embrace the camera: family edition

We spent a weekend at the end of July making our way around family birthday parties. When you live out of state, there's nothing better then seeing tons of extended family all on one trip!

Ironically, both baby birthday were Mickey or Minnie Mouse themed. Hmmmm...

Here is the two-year old birthday boy... I got his cape from an etsy shop called Applesauce. It was a big hit! (he never took it off.) And the quality was outrageously awesome.

My sweet (tall!) baby sister. She is a high school junior as of today!

Three generations!  I love getting my grandmother in photos!

embracing the camera,

Lauren

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Embrace the Camera - 3 years later

We enjoyed the [tremendous] pleasure of having our friend Sarah do a little photoshoot for us to commemorate our 3rd anniversary last week!

I am in l-o-v-e with the pictures and feel so grateful that we have these sweet memories to keep forever.

Embracing the camera,

Lauren

linking up with Emily!

Embracing the Camera: Sunny SoCal

Today's Embrace the Camera is from our sunshine-y trip to San Diego earlier this month. What fun!

We made our way to La Jolla early one morning and soaked up the warm February sun... there's nothing not to love about SoCal. We even picked out our future vacation home while we were there!

Killing two birds with one stone, people.

Embracing the camera,
Lauren

Embrace the Camera: Traveling Buddies

It's another installment of Embrace the Camera over on Emily's blog!

We certainly did a lot of camera-embracing while we were in DC last weekend...

{washington monument}

{waiting on the train - BWI to DC}

{the Capitol}

I mentioned yesterday how thankful we are for our ability and means to travel. The thing about it is, I know that we are setting a good foundation for our future-would-be-kiddos. We are learning to love each other first, becoming the best of friends, and having all the fun we can squeeze out of life. That's what traveling is to us...

Here's to seeing the world over! {or at least a lot of her.}

Lauren

Embrace the Camera: Dance Part-ay

At a recent wedding we crashed attended in Madison, Wisconsin, the photog snapped this action shot of Matt and I... post-photobooth (hence the hats) and pre-"we're too old for this; it's our bedtime!"

Embracing the camera,
Lauren

sharing here

Embrace the Camera: Memorial Day Edition

We spent Memorial Day weekend at my in-laws' lake house.... It was such a lovely weekend. Recap coming soon!

Matt and I snapped a quick pic on our way out to ride the jet ski... may I add that we got that puppy up to neck-breaking speed? We hit a stretch of glassy water, crouched down and made ourselves as aerodynamic as possible (dorks), and hit 70 mph. Yeah baby.  

xo, 
Lauren

Embrace the Camera: love

 Georgia - 4/23

 Farmer's Market - Nashville - 5/7

Wedding - Nashville - 5/14

Date Night - Nashville - 5/21

Love love love,
Lauren

hosted by Amy!

Embracing the Camera: All dressed up

I promised it would never happen, but I'm ashamed to say that we have seen a great decline in the number of photos containing Matt and me since we've been married.

Our families might think otherwise, since it seems we always have our camera out... but multiply that by 837 and that's the average number of pictures we took while we were dating. Daily.

Anyhow, we went to a nice, fancy event for Matt's work at Opryland Hotel and got all dressed up for the occasion. I wore my favorite Marilyn Monroe-esque, emerald green dress and we actually took a picture together. Success!

***Pardon my unruly hair... apparently I had a fly-away-situation happening that was only brought to my attention when I enlarged this photo. :)

Lauren

Nostalgia: Embrace the Camera

I've been quite nostalgic lately, looking back at old photos and reminiscing... It's important to take a step back every once in a while, and remember where you came from. This photo is from a Georgia game my sophomore year at UGA, just a few short months after we began dating officially... look at these kids!

 

...And I feel obliged to tell you, for the sake of my marriage, that the popped collar was a joke...

 Head over to Emily's blog to check out her weekly "Embrace the Camera" series... Stepping out from behind the camera and making memories!

Love!

Lauren