im gonna open this one with caymus. i swear i didn’t tell him to smile. he did it all on his own.

fav! check out the behind the scenes on the creation of this picture below.

bryan is the owner of Knightly Spirits, so of course we had to squeeze in some wine into a shot.

much like myself, caymus was also named after a bottle of alcohol.

i love how caymus is looking back at the camera.

the frog.

dear UF, didn’t you invent love bugs to eat mosquitoes? if not, i sure wish you would have. what good do mosquitoes serve? thank goodness they seem to like beau more than me, so i rarely get suctioned for blood. he is sweeter.

beau, hard at work, making the dandelions scatter behind bryan + tiffany. what would i do without him?

you can’t handle this cuteness!

we first met joe and kim at what we lovingly refer to as “the pink wedding“.

i loved her socks!

cute fact: joe doesn’t drink coffee, but makes amazing coffee for kim every morning. like i said cute!

these two are action junkies, so we had to do something actiony.

this is a on the shoulders/jump combo:

SNOW. Kim loves his shirt.

beau is my posing guide…

and my coatrack…

and my lighting model…

and my ladder. we call this the b2 stack. this is the view from me on his shoulders.

hope to see you in seattle one day!!

Jeremy and Rachel were in their own world of love when we were photographing them. Constant giggles and kisses between the two of them. We were just flies on the wall with really big cameras. Jeremy even serenaded her during the session. What a beautiful love.

I am busy, busy, busssssssssssssssy. But I wanted to give a little sneak peek of whats to come.

david + natalie.

steve + kristy

nate + kelly

jeremy + rachel

this is kinda of a sneak peek post. there is another part to it, but i wanted to get to the juicy part first.

when we planned a trip to the bahamas with our good friends, niki and marcus, niki had asked us if we would do a just because session while we were there. well lets think. hmm. on the beach, in the bahamas, OF COURSE!

BUT, marcus had another plan.

reaching for the ring out of his pocket.

im pretty sure niki is still in shock here.

YES!

I found out the night before the shoot. I kinda felt like this lady from in this SNL clip the whole time during the shoot:

Dan and Rachel are a husband and wife photography team up in Cedar Falls, Iowa.  So of course when they contacted us to do their photos, we were well…nervous? Scratch that, I was nervous. Beau is always the calm and collected of the two of us. And I just talk a million miles a minute when I am all nervous. Beau has to squeeze my leg under the table to let me know. There the secret is out, I am a nervous talker. Every session I get all jittery, hence the reason I can’t drink coffee at least 3 day prior to a session. But especially with these two, because they are photographers.  But the moment we met up with them, I was fine.

We only had this one day to do the session, they were leaving the next day to go back home. We crossed our fingers that Florida’s skies wouldn’t do the typically afternoon rain dump. And then we added some fairy dust to help with a possible sunset for the beach shots.  I have a friend of a friend who knows Tinkerbell, so we get hook ups of fairy dust every now and again.

Dan just covered Rachel in kisses all day! I love love. (Is that a real sentence?)

Idea credit: rachel (:

gorgeousness!

I adore this shot. We were so excited that we had a little color in the sky. Didn’t think that we were going to get anymore than that.

grrrrrr.

And then BAM. The sun came out in full force with a stunning sunset.

these guys were hilarious. so of course we had to get a picture of them.

doesn’t it look like beau is laying in traffic?

beau likes to shoot from the ground a lot.

just one for now…more to come.

Here is some more fun that was had at the bachelorette party shoot that we did last weekend! holla to my newest sister of almost a year for helping me out on this shoot. She did a great job!

This was about the only serious pose we got of the girls. We couldn’t help but giggle when they tried. But when they got it, hello hotstuffs!

oh yah. Abby’s the one in the pink! HA. LOVE this shot of her, courtesy of C!

outtake from the bed shot that I previewed earlier. too cute not to include!