First Show, Second Verse

First, to all who came by and said hello at our booth in Pensacola this past weekend, THANK YOU!! It was awesome to meet everyone, and the welcome and response was absolutely incredible.

We hope everyone's having a great new year so far! Ours started out in typical fashion; renting a Prius and embarking on a road trip. Except this was a bit different, as we took some..uh...interesting detours along the way. I think we hit every small and forgotten town in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama just trying to get to Florida. I have no idea what happened. I do know that at least three gas station attendants asked if I could squeal like a pig. It was seriously freaky.

We decided to take a detour on Saturday over to Fort Walton Beach, where we'll be for the Bridal Faire on the 18th, and ate at Fuddpuckers. Julie and I honeymooned there in March of '03, so we hit the beach again and got all kissy smoochy under the pier. And somehow that turned into me waist deep in the water picking up beer cans and slim jim wrappers in the water. That's right, a makeout session-turned-beach cleanup. Hot chick helping me save the environment. Holy cow...that'd make a really cool calendar!

The show was incredibly fun, as they usually are. Met a couple of great vendors, ate way too many cake samples, and passed out tons of chocolate to everyone that came by. Which was actually kind of ironic because directly across from our booth was a booth for a weight loss program. Brides would come by our booth, get a box of chocolates, then turn around and get handed a brochure on how to lose weight. That pretty much made us the devil, but we had chocolate. *muhahahahaha*

I made a twitter comment a couple of months ago to the effect of that particular time being the "calm before the storm", and I seriously had no idea how much of an understatement that was. Pretty much the entire road trip back from Florida, we were booking weddings on the phone. Add to that the engagement session, bridal portrait session and wedding this week and next, meetings with clients, and still trying to hit the gym and get rid of the holiday Birdonkadonk, and I'm pretty much in constant spazz mode. But oh what a fun spazz mode it is. We do get to hang with Dan and Cherrie again for part 2 of their engagement session in St. Petersburg in a couple of weeks, and that will be incredible amounts of fun! They're two really fun, beautiful people that make our jobs so stinking easy, we should feel bad. But we don't. That...is how we roll. ;o)

And last but never least, a most sincere thank you to Harmony and Sunni for letting us crash their pad in Pensacola. We had plans to stay in a hotel, but were then threatened in kind and loving ways unless we stayed with them, so that ended that conversation. Long live great friendships, good wine, rambling conversations into the wee hours of the morning, and Bailey the wonder-dog.


We seriously have the most awesome clients any photographer could ever ask for.

Here's to an insanely fun and productive year....