Photoshoot: Miss M

Last weekend I had so much fun catching up with and taking pictures of this pretty girl.  It had been awhile since we had talked much since she went away to school, and I enjoyed every minute we spent together last weekend.  She is also so fun to take pictures of!  Here are a few of my favorites:

 

 

 



Easter

Easter really is the most important day of the year.  The day of our Savior's resurrection and His triumph over death.  This is the day that our faith is built upon.  Without it, our faith would be nothing.

 

This year was the first Easter Service of my new church.  It was a great day with lots of new faces in attendance.

 

Besides the new faces...there were also a lot of "old" faces there - and I got to take pictures of some of them -- here are some of my favorites from Easter morning!

 

 

 

 

Oh yeah - and then there was me and the hubby

Goals for 25

I am turning 25 in a couple months...which sounds like a huge deal to me.  Maybe it is not such a huge deal to all of you.  I feel that 25 is a big milestone year.  So much in my life changed in this past year, and I feel like I want to make my 25th even better.

 

With that in mind, I have a few goals for myself that I want to start accomplishing before I turn the big 2-5.  Some of these goals I have started working on an accomplishing.

 

1. Get pregnant -- now I don't have much control over when this could happen,

but it is still on my list of goals.

 

2. Get ACTIVE -- I am already well on my way for this one.

I have already registered for two fun 5k races. 

 

One of them is the beginning of May and I am running this race

with some of the most fun people from Commissioned.  The Race is

thru Rugged Maniacs and is an intense obstacle course race. 

I am hoping I can get in shape for it.

 

The other race is in June and it is a Run or Dye Race where

paint gets thrown on me and my friend as we are racing.

Sounds crazy fun.

 

Also -- for my birthday, my friend has organized per my request, a

rock climbing adventure class.

 

As you can see - I am trying to get active - I have even started running

on my neglected treadmill this past week.

 

3. Face Fears -- I want to be more fearless in life.  I stress and worry and

get anxious way to much.  I want to be able to experience life and not stress so much.

One visible way I am facing fears is thru the rock climbing activity explained above.

I have always been afraid of trying one of the rock walls - height, falling, death....

all that has crossed my mind.  Even something like the Rugged Maniac Race is

something I would never have done because of fear - but here I am throwing myself

out there to try new things.  And I am super pumped.

 

4.  Do a lot more photoshoots of people!  (enough said)

 

So those are my four main goals at the moment for 25.  I am sure I will come up with further goals, but I think those are good for me to focus on and work on at the moment.

The "C" Family

I had a fun day yesterday taking pictures of this sweet family.  I am going on a missions trip this summer to Belize and to raise my necessary funds for the trip I posted on Facebook that I would do photoshoots for donations.  Well this wonderful family was the first to jump on the offer. 

Here are a few of my favorites from the shoot:

Snow Day!!!

From our family to yours -- we hope you are having a fabulous, relaxing SNOW DAY!!!

 

Lucy sure is!

 



Valentine's Day Celebration (a little late)

I love Valentine's Day.  One of the reasons I love it (probably the biggest reason I love it) is that it gives me an excuse to dress up.  And dress up I did.  I am a huge girly girl and months ago I spotted this skirt -- this gold sequin skirt and I knew I had to have it.  The problem was - I had no where to wear it to.  My weeks are spent in work wear attire of suits and slacks -- definitely not a sequin skirt to work.  My weekends are spent in jeans and sweats.  And the hubby is not one who likes to dress up for going out.  So here I was, with this wonderful skirt in my closet just starring at me for months.  And FINALLY, Valentine's Day had come and we had reservations to go out to a fancy restaurant the weekend after Valentine's Day and I knew the day of the skirt had come.  I was super pumped if you had not figured that out yet. 

This was the hubby and my 8th Valentine's Day together since we started dating (9th if you count the Valentine's Day the month before we were officially dating where the hubby (then just a boy) showed up at my door with a home made Valentine's Day card and a mix cd -- oh the days where courtship included a mix cd).

We had a fun evening out together - even if the hubby didn't enjoy getting dressed up - but I had a wonderful time getting all dolled up.  The food was fantastic and the evening was a nice break from the normal routine.

And I know you have been waiting to see the skirt -- so here are a few pictures from the evening...

Ladies Day

It's been awhile since I have posted...but since then, I had one amazing Saturday with some of my favorite ladies.  We took a day and went and toured and tasted at three different wineries in Virginia.  It was a fun day of laughs, talks, wine, and getting to know each other even better -- and these were the best ladies to enjoy the day with together.