Hi there!!! I know I know...I was doing so well on updating this site, right?! Look, I know I'm not great with promises or updates but you gotta understand - I'm like trying to run three businesses {YES, THREE! Yes, I'm crazy} be a somewhat decent parent, a somewhat decent wife and pretend to be put together enough to read and eventually keep up with this blog...so, please. you gotta cut me some slack, ok?

Anyway - enough about that...I wanted to say HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to all the dads and single parents out there doing the best job that they can raising their kiddos. Parenting is hard, so give yourself a pat on the back for surviving another year and here is to another year to enjoying the adventures that lay ahead.

And a special thank you and Happy Father's day to this dude!

hi there! you guys still there? *crickets*...sorry for not keeping up with posts but it's been quite a busy month for me. i started second shooting weddings at the end of may, and haven't stopped since! every weekend has been booked solid even on father's day weekend! but we made it a special family trip because it was a wedding in the sierras!

it was the first time the kiddos went camping. we stayed at silver lake campground (can't remember if it was west or east) and found a perfect spot (#39) with a couple of good sized boulders that the kids loved climbing (a little too much)..and surprisingly, it was super duper fun. actually, im not sure how charlie handled one day by himself in the sort of wilderness with the two kids, while i was up at the hideout second shooting an amazing wedding with Lech. we did have a minor meltdown from both the kiddos at one point..we have another camping trip and road trip planned for 4th of july weekend up in oregon..

in other news and why i have been so busy is the huge momentum of my photography business. it has been an amazing and fantastic ride on this photography journey of mine and i can't believe where it has taken me, because if you asked me six months ago, if this is where i thought i would be (finding my specialty as a birth & documentary wedding photographer), i'd pretty much give you a dumbfounded look and think you were crazy. so far i have second shot 5 amazing weddings and yesterday, i was officially hired as an associate photographer for a large wedding studio! supposedly only about 1% make it (not sure if that is fully accurate) through to hiring once you've applied. it all honesty, i really can't believe it myself. i keep pinching myself to see if i am still dreaming! If you'd like to see more of my photography, please visit here. i've landed more gigs and haven't had a chance to do anything else lately, which is why there are cobwebs here (and why our house is a complete mess).

anyway, here are some images from our camping trip and father's day, enjoy! (click on the images to enlarge)

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well..you asked for it.

Sunday is Father's day and cw has to work. my dad is also on a road trip to atlanta. hes been on the road for the past 4 days, i think. he also likes to text me with news- like what he sees on the road. which isnt much, unless you count sonics and a chick-fil-a, as news to write home to. anyhoot, Happy Father's day to all the papas (and papas to be) out there..cw says next year he'll celebrate it but not so much this year. i suppose its different for him, since even though baby wagner isnt here yet - im already a mother. having the opportunity to care and carry baby already, see and feel the changes that overtake me because of him. but still, i know cw's a father already too. after all when i cant and or neglect taking care of myself, hes there to take care of me. of us.

i bought cw a new daddy tshirt - it reads, the man behind the belly. i told him he could wear it as long as im not with him and at the baby shower. im trying to remember the father's day gifts we used to get (or make) for my dad when we were kids..usually we would get him a nose trimmer, as a joke gift of course (kind of). and one for christmas too (my dads birthday actually falls 2 days before christmas, so we cheat and get him a birthday gift but get a joke gift on christmas or vice versa) but usually we would make him a special card and go play golf or something..i wish we had taken more pictures when we were kids. anywyays..have a great weekend peeps.