Hello there all my Monday friends! I hope when you read this that it helps brighten the start of the week. It’s actually Sunday night when I’m writing this because tomorrow we will be in Vegaaaaas! Yep, time for a little vacation and some letting loose. We will be attending the annual WPPI conference with pretty much every photographer around and it’s going to be good times for sure. So, that being said, if you email/call me this week I am officially out of the office so I might be a little delayed in my responses. No worries though, come Thursday I’ll be sending you so many emails you won’t know what to do with yourself. In hopes to make it up to you for going away all week, I wanted to share an EXTRA special post with you today. This is the engagement session of Nick and Tiffany. They booked us a couple of weeks ago for their March 13th wedding so we quickly scheduled their engagement session in Julian for last weekend. I hadn’t been to Julian in YEARS so it was great to meet up, eat some pie (OMG the pie…amazing), and cruise around like we were in the midwest (Julian reminds me SO MUCH of Idaho where I was raised). These two were naturals with the camera and willing to try anything we threw at them (walking through wet fields in their fabulous shoes). And the evidence that they completely and absolutely ROCKED it is below. Really, they are fabulous and I will be drinking a margarita in their honor while in Vegas. Nick and Tiffany, you are amazing and perfect for each other, and I CANNOT wait for your wedding this coming Saturday…it will be the perfect end to a perfect week.

Perhaps one of my favorite pictures EVER.

And here we are again at the start of another week. Quite the weekend we had with three engagement shoots (one that was in the POURING rain). All three shoots were a blast though and our clients were troopers with the rain and wet here in San Diego. I really do love rain though, I love how green everything is afterwards…beautiful. Speaking of green, a week or so ago we shot the engagement session of Chris and Vanessa in San Luis Obispo which is like the land of green (not even kidding, proof below). Rico and I love going to SLO, it’s where we went to school so we have fond memories (and bffs) there and it also always makes me feel like I’m in tuscany because of all the rolling hills and vineyards. We met up with this sweet couple in downtown SLO and after a trip to BooBoos and the used book store we headed out to the hills, and some fabulous hills they were indeed! Vanessa and Chris were ADORABLE and never got sick of our constant singing and movie quoting (all Rico there). We had a hard time ending the shoot because of the good times but finally the sun had the final say (we fought hard though, Chris even brought along his vintage lantern he found on ebay). Ok, I could go on and on about this couple because, just look at them, they’re adorable! However, I’ll let you get to the pictures. Chris and Vanessa we think you’re fabulous and we can’t wait for your wedding in San Luis Obispo in May! The hills will be even GREENER then…good thing that’s my favorite color! Muah!

Thursday! I don’t really know why, but I certainly love Thursdays! Maybe has something to do with the end of the week and all the coming weekend shoots we have to look forward to, especially this weekend. I thought that today I’d change things up a bit and share with you a maternity shoot we did recently. We don’t do maternity pictures very often, but Emily and Brett are great friends and fellow photogs and we were honored to capture such a beautiful time in their lives. Maternity pictures are so fun and totally different than our normal shoots (don’t normally focus on any growing bellies when shooting weddings and engagements). So it was fun to branch out and practice our maternity shooting muscles and have a blast experimenting with the Faulknors. Seriously, we love you two and can’t wait to meet baby North VERY SOON! Enjoy!

Faulknors are always a good time (even when 9 months pregnant!)

That Brett sure can jump high!