(seniors) tory

tory is lovely. and beautiful. (as you can see from the pictures!) and smart. and just fantastic! we got up bright and early to do her senior portraits, which ended up being a great idea because the light was soft and gorgeous. :) it was so wonderful wandering around in the woods with her, hearing about her summer and her goals and thoughts for senior year and beyond. it's so strange to think that a year ago, i was standing in her shoes, and i'm so excited to see what God's going to do in her life over this next year! i know she's going to do an awesome job as a senior, especially as nhs prefect (represent!!). so without further ado, here's tory!

life is fast

it's late(ish), but i wanted to write a post becaause i need to write more posts!  life is so full and fast...i love and i hate it at the same time.  people have been asking me what i've been doing this summer and honestly, i can only remember 4ish major happenings off the top of my head, the rest is just a blur of busy days.  not that that's bad...i've absolutely loved and cherished all the little (and big) moments i've been blessed to have with my family and my friends. :) (love you guys!) i've just been struck recently with the immensity of life.  i'm on the brink of a huge change and although i'm scared to death of what's coming up next, i'm also excited out of my mind to see what God has in store and how He's going to just be His incredibly mind-blowing self.  yay!  i have exactly 23 days until i leave and i want to cherish and live completely in every single second of them.  and then continue to live fully and completely in every single second of every single day from that point on.  life is such a huge blessing and i'm completely overwhelmed by mine.  the big stuff is so important, but here's to the little details that make the journey so much deeper and incredible.  and because posts are so much better with pictures, here's a moment i caught of one of my little buddies blowing bubbles....so much love!!

// as a segway off of that whole life is crazy busy thing, i have 6 senior portrait shoots to do that i'm super excited about!! yay!! so stay tuned for more beautiful senior-ness to come soon... //

(seniors) elisa

elisa.is.gorgeous.  it's the absolute truth.  seriously, absolutely no lie.  just look at the pictures and you'll be thinking, "wow, this girl is so beautiful!"  elisa is one of the most naturally pretty people i've had the pleasure of knowing.  we did a lot of laughing during our portrait shoot, which was absolutely fabulous.  personally, i'm a huge fan of laughing.  my sister once upon a time sent me this graphic that  said "not being able to finish a sentence because your laughing so hard about the ending."  there is the possibility that might happen quite often...but i just love laughing!  anyways, there was a lot of laughing in our time together because she's just so wonderful and apparently, i'm just that funny (as proved by my senior shoot with sam)!!  in actuality, it was probably so laughter-y because ashlee (aka my sister, elisa's bffl) came along for the ride and to make the portrait shoot even more fun and great!  so, thank you elisa for being so fab and drop-dead gorgeous and laughter-y.  and thank you ashlee, for being so lovely and entertaining and laughter-y (oh and shout out to ashlee because it was her birthday on the 4th and she is now a full year older! represent! hehe).  you both are simply wonderful and i think we got a little bit of gorg-type action going on here. ;)