weddings. ours. theirs.

Tomorrow is our anniversary. three years. It makes me happy just to think about it.

I know in the grand scheme of things, three years sounds like a relatively short amount of time, but I can't BELIEVE it's already been that long! Our little life together has seemed to fly by at killer speed, complete with 2 apartments (3 next month), 1.5 kids, a new business, a marathon for each of us, and lots of roadtrips, plane flights, late nights, callings, friends, site-seeing, and small moments that all add up to one big wonderfulness. One big craziness, imperfection, kaleidoscope of days and emotions from every end of the spectrum, but yes, one big wonderfulness.

I feel so lucky to enjoy all the craziness, imperfection, ups and downs, and unpredictability of life with my perfect fit. We both love ice cream and neither of us can ever manage to go to bed on time, so we figure we were pretty much meant to be.

How fun though—and entirely not what I ever would have imagined or even thought about three years ago—that we have a business together, and today on that little business blog we posted our very first wedding. Not ours as in where we were wed. But ours that we shot together, as photographers. (that totally shouldn't be legal...people shooting other people's WEDDINGS having never done so beforehand. Never. Seriously, these people must have been crazy going out on a loony limb like that).

And how fitting that this first wedding of ours happened here in DC, where we both had to move to find each other. And that their ring ceremony and luncheon took place on the very lawn that we first conversed and unabashedly flirted after Jon sat next to me and my roomies on a blanket during the ward luau. That's a pretty rockin' lawn in our eyes.



And how equally fitting and ironic that this Friday, when we will be shooting our fourth wedding (we're behind on posting, imagine that...), is May 14...the exact date we met 4 years ago when Jon took my new member picture at church since he was—get this—the ward photographer. !! Life has a way of going in beautiful, unexpected circles.

A couple days before photographing our first wedding last month, I was doing a usual sort through our iTunes genius recommendations (LOVE that feature, we're such new music addicts), and one of the recommendations that turned up from recent purchases was a song that was on our wedding video (thanks Joel, you're awesome!). I was excited to find it, bought it instantly and didn't think much of it. But the next day I was listening to our iTunes as I cleaned up the kitchen after Van went down for his nap, and when that song came on, I couldn't believe the flood of fun, happy memories that came back because I'd heard it so many times with our wedding video. I was suddenly so excited for that wedding we had that week, to know that we would be capturing (hopefully...trying to capture at least!) memories for this couple like all the memories I was remembering at that moment. (to hear the song, go here)

What a FUN thing to be a part of, what an awesome job, and what a crazy, (and I can't say this next word enough...) unexpected road that brought us here.

And what a perfect time to celebrate our own lovely wedding day, even if it won't be celebrated with our typical little getaway roadtrip since we'll be shooting a wedding and taking our cute kid to an airshow instead. I'm okay with that. We'll celebrate by having ice cream and staying up late, which pretty much means we were meant to be.

LOADS of love to Jon and this crazy life we get to lead together. happy three!

2 years ago today

we were just getting off of one of these


and arriving here


to look real hot in helmets like these


while we drove around the island with beaches that looked like this


which had potential to be real romantic, except it poured rain so it ended up being more like this

(aka lots and lots of fun) which we loved.


And then we woke up to a sunrise like this


and we did a little wading here


and enjoyed a breakfast like this



and all the kissing photos were justified, because we were celebrating this beautiful event
(which had taken place just 2 days earlier, May 12, 2007)



I definitely could go for another honeymoon. :) But until we can pull that off again, I'm ecstatic that I get to spend every day of my life with this guy.


he's pretty much the best thing that's every happened to me. 2 years. 2 apartments. 1 baby.
happy anniversary, love of my life.

happy being the key word.

Tonya + Will (Sep. 5, 2008)

We were able to go to a wedding of one of Jon's coworkers , and it was sooo pretty. They were married on the edge of the water at a beautiful orchard/farm in Havre de Grace, MD, and the weather was perfect--it didn't rain until right after the ceremony. :) Tonya looked so pretty and happy, I had to put some of their pictures up.

She was of course, escorted by none less than George W., as you can see in the photo above. (Okay, maybe not really, but her dad looks JUST like him and her whole family's from Texas, so they could at least be friends. Everyone was sneaking pictures of him all night...okay everyone meaning me). The dance afterwards was a blast! Jon of course was his crazy dancing self, and he loosened up everyone else to start dancing and get the party started. Nice work honey! I wish I could have videotaped some of his sick moves, but we had no video camera at the time. Let's just say there was some solid Vanilla Ice playing, some quality line dance time that let Jon and I show off our Utah skills, and there may or may not have been a back flip at sometime during the evening. Those of you who weren't there to see the show definitely missed out.

I had so much fun dressing up and being with Jon and his coworkers, they're all a blast and so nice to me. Thanks for inviting us Tonya!

Another under cover photo of George W.:

Charlotte and Seth, DC Temple

I'll let Melissa fill you in about the wedding, when she gets a minute...

Seth and his family are from Ireland and the newlyweds will be living there as well. At the wedding we were given this "Real Shamrock" which is a wild shamrock from the highways and byeways of Ireland. St. Patrick introduced this little plant to Ireland in 433AD. This shamrock encasing has on it the inscription "Remember that happiness is a means of travel, not a destination." We're going to miss Charlotte and Seth, and hope to be able to visit them in that beautiful country someday.