Extreme Fakeover!

Well...I just found out what I would do if I wasn't doing photography!! NOOO don't worry I'm definitely not thinking of quitting photography..but I AM pretty proud of myself in my newfound talent of being a stylist! LOL! I guess it just comes from playing dress up and doing makeup when I was little! One of the things I used to want to be when I was little was a movie director because I would always put on plays and get everyone dressed up and even make their costumes so that experience came in handy today when Natalie had hero day at school and had to dress up like one of her hero's! I suggested Jackie Kennedy because she is SOOO much fun to dress up like and just so all around cool! So here is the transformation that we worked this morning!!! I think she pretty much looks exactly like Jackie!! And no that's not a wig!! I'm just good like that!;) HAHA!

Nashville Wedding!

On Saturday I shot a beautiful wedding in Nashville with the awesome Krystal Mann! I met Krystal back in July when we both shot a wedding down in Nashville with DJ and we've stayed in touch since! She invited me to shoot this wedding with her and I'm so glad I was able to go!! :)

The couple Che Che and Michael were wonderful and you could tell so sincerely in love! I loved how Michael really looked after Che Che throughout the whole day! The wedding was at this awesome chapel at Vanderbilt University and then the reception was at the super cool Belle Mead Plantation! The day was a perfect fall day and couldn't be more gorgeous! Here is the slide show of their day!!

Things are going great around here!! I dove right back in today with my 5:30AMness so that I can start hacking away at all my projects so don't worry if I haven't responded to things I am still alive!! haha!

My sad neglected blog...

I'm sorry I have ignored you for so long! LOL!
I just got back yesterday from the longest trip I have been on! A total of 16 days! But let me tell you I needed it! I got so refreshed, have new ideas, connections, and friends that it made for the perfect trip! I went to LA, Santa Barbara, Beverly Hills, Franklin, Nashville and back to Franklin!

Being in Tennessee was so much fun because like I said before it's like my second home! I shot a beautiful wedding on Saturday which I'll post about tomorrow, and was able hang out with some of my best friends and family so it was just perfect!
Right now I'm sitting in front of my desk FULL of unopened mail and 100s of emails and to do's to respond to so I'm a little scatterbrained but I'm SO glad to be back home! To see my family was one of the best parts of the whole trip! I really love them so much and even though my sister JuliAnna woke me up this morning at 5am it's still so good to be back!:) I love you all!!

Growing up and growing pains...

The past month has just been out of this world insane but incredible at the same time...of course that makes sense at 1 in the morning when I'm writing this! lol! Anyways I have in the past couple weeks REALLY been having to grow up which is always hard because I want to be like Peter Pan and never grow up...especially since I still feel like I'm 12! hehe! Making giant decisions on my own and having to figure things out by myself is weird.
I feel like I always jump back and forth never being able to make up my mind...like for instance..today I went to look at houses and had a meeting with a mortgage broker having to act older than I am but then tonight am sitting in a college dorm with my best friend Sarah and her friends playing the wii, watching Highschool Musical, listening to Hanson and just vegging till all hours of the night! I just don't know how I feel about this! I guess I will just come to a comfortable adult version of the kid that I still am??
Totally just rambling tonight but some interesting things that I've been thinking about! I think I've come to the decision though that I will still never really grow up no matter how old I get or the things I have to do!! :)

My second home!

I'm sitting on a bathroom floor right now in a big warehouse watching my cousin get her haircut...my cousins are heading out tonight for their tour with Toby Mac which is sooo exciting so they are all getting ready and of course it's perfect timing that I'm down here at the same time! I have to soak up all the time I can get with them! :)
I'm finally getting caught up with everything and downloading all my emails since Friday so I have ALOT to get caught up on! Ahh!
Santa Barbara was just simply amazing!! It was the perfect little vacation and DJ was apologizing for it being so crazy with construction being done at his house but coming from a family of 9 that was NOTHING! hehehe! We went swimming on Saturday and he dared me to jump off the balcony above the pool so not to be a wimp...I tried it and I was SOOOO freaked out but I did it and am so proud of myself now! :)
On Sunday my friend Bob Davis and I headed back down to LA to shoot the Fox Network Emmy after party in Beverly Hills! Bob invited me to come and shoot and of course I couldn't turn that down! It was an incredible experience, with Mindy Weiss(the coordinator for Eva Longoria's wedding) planning the event, Wolfgang Puck creating the food, and TONS of stars to shoot it was a photographers dream! Here's a shot of me with the famous shootsac!! :)
Well more fun to come I'll try to update more often! If I can just find some wireless!

No internet...

It is WONDERFUL not having internet sometimes! You can really just take a step back and live the real life! I still don't have internet on my computer because I'm in Nashville staying at my grandparents house but will try to find some this afternoon so I can post about the amazing past couple days! I love you all!!

Calm in the middle of the storm...

Ahh...Oh man! I'm in Santa Barbara right now sitting on a hammock overlooking the city and the ocean! It's TOTALLY heaven! I'm at my friend DJ's house for a couple days and he just bought this incredible house up on the mountain! It's unreal! We've just been chilling all day which is completely what I needed! I've been pushing it way too hard the past month and still have more to come so this nice mini vacation in the middle is perfect!! My friend Bob Davis is also staying here and he is an incredible photographer in Chicago too! We're all heading out tonight to meet some friends for dinner which should be wonderful because I alot of my friend live here!!
I'm sorry if I haven't responded to emails or phone calls I've been trying to get caught up today!! :)
I love you all!!
PS..Partnercon was AMAZING!! I had such an incredible time and learned so much! It was MUCH needed and at the perfect time too!!
Pss..My friend Nathan Holritz took the picture above last week when he was here!