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One thing you may not know about Marissa and I: we love to read. LOVE it. From the time I was a little girl, I was constantly devouring books, and in Elementary school, I was the typical glasses-wearing, dorky type that always had her nose in a book. Though I was also an athlete (soccer!), I just never lost my love of reading. It is so easy for me to get lost in a story. Anyway… Marissa and I have shared this love for reading, and we are also now sharing our favorite books. I gave her my favorite book to read (which she loved), and then she just gave me this one. It was not what I was expecting, but it was still an amazing story. And yes, I cried on the last page (just finished it last night). I also loved seeing some of the sentences that Marissa had underlined… especially this one particular line:

“From childhood she’d sought inner calm, not outer beauty.”

I don’t know; it just stood out to me, so I thought I’d share it here. Question for all of you: do you have a favorite book that you can recommend to us? I need to choose a few books that I can bring while we’re traveling in Europe next month (after our Paris workshop). Any suggestions? Thanks! 🙂

PS – Peonies are also my absolute favorite flowers. Completely random fact. 🙂

You all have heard K and I talk about how hard it is to get away from our laptops. There is just so much to do! 🙂 But last weekend we decided for our sanity we need to go to camping and get away from electronics. Here are some images of our wonderful trip. To learn more on the back story of who this group of friends are please visit my weddings blog.

Our friend and client, Leah, volunteered her Sunday so that we could video her, pick her brain about the client’s perspective of a boudoir shoot, and photograph her. You have all seen her in the previous video that we posted, and now I wanted to show her one of her gorgeous teaser images and send her a big public THANK YOU!!! Love you Leah.

This weekend was SOOO great! After a crazy month filled with WPPI and workshops, etc, it was a perfect way to recharge and gear up for the next few months! We ended up camping on the beach (San Clemente). And although it wasn’t very far away (and though it wasn’t ‘real’ camping), it was still perfect. Two nights and two full days away from the office/studio/computers/emails: it was just what we needed.
More pics to come soon… Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

*EDIT TO ADD: this pic features Marissa & Weston’s furry kids – click here to read more about them! 🙂

Marissa & I are really not ‘divas.’ Seriously. Most people who know us know that we are very low-maintenance, laid-back gals. We love being outdoors… we love hiking, biking, and camping! We’re throwing together a little impromptu camping trip for tonight, and we’re trying to decide where to go. Beach camping? Catalina Island camping? Or somewhere inland, maybe near a lake?

Any opinions? Beach or lake?

Anyone who lives in Socal… any suggestions on your fave camping spots? (San Onofre is closed, we already tried there – oh, and we’re bringing Marissa & Weston’s ‘children’ Lainey & Puddy, so we need a campsite that will let us bring them along).

Oh, and pics will be posted of our adventure next week, for sure! 🙂