Crystal, Robin, & Nathaniel braved the Austin heat and fires this past weekend to let me take their photos.  They are super nice people and I know their wedding at Castle on the Lake is gonna be fantastic.

Sometimes it’s ok to just play.

A few days ago, we were all outside playing and we had an impromptu “family shoot.”  I set up my camera and let the kids go nuts with a water hose.  They had fun. I had fun. We had fun.  AND, awesome pictures came of it.

If you are anything like me, sometimes it seems like life is moving at like 4,391 miles per hour.  Regardless of how much you try to slow down, things just keep piling up;  that is part of the reason that our family practices a Sabbath once a week. But even then it’s like we don’t get enough breaks.  More and more we are realizing that we have to be intentional about stopping.  We have to “plan” to do nothing.  Maybe it’s just us, or maybe you struggle with this too.  If you find yourself seeming to never have time to “play,” you may need to just schedule it.  Put it on the calendar.  Make it the most important part of your week.  The cool thing is, the more we have time to rest and refuel, the more ready we are to get back to work or let our creative juices flow.   I LOVE some of the images we got and can’t wait to work this idea into an engagement session.  You know you want to be cool like my kids.  Email me if you are brave and want your engagement session to be H2O-wsome!!!

OK, so you’ve been coming here for a while and you totally love looking at my work.  You ogle over every image and can’t wait for the magical day when I take one of you.  Guess what?  It kinda does not matter that much.  I could post an amazing image or I could just post random colors.

(Yeah I just totally put my logo on those colors.  If you upload them to Facebook I want proper credit!!! ;) )

The thing that will make your marriage and relationship better is you.  Not your photos.

Look at it this way: 

Time spent reading and looking at wedding blogs will help your relationship about 0-5%. 

Time spent saying nice things to each other will help you a lot more than that. 

Take the 3 minutes you would have spent on this site and fire off a real live 4-6 sentence E-mail telling someone why you love them.

(I”m also closing comments because any time you have to comment should also be put towards your I Love You E-mail.)

Ready GO!

Hey Hey, it’s that time again.  Time to see what wonderful things around the interwebs have tickled my fancy.  Ready to kick off your Monday with a bang?

1.  Running of the Brides
This one is so so good.  I am not able to embed it on my site but I promise it’s worth your time.

2. What’s In The Bible?

This series came out earlier this year and our family is totally eating it up.  All 4 of our kids enjoy it and Danielle & I even manage to learn and laugh along as well.  It’s from the guy who made Veggie Tales and totally worth looking into.  (If you like the Bible.)  Go buy them on Amazon right now.

3. First Person Mario.

Ladies, this one is for your super cool husband-to-be.  Pass this video or link on to him and he’ll think you are extra attractive the next time he sees you.  Promise.

4. Peeing Bear

Turns out I’ve always had a eye for quirky photography.  I recently found this photo I took back in the 2nd or 3rd grade of a bear at the zoo.

Stay classy Alex, stay classy.

Till next time.  Peace.

Amy’s Elmwood Gardens wedding this past weekend was too good to only show a few blog images. I figured it would be more fun to go ahead and put her album together for her. Here is a little peak of how her day unfolded from start to finish.

Before we get to the album though, how about a HUGE shout out to all the great vendors that made this day happen:

Cakes: Designs by D’Anne
Catering: Traditions
DJ/Uplighting: P3 Sound
Flowers: La Tee Da Flowers
Planner: Davi Ingram of Perfect Plans
Rentals: Red Hat Rentals
Venue: Elmwood Gardens
Videographer: JMH Pro