So as I sit here trying to write this blog post, I’m trying to remember my first memory of Lindsay and Kelley together. Because, before there was “Kelley & Lindsay soon to be married” there was “Lindsay and Kelley crazy kids running around the church together”. It usually wasn’t just the two of them, I seem remember a fairly unruly pack that roamed the playgrounds, the players would rotate but the game was always the same: up to no good. The story that first popped up was one which involves a church camping trip, a pond, and a friend “falling” in that pond. But there’s also the memories of spray painting a tiny tiny shed space in the back of Kelley’s garage. And small time youth group worship team beginnings and countless Fridays at In N Out. Their history is long and deep.

I’m so glad they were able to come spend time with us and I got to be a part of their engagement story. Being so far away from all the planning – I didn’t take this for granted at all. We had a blast running all over town, shooting at the places I had been scouting out. The hidden waterfall that just doesn’t work for the Littles I usually shoot. The field literally in my backyard that’s half taken over by a construction crew. And my favorite little “forest” hidden behind the local park. They did it all – even in heels! 😉

Love you guys, may your love for each other grow and deepen as you learn compromise, honesty and compassion in all the years of marriage that are to come. XOXO.