Arizona Wedding-Boudoir-High School Senior-Photographer

Hello all my friends! I’m still hanging out here in Wisconsin until tomorrow morning. I have loved my trip here, but I am SO ready to see Joe! I feel like an 8th grade girl getting ready to go to the dance with my long time crush. I’m seriously getting butterflies thinking about seeing him tomorrow. I think it’s going to be a drop-whatever-you’re-doing, slow motion run, music crescendo kinda moment :).

This trip has been a perfect mix of work + play: two weddings, a couple shoots, and some great family/friends time thrown in there as well. Last week Tuesday I headed to my nephew Mitchell’s baseball game with my parents and 2 other nephews Nathan + Noah. It was so much fun watching him pitch. Even though I know nothing about baseball, I did my best to cheer at the appropriate times. Then I realized I would probably be more useful doing what I do best, so I took some shots of him in action. He’s such a lil’ stud!

One of my highlights of Wisconsin summers is the WI State Fair. I have such good memories of the fair from when I was younger and there are always those certain fair foods that you just have to get. For me, it’s the Wisconsin grown baked potato and the maple sugar cotton candy. Yumtastic! Probably the best known WSF food is the creme puff. People LOVE them. Unfortunately for me, being gluten and dairy free, a creme puff is pretty much the worst thing I could eat. But my parents? They always make sure to get one! This year I added in a new favorite to the mix: a chocolate covered frozen banana. I’ve wanted to try one ever since watching Arrested Development and I found out they are delicious. Add it to the list! Things I will not be adding to my fair food list, however, include the following: deep fried butter, deep fried beer, deep fried mash potatoes, chocolate covered bacon, krispy kreme burger or a chocolate covered bacon krispy kreme cheeseburger (the aforementioned items are indeed actual ‘food’ sold at the fair). Sick…

This past weekend I had the pleasure of being a bridesmaid in one of my best friend’s weddings. Alicia (aka Roommate) and I have been friends for almost 8 years after being randomly paired up as roommates our freshman year. I have SO much that I can say about Roommate and plan to do so when I post some images from her wedding. She had a great photographer, but I couldn’t help but take pictures of one of my best friends throughout the day. I’ll have a post up on this beauty soon. In the meantime I’ll leave with just a lil sneak peek!

Ummm straight up GORGEOUS!

Shots of Mitchell pitching and hitting

Proof of some of the nasty fair food…in case you didn’t believe me!

My parents and I enjoying the good fair food!

Until next time, Happy Monday! xoxo

Hello from Wisconsin! I’m currently on trip #4 of 5 for the summer. I can’t believe how fast this summer is going! I have had the pleasure of documenting 4 FABULOUS weddings here so far with 2 more to go. It’s been a blast, although I’m totally missing my hubby and pups. Thank God for face time!

With all this traveling, I’ve been spending my fair share of time in airports and consequently, airport bathrooms. Every time I go in one, I regret it. If I didn’t have the bladder the size of a 2 year old, I would just as soon boycott the facilities. For one, I don’t understand why the bathroom stall doors open ‘in’ instead of ‘out’. The stalls are tiny already, then you have to cram in there with your luggage and then attempt to get the door passed your body and your luggage without falling in the toilet. If the doors opened out, it would be so much easier! Maybe I should drop a note in the suggestion box…? ;)

So most of you know, I’m a dreamer! I have big dreams for my life all the time, but I’ve also been known to have some pretty crazy dreams while I sleep. And the thing is, they always seem super realistic at the time I’m dreaming them, even if the dream itself is totally unrealistic. Poor Joe; I can’t count the number of times I’ve woken up upset because he was “really mean to me in my dream”. And then I expect him to console me for the mean things his “dream self” said or did lol!

Dear rainbow wheel, oh how you taunt me! Now all you pc users out there, you may know him as the little hour glass. Whatever form he takes, his presence is rarely welcomed. Since I’ve been traveling, I’ve been using my old laptop rather than my Imac and let’s just say, my patience is being tested. He used to only show up every once in a while as a reminder that my multi-tasking was reaching it’s limit. But now, he shows up when I’m trying to do the simplest of tasks (throat clear), say writing a Coffee Talk Monday post. Oh my gosh, there he goes again! Maybe he’s feeling attention starved. Can one of you fellow mac users do me a favor and spend some time with him, so I don’t have to so much?

SO as I mentioned, I’ve had the pleasure of shooting some great WI weddings this summer and I can’t wait to share the next one with you. I just love this couple! In the meantime, I thought I would tease you and just show you one to make you want to come back for more ;)

Happy Monday my friends! I hope that you had an AH-MAZing weekend like I did. Joe + I celebrated our 3 year anniversary by spending Saturday night at the gorgeous Phoenician resort. It was exactly what I needed! I have been traveling back and forth between AZ and WI for the past 2 months and I just really felt like I needed a night to get away and relax. We spent the day poolside, eating chips n’ guac, listening to the guitarist play some John Mayer and Jack Johnson hits and reflecting on our favorite memories from our third year of marriage. After we soaked up some sun, we took our first trip to Spinkles cupcakes. I had heard that their cupcakes were BOMB, and they happen to serve a gluten free red velvet. Ohhhh it did not disappoint! Later that night we went to dinner at the J&G Steakhouse on property with a view overlooking Phoenix. The food was delish and I even splurged and got a mojito! Joe encouraged me to order the “Kumquat Mojito” because he had heard the word kumquat in a song once. We were both a little disappointed when the waitress told us they were “all out of kumquat”! Can someone please enlighten me and tell me what the heck a kumquat is anyway???

Last night at church we sang “Amazing Grace”, one of my all time fave songs, so I’ve had it stuck in my head pretty much all day. I don’t know what came over me this morning, but somewhere between breakfast and 11am, I must of convinced myself I was Carrie Underwood. I just started belting out Amazing Grace, acapella style and for the record, it was not very pretty. Good thing God listens to my heart and not my voice!

I have to be honest, today was a not-s0-productive day. I really was looking forward to a day to get back in the swing of things, but I just wasn’t feeling it. But somewhere along the line, I mustered up the strength to go to Costco. Now I don’t know if I mentioned this before, but I do not enjoy going to Costco. Something about multiple aisles of bulk items and unhealthy samples makes me feel a bit overwhelmed! But every once in a while, I have a Costco experience that makes it all worth while. Like the time I first saw that they had gluten free bread (mind you, it’s not my fav brand, but it’s a lot cheaper than anywhere else). Or like today when I found my favorite bag of chips: Riceworks Sweet Chili chips. I can usually find these chips at other stores but they come in a tiny little bag and cost like $4. Costco had them for $6 for a huge bag, so I bought two. Costco, you’re not so bad after all!

I just ordered the coolest new coffee mug for Joe to take to work. It straight up looks just like one of the Canon lenses! It’s pretty sweet, and I’m kinda jealous that I don’t have one now. I bet you all his co-workers are going to be jealous too. He’ll be like the kid from elementary school that had the coolest lunch box. The envy of us all :)