This is week 30 for the This is Our Life project and the theme is "relationship."

This is my husband and my daughter dancing together at a wedding last month. I love how happy they look...it's pretty clear that they love each other. I told Abbie once that I want her to marry someone just as wonderful as her daddy and she said "But Mommy! How will I EVER find someone as wonderful as MY DADDY?!?!" 

This is week 29 for the This is Our Life project and the theme is "color."

We spent part of last week at Indiana Dunes State Park hanging out at the beach. We love to stay late and watch the sunset there. I love that God gave us colors...He could have made the whole world black and white and we'd never know the difference, but instead He chose to give us beautiful colors to enjoy. Color makes me happy, which is a little ironic since I love black and white photos so much.  :-)

This is week 28 for the This is Our Life project and the theme is "adventure."

What greater way to have an adventure than through books? Except, of course, real adventure, but we generally make do with books.

The kids have always liked books, but even more than normal lately. Our living room always has at least three stacks of books at any time (even though they actually "belong" in the bedrooms), but it's one mess I actually don't mind too much.

Some of their favorites right now are the Magic Treehouse books; Captain Underpants; Fancy Nancy; the 39 Clues series; the Big Nate series; the Ramona books; Judy Moody; Tom Sawyer; any of the Junie B. Jones books; The Jesus Storybook Bible; Trucks, Cars, Trains, Airplanes, and Boats (a super cute series by Patricia Hubbell - the little boys LOVE those books!); and anything by Dr. Seuss or Shel Silverstein.

This is week 27 for the This is Our Life project and the theme is "freedom."

Greta and Dan are one of the sweetest couples I've ever photographed -  so kind and sincere  - and their wedding was one of the sweetest I've ever been to.



They chose not to do a first look, but since they were both getting ready at the same place (the Turkey Run Inn), we took a couple of quick "before" photos.









After everyone was ready, I took the guys outside for a few quick photos before the ceremony.




Then it was the girls' turn. Since we got a little unexpected rain overnight, we stayed upstairs on the veranda for their photos.



This was such a pretty wedding, with lots of fun details. I didn't think to ask, but I think the smores favors were probably because Dan proposed on a camping trip. Cute, right?











This was a very, very sweet ceremony. It was so nice to see how much support they had from family and friends and how happy they were and how happy everyone was for them.

I've seen the sand ceremony done before, but this was a little different. Usually, the bride and groom each pour in a different color of sand, and just like you could never separate all that sand back into the different colors, you should never be able to break the bond between a husband and wife. For Greta and Dan's ceremony, the pastor also poured in another color to symbolize God's part in the marriage. I thought it was a really great addition to the ceremony.



The best part about the ceremony? The kiss. Their first kiss. Ever.



We only had about a half an hour between the ceremony and reception, so we did the family photos super quick right outside the inn, then walked just a little way to Sunset Point for some photos of the whole wedding party.



After the wedding party photos, I sent everyone else away so we could get through Greta and Dan's photos quickly so they could get back to their guests...and so they could have a few minutes alone.







The reception was just as fun and sweet as the rest of the day.




I'll post more photos from Greta and Dan's wedding on my facebook page later this week.

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