Hip & Simple Creativity
When I was younger and someone would stop by from the neighborhood, depending on who it was, we would hide the coffee pot out of sight. I knew that we did this to avoid any judgement for our choice that was not socially acceptable in the area we lived. I grew up in Utah, predominately a Mormon area, where drinking coffee is not in line with their beliefs. While I have no judgement against anyone in that religion there is bound to be judgement from some members of any large group, who share similar beliefs, against those who don’t live in those same beliefs. I don’t blame my mother for wanting to hide the coffee pot. I understand why we did it and looking back, it makes me realize how we, as humans, naturally want to do things to avoid judgement for our choices.
I had been taking more posed / professional pictures of Reece every month until he turned a year when I decided to do it at least every 6 months. It was time, plus I have been itching to get out and take some pictures lately.
Here we are in day 3 of the trek to Alabama. Yesterday was our longest driving day with over 10 hours on the road. We got into the hotel very late and went straight to bed. We spent the day driving through Colorado and Kansas, ending the evening in Salina, Kansas. We were able to stop in Denver for lunch with my Aunt Maren. It was a great visit and I am so glad the timing worked out.
As of today, I am no longer a Utahn.
This has been a strange process because so much is out of my hands. I like to plan details and confirm things and haven’t been able to do that at all in any part of this process. This weekend has been exhausting and so packed, I have been looking forward to the drive to be able to rest a little. Here is a recap of what we have been up to.
It’s been a while! Since my last post I started working for the same company as Stephen, we found out we are expecting again, we decided to sell our house, found out we are having a baby girl (eek!), the first sale of our house fell through, got another offer on our house and Stephen got a job offer that will be moving us to Alabama in a little over a week!
One of Stephen’s work colleagues contacted me to do a family session for her cute little family. We used the American Fork Amphitheater; it’s one of my favorite photography spots! This family was well behaved and very beautiful. Great outfit picks as well!
