My Love

Have I ever shown you this photo of Jake? Have I ever told you how much I love it? Rarely are his hair and beard ever this short at the same time... hehe.





i love us.

Earth Day!

So most of you probably DON'T know that I'm a hippy at heart... I am... I'm sorry, but I really am.

Today being Earth Day and all, I thought I'd share a little post with you all from a favorite photographer, Tara Whitney. She shares some great ideas on what we can do to make even the smallest difference. GO HERE.

Now, I honestly am quite sick of the expression GO GREEN, but the intention behind it is something that everyone really should be aware of. Why not help out the other living, breathing creatures residing on this earth with us?

I bet it'd make you feel better to at least try..

xo  Lauren

{ FREE Mini Session! }

Hey friends!

So it's warming up here in Las Vegas.. and to celebrate the time between cold/windy weather and hot/miserable weather, I'm giving away a FREE mini photo session over on Facebook! 


Become a fan on Facebook and then refer me to your friends to become a fan and be entered for a chance to WIN the session with a $60 print credit!
Go check out the complete details on my facebook fan page.


Hope to see you all over there! (Better hurry! I'll be drawing the winner's name next Friday, April 16th!)


xo Lauren

{ photography website LAUNCHED }

Yay! It's finished and all live to the internet!

Please visit www.laurencastophotography.com to see my little piece of the photography world.

Okay...

I'm going to try really hard now to focus on the day job...

And not just walk around with a perma-grin.

=D

two years down...

and 60 some odd more to go!

remember when it was jake's birthday last month (last post) and i was like "ya.. i'm not gonna get all sappy and do the '26 things i love about jake' thing". well.. today's our second anniversary and guess what? i'm not gonna do the two greatest things about our marriage post either! so ha! just kidding. :) no really, i'm serious. i'm not. there's way more than just two great things about marriage. especially our marriage. it rocks. i wouldn't trade it for the world. in fact, jake rocks my world. and so does our little furry child we've been raising named bug. life is great and i'm happy to be living it.

for the sappy anniversary post i decided i'd overwhelm you with a bunch of photos from our wedding because it's always fun to reminisce and such.


we were married in the saint george lds temple. it was an incredible experience and such a beautiful day. we had a great time at the reception.. filled everyone's bellies with a nice pasta dinner and danced the night away. drank mini cartons of milk to wash down the delicious chocolate cake. i even sang to my beloved... in front. of. everyone. but you know what? i'd do it again if it meant i could publicly profess my love for him. :)

happy second anniversary rj, snake, jakers, babes, my love...

fantastic days

this past saturday was jake's 26th birthday. i'm not one to write corny blog posts listing the 26 greatest things about him because... well... he'll never read it. just know that he's an incredible man and i love him way too much. :) for his birthday i got our family together and we went out to the valley of fire about an hour outside of las vegas. it's very beautiful... full of red rocks and petroglyphs. we bbq'd and enjoyed eachother's company... also hiked around a bit. it was perfect. i love my family so much for driving all the way out there to celebrate jake's big day. and by my family, i mean, both mine and jake's family. i love them all and it was so fun having them there.

before we went out for the day, though, i got up and whipped together some breakfast for jake. i decided when jake and i got married that i wanted to continue with the tradition my family had whilst growing up of breakfast in bed on your birthday. so jake was a champ and let me feed him french toast in bed.

{i posted a picture of the perfect breakfast in bed for jake.... but he made me take it down because he had bed head. :( so.. here's bug.}

  

on to the great outdoors. i realized that i don't post too many pics on here... not as much as my photo blog, obviously... but i DO have about 427 to post today. so... hope you enjoy.

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

and although i looked pretty terrible... i was there... see??

jake and i went out to dinner on saturday night for a happy valentines/birthday bash. valentines day was pretty lovely too. sunday afternoon we went on a picnic and grilled up a delicious steak dinner. the weather was perfect and it was just us..... and everyone else at the park. but it really was perfect. 

 

  

  

  

my arms aren't long enough....

 

and to end this long post.... 

bug wants to say hi.

jeep!

so jake and i bought our very first vehicle together... and our first 4-wheel drive, too!

a 2006 jeep wrangler.

it's so fun. we went out to the desert the day after we got it and it'd been raining all day, so it was nice and muddy. :-)

we sold my mazda 3... which was kind of sad. it was a great little car. but i've wanted a 4X4 for a loooooong time so i'm not tooo sad. it definitely eats up more gas than the mazda, but i love everything else about it. so guess we'll just have to deal with that minor detail.

i love that it's orange...

anyways, just had to share this bit of news with ya'll. not much else is going on with us. just work work work for me and work school work school for jake.

hope everyone is enjoying 2010 so far!