Happy Friday friends! How has life been to you lately? I hope it has been kind. We definitely could use some better weather here ’cause it’s been cold and raining non-stop for the last few days. On top of that, I recently received some not-very-good news. My college roommate’s husband just past away and at the age of 34! 34!? Too young and gone too soon. So she’s now left with her little boy to move on and face the world again. I talked to her the other night and reminded her that she was a strong girl and that her husband is in a better place now. She’s thousands of miles away from me but I somehow could feel her pain. She’s the spunkiest gal I know and such a very close friend of mine. College {in the Philippines} was never boring with her around! She had so much fun and energy and charisma in her. If it’s not too much to ask, please send up some prayers for her. She needs every bit of it right now.

Life is too short indeed. So live your life! Do what you love. Take chances. Love. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Try. If you fall, then get up and try again. Live in the Present. Be kind. Love yourself. Well, it’s Friday and we have a busy weekend ahead of us. I hope this Spring season brings you lots of smiles and good memories. Take care and thanks for dropping by! Think happy thoughts…

Happy Wednesday my friends! I hope you all are feeling way better than me. I visited 2 doctors yesterday, not a really big fan of them. One talked about the importance of extracting tissue sample from me while the other one wondered if I was brave enough to take a needle on my butt cheek. These were definitely waaayyy too much for me to take in a day! Oklahoma fall brings out the craziest pollen there is and every single year I get sick almost the same exact way. It starts out with bad allergies, sore throat, coughing, then phlegm, asthma, then everything just goes downhill. So I am hoping for a speedy recovery this week so I can talk without getting people sick on my birthday this weekend. Yes, another year and this time I am turning 3-0!

I’ve seen photos of my high school friends on Facebook throwing lavish parties for their 30th birthday. Me? I really just want a simple birthday. I just told Scott that I want a small birthday and nothing crazy. 30 is just a number! A nice dinner with close friends will do. And an ice cream cake would be awesome! I’m just happy to be alive! Anyway, we’ll see how it turns out this weekend. Let me leave you with a photo of this beautiful bride, Kelsey. We’re working on her photos so watch out for the post hopefully this week. I love her freckles and the simplicity of this photo. ♥

Oh yeah, it’s a beautiful and cool Wednesday out here {high 80s}! There’s definitely lots to look forward to this week and the next. Today we’re celebrating my dear friend, Glenda’s birthday. She texted us last night that she would pay off all Scott and I’s student loans and mortgage if she wins the lottery today. So I hope she snags that $320M lottery prize! Here’s a film shot that Scott took of us a a month ago after swimming at the pool in the 110F heat. It was refreshing!

And I’m looking forward to you guys dropping by this Friday ’cause I have an awesome wedding to share. It’s a beautiful wedding with lots of details, lots of dancing, and lots of the gorgeous bride and handsome groom! See what I mean!? So don’t miss out.

Something to look forward to next week is our trip to Mexico! Yay! Finally a vacation. So we’re working our butts off to get these weddings out to you before we leave so stay tuned. ♥

It’s the middle of the week and I really feel like this week has been going by just too fast. I sit here wishing that today should be Monday {crazy huh!?!}. My day job has been crazy busy and has left me up late at night for the past 2 weeks. Plus wedding shoots on top of that. I need sleep. I have to admit that I feel like a zombie in the morning and my brain takes a little bit to wake up. I’ve made several attempts of sleeping early but my brain just refuses. So instead, I open up my laptop while in bed, check my emails real quick, then start watching the TV series, Heroes. Have you watched it? It’s an older show, but Scott just introduced me to it. I have even been spending my lunches at home just to catch one more episode! I surprisingly enjoy this show.

This brings me back to my younger days when I insisted on being Linka (wind power) of Captain Planet, or the Pink Power Ranger, or Jean Grey of X-men. Yes, I enjoy the thought of being one of these girls LOL. I asked myself the other day, what if I had some sort of superpower?! I was thinking I’d want to be able to fly which is awesome since I love to travel or I want to have the ability to heal and heal other people or I want to be able to breathe underwater. But I know with these powers come responsibilities and it needs to be used for the good of all people. It was given for good use. But at the end of the day, I am who I am. I am the person behind the lens on shoots, the wife who seldom cooks for my husband unless I’m pissed off, the office team player who gets bossy to get projects done. No superpowers but pretty much happy with life and hoping that one way or another I’m able to make somebody’s day. Cheers to everyday heroes and restless nights!

Hey there peeps! How has life been treating you lately? Scott and I have just been working our butts off on weddings and trying to play catch up after all the internet and server issues that we’ve had lately. It’s crazy how everything is so dependent now on modern technology. I am not that old yet, but I remember just having a simple life when VHS and Film were the ‘it’ thing. I surely do miss those days but hey change is constant, so adapt we must. Speaking of film, I just randomly stumbled onto these while sorting folders on my hard drive. They’re old film shots from my poor old Holga {she needs some fixing since I kept dropping and banging her by accident}. That’s Josh and Judith on the first photo and Scott on the second one.

I was dying to post sneak peeks of Andrew & Tyka’s vineyard wedding that we shot last weekend but it’s being considered right now for publication. So I won’t be able to post it yet until the wedding blog gets them published. You guys will just have to wait a couple of weeks for that, I promise to share it. On a lighter note, our friends and us have been talking about getting sexy for our Mexico trip. So we’re supposed to be watching what we eat. Unfortunately, Scott’s Mexico diet plan is not really working at all. I mean, we even hardly try: late night cake and ice cream, pasta…lots of it, like you know 3-4 times a week, chocolates and desserts not in moderation. Our friends I think are doing better than us. *Sigh* Yes we need to shape up. We have 5 and a half weeks more to go, so we can do this! Anyway, I hope your week is going well for you, see you on Friday!

How is everyone? Oh gosh! I can’t remember the last time I’ve written a personal post. It seems so long ago! Wedding season just caught up with us and all the posts have been mainly about engagements and weddings lately {which we love!}. But I am so glad to be able to breathe and just write something…even if it’s random LOL. Well Scott as you know is loving his job working full-time on our photography business. I do envy him! I am still busy working as usual with my full-time day job as Project Manager for an awesome Audio company, Kicker; and I do work on our business on weeknights and weekends. It pretty much takes up our entire lives LOL. Luckily we love our jobs! We are so grateful to be a part of our client’s happiest day plus we’ve been meeting a lot of new friends lately. ;)

Also we’ve had a cracked car oil pan and some AC problems, those really cost a lot to get fixed. :( And the show that I like, The Vampire Diaries, is over for the current season. I’m pretty bummed about that and I hope they start the new one soon! We still don’t have any living room furniture but Scott found some patio furniture and decided that it was more important. He gets to sit and do work outside, lucky guy! Just recently, we’ve booked our flights and hotel to Cancun, Mexico. Yay! I can’t wait for August to come, seriously! I really think we deserve a full week’s break. I can’t wait to swim their beautiful beaches, heck, I might jump off the excursion boats and call it good. You know how much I love the sea! ♥ That pretty much sums up several weeks, but hey, I think there’s always something beautiful in every day! We just need to learn to just appreciate the small things and take life one day at a time. Happy Hump Day!

Happy Wednesday! This is Scott aka BlueEly 2. :) Well friends, last Friday was officially my last day working for the University. I put in a good 3 years but it’s time to move on to the newest chapter of my life. I’ll be chiming in here once in a while and I’m so excited to get my hands dirty with more businessy stuff and improve my photography! It’s really an honour actually. And truthfully I have to admit that I feel bad…for my beautiful and talented wife Kristine. I’m not taking anything away from what she already does or what we do together but I know that if given the option she would put 100% of her time into doing just this {Note: she already gives 100% of herself} Basically, I’m living her dream, so no pressure right?! LOL The first question people asked me when I told them I was leaving was: “So, where are you going?” In response I awkwardly pause. I’m not really going anywhere. I’m doing…what I do and I’m just not able to come to this job anymore. Then I finally reply “I’m going to work for myself as a wedding photographer.”

For some reason, I’m more shocked by this statement than my co-workers. I expect them to look at me strange because it’s not a typical response but they always smile and congratulate me. Not the standard “That’s great, I wish you luck.” but as if I’ve won a prize. In retrospect I don’t know why I expected any different. All of these people are working towards a dream. Choosing to be a wedding photographer isn’t a normal choice but choosing to follow your dream definitely is. My whole life everything has been divided up between work and play. When I started college I lost my direction and one person told me “Sometimes you have to do things you don’t want to do.” I took this to heart, put an emphasis on the “don’t want to do” part and have been living by it everyday…there’s work and there’s play and we all do them both. But as I said goodbye to all my co-workers, I came to realize that it’s possible to do what you love and do that most of the time. You can work and play at the same time. I guess there’s a bunch of you out there that already know this but it’s a first for me. Just in case there are people out there like me who thought their high school counselor was feeding them a bunch of bull…it’s totally possible to find a job that you love. So go, now! Take your dream and run with it! P.S. Check back on Friday for that awesome orchard engagement of Brad & Amber.

Can you believe that it’s the last week of March already!? I can’t! I feel like the Hello Lovely Indie Bridal Fair was just yesterday. :) That was our first bridal fair, we felt really special being a part of it. Well, let me say that we did have an awesome run of sessions, client meetings, and acquiring new friends this month. And I thought reaching 1,000 fans on our Facebook page was pretty cool too! I think YOU {yes, all of you!} have been awesome supporters. This is the first month that we had over 2,000 unique visitors to our website! Yes, I think that’s pretty darn A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! Well, I got some happy news. Scott is quitting his job at the university, effective March 30 {in 2 days!}, and he’ll be working full time on our business! *happy dance* I am super excited! ‘Cause I really think one of us should be focusing on the business full-time. So he’ll be the second photographer and the business guy *wink*.

Trust me, I would love to really do this full-time but with the economy right now, it just made more sense for Scott to quit first, then maybe I can jump in as the business grows. So this means he can get us more organized on business stuff…he can manage the website better, help me out with writing blogs, keep accounts up-to-date, ooh taxes, and so many more {laundry!}. For the last year and a half, we’ve been shooting together and have taken cared of the business stuff in between sessions. There’s soooo much to do and I am just relieved one of us will be able to take care of things better. We always try our best in doing good with every session and taking care of our clients. Anyway, I just thought to share the news since you will be seeing him more on our site and our Facebook page. We are very grateful, and yes, I can’t thank every one of you enough! It’s surreal to even think about how our photography can support or employ one of us fully. Truly, our awesome clients and fans have made this all possible. Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of our heart! Time to get a Pajama party ready for Scott this Friday! Everyone is invited! Hehehe ;)

So we got an unexpected break today! Woohoo! Scott and I just celebrated our 3rd Wedding Anniversary {Yay!} and I am so proud that we’ve been together that long and looking forward to spending years and years together! It’s funny how sometimes you meet people at the most unexpected places {Linear Algebra class for us} and never expect that it will lead to some happy ever after. ♥ I know that there are no perfect relationships but if two people really love each other more than their differences, and truly care for each other, then that is a life worth living…that is bliss! We took a walk at the peach orchard today. Even if the flowers were washed out by the rain, the trees still looked beautiful! Even with the rain clouds rolling in, the orchard still looked serene and magical.

I think every person deserves someone beautiful {inside & out}. Whatever happened in the past is past, mistakes are made and you learn from it. Having a broken heart means you have tried for something…eventually, every bad thing goes away and then it’s up to you to wake up and move on and find new happiness or new love. I got divorced before, but it didn’t mean that life was over or I had to stop living. I decided to move away, finish school, and get a good job. I just chose to refocus and move on with my life. And I believe that there’s always someone out there for you, even if things didn’t work out at first. And second chances exist. And I think happiness is a choice that you make. I chose to move on, live, and be happy! I’m not an expert with relationships but I guess I’m doing something right this time! Nobody lives backward anyway, and there might be no next time, so live, love, laugh ’cause life is short and life is beautiful afterall!

Happiest Friday friends! I don’t know about you but I feel like this week went by so s-l-o-w. And finally it is time to unwind. Yay! So what are you doing today? Or this weekend? Any big plans? I have no clue yet on what I’ll be doing today really since the weather outside looks so gloomy. It’s early Saturday morning here and I’m still lying in bed right now writing this blog. Yes, I am feeling quite lazy since it is the weekend anyway. Ah the joy of doing nothing! I feel so much like this water lily I think, just taking it nice and slow to bloom.

I have lots of things that I want to do for the business this year and I am just taking my time – slowly but surely. Firstly, I want to attract more people here to my little blogosphere that’s full of ramblings of everyday life and snapshots of love from my clients. And of course, I’m always looking for ways to reach out to future clients who want a non-traditional and creative wedding or one who shares the same love for vintage things as I do. I’m figuring out my path in this industry so I can keep doing what I love to do…capture memories. ♥

Now that we are talking about paths, this song just popped into my head. It’s called Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The song of course can be interpreted in so many ways but I mainly like it for it’s simplicity and the singer’s voice. Anyway, enough rambling and I hope you enjoy your weekend! I am leaving for the US tomorrow!!! Yipee! Thank you for stopping by.