Last night I arrived in Orlando for a week of vacation!  After a wonderful weekend in Austin with my hubby I left by myself to spend sometime away from the cold weather of New England. I will be staying the week with the family that I nannied for while I lived in Florida.  I haven’t seen them since we left Florida in November of 2009… so you can imagine how BIG they have gotten!  I can’t even believe it!

I’m excited to catch up with old friends and also make a trip to the beach!  It looks like it’s going to be perfect weather for laying out all week… YAY!!

I will be taking a break from work this week and will have limited access to email. I will try to return emails as soon as I can.  I’ll be back to blogging next week!! Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

I had the opportunity to 2nd shoot with Kat of Kat Hanafin Photography for Matt & Leslie’s September wedding. Kat is such a talented photographer and I was so honored to be able to shoot along side her for the day!

I started out with the guys… which is normally what the 2nd shooter will do. You never know what to expect when you’re sent to a hotel to capture the guys getting ready but Kat assured me that Matt was super laid back and a really fun guy… which was completely true! These guys were such a hoot to be around!!

So this is funny… while I was going through the pictures I came across this one. I had completely forgotten that this had happened. All the groomsmen insisted on having me be in one of the pictures with them! ha!  I have to say that’s the first time that has happened before!

Love this shot below that I captured of family watching Leslie get out of the trolley.

Leslie’s dad helping her out of the trolley.

I grabbed this shot of Matt below as he saw his bride for the first time. I took a series of these but this one stuck out to me because of his groomsmen in the background. I love how they are all watching Matt’s expression to seeing Leslie for the first time!

Leslie is gorgeous! Her laugh is SO completely contagious!

These two are just so cute together!  I just can’t stand it!

Woah!  Is it really February already? I feel like it was just yesterday and I was posting about my January goals and now it’s February. This last month has flown by but I’m excited to say that I accomplished almost all of my goals for January! YAY!

January Goals:
- finish & blog weddings from 2011 (including 2nd shooting jobs) – I got all my 2011 weddings blogged except my 2nd shooting jobs.
- finish setting up ShootQ - that’s right, I finished setting up shootq! I’m already loving being able to stay on top of where I’m at with all my clients and new leads. yay for being organized in 2012!
- celebrate my 25th birthday with friends!  - on January 9th I turned the big 25! We went to lunch with some of our friends from church. I was surprised with homemade Red Velvet Cupcakes (my fav)… they were so yummy! Chris and I then headed downtown to celebrate with our new friends Sara & Matt.

- work out 3 times a week – didn’t make it to 3 but definitely worked out at least once a week.
- drink more water -
- start my first book (suggestions anyone?!) - started 2 books this month. One for work ( I work part-time as children’s ministry intern for our church) and one for me! The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and Jesus + Nothing = Everything
- go get my nails done with a friend – I did get my nails done but not with a friend. I’ll be adding this again to February!
- shoot & blog my first weddings of 2012 - shot my first 2 weddings of the year & blogged both. You can check out Molly & Jason’s Cambridge wedding here and Keith & Heather’s Barn at Gibbet Hill wedding here.
- memorize 2 scriptures - John 15:5 & Matthew 7:7

I was also featured on 3 amazing blogs this month!  You can read all about that here.

February Goals:
- finish books 1 and 2. Start on book 3 – Erasing Hell by Francis Chan & Preston Sprinkle
- finish my wedding pinterest boards… http://pinterest.com/rutheileenphoto/
- lay in the sun while listening to music and reading a good book! FYI… I’ll be heading to Austin & Orlando this month! woohoo!
- blog my February wedding
- spend a day shooting for fun!
- memorize 2 more scriptures
- work out 3 times a week
- get nails done with a friend!