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Holy Texas goodness! This is my longest blog post ever! I could not help myself, I had to post all of these pictures! Patricia and Ryan were married on March 14th in Houston Texas. This wedding was very special to me for several reasons. First of all I was home in Texas and second of all Patricia is my little cousin. So this wedding was practically a family reunion. The girls got ready at Satori in the Heights. Kristen did Patricia’s hair and John did all of the girls makeup. They got married at Messiah Lutheran church and that is where I went to Kindergarten so that was super fun to be back there. The reception was at Tin Hall which is the 2nd oldest dance hall in Texas. My grandparents used to go dancing there when they were young. So since this was my cousins wedding Josh and the kids, my parents and everyone was there! Super fun! Except Will got caught rearranging candles on the cake table. OOPS! So that is it. Patricia and Ryan are amazing and I loved getting to be so close and involved in their wedding. It rained all day but we still got amazing pictures! Enjoy! 

Her dad was so sweet here. He tried so hard not to cry but when Patricia looked at him there was no chance. 

I love the don’t mess with Texas neon signs in the back ground. Patricia hung all of their engagement pictures that we took on twine surrounding the dance floor. It looked amazing! 

There were SOOOOO many kids at this wedding! The dance floor was packed all night long. 

Patricia and Kalynn are sisters and best friends. They are so incredibly close it is the sweetest thing ever! The got the mic and sang their little hearts out to “Killing me softly with his song” by the Fugees.  Good times! 

So thanks for reading my longest post ever! Happy Friday! 

I am so happy to see Jeanie and Chris’s Wedding featured on Style Me Pretty today! Be sure to check out this amazing blog and all of it’s helpful resources! 

Last weekend while I was in Houston for Patricia and Ryan’s wedding (to be blogged soon), I got to meet up with Haley and Camilo to do their engagement session. It was raining and cold for Houston and there were no chances of it stopping so we went with it. We shot in my home neighborhood and my most favorite place to shoot in Houston: The Heights. I love shooting there because I can shoot there a 100 times and still be in a new place. I discover a new street or alley each time I shoot there. I love it! So anyhow we started in the back loading zone of a thrift store to use the covered area. After we got into the groove we braved the rain. I love how this session turned out! Haley is so beautiful and she and Camilo are so sweet to each other. They are both just awesome people. I can’t wait to go back to Houston in May for their wedding! 

I just wanted to post a few quick pictures to express my love for Dr. Seuss books. My family enjoys the super silly reads. Kate can read them faster than I can practically and Will just loves to be read to. This week we celebrated Dr. Seuss’s Birthday and the love of his books and books inspired by him. Here are few of our favorites. Read one  today and remember how fun they are!  Will’s favorite is Horton Hears a Who and Kate loves One Fish two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. Which is your favorite?

So meet sweet Bijal and Shitel. Bijal and I had been talking for a week or so and we had come to the conclusion that her wish for a snowy engagement session was out because it was March and spring was on it’s way and all. And besides here in DC  it rarely snows! So yesterday the tons of snow made her SOOO happy! They came out to suburbia to shoot a quick session. We are planning on still shooting a spring session as well but for now here is part 1. It was so windy yesterday and the snow was just falling and falling! I must say I have never shot in the snow and as all of you know cold weather is so not my thing BUT these turned out so fun and I am so happy the weather worked out for Bijal!