Right before we left for our vacation I shot a gorgeous little wedding in Naperville last Saturday! It was so beautiful and was at the Naper Settlement which has some really sweet places to shoot! Olesya is from Europe and TOTALLY loved to be in front of the camera which made my job super easy! Here is the **Slideshow** Enjoy!!! :)
We threw Joy a "Jackie O" themed shower at our friends, the Kruses, farm! It was sooo much fun and it turned out to be a gorgeous day!!! Afterwards, I gathered all the flowers and made a little bouqet for Joy to take home...well..it matched her dress so well that we couldn't help but to do a little photoshoot! Here is the **slideshow**!! Joy is getting married in 3 weeks and I'm soo excited I can hardly contain myself!! :)
So I'm sitting in my car at 11 at night on my laptop because this is the only place I can get wifi...which is SUCH a good thing because this whole week I've had a very computerless week! It's great!! Tomorrow we are heading back home bright and early! We had to take two cars down here because our family just doesn't fit in one car anymore!! lol!!
Anyways! We have had such an incredible and relaxing vacation! It's been awesome!! I just sat on the dock for hours this morning just reading and thinking! Wow! I never get to do that and I need to do it so much more! (BTW...side note..I am reading this incredible book called "Captivating" EVERYONE should check it out!!! It's so amazing! I'm just in the second chapter and am already blown away! It's basically talking about a woman's heart...but it's just as good for men to read it too to understand us better! lol!)
Tonight we went back to that crazy arcade place and played some more games...I totally rocked at skee ball...I had no idea I was this good!! HAHA!!
Unfortunately I don't have a slideshow from today because we just chilled the whole day...but here is yesterday's **slideshow** Yesterday we went to a place called Bridal Cave! Apparently they have had thousands of weddings IN THE CAVE!! How crazy is that! The even crazier part is that while we were looking through the albums of all the people who have gotten married we saw one of our uncle's!! WHOA!!! Small world!! :) Then last night we all sat around on the dock with our neighbors and sang songs! This is one of my all time favorite things to do because our family would ALWAYS do it at family reunions when I was younger! It's so much fun!!
Well that about wraps up our week! Hope you all enjoyed the slideshows!! :)
Love you all and see you soon!
So yesterday we had an awesome day! We spent most of the day out by the lake swimming, reading, and tanning(burning....)lol!! It was great!!! For lunch Natalie, Andrew and I all went to the grocery store for lunch!! Yeah...I know! Sounds REALLY weird...but it is incredible!! They have this monster buffet and then you can go up to any of the pre-made food areas and get whatever you want from there too! It's crazy!! Good thing we don't have this store around us because we would be there everyday!! :)
Last night we went and walked around the little town...I'm not a very good tourist though..usually I just like to have a vacation = do nothing!! :) But...being the loving person that I am;) hehe! I went along to the different shops.. We went to this big arcade and they had Dance Dance Revolution which I TOTALLY stink at!! LOL! I think I need some more practice at our crazy "Barlow" weddings! Afterwards we went to get some fudge which made it worth the whole night! WHOA!!!...let's just say: monster piece of chocolate cake = quarter size of this fudge!! It's amazing!! I love you all!! Here's the **slideshow** from yesterday!
Yeah!! So we made it through day 1 alive!! YAY!! hehe!!!
Yesterday was great!!! We went go-carting, shopping, and tons of other things I can't even remember!! lol!!
While we were out shopping we went into Fossil(awesome store BTW) and Andrew picked up these HILARIOUS hats!!! My sister Natalie decided to buy a couple in honor of one of our family members who couldn't be with us this week:(....
Then last night my dad and I went out for dinner at this incredible place called JB Hooks, it is this seafood restaurant on a cliff overlooking 14 miles of the lake! WOW! It was awesome!! And great just getting some time to talk to my dad..because he is high demand these days!!
Check out the **slideshow** from yesterday!! I love you all!!! :)
So we are FINALLY on vacation!!! Yeah!! We actually haven’t had a good solid for no reason vacation in a couple LONG years so this is much needed! We are in Lake of the Ozarks, MO staying at a cottage on the lake! It is so gorgeous and really relaxing too! There is a nice big dock right below our house and you can just go and sit out on it for hours!
Here is the first **slideshow ** from yesterday! Enjoy!! I hope you all have a wonderful RESTFUL week too!
Sarah
I just had a hard realization today that most of my good friends are moving away!! I just had lunch with my friend/Studio manager Sarah Chellappa who is moving away today to Nashville to go to school there! Then this yesterday afternoon I got together with my friend Jenny who is moving out west onto a farm. My best friend Joy is moving to Michigan and my friend Debbie just moved to Arizona...
As I see them all leave I'm sad...but at the same time I know that God has awesome plans for them all and they're all going to persue that dream! Well...now I have a ton more places to travel to too!! I love you all and will miss you sooooo much!
