October 2012
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moving.
Well, it’s finally time for me to leave this little space I have liked to call my “blog”. After a lot of hard work, I have finally finished (for the most part) putting together my new website/portfolio. This is also where I’ll be blogging from now on. If you care to follow along on my photo adventures and see what I’m working on, I invite you to follow me over to my...
July 2012
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where i've been.
spending time with friends.
daydreaming.
signing endless mounds of paperwork.
knee-deep in photo-shoot edits.
snuggling.
learning.
growing.
eating.
laughing.
BUYING A HOUSE.
packing.
exploring.
sleeping.
I promise I’ll be back soon.
But until then…I leave you with the cutest pug you ever did see.
May 2012
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26 Adventures While I'm 26
Just over a week ago I welcomed my 26th birthday with open arms. Year 25 was a really rough and challenging year and I learned more about myself than I ever thought I could. I learned to breathe, to listen, and to just BE. One of the most challenging parts about last year was all of the personal growth I set out to gain. And boy, did I gain A LOT of personal growth. I honestly don’t remember...
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April 2012
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WatchThe day we got married was the most magical day of my life so far.
I’m sorry it’s taken so long for me to share this with you, but I hope you enjoy this little glance into our incredibly special day. The wedding photos will be up later this week - so stay tuned!
A huge thank you goes out to Darryl of Noon30 Productions for making this video of our wedding day. He is not only a...
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#2 and #16
I recently mentioned that I would be posting a new adventure list for my 26th year, but while I’m still closing out my 25th year, I figured I should probably try and squeeze in a few more activities to cross off my 25 while I’m 25 list. Here’s to crossing off #2 AND #16!
Last night, the hubby and I ventured out to our first ever cooking class together! We were gifted a...
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it's that time of year again...
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Here I am - exactly 11 days to my 26th birthday! It’s time to take a look at my awesome list of 25 while i’m 25 and figure out where I want my 26th year to take me. This past year has been an absolute whirlwind and I can’t help but be a little sad about how fast 25 flew by me. While much of 25 was spent in an absolute tornado of change and self-improvement, I’m...
March 2012
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a much needed spring break.
I’ll be back soon with new updates and more photos, but for now, I’m taking a much needed “Spring Break.” There’s a lot of change heading my way and I am so incredibly excited! However, right now…I need to focus on the PRESENT. I need to be present in the now and am feeling a little overwhelmed with a few things going on. I’ll be back soon friends, very...
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February 2012
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trimming the fat; how we ditched cable and...
Do you want to know how to save $1400+/year for your household?
You cut off your AT&T U-verse service and stream through Netflix instead!
C and I just made the jump ‘off’ the band-wagon. You see, we are reorganizing our finances and making sure that we are as debt-free as can be before heading into the realm of possibly purchasing a house. We want to be smart about it - so we...
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a valentine's surprise.
I know I post quite a few photos of my dear puppies here on my blog, but today I wanted to share a really special story with you about one of my dearest soul mates. You see, Luke, C’s and my 9 year old chihuahua rat-terrier, was diagnosed with cataracts back in the end of September. His right eye developed a cataract pretty much overnight and before we knew it he was completely blind in that...
love day.
love - [luhv] : a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
Valentine’s Day is tomorrow and I hope your day is filled with LOVE, and any type of love for that matter. Love is all around us every single day and personally, I don’t need a special day to remind me of that. However, I do find joy in dressing with sequined hearts, singing cheese-ball love songs, and...
January 2012
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a photo a day.
I know it’s been a little quiet here this month (more on that later,) but I just wanted to stop by and say hi! January has literally evaporated and I can’t even tell you how busy I have been. It’s honestly a little scary how this month was supposed to be about rejuvenation and inward reflection, but I really haven’t had much time to do any of it.
In the mean time, I have...
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the one where i get really personal.
Today I’m going to do something that scares me. Actually, to tell you the truth, it scares the HELL OUT OF ME…but what’s life really about without it’s awesome little challenges? Am I right?
Today I’m going to tell you something incredibly personal. I’m not going to go into a lot of details, but I want to share an experience with you, in the hopes that just...
December 2011
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to be in the right place, at the right time.
You know what I love? I love life’s little instances where you realize you are in the exact place you should be, at the exact time you should be there. Where it seems the cosmos have aligned just for you in that exact moment of time. For example, last Friday night, Chris and I were scouring over some racks at a local thrift shop with my brother and his GF, looking hunting for the PERFECT...
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a very merry {married} christmas eve.
Merry Christmas Eve to you all! I hope you are having a splendidly wonderful day, wherever you may be. This time of year is my absolute favorite; surrounded by those you hold close, mistletoe, home-baked cookies, beautiful decorations and colorful chistmas trees. I just can’t get enough of Christmas this year!
This will be mine and C’s first official “married” Christmas...
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free at last, free at last!
It’s been a lengthy and artificial relationship, but I am happy to finally say that after 8 long, tumultuous years, Facebook and I have decided to call it quits!
I’m free! I have officially and happily dumped Facebook! I can’t tell you how often I have thought about doing this over the past 6 months or so. The only thing that’s been holding me back has been my uneasiness...
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last stop...NYC & some Occupy Wall St.!
Hey everyone! I’m back with the remainder of some of our honeymoon pictures. This was our 3rd stop on our adventure {after we left Disney World, we headed to NYC to finish off our trip} and was by far the most exciting! We spent 4 days in lovely New York City and saw every inch of it that we could possibly squeeze in. I didn’t lug my big camera around all that much because it rained A...
November 2011
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to be thankful.
On any given day, he is the one person that helps me feel my most powerful self.
He encourages me, he inspires me, he pushes me.
He lifts me up when I have fallen down.
When one of the most important people in my life left, he was there, always.
He’s still there, always.
Smiling, loving with all of his heart.
He makes it seem so easy sometimes, to just be.
He’s my light in all...
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honeymoon pt. 1 {first stop, Jamaica!}
I recently returned from an incredible honeymoon with my husband. I say “incredible” because every time we’ve told someone about what we did on our honeymoon {or while we were there, what we were doing} people were genuinely amazed that my husband and I were traveling all over the east coast for 2 weeks together. I guess people usually take a week or so and travel just to one...
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Watchhappy friday everyone! hope you have a fantastic weekend :)
October 2011
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an alley-way walk
Just thought I’d stop by and share a few photos I snapped of my incredibly good looking husband {and a few others}…still can’t believe I married this man! Whew! We were hanging out in Petaluma the other weekend and we walked by this FANTASTIC wall…we just had to take some pictures! I’ll be back later this week sharing some of our honeymoon photos. I am currently...
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is it back to the real world already? {warning -...
Well, what’dya know…I’m back! I know…you missed me, didn’t you?
Okay, so technically we’ve been back for over a week now, but I really haven’t had the TIME to get back onto my poor neglected blog. Never fear, my friends, a little schedule is being created and I will be back to regular posts soon, I promise!
For the time being, however, I figured I might...
September 2011
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family dinner: a weekly {usually} tradition
For a few weeks now, my husband and I have been getting together with my brother and his friends/roommates {our friends as well} and we collaborate to make a family dinner. It’s a really great way for us all to come together and talk about the week and everything that’s going on in life. I look forward to family dinner every week, and when it isn’t able to happen {because of...
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when fall slips in
Well, I am officially a married woman…and let me tell you…it was the most amazing day of my life {and yes, I know how many people say that…but it really is the truth!} I promise to not go into a bunch of sappy details about our day, but I will share a little photo with you.
I am happy to report that we are loving every minute of married life…it’s wonderful! We were...
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scenes from a surprise mini-moon weekend
Well I don’t know about you, but this past weekend was AMAZING (and I’m definitely bummed to be back at work today…boo!) We had so many fun activities going on this past weekend (most of which included wedding madness), but all-in-all it was a spectacular break! My mister surprised me Sunday evening by whisking me off to San Francisco for the night under 1 condition: there would...
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August 2011
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pieces of the weekend {through instagram}
Hello lovely friends! I hope you are all recovering from another beautiful weekend. Did you do anything fun?
I spent all day Saturday working on wedding madness insanity. Later on in the evening, my mister drove me down to Novato where I met one of my best friends at her house. She and I then drove into San Francisco for what we will now call, “Melissa’s Bachelorette...
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a friday with love.
You guys! Tomorrow we are officially at the 2-week mark to our wedding day and I couldn’t be more excited/anxious/nervous! This day is going to be a huge highlight in my book of life, in more than one ways. And while I’d love to indulge you…I highly doubt you’d want to read the story of my life over the past year (honestly, it’d probably take you 10 days to read...
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baby tyson
This last weekend I had the pleasure of photographing sweet baby T when he was just a week and a half old. Here’s a few photos from our first visit together, enjoy!
July 2011
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a bit of our 4th of July {a little overdue}
These pictures are quite overdue and I apologize for that, but as I said before…things are CRAZY around here and I’m trying my best to soak it all in and enjoy the chaos while it lasts.
All of these pictures are straight off the camera {except the b/w ones of course}. C and I had a spectacular time with all of our friends and family that we were able to see and spend time with over...
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50 days & counting.
Some of you may be tired of hearing about it {I know I’m almost tired of saying it}, but the wedding is officially 50 days away! The excitement has been difficult to come by, given everything going on in life right now, but I’m slowly getting my energy back and am finally getting REALLY REALLY excited about mine and Christopher’s big day to come! There are, of course, quite a few...
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a time to learn.
Throughout the past year of my life (and not even an entire year) I have come to one of the most painful realizations I have ever experienced; people are mean. Even the people you least expect it from. In all honesty, mean is the wimpiest word I can use to describe the hateful and hurtful people in this world, but it’s the best I can do right now.
This may strike you as overwhelmingly...
June 2011
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honeymoonin'
Well, our wedding is officially 75 days away and we have checked 1 very important thing off the to-do list; the honeymoon!
A few of you already know this, but C and I recently won a really awesome trip through theknot.com. And by trip, I actually mean those meaningless vacation contests you enter while simultaneously thinking to yourself, “why am I wasting my time on this…no one ever...
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record player love.
A few weeks ago C and I finally found the perfect record player {so of course I had to buy it!}. It’s a 1955 Victrola RCA Victor. It’s beautiful and portable and sounds absolutely blissful. The buttery sound floats out of the blue box and transports you back to 1964; you’re laying on the floor of your high school bedroom rocking out to the Beatles and procrastinating on...
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a 1st birthday
This last weekend flew by way too fast, but then again, every weekend seems to feel that way now-a-days. Saturday was spent driving ALL over Sonoma County visiting estate sales and looking at rentals for the wedding. Sunday, however, was spent having an absolute blast celebrating my cousin Travis’ 1st birthday as well as my mom’s birthday.
Travis’ party was full of the necessary...
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a sweet little family + 1
The other day I posted a sneak-peek of a photo-shoot I did with my hairstylist & friend, Amy and her lovely little family. She’s expecting her first child in July with Ben and I am so looking forward to meeting the new little bundle of love. They were absolutely wonderful to work with and I had a blast running all over the beach snapping pictures of them. Even though it was the WINDIEST...
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memorial day weekend {in a few pictures}
This past weekend was amazing…it was filled with delicious food, great laughs, and a lot of car rides. Here’s a few shots from our weekend adventures!
What did you do for your holiday weekend? Anything fun?
we took a stroll through the Sonoma Town Square…it was a perfect day.
and went into an interesting little knick-knack store.
{okay - how awesome are those?}
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{sneak-peek} a baby belly & sweet little family,...
Last weekend, I had the opportunity to photograph my hairstylist and friend, Amy. She’s pregnant with her first baby {due in July} and asked me to take some photos of her lovely little family. I’m so excited to meet this sweet baby! Here’s a a quick teaser from their Bodega Bay photoshoot…more to come this weekend!
Happy Birthday Miss Norma Jean!
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” — Marilyn Monroe
Norma Jean Mortenson {later known as the ever-so-lovely Marilyn Monroe} was born on this day in 1926 in Los Angeles and I’d like to send a...
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