busy busy busy.

i am swamped with things to do today and will post more tomorrow. i’ve been booking lots of sessions for the fall and am going around the area scouting new locations for clients. there is no fun in continuing to shoot in the same places! i am also scouting out several thrift stores for props for an upcoming trash the dress session. i’m going to need to clean out the storage room in order to store ridiculous props from now on. :)  i’m also getting ready for several shoots and visits from two out-of-state friends. :) i should get a lot of awesome shots this month and i’m super excited. not a lot to post today because of all the running around, just a random nature shot or two. i’ll have more to update tomorrow. :)

also, it’s been raining a lot:

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leggo my lego.

raleigh has a LEGO store! it just opened in crabtree valley mall not too long ago. we finally had a break in our schedule to allow us time to visit last week. it was everything i dreamed a lego store would be. tiny choking hazards everywhere! it is amazing. they even have a wall of loose legos that you can throw in a bucket because you know you’re always losing pieces under the couch. they have every lego thing ever. they even have legos whose difficulty labels them 14+ on the boxes. they looked pretty intense. they also have little mini lego scenes setup throughout the store. they seemed to be doing really well! i hope they stick around because that mall could use some fun.

and of course, we bought ourselves indiana jones lego magnets for our fridge. they are real legos but they have a big magnet on the lego base that sticks to your fridge.  of course, they also come apart like real legos do, so when you slam your freezer door too hard marion’s torch can go flying across your kitchen:

marion“weeeee!”

indy’s whip or gun can land in your cat’s bowl:

indy“weeeee!”

or sean connery’s map can become lodged in some piece of meat thawing on your countertop:

sean“not a fan of the ladies, are you trebek?”

these are by far the best kitchen investment we’ve made in a long time. forget about the new garbage can, the new faucet, or new electric chopper. we’re talking about having tiny removeable pieces of plastic attached to your fridge that vaguely resemble famous people from a movie almost 30 years old! that’s where it’s at.

happy birthday laura!

today is my sister laura’s 27th birthday. happy birthday chica!! she is a speech therapist in pittsburgh, pa but i haven’t given up on her moving down to raleigh. :) because when we both lived in pittsburgh we used to do things like this!:

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geoff and i like to go to a lot of haunted attractions during the halloween season and the best part was bringing laura because she would get hit on by a bunch of costumed ghouls (pictured above). he followed laura around the outside grounds for the better part of our visit. of course he didn’t say anything, how could he? but he’d stumble around awkwardly and put his arm around her. i’m not sure if he was stumbling around awkwardly because he was costumed or because he was probably a  14 year-old boy whose only method of picking up women was to dress up like a 7’5 skeleton man. either way, it was awesome. could i have picked a better picture of us for your birthday, laura? of course! but when you have gems like these lying around they must be shared with the blogging world. happy birthday!!! :)

the rest are courtesy of dolfy (who loves laura):

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