My friends have been losing it over this wedding. We have all rallied around these two via social media and proclaimed how much we LOVE their LOVE! Ellen – your smile lights up the beach, the cloudy skies that came our way didn’t stand a chance versus your joy! And the way Charlie looks when…
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If you get a message in your DM’s or email more than once…MAKE IT A BLOG POST 🙂 So we’ve checked in before when Mike guest blogged about more money and less weight…but we’ve lost MORE since! And we are just feeling so so good and proud and honestly…MOSTLY…surprised. We laugh so much when we…
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Last year I was standing REALLY close to Mike on the beach in Delaware while he carried an umbrella to cover me and my Mark III and 70-200 during an epic and inspiring rainy beach ceremony in Dewey Beach. Lauren and Ryan were married, everyone was more than happy to be on that rainy beach…
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I’ve lived here almost four years and I had not yet been to Carova…UNTIL NOW 🙂 We met and I jumped in the jeep so excited about being able to finally get out on the beach over here where everyone just loves it, and I see what the hype is about. Carova is beautiful. The…
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These two (wait, THREE!!) met with me by the sea in Kill Devil Hills at sunrise…not an easy task! Especially when you’re on a little vacation for Spring Break and your photographer should be letting you sleep in, hahaha! 🙂 I am SO thankful for you guys and I can’t wait to meet that sweet…
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Before I even finished editing these, I emailed Kelli in tears. I felt like this family session came to me on a day when I needed it most and their joy and kindness was SO incredibly contagious! Five beautiful children and a couple that has absolutely no problem holding hands and squeezing each other and…
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This could potentially seem like such a basic concept but if you dig DEEP, you’re going to have a revelation. Like, A BIG ONE. If you take your wall down and get a little vulnerable, if you choose to be brave and face hard truths in this moment…it could change you. Let’s start with this.…
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OH HAPPY DAY!!!! Seriously! I am so happy about this friends because we get to serve, in great detail finally, MORE about why blogging is not just good for us…BUT GREAT. A portfolio. A resource. A way we’ve built trust and relationships and what led eventually to us creating a way to have a little…
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Well, another simple recipe from your simple girl down here on the salty Outer Banks. One of the best things we do every week is take 1-2 hours meal prepping things we can reheat for the next 5-6 days to avoid spending money out to eat or on carryout and it’s saved us THOUSANDS of…
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If you came here for perfect, organic, fancy or extremely healthy…turn back around friend. Turn back around. This is simple, imperfect but GOLD for us right now. We are grocery shopping at Walmart and Food Lion until we can pay off both cars and life right now is all about doing our best, saving as…
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This day was so good, I don’t even know where to begin. This is my cousin, Kevin marrying the love of his life, Megan…and it’s such an incredible thing to see two people who just do life so well together making this commitment. On a chilly March day in Richmond, Virginia at the Boathouse at…
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We hear it all the time (and I’m sure you have, too) … “marriage is work”. And, I get what most people mean by this. It’s tough to combine your things and your life and your time with another person and it’s not going to be seamless. It’ll require some (lots of) compromise, communication, etc.…
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