Muir Beach Overlook

As I avoid reading about inferential statistics this afternoon, I thought I'd post another set of our California vacation pictures! This was our transition day where we drove from Lake Tahoe to Mount Tamalpais (just across the bride from San Francisco). We crossed through Napa Valley on our trip and stopped at one winery to do a champagne tasting!

Wine and cheese can never be a wrong choice!

The sky was really hazy in some places because of the fires all across California. It was super sad! Below is Hwy 1. This stretch of Hwy 1 is incredibly curvy- I thought I was going to die (from nausea). The end result of arriving at Muir Beach Overlook for sunset was worth it though!

Muir Beach Overlook:

The California coast always surprises me. It never fails to feel like a completely different world.

- B

Graduation Pictures | Maggie

It's been a while since I have shared any of my portrait sessions here! I don't do photo shoots neeeearly as much anymore, but occasionally I still shoot graduation pictures and stuff for friends so I like to share some of my favorites! Maggie is graduating from Texas State in a couple of weeks and I was so excited that she asked me to take her graduation portraits. 1) Maggie is gorgeous 2) She is up for anything 3) I had this new location I was dying to try out!

After the October floods this year, the Blanco River settled down with a whole influx of white rocks around it, as well as some really cool tide pools and driftwood among them. While it's sad to see the devastation caused by this flooding, in some of the more secluded areas the change has been really beautiful for the river bank! Here are some of my favorite images from the evening!

The floodwaters had pushed this tree completely sideways, which created a canopy effect around this pool of water. It was GORGEOUS.

The water was so minty blue!

Favorites ahead!

LOVE:

Maggie, the naturalest beauty!

I loved making these pictures with Maggie! Hope you enjoyed :)

- Bethany

Grow Themed Baby Shower

This Saturday me and the all the girls in our community group threw a baby shower for our friend Kelsey! This is the second baby shower I've helped plan so I'm basically a pro now...HA. I'm so glad there was so many of us planning this together! It was a lot of fun seeing how it all came together with everyone's contributions- we all felt very adult like doing it :) 

Kelsey has good style so I wanted to make sure we chose a theme that fit her well! We based it off this scripture:

"So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow." 1 Corinthians 3:7

Mimosa Cupcakes!

Cutest diaper cake that Janey made!

Kelsey's favorite food- caprese.

I'm realizing after looking at this photo that our group has some DARK hair! Davy- we missed you ;) my fellow blondie!

To go with the "grow" theme we painted pots and planted succulents in them. The idea is that every time we water it, we can remember to pray for baby Leah's growth, especially spiritually!

Of course Winston closely monitored the party.

The finished products- we had some seriously good paintings I think!

Love you Kelsey! So glad you came to Texas :)

- Bethany