In high school, they only knew of each other. He was a basketball star; she was grade point average star. A few years out of high school, they connected on facebook. In a bold move, he asked for her number and called her. She was, at the time, doing an externship several hours away, but […]

The return of my favorite TV shows. Our DVR is once again in steady business. Victoria’s Secret Beauty Rush lipgloss in “Slice of Heaven”. It’s a beautiful, muted pink that works with every outfit. My new boots! I have the hardest time buying boots because I apparently have very large calves. I have ordered boots […]

A Google search brought Jen and I together. I had been testing my website SEO and so I was searching for North Liberty Photographers to make sure that my name came up. I stumbled across her name (among many others), liked the ring of her last name, and clicked on her blog. I randomly left […]

Their reception was held just around the corner of the barn where they got married on the front lawn of her parents’ beautiful farmhouse.

It had been my idea to go hiking. It was Kevin’s idea to get up before dawn to go hiking. I am not a morning person so you can imagine how torn I was: do I waste precious sleeping-in time on a day off or do I get up and go with my husband and […]

I’ll admit, it wasn’t actually fossil hunting. I mean, we happened to go hiking near the fossil gorge, but the closet thing I found to a fossil was a decaying fish carcass. I was pretty excited about it given that I had just told Kevin that I was hoping to find a full dinosaur fossil. […]