Today at 4:45 PST me and husband man board a plane for Africa. We’re going to be gone until June 9th to Kampala, Uganda…and we couldn’t be more excited!! It was to be honest, a very very last minute decision. My dad, little sister and brother had been planning a trip for months to go...
Abby! I want to see pictures from your trip! :) Wish I were there with you guys right now. Love you!
Beautiful pics below! Have so much fun! I am jealous. I would love to do something like that. I love your new blog pic. It is no fair how people like you can pull off being blonde and dark haired and look good both ways.
What a great thing! We will be praying for safety and for lots of “God’s” work to be done. Can’t wait for the pictures and the stories.
WOW! What an awesome thing to get to do! Be safe and have a great time and I look forward to reading your blog when you get back and tell us all about it. :)
I have been thinking abou you and Ryan’s trip to Africa ever since you mom wrote about it on her blog. And do believe you are excited, I mean, I am excited for you, and I can’t even begin to imagine how you guys feel. Looks like all things worked for your best:) Have a great time [but I don't think I needed to say that, since you are planning to do just that:D ].
Adam and Christina met when they were five… … they lived right down the street from each other, had the same group of friends and went to the same kindergarden. the same middle school. and the same high school…. … their whole lives they grew up side by side… never once realizing their soulmate was...
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omgosh they r super cute n ive known them ever since we were little……i came out in wedding party and i loved your work..and now my fiance wants to know more about you guys because he really also loved your job on adam and christinas wedding day…
i’m seriously in love with this session. the colors, the flare, the b&w’s…all beautiful!! and I’m totally jealous that you are in Africa rightnow!! Africa has been my dream since I can remember…Hopefully Aric and I can go sometime in the near future after we get married!! :) amazing work though!!
Seriously?! Do they skate together? That is a dream session! :D
OH SUCH BEUATIFUL PICTURES! I love the skateboards. :) They are very photogenic people, and that 3rd one. WOW. Awesome.
i see this session…and now i’m ready to go skate :) great job abi!
…as promised… {and on a side note thank you thank you thank you to all of you who took the time to introduce yourselves!! You literally made my day!! } Twenty random-nesses about me: 1) I am one of 10 kids {and my husband is one of 12} 2) I love the idea of sushi,...
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Just found your blog today and I so love it! You have such amazing photos and they are so touching! Congratulations!
Fun fact: I am with you on the sushi thing! Giggle… I can’t stand eating it, but it sure sounds cool “drinks and sushi with the girls”!!
Hope to see more pictures from Africa!
And if you decide to come to Romania, just let me know! :) I am … here!
Hugs,
Rose
UH! I totally understand about how long it takes to find music for your client’s slideshow. I can’t even think about creating mine until I have the music for it! :)
I love Emily of New Moon!
Have a wonderful time in Africa! I am so jealous. I wonder when I will get on a plane with twin toddlers. Even more so, I wonder what our destination will be(my guess is Disneyland) I did a similar list of 30 on my blog when I turned 30(ouch) in March. It WAS harder than I thought, but fun too!
Wishing you a safe and fabulous trip,
Lindsey
PS So I am totally with you on the sushi and Emily from New Moon :-)
hi abigail!
just found you on another photog’s blog and i enjoyed reading your about me’s. thanks for sharing and have fun in africia! i will be sure to visit your blog from now on.
-christine
Stumbled upon this video today… and yea. I already loved Zooey Deschanel and now I love her even more. She has such a gorgeous voice and is so so so stinkin cute!! I love love love this video {even if it is a commercial, hey don’t judge my inspiration! or my use of lots of...
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This indeed is a wonderful video–I was so surprised when I saw it on television a few weeks ago.
Congratulations on your wedding anniversary! I hope you two were able to celebrate and spend time together. Thank you so much for the offer to stay with you with guys when we travel, next West Coast tour we will definitely take you up on that.
I also adore Zooey Deschanel! She’s gorgeous and can absolutely sing like an angel. :)
{Note to all you fab people: Joel is my little brother in law…and on with the story..} …Emily came to college second semester of Joel’s freshman year. At first nothing changed. And then slowly over the next few weeks I started seeing less and less of Joel. It struck me as kinda weird because the...
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Abi!!! I’m dying – I love it!!! You are SO stinkin’ good! We gotta get some pics done when you are in town in July! XOXO
Great job! What a cute couple! I can’t wait to see their wedding pics.
This pictures are amazing! I love Em’s dress (es) and what an incredible place to shoot!
Just beautiful! Wish you were around Chicago when we were getting married. : )
Ooooh, I love these photos. You did such a good job capturing them, their love, and the light! :)
I check out your blog every so often as I check out your mother’s blog. I enjoy looking at the pictures you take. They are truely amazing. In response to your past entry on May 20th here’s a little bit of stuff about me. I am a single mother of 3 children, two teenagers and one pre-teen, my oldest teenager will be driving on her own in about 3 weeks yikes!! I am a teacher and some of the things I love are … the smell after a rain shower, watching snow fall – especially when the flakes are huge, tulips and daisies, listening to music, hanging with friends, reading books, mint chocolate ice cream and butterfinger blizzards. Oh – I too drive with windows down and music blaring. Somethings I don’t like are tailgaters (who does?), cooking (my cooking is very simple and fast – poor kids huh?), and washing windows. I don’t have a blog but I do like reading them :)
Today was the day, three years ago, that I promised to love and cherish my husband man forever. For better or worse. Rich or for poor. Sickness and in health. Until death… …it’s funny how back then, I honestly {one hundred and ten percent} couldn’t fathom how I could love him any more then I...
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OMG Abi – I LOVE LOVE LOVE your wedding pics! They are great and you look so beautiful! (as always!!!) thanks for sharing…
you have the most beautiful wedding dress i have ever seen … honestly. i kinda squeeled and then yelled to my sister so i could show her how perfect it is. your wedding looked beautiful, which seems a perfect reflection of you and your husband’s love (who by the way has awesome hair). you are one of my favorite photographers. i love your blog and you give me so much inspiration… and you have the best personality!! or the glimpse of it i get from the internet :)
Abi!
That is such a sweet post. Has it been three years? Time flies, it seems like not that long ago. Wishing Ryan and yourself the best life has to offer.
So glad you love your photographs!
~ arley
Happy anniversary Ry and Abi! Hope you get to spend it together at some point. Go enjoy one another and the love that you have. Matthew and I always visit a new B&B and we love it!
Awe! Congrats :)
very beautiful.
happy anniversary! this is a beautiful post {words and photos}!
happy anniversary!
I love your wedding pictures. So pretty! thanks for being such a great example for daniel and I in regards to young love. I love you and hope you’re having fun in Ohio:)
…so I have this little secret. and I’m going to let it out of the bag and tell ya’ll. My handy dandy little secret is called Stat counter and it’s kinda like your own personal James bond. Only groovier. {Without all the car chases and shoot outs of course}. Okay, maybe more like my own...
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aloha- i’m your hawaiian follower (stalker). i moved here a few months back- just because it’s the right thing to do when you’re 20, freshly graduated from college and single. i found your blog thru your mom’s- i have 3 younger siblings from china. ice cream is my favorite thing #1. the only smell better than fresh cut grass is the smell of corn- i grew up in a 150-year old farmhouse with 2500 acres of corn surrounding it. now i grow a small patch of sweet corn in front of my apartment :). favorite thing #2 is photography #3 is travel. so far i’ve only been to china (5x), someday i will make it to the rest of asia…
Hi Abi…so I admit, I am blog stalker. I literally came across your blog through exactly that reason. Got hooked on your blog not too long ago with the Confessions entry regarding sleeping with a fan every night. Have the same habit and have now got my husband and twins two year olds addicted to sleeping with fans as well. It’s either a fan or the sound of rain, and we don’t get rain every night here in California as you know.
We are share the fact that we both found our Edward. Aren’t we lucky? You would enjoy a Twilight Party I threw back in the beginning of April(its all documented on my blog- http://www.petersentwins.blogspot.com) Twilight is not an obsession..it is a hobby :-)
I love your photographs, I enjoy your writing, and I look forward to seeing new posts of yours.
The only ice cream that exists to me is vanilla. Not french vanilla, not vanilla bean, just plain vanilla in all its glory.
Until New Moon in November…..
Lindsey
I’m your cousin (in law). I am married to my love whom I really don’t deserve. I am very blessed to have been given him and I never saw it coming. I have two beautiful girls who I am trying to enjoy. I love cemetaries, crunchy dill pickles in my potato salad, cookies and cream ice cream, smoothies with lots of blueberries, apricots ripened by the sun, pools and rivers and lakes to swim in. I love tea and reading. I love a cool, quiet breeze. I love that I am now friends with my parents. I love that I have a best friend whom I can tell everything to and who knows me better than I know me. I love that my girls love to read. I love, love, love sleeping and can never get enough. And I love my extended family and wish that I could see them more. Great blog Abi and great work. My blog is miller4-corrie.blogspot.com
hi! I’m 28 years old, i married my best friend 9.5 years ago, we have 2 amazing kids who are 7 and 6! i currently live in my favorite spot ever–the pacific northwest (born and raised in San Diego, though!). My husband and i also lived in durango for a year, and went to The River, of course. we know your parents, and emma even babysat for us once! :) when we moved back to seattle area, i ended up stumbling upon your mom’s blog, and then found you through her! i love your photography! i am a photographer myself… kids and family, though! i did one wedding up in silverton with my hubby as my second shooter…it was a ton of fun :)
facts about me:
-i’m a coffee snob
-i love living in a place with seasons. i feel God with every change.
-i kiss and pinch and snuggle my kids every single chance i get
-i love old classic movies
-i love to sew funky/fun/colorful quilts and pillows for my couch. to make it something you wanna jump on and snuggle in!
-i love boating on puget sound in the summer
-i love pumpkin spice ANYTHING
-daisies are the friendliest flower! :)
-i could watch the movie “you’ve got mail” over and over and over and never get bored
-when the light is “just right” outside, i gasp and HAVE to grab my camera to take a picture of SOMETHING-anything.
-i met my husband when i was a month shy of 16. i *knew* i was going to marry him, and i prayed about it every night.
-i got married at 19, had a baby at 21 and another at 22.
-i’m a bit shy in new situations
-My husband and i lead worship together.
-i’m a homebody…which makes me a great stay at home mom :)
-i love to bake.
-i love mint milano cookies
-i love the sweet, pure, and happy things of this world.
-i can’t wait to travel. to see the world that God gave us. especially england, ireland, sweden, norway, italy, france…and a few of those tropical islands for good measure! :)
-i feel like my life is blessed in all the things that really matter.
my personal blog:
I am Katie Matthew. I am 18 years old. I am a student. I am in love with a man 2000 miles away. (we go to different colleges). I want to have it all. I love the color red and roses and vanilla and candles and mirrors and ice cream(blueberry please). I’m going to College Station in 4 weeks. My best friend lives in London. I love reading your blog:)
Well, Abi, you’re just cool. That’s how I found you. You see, I’m a finder and collector of cool people. Especially those that quote Emily of New Moon. (I won’t ever get over that) I found you through Shyla’s blog. I’ve recently become ADDICTED to photography blogs. My little love makes fun of me because i can spend HOURS looking at photo blogs. It’s pathetic really, but oh so inspiring, and as he and I drive around, I look at beautiful things around me and imagine what I could do if I had (and knew how to use) a fancy camera.
Ice cream. *sigh* I love it!! ’nuff said.
Swings of all kinds make me so stinkin’ happy! tire swings, porch swings, park swings, hammocks — you name the swing, I love it.
One of my favorite things is snuggling up next to my love under a half dozen blankets, lying on the desert ground staring up at the stars.
I’m studying to be a librarian — grad school is SO great!
I’m getting married in July, closing on a house in June (hopefully), hosting a HUGE conference (for work) next week, and am terribly broke now. :)
Sometimes it’s just easier to express myself through writing.
As of late, I’ve been craving princess books. Have you ever read Goose Girl?? Love it! And, though not a princess book, I can never ever get enough of the Anne of Green Gables series.
This is certainly enough about me. I’m anxious to see more of all the “sneak peek”s you’ve been giving us. :)
livinginthesunshine.blogspot.com
Hey! My name is Amber. I found your blog through Shyla’s. Your pictures are amazing! I love reading your posts. I am from Utah but moving to FL soon. My hubby’s name it Ryan too! I have a little boy and girl that keep me very busy. Taking pictures is just a hobby of mine. Keep up the good work. ihatecarpetlaying.blogspot.com (My husband came up with the blog address name????)
Hi! I actually found your blog through your momma! I was praying for her and your family through the fire nightmare-can’t remember how I heard about her. She mentioned you and linked to your blog, so I scooted on over to check you out and I absolutely fell in love with your photography. My hubby is a new photographer on the side (http://www.studiophotographie.com/) and I like to dabble with it and you are very inspiring! I am married to my soulmate and we have two gorgeous baby girls! : ) Come on over and check us out! : )
http://www.trustunfailinglove.blogspot.com
Well, I’ll make the 3rd comment. I found you from Shyla’s blog and keep on coming back. I’m a fellow photographer (starting out), getting married in 30 days to more than the man of my dreams, and of course we’ve planned the best wedding ever! I don’t have beautiful babies (yet!) and I to love the smell of freshly cut grass mixed with spring rain! Oh, and nothing beats the sun shinning while you’re singing along to your blasted radio with the windows rolled down! :D
Whoohoo! I love your blog. Don’t remember how I came across it. So glad that I did. I am an amateur photographer, and I loooove your work. you have been to my site before, and left me a comment. Made my day. So, question for you. Have you ever or do you attend workshops? I’m on the hunt. But since I don’t make money at this yet (hope to some day) and they can be really pricy. I want to get my money’s worth. Have any suggestions?
Lori, AZ
I’ve commented before and can’t remember how I found your blog but I’m a big fan of your photos. I especially like mint chocolate chip ice cream but like to try other flavors now and then. I’m not a ‘photographer’ but love to take photos just for fun. I’ve found my soulmate but haven’t married him yet. No beautiful babies but adorable nieces and nephews and one super cute puggle named Pixel. LOVE the smell of fresh cut grass and windows rolled down, music blaring and usually singing unless I’m stopped at a light and feel like someone is staring. :)
Hi there! I found your blog through your mom’s blog at http://www.aplacecalledsimplicity.com I adore her blog and have started reading yours as well! You’re an extremely gifted photographer and I would LOVE it if you would photograph my Hubby and I one day! Although I’m not sure when we will ever be in CA!
Brittne Snyder
Brittnesnyder@yahoo.com
hey, abi! i don’t remember for sure how i found your blog {maybe from shyla’s blog}, but i saw your cool name ;) and i had to check you out! :) i am also a photographer. here’s to cool photographer girls named abi, and to the internet for allowing our paths to cross! :)
Aspiring photographer! love your blog :)
Hi there Abi :)
I found your blog through my friend Jaime, who reads your mom’s blog because they both have a heart for adoption. I was perusing your mom’s blog and she posted a blog about you and how proud she is of you with a link to your blog—let’s just say I have a heart for all things artistic, so I was immediately excited to have stumbled upon your blog. I will very quickly tell you a little about me: I married my best friend Owen last August (!) We were extremely surprised when we found out a few months later that we are expecting our first baby (!) Which is going to be a boy (I am due on July 28th which is my husband’s birthday.) I’m a young one, 20 years old and my husband is 21. I took a break from pursuing a degree in art when we got married, but I am always crafting/designing/sewing/etc. my older sister and I are working on a baby/children’s line right now. My husband is a touring musician, currently taking a break to have a full-time job to provide insurance for my pregnancy and the baby. Soon we will be going back out on the road, traveling and meeting new people—sharing why we have such a passion for life.
I love reading about your life and your sweet husband, keep up the blogging :)
hi there!
before I start my words-flood, I wanna say that I am one of the followers from Romania, and I say one of them cause it’s impossible not to be followerd by others, this blog is an instant vacation
I am 18, feeling old at times. but then I pop over your blog and when I read posts like “tongue tied” I say to myself.. “Ioana (my name) dudette, what on the poluated earth are you doing? You do know you are 18, right, honey? Then go live the best of your life now, hon.” (yes, your blog has such influence on me. must be magic:) ).
so, moving on..
I like to sleep, I could sleep a lot, and even if I didn’t sleep, I would sit in the bad all day long. And I like to eat. I recently discovered that I could not live without chocolate (told ya this blog of yours has huge influence on me).
I like cotton-candy. I get all very sticky from it, but I like that too:)
I don’t like coffee, nor the smell of it, but I like the idea of coffee. And I like tea. It’s so classic and Jane Austin:):)
I looove strawberies.
I like the smell of freshly cut grass. I reminds me of countryside and childhood days. happiness:)
I like color red, but I don’t dress very much in red, and when I do, I consider it an accesory:D
I would very much like to sleep in a tent. and in hay. and eat corn;;) :)
I love real mail and although I don’t get much of that, I get all very enthusiastic when I do. I like to send letters. And emails and get then.
I like to read blogs. And see new ideas.
I like to read, but now when obligated:| [when I read that about you I was like "hei, me too!"] But i do tend to go back to the books I didn’t read when obliged and plan to read them all.
I wanna learn to swim.
I wanna learn to crochet. and make my own super awesome clothes. and mittens, and scarves, and gloves.
I wanna travel.
I wanna fall in love for the first time (soon?;;):D:D)
I like to hold little kids.
I like to draw with little kids.
I am in love with sunrise and sunset.
I like very much apples. I am always thirsty after them
I like ice-cream. vanilla. I am always thirsty after it.
I like beautiful photographs and I tried to take the perfect photo, but I have no talent in that area what so ever. therefore, I pop over your blog to see beautiful ones. [and hope that you'll photograph my wedding when I am a big girl].
I like to make surprises. enexpected.
I like to talk a lot. and apparently, I write as much as I talk. And this is only a small part:D
keep the amazing-ness coming:)
fellow photog….in baltimore. married. beautiful daughter mady. little boy on the way in mid-october.
i’m not sure how i stumbled upon your blog — possibly your comment on mine, twitter, another photog blog….something like that :) as a result, your feed became part of my google reader…and here we are.
Hi!! I came to your blog from reading your mother’s blog. I enjoy looking at the photographs, I am a big fan of romance. I think you are an excellent photographer. I live in Texas. I am married and have two boys, one who in fact is 16 today, and another who is 11. I enjoy reading about others lives. I get up every morning and while I drink my coffee read my blogs and news on yahoo. I started a blog, but I don’t keep it up. Blogging isn’t my thing, even though I love reading them…lol.
Hey Abi, My name is Amber and I am a photographer in Portland, ME. I love your work and how open you are on your blog. So I stalk your blog every morning while I drink my coffee. I love coffee ice cream, I am married to my soul mate Steve, a wonderful man. Fresh cut grass makes me sneeze and I love driving with the windows down! Here is the link to my blog. http://www.throughamberseyes.com/blog which I should update more often! :o)
Ok. here it goes.
but before, I want ya to know that I am one of the followers in Romania. so, hi from here. :)
I am 18, but sometimes I feel waaay too old. but when I pop over your blog and read a post like “tongue tied” I come to my senses and say to myself “Ioana (my name), dudette, you do know you are 18, right? Just go have fun in your life, honey!” (see, this is the effect your blog has on me.
Moving on…
if I’m 18, theeeen, I’m in highschool. Actually I’ll be over with that in.. *gulp*…2 weeks. pretty scary and exciting and all the rest. I am amazed that in about 2 months I’ll be registered to go to college *huge gulp*. But hei, then I’ll come over your blog and read posts like “tongue tied”.
I plan to be a teacher and/or a translator.
And now, the more important things… hihi
I… loooove to sleep. it makes me happy, and I like to eat. I recently discovered that I could NOT live without chocolate. (told ya your blog has huge effects on me:D).
I like cotton-candy.
And icecream. vanilla. but chocolate too.
I don’t like coffee, not the smell of it. But I like the idea of coffee. And I like tea. Fruits taste.
I love the smell of fresh cut grass, it makes me think of country and happy childhood days.
I like to read, and eat chocolate while doing that (yes, surprise, huh?)
I looove pretty photographs, but I have no talent in that area whatsoever. So, I do what a normal person who like photography does. pops over your blog to see beautiful photographs. and dream that you will photograph my wedding when I’ll grow up and be a big girl.
I LOVE to make surprises and send letters (too bad we are sooo very into emails and live chat, and we no longer send real mail.) but I still send:) I also like emails, don’t get me wrong, I get all very excited when I see I have new ones.
I like to give gifts.
And look for the perfect card. 8->
I plan to buy lots of photo albums and make then all very special.
I wanna be a cool grandma when..obviously, I’ll have kids and grandkids.
I like color red. :) But I don’t exagerate wearing it. It’s just a thing that make my day.
I like to walk barefoot. It’s so…eco:D
I love water on a hot, hot day.
I want to be rich sometimes, but that’s not the goal, is the way to do eben more in my life. And if I don’t get rich, well, I’ll just know when I am old that I did great things with my life with little stuff.
I plan to travel. like..a lot.
I wanna slepp in the hay
I wanna sleep in a tent and
I wanna fall in love for the first time:) (aaa…soon?:D:D)
I like to put flowers between the pages of a book and check on them after weeks/months:) Flowers make me happy:) Even the dead ones:D
I plan on doing something great for someone during this life of mine. [ps, wanna know a secret? but don't tell anyone, OK? so, here itr goes... I want so bad to go to an orphanage and ask permision to take a child and give him/her the day of his/her life. cool, huh?]
I like to talk a lot (most of teh times; sometimes I don’t like to talk at all.) and apparently..I write as much as I talk:D
keep the great photos coming.
oh, before I hit submit, I just wanted to tell ya, that “Winter song” was on repeat a lot when you posted it. I can get all very obsessed with a song. hihi
Your questions reminded me of my latest favorite YouTube video, “Can I Have Your Number?” I don’t remember how I found you, but it’s been only recently. I’m an aspiring photographer (still learning), wife and mother to two BEAUTIFUL children :) The smell just after it’s rained, clean laundry and lavendar make me happy (so does Alfredo Sauce). Some of my blog posts are funny… http://www.LuckyRedHen.net (I look forward to my stat counter telling me you’ve visited).
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