good times

so, i had probably the funnest bridal portrait session ever this saturday. the bride emailed me ahead of time and told me to be as creative as possible- that she didn't want to be a generic bride- she wanted to look like she was in a magazine. that's what i like to hear! saturday was SUCH a long day because after the ride to memphis, i had a 3-hour bridal session with brooke at 3 different locations, then i had to drive to wynne after that to just barely be on time for the engagement party i was photographing for a wedding i have booked in june of next year. i left my house at 9am and didn't get home until 11pm! whew!

yesterday (i love sundays!!) brian and i slept in until 10 and then i made some coffee and some veggie omelets, we read the sunday paper, and then around noon we rode our bikes from our house to the river trail, over the "big dam bridge" and past burns park in north little rock. it took over 2 hours, probably 10 miles. it was GORGEOUS!! mom, you're coming with us next week. :) i kept thinking the whole time "i love arkansas! i can't believe this is available to us whenever we want without a car!" there's a great paved trail to the dam and the dam is so cool to ride over! anyway, we had a great day. the weather was too good to be true.

well, i don't think i've posted about this yet, but brian's going to the bank this week!!!!!!!!!!!! everyone cross your fingers!!!!!!!! we got frustrated with the place we originally found, because the landlords were being really lazy with getting back to us about ANYTHING (i.e. they would have a meeting about our floorplan and wouldn't return our calls afterward for 3 days). so, we rode our bikes around the places we wanted, and we found another place. well, i called the property manager, he met us up there, and the very next day he came by trio's to drop off the floorplan, the previous 6 months worth of utility bills, a copy of the lease, and the lease application. he seems very eager to get us in (hello! who wouldn't be in this economy! the people at colliers are retarded!). we LOVE the space and the only construction we need to do is to break down half a wall. nothing compared to the $25,000+ construction that we'd have to do at the first place. i'll take pictures soon and post those. i hope so bad we get this place. it's in the location we want (a little better than the other place, actually). it was weird- brian and i left thinking, "this is too good to be true..." HOPEFULLY it works out!

here is a photo of brian and i at the top of the dam on our bikeride, and just a few (i'm not done looking at all of them yet) of my favorite pictures of the bridal session from saturday (i haven't included any of this part of the session, but when we were downtown, walking around looking for good spots, we passed a fire station, and we asked the firemen to pull the firetruck out in the driveway to use it for photos- she laid across the front while 3 cute firemen watched- it was priceless!):

i like this picture of us- i always love it when brian gets a good "real smile" picture. :) we were having a lot of fun!


this is at memorial park in memphis, down the street from ruth's chris.


this is downtown memphis, in an allyway. there was some cool old tile floor from what i'm guessing used to be a business, but has long since burned down. it was a cool contrast from her new, fancy dress.


her mom pointed out how awesome the colors were in front of this gift shop. such a great backdrop for a fall wedding bridal shoot!! i love that she's barefoot in a lot of them.


this is one of my favorites for sure! she looks like britney spears. :) we passed this construction area on our way dowtown and i made them stop because these circles were TOOOOO cool.


looks like an artsy magazine picture, huh? LOOOOVE it!


bold and beautiful bride


a little action shot- it looks like she's running in a gerbil treadmill!! :)


i love this one too. it's a very good "mood" picture