Posts Tagged ‘wedding photographers’
Saturday, May 1st, 2010
I know I posted on Facebook some time ago about getting a new doggie around the house, and he’s yet to make the blog (to be honest I wasn’t too excited about having him here at first). Rocky (AKA “Rock”) is a white boxer and we rescued him and now he enjoys our 8 acre lot with a pond and runs around with Ellie all day long. I have to give TW some props because when we first got him he jumped on us every 10 seconds, he’s over that now and listens so much better, which this is the first dog he’s really put any attention into so yay he’s finally getting it (the husband).
Meet Rock the white boxer who has a white spot in his eye and produces nasty slobber…..

Enjoy!
-erika
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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
I want to focus on every color in the rainbow at some point but I think today will be YELLOW!!!
Find these adorable dresses at Forever 21 for your bridesmaids!

What an adorable idea!!!!! Love love love lining the walkway with lemons!!!

I thought these shoes from Payless would look cute with the girls’ dresses.

Oh you gotta have lemonade to make the wedding complete!!!

Lemonade
From Martha Stewart
3 cups lemon or lime juice, about 20 lemons or 25 limes freshly squeezed
2 cups superfine sugar
4 cups cold water
4 cups ice
2 lemons or limes, thinly sliced for garnish
1. Into a large serving container, strain the citrus juice, mix it with sugar, and stir until the sugar is dissolved.
2. Add 4 cups cold water and stir again until well combined. Add ice to fill and a few lemon or lime slices.
Makes 10 cups.
And these would be wonderful shoes for the bride!!!!

What a cute bouquet!!!!

What a great bridesmaid gift from Etsy!

Cute socks! What a great idea for a fun shot!

And of course you gotta have a yellow tie to coordinate!

I’m thinking the tie would look best with a grey tux!

Instead of one big wedding cake you could offer cute little pies or cakes displayed at various heights to add interest!


These would be a good addition to the church doors.

Learn how to make these DIY napkin folds yourself!

What an adorable boutonniere!

Enjoy!
-erika
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Friday, March 12th, 2010
It’s been a long day……..

But I’ve gotta go get rested up for our awesome Devil’s Den Wedding tomorrow! I’m super excited, even though I know you can’t tell in this image, and I can’t wait!!!! Congratulations Kelly and Adam!!!
Enjoy!
-erika
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Ok maybe you are now intrigued by my title, but I honestly don’t know where this post is going. I am going to just play it by ear, hopefully it’s not too too much rambling for you. TW and I went to church as usual on a Sunday then we went out to the inlaws, as usual. I was not too happy about having to work at 6pm to do inventory until midnight, which obviously if it’s 9:42pm right now they let me come home early!!! Anyways so TW had to drive me back down to my car, since we weren’t about to take the new car on the inlaws dirt road. The two youngest little girls, TW’s sister, Tracy’s kids, wanted to come with us, so obviously being the super cool aunt and uncle that we are said sure but go tell your mom. Laycee the middle aged girl got to sit in TW’s lap first and steer. I do remember the days of getting to steer, aww what fun those days were! While that was happening Kynlee, the youngest girl was telling me how she needed a seatbelt and I said don’t worry about it we’re only going down the dirt road it will be ok. This little girl was totally determined to wear her seatbelt! She didn’t quit at it until she got it unstuck from the seats! Her mom would be so proud! Well they dropped me off at my car and I said hang on don’t leave I want to take my self portrait with all you guys. I went to my car, got my camera and shucks……my battery died right there! I was pretty bummed. So we all said our goodbyes and I headed off to work while Kynlee got her turn to steer down the road. Maybe I do know what I’m going to write about now……… isn’t it funny how excited little kids get about something us big kids take for granted when they get an opportunity to be big? My picture today was taken with my phone of me steering my way to work. I do enjoy driving but certainly not as much as those two little ones!
So I challenge you guys to all find something that you take for granted that you once were told you weren’t “big enough” to enjoy! And I want to hear about it!

Enjoy!
-erika
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Tonight we watched Step Up 2 at the inlaws house. Everytime I watch any of those step movies I totally wish I had any sort of dancing skill. All that awesome upbeat music just gets my heart pumping and you can’t help but want to get up and dance!!!! So of course we went home and did all our dance moves for practice……..






Enjoy!
-erika
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
My husband is an amazing orange peeler. I want the whole world to know it too! Personally I find it very interesting that he can do this, why……well when I peel an orange there are about 50 pieces!!!

Enjoy!
-erika
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Ashley and Jim drove up to Fayetteville for the weekend. They are such a fun and laid back couple! I enjoyed walking all over Springdale and through all the briars with them today! They will be getting married in Little Rock on July 17th this year. I’m pretty excited!!!!

I just love how happy they are in this one! Of and I love the wind blowing her hair!!!

Jim’s a lucky guy! Isn’t she just gorgeous, look at those eyes!

Love Love Love Love Love Love Love Love Love Love Love. This may just be my favorite image of the day.

Cute shot in downtown Springdale.

Don’t they look so happy to be together! I just love shooting engagement pictures!

This was Ashley’s one request……field shots! I am in love with sunflare and fields!

Love the warmth and closeness!

Oh wait I forgot about this one…….totally hands down my favorite for the day!
Enjoy!
-erika
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Today I was in my last day of training at the census and we were out doing some actual interviews with people when our crew leader called us and told us to come in an hour early. When we got back he informed me that I was terminated……. really confused I got a phone number to call to main office and I just quietly walked out. As I left I immediately called the office and of course was left with nothing but a voicemail for some guy named Kelly. I left my message and was still sitting there really confused and racking my brain thinking of all the reasons I could have been the only one terminated in my group. I then got home and received a call back from Kelly, he tried his best to explain to me that somehow they couldn’t read either set of fingerprints I had taken so that meant I was basically put on a non working status (or in other terms was terminated) until further notice. He also mentioned that this has never happened before and that was why he wasn’t really sure how to explain it to me. Now I had been very warned that all these census people apparently can’t make up their mind and anything can change at any moment several times. I said to the man “ok well that sounds interesting, I guess I’ll just wait around to see if I’ll be on a working status later” Seriously not even 10 minutes later the man called me back and told me they didn’t like the policy the way it was currently and that I was put back on a working status. So I immediately left my house and when back up to the training site to keep working. So now I just feel like every unknown call on my phone is them telling me again that I cannot work. I bet it was my pesky thumbs that caused all these problems!!!

Enjoy!
-erika
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
TW called me today and asked me if I wanted to go watch the basketball game with him tonight. The regional tournament was happening and they would be playing the winner of the two teams that played so as a coach obviously he needs to be there. He said yea we can go eat too, I said that sounds great. He said we’ll just go in at eat at the concession stand………..I started to laugh and said it’s a date! Very quickly he assured me that he meant to say hospitality room, even still we were going on a date! :) Also while we were in town I convinced him that we needed (really really bad) to do some grocery shopping. Now something very interesting about the two of us is we used to go grocery shopping once a week together when we were dating in Fayetteville. I loved that time with him so much! I remember not caring about anyone else. I remember dreaming of the day that we would be the cute married couple shopping together. We used to play marco polo in the store. Now that is something that we’ve held on to and when we can’t find each other we start yelling “marco”!!! I still love grocery shopping with TW as much as I did before, but I think now it’s because it means he’ll be paying!!! :)

Enjoy!
-erika
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
It is 12 weeks officially today, that means it is now the size of a large plum! Apparently most of it’s major systems are in place, but obviously still need lots of maturing. Right now it’s bone marrow is super busy making white blood cells. I went in on Friday for a doctors appointment and heard the heartbeat again, this time it was 160 bpm. That was a pretty exciting experience and makes it seem that much more real, since right now I just feel overweight and not pregnant.

You can see some imprints of road maps on my tummy, so sorry. I pulled up my pants to sit comfortably through some training today, you’ll hear more about it tomorrow.
Enjoy!
-erika
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