are real moments that make the wedding (or party or portrait) genuine and not staged.
I love moments like that.
SO! In honor [...]
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