little walker

Officially my little big boy! He's a walker now. <3

michelle and jeremy's wedding

I was fortunate enough to be able to photograph my first wedding recently. It was a simple, elegant, and beautiful wedding and I was so happy to be a part of it. I'm lucky to have met Jeremy and Michelle (they are the cutest couple, EVER) and very to lucky to have such a sweet couple as my first wedding photo clients. There were of course multitudes of photos, but I've included some of my favorites! I hope to do another wedding soon and can't wait for my first birth photo gig this fall. Photography is so much fun and the more I shoot the more I want to shoot, so I'm starting to offer my services as an amateur photographer. I am absolutely loving it!

beach dayz

Goodbye May.

Our little studio apartment is slowly turning into our home. I've never been much of a cook but with Spring comes new beginnings and this Spring I decided to cook more, read more, learn more, and love more. I've been cooking one new entree a week as well as starting to bake our weekly bread from scratch (and trying to get creative with the loaves!). Last week Zak baked some veggies which I had never done before but they were delicious. I also made some peanut sauce as my "new recipe" of the week. It was a classic sweet Thai peanut sauce and it was delicious and lasted us days. Odin loved it and it even encouraged him to start using utensils! We made a regular white loaf as well as a Fig/Flax seed loaf with a local honey coating on top. Delicious. Delicious. Delicious. (Notice Zak posed the buns like that in hopes of producing more buns, ha!).

The days are getting warmer. All of our windows are open and we sleep with nothing on. I love summer. I loves days like these. It's still spring so our warm days our laced with foggy, rainy days which I also love. Life is much too perfect right now. I want to remember these smells and tastes well so I plan to bask in Spring's glow until it fades away completely. 

dancey pants daycare

I feel like I'm pretty good at being a hands-on mum. I try and take Odin to lots of places and have ample amounts of music and outside time throughout our day. Now that he's a year old and a little more (not much, but a little more) focused we can actually do small projects like finger paint and play with edible textural things. There are still some days that I want to stay in bed all day and try and nurse Odin all day to make him take really long naps and stay asleep with me, but on weekdays, that's impossible! I had to go back to "work" this summer (darn student loans) but I wasn't ready to leave Odin with someone else. He still nurses quite a bit, so I took on some babies and have started a mini "Dancey Pants Daycare." I used to work at a preschool while I was in high school so this was totally up my alley. 

I love being able to work on projects and having other babes in the house really motivates me to get out of bed! Odin really prefers it that way too, I think, so we're happy all around. I'm very lucky because both my babies take their naps at the exact same time everyday (so far, so good).