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so today was my lucky day! i got to ride in an army black hawk and flew all over DC tour guide style. josh’s unit here dose a spouse fly day each year. that is awesome because i didn’t think i would ever get to fly in one much less get a tour of DC! i think josh has such a cool job as a black hawk pilot! he is actually an instructor pilot now. sorry had to brag on him. i am so proud! so anyway, i am not an aerial by any means and the black hawk is quite bumpy but here are a few of my favs from today. enjoy!

national cathedral. amazing!!! now i just want to shoot a wedding there! 

good old 95

fort washington in maryland

look how low we got to fly by the capitol!!!

the bottom of the washington monument and the white house. look the christmas tree is up!

the memorial bridge

arlington national cemetery

the watergate hotel correction: georgetown water front…thanks emily!

not sure where this is but in between tysons and 95 i’m pretty sure. 

jeanie and chris were married last weekend but i shot her bridals for her in Houston last month. jeanie and chris’s wedding was amazing and i can’t wait to get to work on that but for now here are her amazing bridal images. she is so stunning, i love her flawless skin and she is wearing the most stunning dress. jeanie is a pleasure to photograph. her dress is from casa de novia in houston and her flowers were done by stems by holly. it has been a while since i have done a bridal session and this one was amazing! i wonder if bridal session are becoming less popular, going to make a come back or maybe just more of a southern thing.

i hope all of you have a happy thanksgiving! we are staying in DC and cooking for the first time ever! i hope i can make it somewhat like my mom and mama. also josh was in iraq the last two thanksgivings so we are really just thankful to all four be together this year. 

i had a fun weekend in houston shooting jeanie and chris’s wedding! it was fun being home and eating so much mexican food! kate and will went camping with my parents for a night and josh went on a manly hunting trip with all of the boys from his side of the family. poor bambi. anyhow i have some pictures to share. here are two recent albums that came in. i realized i have not blogged about albums ever. here is a 10X10 dark brown and an 8X10 black. carley picked white lettering and laura chose blind emboss. the white photographs better but i typically like the blind the best. these are the two most popular color albums. i love getting a little funky and upgrading the covers like one of my albums that is solar yellow with black lizard spine and photo on the cover. albums are so fun! 

so last weekend i went up to NYC to visit veronica and jason for their engagement session. This was my first time to new york ever and it was awesome hanging out these two! it rained bad on saturday so i ended up going up around 6pm just to shoot at this one music venue that they love called the Music Hall of Williamsburg. then to make our dinner reservations at schiller’s. way cool restaurant and yummy food by the way. then we went to a little mexican place called mercadito for a margarita and to meet up with veronica’s bridesmaids. THEN we went to the porch and hung out there for a while. finally after several taxi rides and one subway ride we ended the night with a walk in times square, and a slice of pizza. bright and early we got up and veronica and jason made breakfast and then we took their adorable french bulldog Wimbly out for some shots with him. Wimbly is my new best friend incase you were wondering. we took a walk to a neighborhood park on the upper east side. he is such a great city dog and it is so sweet how much veronica and jason love him! after that we went to central park, bethesda terrace, and the brooklyn bridge all before my 2pm bus back to DC. enough about what all we did i have to tell everyone how adorable veronica and jason are. i have not ever seen a groom as into his bride as jason is with veronica (although i can think of a few recent ones that come pretty close). they are so sweet to each other and you can see it all over veronica’s face. she knows that she is loved! jason is always telling her how amazing she looks and playing with her hair, it is so stinking cute!!! it was amazing to hang out with them and get to know them. thanks guys for showing me NYC and being awesome hosts!

when i got home last night from nyc i had a fedex box waiting for me. laura and eric sent me these adorable texas cookies! first of all i love getting boxes and this box is my perfect favorite color combination! and finally these decorated sugar cookies are my all time favorite cookies! SO THANK YOU LAURA AND ERIC!!! and now my kids think you guys are the coolest. having a cookie and cup of hot tea was the perfect way to wind down from a crazy weekend. and for those of you that know me well you know i am going to try and find a hiding place for these so my family forgets about them.

last weekend when i went to annapolis to shoot laura and eric’s engagement session, josh and the kids came with me because our good friends now live there. the laughlin’s lived right across the street from us in texas and their kids are kate and will’s best friends. i am so glad they are not too far from us so we can see them often. i think we are taking all the kids to a museum this weekend in dc. it is rare to have such good friends close in the military. anyhow during my shoot josh took the kids over to watch their soccer games and after we hung out at their house and had some amazing fresh market seafood. yummy crab cakes and i know i am strange but i was the only one who did not have a huge lobster. while the boys went to get the food nikki and i hung out in the yard with the kids and i took a few pictures while we were supposed to be making pasta. oops. sorry kevin. good dinner with good friends. 

last weekend i met up with laura and eric for their e-session in annapolis. eric is in the naval academy and laura lives in austin. they are so cute and it was so much fun getting to walk all around the naval academy and then just the town. annapolis is amazing! i love all of the colored houses and the water. i think my new fall favorite color is purple because of laura’s shirt and her way cool hair piece. she bought it on etsy and it was a fall feature. so cute! it looked stunning with her red hair and her eyes! so you will have to wait awhile for their wedding pics because they are getting married in may 2010! anyhow, i am blabbing because i am riding on a bus to NYC for the weekend to shoot with veronica and jason. the bus has wifi and power plugs at each seat! so i am multitasking baby! enough of that. thanks laura and eric for the jamaican tea and for showing me around annapolis. 

jeanette and brandon were married at paako in the beautiful sandia mountains in new mexico. it was a great weekend even if i was sick and taking sore throat medicine every 4 hours. funny, the few times i have ended up shooting a wedding sick they still end up being some of my all time favs. i loved the ceremony being in the mountains and just looking all around, it was so beautiful! jeanette was stunning and everything was just perfect! all of the jewish traditions were beautiful. after the ceremony we took a golf cart around and drove up to some spectacular locations to take pictures of just jeanette and brandon. these are always my favorite pictures and i think every bride and groom should plan time like this.  the reception was in the club house at paako. mary did an awesome job making sure everything went as planned. during the reception they made an announcement advising everyone to stay inside because there was a bear spotted outside. that was fun being in the mountains in the dark thinking about all of the wildlife there could be outside. lisa and i had so much fun being in albuquerque, NM and we loved spending the weekend with jeanette and brandon. thanks guys for everything! 

    
    
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