We're running out the door RIGHT NOW to have a little family stay-cation with our friends Mark and Candice and their little guy Wyatt. It should be tons of fun and we're excited for silly family adventures! :)  (Photos from that sometime in the near future.)

SIDEBAR: (* Matt and i love being wedding photographers but we REALLY love to celebrate marriage! We think commitment is such an amazing gift. When circumstances are tough we have the option to run from the situation or grow through it. We believe that marriage is that commitment that you grow through. It's a challenge, there are bad days, life is not always doling out good times and warm fuzzies but having an amazing spouse to lean on always makes life easier. We felt so blessed to be able to document Roger and Lyndzee's love. After 7+ years of marriage they are so connected. They respect and love each other. AND they look at each other with googly eyes :)

Roger and Lyndzee are awesome! We have been so lucky to make rad friends in this industry. We spent most of our time at WPPI running around Las Vegas with the two of them. We get along great and have bonded over giggles and similarly stupid senses of humor.

Not only are they cool photographers but they're also SUPER sexy!! They have a sweet marriage and two radical kiddos (not pictured). We ran all over catching beautiful shots and even got yelled at by landowners holding hoes and shovels!! Then we finished off our day together with the most DELICIOUS Thai food I have ever eaten!!

Rog-Mahal and Lyndz: you guys are such a blessing to us. We love you both. cheers to many more silly afternoons together. :)

Today I flew in a plane. The last of three days of shooting a spec spot for the Hobosoul consisted of getting footage of LA by plane. I also grabbed a few for myself...

When I was a little girl I dreamed of having a sister. (I got three brothers instead and I adore them but that's a different topic entirely.) I read Anne of Green Gables and dreamed of finding my kindred spirit, my Diana. A "bosom friend" to share all my peaks and valleys with. I was sure, since I had made it almost through high school and had not found this kindred spirit, I would just have to learn to live without her. It's funny how God works things out in my life because I had all but given up hope when I realized what precious friendships I had with my cousins Penny and Babbs. We saw each other at family parties, birthdays, Christmas, Easter and then suddenly we had jobs, a bit of money and licenses. Spending time together became easier and our friendship grew. It's been well over a decade now and I cherish my relationships with my sisters. We have traveled to New York and spent weeks having adventures together in Europe, we have shared rooms and roofs and my girls stood beside me and dripped happy tears on the day I married my guy. I'm so blessed because all along I had been asking for just one kindred spirit and God generously gave me two!

 

Sarah, You are radiantly beautiful. You make me laugh and I love hearing about your thoughts. I think you're a brilliant thinker and writer. Your desire to learn and grow inspires me. I truly feel honored to be your friend. Thank you for sharing your deepest ickies and your greatest triumphs with me. I will stand by you through ANYTHING. Here's to sipping hot tea while sitting on a wrap-around porch, sporting long gray granny braids and shootin' the sh*t when we're 80.

 

i love you.

We were worried it would rain all day long the day of Jodi and Casey's wedding...it did, sort of. The weather was wet and wild on our drive out to Simi Valley, the weather was not very California like much of the day...but lucky us when we needed the skies to clear up so we could shoot outside, well they didn't but it stopped raining just enough for us to get some portraits outside, then it hailed and rained and rained some more. It was a day that reminded me of how great it is to live in California most other days. But most of all it was just super rad to be a part of Jodi & Casey's big day...the weather or sickness didn't stop them from dropping a whole lot awesome on us. We had the pleasure of working with a great coordinator Brandi with Skybox Event Productions at a pretty sweet location called The Vineyards. Floral arrangements were done up by Flowers by Susan. The tunes were brought to us by Cameron from Creative Sounds DJs. Now take a look...

There is something very special about watching a family grow. Once a new member is born the entire dynamic changes and suddenly there is a new perfect little person to love. We photographed the DeCorte family almost exactly two years ago when Madi had just started to walk and Jacob was in mommy's tummy. It was so much fun to catch up with them and see how big the kids are now! Adam and Andrea are amazing parents and we are so excited for mystery baby number 3!