Stephanie & Josh live in another state and are in Oregon to visit family. They stayed at Timberline Lodge over the weekend, which is when we drove up to meet them for their session. It was BEAUTIFUL and FUN exploring the place and getting to know them! Genuine souls, grateful for life and long-time sweethearts. We had posted one quick image as a sneak peek two days ago, but now we're ready to show you many more! 

Today is December 25th 2012, so... if you celebrate: HAPPY HOLIDAYS to everyone, and especially to Stephanie & Josh, featured here! ;) If you don't celebrate: LOVE AND PEACE TO YOU AND YOURS!

This is one suuuper quick, single-image, sneak peek! As we work on the rest of the images from our session with Stephanie & Josh from yesterday, here is one that really shows the beautiful winter wonderland that surrounded the two of them. Timberline Lodge was gracious enough to let us photograph on their premises, inside and out. We started off inside and then moved to the outside towards the end. It was FUN! Stephanie & Josh are sweethearts and live out of state. They came to spend the weekend at the beautiful lodge, which is WONDERFUL because we LOVE to drive up there in the winter! So much snow and great energy. Can't wait to show you more!

Katie and Todd are two love birds. We explored Portland's Waterfront Pearl and Tanner Springs Park, which are two special places to them, as they live in the area. We had a blast laughing, walking around and getting to know them! After the shoot, they were so kind to invite us to their condo for a glass of wine... we are SO lucky to have clients who are as genuine and loving as they are! Thank you, you guys!! Here is a handful of their session...

This is a bit of a non-wedding related post. Hope you don't mind ;) Josh and I traveled to CA and AZ with my parents (for the first two weeks of December 2012) and it was glorious. The weather was perfect and the sights to see were as majestic as I remembered them to be. We can't wait to go back for more exploring!

Among many images taken, I have selected but a few from Tucson AZ, for now. It means a lot to me to show you where I went to school so many years ago... I hadn't been there since I graduated in 2000!

This is San Xavier Mission, 20 minutes south of Tucson. It was sunny and in the 80s. There was hardly a soul, too! It felt like we had the whole place to ourselves. The last two images are from our day trip to Saguaro National Park West. It is also located very near Tucson. We got there right around sunset and it was amazing!

Thanks for looking and we hope you'll check back soon, because I'll be posting more of our travel images... SO fun!