our little family

yesterday we had a really fun little birthday party for London. It was in Prescott at my parent's house and we took some shots of us four, thanks to my bro Jordan. This is the best one out of the lot. It is definitely not perfect. You can't even see Gretta's adorable dress. BUT! I love it. A lot. We really need to take pictures of us all together more often. 

More pictures of the party to come. Thank you to my mom for helping me with food and decorations. She really is amazing. 

wedding details

i photographed a couple weddings lately and i wanted to feature some of my favorite images from them here. this is brianne and ryan's wedding in prescott. the details were so pretty and i loved the feel of the whole day.

flowers under $15

most the time when i head up to prescott for the day, my mom and i have to make something! saturday i had 6 mini photo shoots. i did 3 in the morning and 3 in the evening. it was super fun and i had the best people. i really love doing my job. so since i had a big break in the middle of the day my mom and i of course did some stuff. my last post was "sour cream chocolate cake" and it was delicious. we also made 2 pretty bouquets with flowers from the grocery store under $15. my mom picked out the flowers and they are totally her! they are super pretty:) having fresh flowers in the house always makes things a little more special and happy. here are some pictures of our bouquets. you really don't need to be a skilled florist to create something nice for your table. try it, you'll like it;)

*the vases are from a sale at tai pan trading last year.

king julien turns 1

every once in a while in arizona, you get a summer night like this one. it's the kind that's warm and spent outside. a little bit of drizzle comes down. you get cooled off and stay outside longer. the light is so pretty you could take a million photos. it was one of those kind of nights on monday at julien's birthday. we had the yummiest cake and played soccer and opened presents. i'm so glad my brother has such a sweet little boy! happy birthday king julien!

Happy Birthday America!

we had a real fun day yesterday. after the ward breakfast we headed up to prescott stopping at rock springs cafe. it was packed there! we bought a mixed berry crumble pie which was delicious. i really wanted to get the #1 seller the "bourbon pecan" but spencer can't do pecan pie... probably because he hasn't had that one yet and doesn't know how good they can be. in prescott we watched the brazil vs. columbia world cup game of course. and we tried going downtown but oh my gosh was that a complete disaster area we couldn't even find a parking spot so we left. lisa had us over for a bbq and fireworks and the weather was incredible. summer monsoon clouds all day long and that's pretty much all i can ask for from a fourth of july! yes siree!

Brianne's Bridals

brianne and ryan got married last weekend in prescott. i'm so happy we got to take some bridal photos of her a few days before the wedding. isn't she stunning?! i felt so lucky to be able to meet them both along with their amazing families. so much love:)

Simple Floral Jars: Party Decor DIY

This weekend was a busy one. I photographed a wedding and helped my mom get ready for Hayley's homecoming party. We decided we had to have flowers and so we made these floral jars to put on her mantle in the living room.

1. The 99 cent store has these cute colored glass jars. We chose 10 of the green and blue for Hayley.

2. Go to the grocery store and pick a few bunches of your favorite flowers. We went to Trader Joes and they still had a few peonies, plus roses, stalk and dahlias! 

3. Fill the jars half way with water and start cutting down the flowers. Don't cut them too short because you can always go shorter but you can't get any length back ;)

4. We added one peony, one dahlia, a couple stalks of white, one rose and a few of those green accent flowers to fill in spaces. 

5. Greenery really helps to make a backdrop for the pops of color. We only had a couple of these huge leafs but the jars that we put them in turned out to be our favorites.

6. Arrange on the mantle or anywhere else and enjoy as the flowers open!