Monthly Archives: February 2010

This year we spent Valentine’s Day in one of the coldest places Brett and I have ever been, Bemidji Minnesota!  We got really lucky too, it’s usually  negative 20 degrees with intensely cold wind chill.  It got as high as 27 degrees during our stay, which we were told was unseasonably warm!  I have to say that I have never loved my North Face jacket more than on this trip.  It kept me nice and toasty.  Well, it and the other 5 layers I had on. The reason for our adventure to Bemidji at this time of year, was to attend and Photograph our friends’ Tracy and Jake’s Wedding(Pictures coming soon).  Tracy and I have known one another from the age 5, so it was truly one of the most touching moments of my life to be at my long time best-friend’s wedding capturing her most precious moments.   And I have to say you know it’s a good wedding when everyone is still on the dance floor at 1 am and even the DJ is rocking out and singing along.

Brett and I made new friends on this trip (whom we already miss and cant wait to see again) two of which we stayed with, Leah and Troy.  We invaded their home for the weekend, leaving our mass amounts of camera gear all over their upstairs bedroom, playing with their wonderful dogs Joe and Thor, wandering around aimlessly taking pictures of all their horses, and my personal favorite Troy taking us on Mr.Toads wild ride in the front yard, getting the truck stuck in the snowbank and then when we thought all was lost, getting it unstuck.  Leah and Troy were the most amazing hosts.  There was even home made lasagna and garlic bread when we arrived after our 2 hour drive from Fargo.  Leah your amazing!

After all that Leah and Troy had already done for us over the weekend, Leah made my Valentine’s Day perfect by hooking up her 2 draft horses and taking us all out on a sleigh ride through the snow filled woods on their property.  And I have to say Tracy put it perfectly when she described our ride in the woods as reminding her of something out of “The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe”.  I was expecting to spot a lone lamp post at any moment.

Here are some pictures from our amazing Valentine’s Day sleigh ride!

The horses totally snuck a little snack in before getting all their gear on

The horses totally snuck a snack before getting all geared up

 

Brett caught me making friends

 

I love the effect the wind had in this picture kicking up the snow. Although at the time I have to say that I was not a big fan of the bone chilling gusts of wind.

 

Desi and Amanda, looking all cute and bundled

Desi and Amanda looking all cute and bundle.

 

Leah is ready! Lets not keep her waiting.

 

Tracy and I

 

Off we go!

 

Tracy’s horse Kara wanted to come with us. She troted along side the sleigh until she ran out of fence

 

Leah’s dog Joe

 

Joe jumped off the sleigh not realizing how deep the snow was, and immediately tired to get back on. It took him a few tries.

 

Then Jake jumped off.

 

So we decided it was a good time to stop and make snow angels

 

Brett totally missed me making my snow angel! And it was a really good one, you’ll just have to take my word for it.

 

I love my Fargo hat!

 

The end to a great sleigh ride.

 

Thank you, Tracy, Jake, Leah and Troy for a weekend we will never forget.  We cant wait to come back and visit with you in the fall!

This cute little Persian popped into the lives of Roxie and Scottie only 2 weeks ago. When they first laid eyes on this little fuzzball, it was love at first site. We were so excited to come by and take pictures of the little fellow. Scottie calls the little guy Mr.Bob cat and Roxie lovingly nicknamed him Monkey because his favorite place to watch the world is from her shoulder. They also have a wonderful 3 year old Cockapoo named Sadie. She and Mr.Bob cat are becoming fast friends. Sadie’s favorite game is fetch, and we got to witness Mr. Bob cat trying to join in. He chases after her green tennis balls, his little fluffy tail in the air, he makes a good effort.
Scotty was out of town for our little photo shoot, but we had so much fun with Roxie, Sadie and Mr.Bob Cat.

He’s so cute, I just wanted to sneak him into my purse and take him home.

Brett caught him jumping off my shoulder.

This is one of our favorites from the shoot. Sadie and Mr.Bob Cat just chilling together.

So for my birthday last October I decided that all I wanted to do was go to Disneyland.  It had been years sense I had been and what better reason to go than FREE ticket on your birthday!  So I dragged Brett to the best place on earth (now when I say dragged, really I mean we eagerly jumped in the car and couldn’t wait to be 5 year olds again).  The wonderful woman at the ticket booth gave me my Golden ticket and a giant button that said “It’s My Birthday!”  Now I personally think that everyone should go to Disneyland at least once on their birthday.  Everyone smiles at you and wishes you a happy birthday.  How awesome is that!

So Yes I know my birthday was months ago.  But we have been so buys with other people’s pictures, our websites, creating this new Blog as well as with the Holidays, that I hadn’t really gotten the chance to check out all the fun Brett and I had at Disneyland.  The pictures got downloaded to his computer and have just sat there.  So I’m taking a few minutes to reminisce and share the fun time we had.

We made our own t-shirts.. iron-ons rock!

My t-shirt had lego men.

I was seriously excited to see that Autotopia was still running… it was a lot slower than I rememberd

The teacups are my favorite ride ever!

Can you believe that! He’s making me do all the work.

The matterhorn is a classic. It always deserves a go around.

Next to the teacups, Dumbo was my favorite ride as a kid. And yes I made him go on them again.

I Heart DisneyLand!

We hooked up with Taylor Golonka for a shoot and came up with some really great shots. Taylor is a music producer in Hollywood. We based the photo shoot around his rocking 60’s T-Bird, and for our first set up we wanted to do a shot in his parking garage with vinyl flowing from the trunk. He has such an extensive collection of vinyl that it took us quit some time to get it all down to his garage. While we were making our trips back and forth, we discovered that Taylor has the most amazing hat collection. He considers hats to be a staple of his look, and he has some seriously cool ones.   After completing our initial shot of Taylor and the T-Bird we decided to take it to the streets and get some shots of him in his element.  After all, he is in Hollywood and driving is a big part of anyones life here. What a cool car to cruse around in. Taylor decked it out with tiger print accents and it sure gives his car character. We had a great time cruising and shooting around in his ride, and we are really happy with the driving shots we popped of. Check out what we got from that day, and be sure to check out Taylor’s music at http://www.oddballentertainment.com

In the shot on the right Taylor is wearing a T-shirt from his company Dope Statik Clothing http://www.dopestatik.com