Days Like Today Make It All Worth It!

  I woke up exhausted this morning!  For the last 3 days I've had unbelievable amounts of energy combined with insomnia, so I have been working out - push ups, planks, running, elliptical  pull ups, dancing, stairs, and whatever else I can think of!  Then today, my body finally slowed down and said "thanks for the workout".  Tired, groggy, and very sore today, but then I had a photoshoot this evening that reminded me why I love my job.  Even when I am tired and not sure if I want to leave the comfort of my office, working in front of my computer with a tv show going on the other screen, I go to a session and remember that it's all about the people.  And I really do love it.

I get to work with amazing people like Mattie and Carston.  These two are just adorable!

I know Mattie from when I was a teenager in Austin, she has a smile that is absolutely contagious.  So positive, so loving, so happy!  I love to be around people like her.  She and her family moved every couple years, and after Austin they moved to France.  She speaks the language quite well and actually taught an elementary school immersion program for a few years.  Luckily, there was "A Bit of Paris" here in Utah also...

 

This shoot was so much fun because it felt like we were just hanging out.  Laughing, talking, exploring - we hiked around and found some cool little places I had never been!

And Carston is a cop.  Which means we got to play with the car!!  I titled this next photo "What a woman will do to get out of a speeding ticket" which might be a controversial title, but I love the photo anyway.

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Hatch Wedding

This wedding was awesome. Everyone, including the bride, was wearing cowboy boots the whole time. The groom and the men from the bridal party were all wearing western tuxedo shirts, and cowboy hats were everywhere. The ceremony and the reception were in Bountiful at the Wight House, and the location was beautiful.
Christina and Heber are a joy to shoot because their personalities and their just absolute cheerfulness just shine through every photo they are in.

I loved her bouquet... stargazer lilies are always just gorgeous. :)

See all of the photos of Christina and Heber's wedding here.

Farmer Wedding- Newlyweds

Justin and Jeanine Farmer had a beautiful wedding day... the weather was just perfect (well, perfect enough considering it was January). I love it when couples ask me to be there all day, because it gives us the time to get a lot of variety in the photos. We started at the Bountiful temple after their sealing, they had a nice luncheon at a sushi place in Murray, and then we were able to skip on over to Wheeler farm for an hour or so before the reception. It's not often that we have a chance to shoot the wedding couple on the wedding day during the last hours of sunlight (my favorite time to shoot)- more often than not the schedule of the wedding day doesn't allow for it. So I was very pleased we were able to go to Wheeler Farm for the extended newlywed session. The location and the fact that they are "Farmers" did make me giggle a bit though. :D
Here are a few favorites from the photos outside the temple and at Wheeler Farm. I'll get some reception photos in a later post.






See they're "farmers". Get it? Eh? Eh? ;)



To see more of Justin and Jeanine's photos, click here.

Alexis and Alan's Newlyweds

Alexis and Alan's wedding was on a blustery day at the Bountiful Temple; it was beautiful, and bitterly cold! The site is gorgeous, and located way up on the top of a hill- we had some serious winds, and I felt so sorry for the bridal couple. Even Alan in his tux (which Thomas still approved of- chocolate brown and quite stylish) wasn't doing much better with the breeze than his beautiful bride.








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