raleigh engagement photographer: kelsey+adam.

meet a super sweet and adorable family whose october wedding you can expect to see in a little over a month! :) kelsey and adam are not only getting ready to tie the knot, they also just welcomed their newborn baby emma into the world not too long ago. when we discussed doing an engagement session, we decided we would wait until emma was born and settled in before we took some newborn/family/engagement pictures. i had been following emma’s growing-up progress via kelsey’s facebook pictures to the point where i already felt like i knew her when i met her, but she’s so much more beautiful in person than in a photograph! what a cutie. :) and oh yeah, kelsey and adam are super cute too! we had such a great time. can’t wait for their wedding next month!

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yeeeep. puttin’ babies in suitcases. this is what i do for a living, folks. paying the bills via babies in suitcases.

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goooorgeous light and a goooorgeous couple. this was her mom’s backyard where i should totally set up a small studio and pay a monthly fee to mom in order to shoot because the light is just so stellar.

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WHEELBARROW SHOT! check and mark off the photographic bucket list. :)

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YAY! can’t wait to see you two next month!

adventures in gluten-free chex mix.

after a string of irritating incidents at wake med, i’m now taking my gluten problem to an allergist. i get sick when i eat anything with gluten in it…what don’t you understand about that, wake med? i can’t eat it. no, i don’t want you to test my pancreas. no, i don’t want you to see if my liver or gall bladder is failing. i have no symptoms of that, but i do have a history of being allergic to wheat. i feel fine…except when i eat wheat. geeeeeeez. (can you tell i’m leaving wake med yet?) :)

anyway, geoff and i made delicious delicious gluten-free chex mix this weekend if anyone out there is gluten-free and interested! you’d be surprised what things have gluten in them, so i listed the brands as well.

gluten free chex mix

Mix in a large microwave-safe bowl:

4 1/2 cups Corn Chex

4 1/2 cups Rice Chex

2 cups Glutino Gluten Free Pretzels

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Melt & mix in small bowl:

6 tbsp butter

2 tbsp Lea + Perrins Worcestershire Sauce

1 1/2 tsp season salt

3/4 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp onion powder

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Pour mixture from small bowl over the large bowl and microwave on high for 5-6 minutes, stirring every 2 minutes.

Spread evenly to cool.

Add back into a large bowl and add 2 cups Reese’s Pieces (M&Ms are traditionally used but they do contain gluten, so if you’re sensitive, use Reese’s).

Enjoy! :)

day i’m-not-even-sure-anymore/365.

so…

i’m admitting defeat!

a while ago i started a section of my blog called why 365? as a challenge to myself to take a post a photography every day. this has thoroughly kicked my butt by day 90 and i’ve failed miserably. i’ve realized that, although there are people way busier than i am posting 365 blogs, i’m just too busy. there’s a lot to running a full time business and, when i’m not shooting weddings or having weekend or evening shoots, i like to limit my “work” hours from 9-5.

i respond to urgent e-mails or calls after 5, but other than that, i put it all aside to wait til tomorrow morning. this allows me the evening to relax and not run around doing business-y things while my fiancé sits around and watches sports center by himself. however, i’ve found with the 365 blog that i constantly put it off because there are other more urgent matters to usually be dealt with during 9-5…so i’m still running around, taking pictures, uploading them, editing them, and blogging about them at night…and i’m just not cool with it. i’d like to see my boy…and my cats.

so, this is the end of the 365 blog. kudos to those of you who also have full time businesses or jobs and do this! i can’t stand the feeling that i have to do something immediately that i don’t really have to do…like blog. :)

HOWEVER! i am still going to try to blog every day…but not calling it “365” and relabeling it “personal” allows me to miss a day or two and not feel like i’m missing a dire deadline. :)

so don’t worry, i’ll still be here! every day! mostly! except when i have way too much to do! then i’ll only see you every other day or so!

it’s not you, 365…it’s me.

xo.

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in other news, a pretty killer storm cloud hovering over geoff’s soon-to-be-rain-delayed baseball game yesterday.

stormtaken with the droid.