Archive for October, 2009

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Friday, October 16th, 2009

getting married here. Isn’t this beautiful! It’s Clinton, TN, where I got the pleasure to photograph a beautiful wedding last weekend. There will be many more pictures of the amazing wedding in Clinton to come but I wanted to share this one to show how awesome this location and venue was! A big congrats to the happy couple!

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I know I have been missing around these parts of the blog lately but it’s for good reason, promise:) I have been crazy busy editing and shooting some awesome weddings. The good news, many more pics to come from this beautiful wedding of Jenny and Ty. The bad news, that’s all you get right now (and a noticeable absence of the five on friday…please forgive me!)

yard sale!

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

My blog has been lonely because of my lack of posts due to this crazy month (it doesn’t know that in November its going to get lots of love with mucho wedding peaks!) so I wanted to share about the yard sale we are having this Friday! Here is the ad we have out…. (if you aren’t local and see an item on the list that you must have or are interested in, feel free to email or leave a comment…if you are local, stop on by on Friday!!)
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This sale is Friday, 10/16, only! We will start at 8am and go until 5 or so for those that are at work. Stop by early to get the good stuff! I have listed some of the items below just to give you an idea of specific items.

There is much more but this will give you a taste…
Minolta Maxxum Qtsi (with lens and bag!)
Xbox 360 games
Tons of girls clothes (0months to 2T including brand new Gymboree (some still with tags on, others washed but never worn)
Womens clothes (size medium and large)
Mens clothes
M&M cookie jar
Victoria Secret gown (new with tags!)
Dresses
Bottles, bibs
Shannon Crystal (vases, dishes, etc..)
King sheet set
Willow tree statues
high chair, child’s bathtub
wicker couch
cloth diapering stuff
Kids shoes (Robeez, Mini Star, and Gymboree, etc)
baby Hiking backpack carrier (brand new, never used…well, except for today when Lena wanted to try it out for 2 minutes:) )
Bath and Body Works stuff (new!)
Blender
frames
books
art supplies

1728 Fair Dr. Knoxville
**directions: Take Broadway north. Take a left on Knox Rd between McDonalds and Sonic. Take your second left onto Fair Dr. Go through 2 stop signs. House is on left less than 1/2 mile up. Signs will be out:)

a tennessee fall wedding | knoxville wedding photographer

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Tennessee fall weddings may be my favorite! Last weekend, Dan and Erin tied the knot in Maryville, Tennessee. Far from their home in Wisconsin but so close to Erin’s family legacy, at the family barn, they had the perfect fall Tennessee wedding. An unbelievable day with so many more great pictures to share. I’m limiting my sneak peeks this month to give me more time for the lots o’ editing I need to be doing but I couldn’t help posting just one. Why, because I absolutely freaking love sunflare:) And this day was packed with awesome sun! More on my love obsession with the sun later, enjoy the pic!

ps…I do promisepromisepromise to do a big ol’ post of Dan and Erin’s wedding after they are all edited. And it will be well worth the wait, promise:)

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Thursday, October 8th, 2009

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lena-ese

Monday, October 5th, 2009

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I’ve been thinking about making this post but truthfully, the longer I waited the more I got some good words to put in here:) But today is the day! She told me last night she was an orangutan, so I’m pretty sure we are past the need to make up words.

Back in the day when Lena was really just learning how to talk if she couldn’t pronounce a word she would make one up that she could say and stuck with them. I’m pretty sure she is going to yell out “ami” in kindergarten she is that committed to the word:) Thus, we now have to decode for people when she says “where is my ami and ayas”. Then I look like a fool when I go to Krogers and ask “do you have an aya balloon?” :)

So here is a Lenaese dictionary of sorts:
ami: (ah-mi) elephant
aya: (i-ya) Backyardigans
exsikey: excited
sosa: soda
cookcook: cookie
kaikai: Kaiser (pop’s dog)
gogo: Diego
sissy: silly (you sissy mommy)
sicky ona cot: sit on the couch

And for good measure in remembering this later in life, favorite words right now:
what do mommy? (I hear this 1.2 million times a day!)
keen up (clean up)
doradoradoradora (this on 525,000 times a day)
pee now (not hearing this as much as we should be:) but we’re working on it)

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The picture is from our zoo trip with Jenn a few months back…with MingMing making an appearance:)

a random five

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

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so this week its a random five. partly because I don’t have too much to say on any one topic, partly because I have too much random stuff floating in my mind and it helps to get it all down. So there. :)

1. I’m sure you have heard of the earthquake and tsunami’s hitting the South Pacific. If you follow the blog you know the South Pacific is close to my heart and most definitely one of my fave places here on earth. Please keep them in your prayers! I’m a fan of YWAM on facebook and they are doing a great job of keeping up with what is going on directly through their missionaries there and have a place where you can donate at www.ywam.org.

2. I’m thinking of having a yard sale. Is it weird to have a spur of the moment yard sale in October? I’ve been decluttering the house with thoughts of putting the stuff on craigslist…but I may have a yard sale to get rid of some of the bulk of it. 1930′s house=very small closets=need to stop hoarding stuff (this is a recap of what Brad (aka: my lovely hoarding husband) hears at least 1x/week…usually after I’ve had to move 3 things to get to the one thing I need…said in a non-nagging way of course) ! If you are reading this and have a girl from 0-2 in age and need some cheap nice (as in Gymboree, Gap, Old Navy, some Target) clothes, hit me up:)

3. This month is PACKED! I’m so excited about all the fun weddings and fall sessions coming up! So I’m mentally gearing up for the overdrive my brain is sure to be inalready in. Two words… bring it! :)

4. This is really random but #3 made me think of this. I love random things/songs/quotes that get you inspired and there is this one song on the radio by Fabolous that has become my theme song. and yes, its a rap song. don’t judge…first, go listen to it and tell me it doesn’t make you want to do the Rocky victory dance:) Here are some lyrics…

Go hard, today
Can’t worry the past, cause that yesterday
Ima put it on the line cause it’s my time

5. So, not sure where September went. Time is flying! Flying so fast that my newsletter that was supposed to be out the other day is still being perfected. Yep, that is my excuse and I”m sticking to it:) If you aren’t on the list to get it, you’re missing out! Let me know in your comment if you want to be included and I’ll add ya! No spam, promise:)

oh, and a #6 for the local Knoxvillian’s. Kroger on Broadway in Fountain City is moving to their brand new store that I can’t wait to open! So, they are getting rid of their current inventory and just stocking the new store. Means up to 50% off on a TON of things! Bring your coupons for an even better deal! Shampoo, almost all the brands, are marked down to around $2-$3. I used a $2 off coupon and scored shampoo for .20. Holla!

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Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Holly and Corey were married at Tellico Yacht Club just outside of Knoxville TN. Despite changes due to weather, they had a great time and such a beautiful wedding! Tellico Yacho Club were great to work with and dealt with the rain and changes with ease. The bride and groom, Holly and Corey also took the changes like champs and had a great wedding.

In choosing some pictures as a sneak peek I for some reason had a different strategy than usual. From the little time I’ve spent with her I know that Holly is an amazing person and such a joy to be around. You see life in her, plain ol’ joy of living life. And I love that! I’m sure I’ll share more in the future from the wedding but for the sneak peek I’m going to share a couple pictures of things I know bring joy and love to Holly’s life, in both living and remembering. Holly and Corey, a HUGE congrats!

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