megan + justin {berlin, west virginia}

the most wonderfulest trip ever. much needed bff bonding time for me and gracie, and sooooooooo much fun hanging with matthew clark (getting his photo website together soon! hurry up matt!), megan and justin. heres a slideshow of the wedding day, and another one of the day after shoot we did, awesome!



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annajoyphoto {squared}

as you may or may not already know, annajoyphoto is going multi site this weekend! ashley and lizzy will be in beautiful ojai, ca with kris and kristin while gracie and i will be in san jose, ca with vanessa and steven. we are all sooooo excited and thanking God for this sweet opportunity :) we put together a little portfolio slideshow of my 'associates' portfolio, you can check it out here.






stay tuned, we'll be putting together cute lil slideshows for both events. woohoo!

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saturday :]

today i'm going to costa mesa for an interview for something cool. i might reveal what its for once i see if i make the cut. but for now, heres some funny slash cool photos that the wonderful ashley took of me at abby and tom's wedding a couple weeks ago.






also i love this old old olddd hymn song that sufjan steven's redid. hes amazing. but this video is a little cheesey. oh well.



gracie and i are leaving for justin + megan's wedding in west virginia tomorrow, woohoooo!


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abby + tom {updated}

finally!!! thank you for your patience, you two lovebirds!!


check out the updated post here


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i'm at the office workin away on awesome stuff. this song came up on my itunes and i've never heard it before (????). its so presh, i love it.



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legends never die. POLAROID IS COMING BACK!

{click click clikkk here!}




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sooo misunderstood.

dear monday...










in-spite of world wide hatred, i still love you more than any other day. xoxoxoxo


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randomness {july 2009}

some random photos i liked from yosemite last month (wow summer time is flyyyying by!)






and this is not really a kind of song i'd like, but its so dang catchy, so i thought it blog worthy ;) also it reminds me of my girl ashley, cause she likes it so much :) love you ash!



(yeah i dont know why the video for the song is of mark gonzales skateboarding.. whatever)

>>>anyways, heading out in the wee hours of the morning for a wedding in paso robles with my sister, yay! postin more slideshows as soon as possible, so make sure you check back :)

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sarah for funzies! {san luis obispo, ca}

a few snaps of one of my favoritest people. this was a long time ago but i just found the card, oopsies!











i hope you like this commercial sarah, i lol everytime i watch it!...



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heather + jameson {san luis obispo, ca}

updated post with slideshow...finally!...


clickkkk here.


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abby + tom wedding {santa barbara, ca}

congratulations on the next chapter of your love :) ashley and i were so blessed to be a part of your day!!!








{slideshow}
with music custom-chosen by abby and tom :)

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mondaymondaymonday

i love you monday! i am catching up on photo stuff and emails. here is an actual photo of me working...





seriously, my life is soo great. i can't even begin to describe.VBS at reality starts tonight and some little girls that i adore are going with me!!! thank you Jesus for life, and life to the fullest. thank you to my bff gracie for being more than i could ever ask for in a best friend. thank you michael...you remind me of God's gooooodness and grace. thank you to my beeeeeeeeeeeautiful clients who trust me with such precious days!! thank you thank you thank you. thank you monday for being so awesome i love you forever!


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kris + kristin {updated}

without further ado, check out kris + kristin's engagement slideshow:


you know you want to click here!!
you know you want to click here!!
you know you want to click here!!
you know you want to click here!!
you know you want to click here!!

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hellooo saturday

the way emery writes sooooothes my soullll. everytime i mosey on over to her blog that i adore, my mind gets a little refreshed. i love her recent post on contentment....

...."I'm coming back to contentment. (It was waiting with open arms.) It feels like rounding the corner of your street after a long and difficult journey... like finding the bread crumb trail after wandering lost in the woods for what seemed like ages...like a one-way ticket back to your own front door..." chhhhheck out the whole post at emeryjo.blogspot.com!

i'm trying to pop out two slideshows today and also abby and tom's wedding (last night!!) in the next few days :) happy weekend everyone! i <3 summertime :)


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"The Lord will satisfy you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.." Isaiah 58:11-12

weddings!!.. oh and also marriage {thoughts}

*opinionated and not politically correct babbling below.. you've been warned*
**remember when i used to write long posts like this with disclaimers? **





so i realized that i seldom mention marriage on this here blog.. when it is really a topic that i feel so strongly about. weddings are awesome, and i love them. but marriage is heavy and complex, grueling, but outrageously rewarding (which is most of what i can say, having no actual experience whatsoever). i've come upon a lot of resources in the last year(ish).. random articles, books, etc about marriage that have peaked my interest so i read them. which is probably awesome because i sooo long for my clients and my friends and family to have relationships that endure; unbreakable covenants of love. Jesus calls his own- his church- his 'body' and his 'bride'. the bible starts with a marriage... and also ends with a marriage. over and over in God's word his love for his creation is compared to a husband and his wife... his love and protection and longing and righteous anger and jealousy of our hearts, etc etc etc are so impressed in the pages of scripture, that the zeal of his love for us is undeniable. i had heard this phrase before... "what if God designed marriage to make us more holy than to make us happy?" i googled it (oh i love google so much) and realized its part of the title of a book (yay for book number 9,456,7645,23434 that i want to read sometime soon) called 'sacred marriage'. the description says "...this title expresses a radical thought for today's marriages! chapter by chapter, discover how marriage works to develop Christlike character- forgiveness, love, respect, perseverance,- in each of you..." I realize from different things i've been reading about destroyed marriages and affairs and etc etc etc, that marriage kind of could sound horrible. working in the wedding industry, i see all the frills and superficial beautiful things about weddings, which is all fun and i dooo love it. but its hard to hold in one hand that view of love with rose-colored-glasses, and in the other hand see and read about and hear about the impending doom that seems to await the 'one out of every two marriages' ... and not want to gag in hopelessness. so what the heck am i even getting at here? i think we need the mercy and grace of the only one that can help... Jesus, to pour out on marriage and relationships in general. God created marriage, God upholds and honors marriage, God defends marriage. I think that i've been blessed to have such an interesting perspective, working in the industry, but at the same time, miraculously (?) not being disillusioned to the fact that it will be HARD. i think that it will be outrageously rewarding, if we realize that it is not only for the purpose of being happy, but also being chipped away at, refined, and molded even more into the people we were created to be in Gods image, and showing every day and every second how much more desperately we need his mercy and grace.. his help in our weakness (run on sentennnnnce). but what more of an adventure is there then being made into the likeness of the one who designed love, and feeling his strength overcome our weakness? if thats what marriage will bring then i'd be into it ;) but Lord have mercy on whoever would want to marry me. LOL!


***cheers to writing on a topic thats way over my head. oh well. its myyy blog***

>>ps theres a new post over at campjoy.tumblr.com. and remember, its not for the faint of heart ;) ;)

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summer jam

this songs on repeat today while i work :) cheesey slideshow, good song.





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kris + kristin {gaviota, ca}

i feel like a kid in a candy store looking through these pictures.. i love them sooo much! kristin and chris, you two are awesome and are due life-size trophies and a badge of honor for bravery and death defying stunts!! i am so impressed by your coooolness and your love for eachother :) more photos as soon as i possibly can! but for now...

.SLIDESHOW.
.SLIDESHOW.
.SLIDESHOW.
.SLIDESHOW.
.SLIDESHOW.













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BFL trifecta {somewhere, ca}

hear ye hear ye! as of august 1st, 2009, annajoyphoto will be going multi-site! YAY!! ashley and lizzy will conquer their first wedding, the wedding of the super amazing kristin and chris (see post above), as gracie and i will be chilling simultaneously with vanessa and steven. WOOP WOOP! can you tell i'm excited??! God is so gooooood! so anyways, after the shoot above, we wreaked some havoc in an unkown place, and got a few snaps that i like :) enJOY!











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updated : ]

ch ch check out abby + toms updated post below!

clickkkkkkk heeeeeeeeeere!

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singalong :)

k so theres a few suuuper old songs that we sing at church sometimes that i really love, one of them being this one:



"Oh Lord, haste the day, when my faith shall be sight, and the clouds be rolled back as a scroll..." ahhh. looooove.


phil wickham is amazing. if you don't know, seriously go check him out! he even has a free downloadable "singalong" at www.philwickham.com

anywayyyys, much to do today! hoping to get some bangin slideshows up in a bit. have a great day everyone!!

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today

was fun. check out the new post at campjoy.tumblr.com! remember i warned you, camp joy is not for the faint of heart, where my professional level is -10, so if you are the least bit worried, stay cozy on this little blog :)

photo by mikayla <33


p.s, like 5 slideshows are overdue on this here blog... so i'm putting my nose to the grindstone tomorrow and cranking them out! wooop woop! come back and see, you wont wanna miss!

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sara-joy {carpinteria, ca}

drum roll please... here is sara-joy's slideshow (finalllllllly!)!

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