Apologies for the lack of blogging this week. Things have been pretty nuts around here, I am still trying to recover from Valentine’s Day and my birthday; and I have had a wedding to finish up editing; getting ready for Deanna and Sheri’s fabulous session tomorrow at beautiful Carillon beach, and then onto Lizzie and Jesse’s wedding next weekend!
So be patient with me, lots of cool new images in the next couple weeks!
Cheers and God Bless,
Lauren ♥
It’s my birthday! Yay! 
Today has been a wonderful day. I got a call from my parents bright and early this morning to wish me a happy birthday, and then my husband took me to the movies to see “He’s Just Not That Into You”. It was awesome! Incredibly heartwarming! If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it!♥ For now, here is the trailer.
I’ll let this speak for itself.
I saw this in church this morning. It really spoke to my heart, and I wanted to share it with you all. You know, I debate a lot of times about what is “too personal” to share with other people on this blog. I think everyone has very different views on whether or not we should use our blogs as just a tool to connect with our readers. But in my case, I want to connect with those that I serve on a personal level. I really don’t want to be just someone that spends a few days with you; I want to have a deep, lasting friendship.
So this is what is on my heart right now. Good, bad, or indifferent, this is who I am. I vow to share it all with you. I know I might lose some along the way (and I have), but my hope is that it will draw some of us closer.
I have been dealing with some really horrible things in my life that I have been trying to cope with as of late. Feelings of doubt, insecurity, worries of things beyond my control. Yet today, when I saw this video, somehow I felt released of all of what I was hanging onto. I am simply letting it all go.
We are all so blessed. Sometimes we get caught up in all the little worries, hurts, frustrations, and whatever else may be going on in our lives. But the truth is, if we give it all over to God, and say “Lord, this is too much of a burden for me to bear”, then he renews our soul and gives us joy unspeakable. This is my prayer for every one of you today…
That you will have “joy, unspeakable.”
Blessings,
Lauren
One has to wonder what the heck I am doing up at 1:33 in the morning. It could be because I have been sick and feeling like death warmed over the past week. Or it could be…worrying mostly. There is a flurry of things going through my mind right now, some things I can’t say just yet. It’s freezing in my office and I can’t feel my toes. Annnnyway i’m sure that you all have had those sleepless nights too.
Well, i’m off to watch I Love Lucy and hopefully drift off to sleep.
And since no post without a picture is worth even posting, here is one from Robin and Titus’ engagement session I shot a few months back. They are getting married this weekend!!
Goodnight lovely blog readers.
I just watched this, like a bazillion times. It’s kind of mesmerizing. This song might be making a cameo appearance on the site soon!
Yay!!!!!! I am just so so so so excited. 
The wonderful girls over at Southern Weddings contacted me about featuring Danielle and Stuart’s beautiful wedding on their blog as a Real Wedding Feature! Stay tuned for that because i’ll definitely post it here when it’s up.
Meanwhile, here is a little image from the very first issue of Southern Weddings Magazine which hit newsstands this month!
Thanks Lara and all the wonderful girls over at Southern Weddings!
PS- i’ll give any bride and groom of mine $100 to get one of these sweet rides for their wedding!
I hope you have a blessed Christmas filled with joy and hope for the New Year.
Love from our home to yours,
Lauren
Last Saturday, my cousins Rachel, Hayley, and I gathered over at my Aunt Deedee’s and Uncle Steve’s house to carry on an old family tradition.
Every year, at Christmastime, my aunt Lori and my grandmother Momo would make hundred of cookies and send them out to all of our family. Since they lived in California, and we live on the East coast, even though we couldn’t always be together on Christmas, I always looked forward to those cookies arriving every year.
My Momo passed away the Monday before my wedding. I was filled with such sorrow that I didn’t know if I was going to make it through.
Rachel called me shortly after we returned from our honeymoon with a brilliant idea. She said, “let’s continue in Momo’s footsteps and make the cookies ourselves.” So we did.
It took us all day long, but I think Momo would be so proud of us.
I documented our first time making these cookies, in what is sure to become a new holiday tradition for our family.
are a total mess. They makes my life so much more full. Sometimes I get caught up in the day-to-day-ugh-I-have-to-get-this-stuff-done-and-blah-life-stinks-right-now conundrums. Then they remind me what it is to live a simpler kind of life. They remind me to slow down and sometimes just enjoy the little things, like snuggling up and watching a movie.
Hello everyone!
Welcome to the brand spanking new blog. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the most talented and seriously most PATIENT blog designer in the whole wide world, Mr. Will Keightly of Cobalt Kitty. If you are looking for a professional design or upgrade to your site, you can’t get much better than him!
Thank you Will for giving my blog the much needed facelift.
