Fall's here. *sigh*

It's that time of year again. Fall.

I used to love fall, and well, I still do, but it's for different reasons now. It's just now that it's the end of the summer and the reminder that snow and ice is coming soon, and frankly I'm not feeling that at the moment.

In the meantime, there's tons of beautiful dewy flowers, clover, *weeds* here, and in the morning, when the light shines through the dew it's so beautiful.

I love the dew. It's like tiny specks of light every where you look.

Sadly, that dew is going to turn into frost soon, and frankly, that's not all that exciting to me.

Oops.
I feel like I've intruded on a private moment.

Dew!! We were talking about dew.
Dew's great
herm.
Uh.

Yeah.

How a woman's mind works, vs, how a man's mind works.

Task: Take a shower.

Man: "Ok, I'm gonna take a shower." He takes a shower and is back 7 minutes later.

Woman: "OK, I'm gonna take a shower."

1. Stand up and get read to walk to the shower.
2. Notice the trash can is full.
3. Think to self that today is Thursday and that the trash should be on the curb.
4. Cuss because husband forgot to take out the trash.
5. Must take out trash because the trash man will come while she's in the shower.
6. Realize that the cat boxes must be changed and go out in the trash too.
7. Move recyclables off top of litter box.
8. Bag up some recyclables while thinking about it.
9. Empty cat boxes.
10. Remember that the cat litter was never brought in out of the trunk of the car despite the fact that it's 40 pounds and you shouldn't be carrying forty pounds of cat litter with a still painful foot!!
11. Go to car to get cat litter. Decide to take some recyclables to the car with you.
12. Notice that the old sink is still on the deck and probably should finally make it to the trash.
13. Take the old sink to the curb.
14. Tote 40 pounds of cat litter in the house, one baby step at a time.
15. Refill cat boxes and return to their locations.
16. Take cat litter to the trash.
17. Notice that there's some construction waste that needs to go to.
18. Make 2 trips to the curb because it's all too heavy to carry at once with a still painful foot!!
19. Come back in, take more recyclables to the car.
20. Come back in, notice there's more cans that need to be recycled and say SCREW IT.
21. Go take a shower.
22. Note that the shower is really getting icky.
23. Grab an extra wash cloth and jump in.
24. Scrub shower while taking a shower. (2 birds, please meet one stone).
25. Wash, shave, scrub hair, feet, elbows, armpits.
26. Rinse self AND the shower.
27. Get out and realize that the wash cloth that you used is icky, probably needs to dry out on edge of laundry basket.
28. Remember that eldest son is now living with his buddies and probably doesn't have a laundry basket.
29. Take the extra laundry basket and fill it with goods from around the house that 19 year old boys SHOULD use but probably won't. Like towels, plates and deodorant.
30. Remember that was in the middle of a facebook conversation.
31. Answer the response from an HOUR AGO.
32. Get dressed.

True story folks.

Sean + Amanda = Getting Married!

Catching up with some editing, this is what I've been working on the past couple days! These two beautiful people!

Doesn't Amanda look like a 1940's movie star here? I love this photo, she's so beautiful.

I could take photos of the corset the entire day. I don't know why, but this is my favorite moment to photograph! Someday I'm going to do a corset album. lol. (for me, who wants 90 photos of the back of their dress???). I'm always a bit disappointed when my bride has a zipper instead. *sad*

Ever see Father of the Bride? With Steve Martin?

Remember the part where Dad makes the bride to be a pair of wedding sneakers? Well that is what Amanda's dad did for her! *aw*.

When Amanda was little...

Dad says: "Amanda, T is for Tigger..."
Amanda says: "Who loves to bounce high!"

I think Amanda might be Daddy's girl. Just a crazy wild guess.

Amanda and Sean agreed to a "First look". This is where you have a little traditional, mixed with making the day more simple. Before the wedding, Sean and I met up and Amanda came along and "discovered" us on this beautiful little gazebo in the middle of the grounds. He turns and surprise!, gets to see her dress for the first time.

It's one of my very favorite moments of the day. It also gives them a quiet moment together alone, which is probably the last one for the day. We take this opportunity to do a mini shoot of the couple.

We got on a bus (thanks Amanda and Sean, that was a nice ride!) and went down to the Liberty Memorial for our bridal party photos

An attempt at throwing some gang signs. No, they're not very good at it are they? Hello... they're not gangstas.

My husband took this photo and he was so proud of it!! This is the first wedding he's picked up the camera and started shooting too. My philosophy is that if he gets a great shot, wonderful! And if he doesn't then it's ok. He's learning new things every single wedding and getting much better.

Gene also took this shot which was dead on. (this is a very hard shot btw, black and white contrast is easy to get under/over exposed)

Wait! He took this one too!
I think he's trying to steal work from me. grr.

The whole ceremony and reception were at the Hawthorne House. This venue is so awesomely beautiful. If I had it to do all over again, I would take this place into serious consideration. I'm sure Sean agrees as he used to work there years ago.

Everything is handled in house, clear down to the DJ. You can tell he's been doing this for many years as he'd just nailed the night and people were dancing like crazy.

I love the groomsman in the middle. He had the best espressions and I can't help but think every time I look at him that he is a much better looking version of Henry Winkler. Sorry guys.

Gal on the right really rocked it, until she saw me coming closer. heh. oops.

Congrats Amanda and Sean, and thank you so much for letting me photograph your special day. I loved it, and I wish every wedding was as easy and as beautiful as yours was!