We took our first family vacation this summer! I know it’s been a long time since we’ve taken the time to write a personal blog post, and it’s long overdue. We are SO excited (and that excitement really can’t be overstated) to tell you this REALLY exciting announcement at the end of this post! (But first, we’ll make you agonize over it… while we share about our first family vacation experience!)

This summer has already been a whirlwind. Since May and June were pretty quiet for our wedding world (things are crazy now through the end of the year), we decided to take our FIRST family vacation ever! Yes, I know, crazy! But it really was our first family vacation ever. For the last several years we’ve had our pastured animals that we couldn’t leave, but we took this year off from our hobby farming and decided to do a little exploring.

We really took a plunge and went all the way to the East Coast (neither John nor I had ever been there) for a Justin & Mary wedding workshop. {Wow! SOOO much amazing knowledge there, guys! Can’t wait to share it all with you!} Before we got to Connecticut, though, we took a large detour to Niagara Falls, Plymouth, MA, and New York City!

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It was such a fun trip, and it ended with an incredible experience at the Justin & Mary wedding workshop. John and I can’t wait to incorporate all that we learned to make this year’s wedding images even better!

And that brings me to my big announcement… {cue drumroll}

John has gone full-time with me! We are now full-time photographers, and we can’t be more excited about it! Photography has always been an intensely personal thing for me, and it’s a dream come true to now pursue this thing together – 100%, full-time, he and I. Because it’s what we’ve said about ourselves in other areas of our website – we are better together. We are best friends who are pursuing life TOGETHER! To us, that’s what marriage is all about; being better together.

We’re SO excited, inspired, driven {you name it!} for the road that is ahead of us. Thank you for being a part of it. We can’t wait to make beautiful images together.