We Are Relieved

As many of you know we are kind of obsessed with our wedding photos by We Are The Parsons.  We really agonized over the decision of who to hire and how much to spend, but in the end we were super happy to have made the right call on both. Having met our photogs when our then-5 year old proudly introduced us to them as her boyfriends parents, we chalked it up to fate and decided to go all in.

Still treading water in the decision making pool, we checked out their blog continuously to reassure ourselves that they produced the type of images we wanted.  Each week a new wedding was posted and we allowed ourselves to drool over the possibilities.  We figured we'd go for it and if in the end it was a mistake, at least we'd know where to find them. :)

It's been just over 6 months since our wedding day - (whoa!) - a day that seriously rocked - if we sum it up.  And ever since then we wondered if and when we'd make the cut - appearing alongside other weddings in the digital display case over at www.wearethebloggers.com.

Well my friends, that day has come and we feel validated and kind of like this again:

We're super excited about the shout-out they gave us and all the cool things they had to say.  Kinda blushing right now - not gonna lie.  And so you've seen them somewhere in the neighborhood of one to way-too-many times, but just for fun, you can check them out again HERE.   Leave a comment on their site!  Especially if you were there!

And as it turns out several of our friends said they had yet to see our wedding video, shot on an iPhone by our good friend Nick.  We did post it a while back but it was kind of buried in a long diatribe.  So here it is again or for the first time.

Okay the pics are up and the vid is up - and now we promise to stop talking about both.  For a while....

Freeze Frame

Funny pics from Nick & Mandy's wedding...

It's hard to say for sure what was going on here.

Happy Halloween. Happy Fall.

This is the best time of year.  Hands down.  There is nothing better than fall.  We had an excellent weekend celebrating all things fall related and ending it with our personal favorite fall activity, Halloween.

The weekend kicked off with a trip to Louisburg Cider Mill for some corn mazin', animal viewin' and cider donutin'.  Yes, cider donuts.

That's a cider donut.  Mmmm...... We did not eat 6 of them.  I don't care what you heard.

Later on, we caught a mini-concert and cd release party for our friend Issac and his band Month of May.  They also sang at our wedding:

And then we wrapped it all up with Alex's 5th Annual Halloweenie Spooktacular and a slew of adorable goblins, including this triple layer cake of amazingness, the children of our friends (and wedding photogs) who ironically took pictures of their brood on their cell phone.  I bet they even take good cell phone pics.

And of course the customary group shot: 

And a couple of too-cute-for-words kiddos: 

I can say this now, because no one got hurt, but THE funniest moment of the evening came when the kids knocked on the door of an unsuspecting homeowner, who wasn't actually offering anything to trick or treaters except her ginormous dog.  Upon opening the front door,  this giant fur-ball made a crazy break for it right into the group of goblins.  It was a crazy scene that started like this:

And concluded with the most incredible scaling of a tree any terrified 6 year old has ever completed:

Again, no one was hurt and everyone happily posed for more photos and as you can see that little guy made it safely back down the tree:

And of course an impromptu rendition of "Who Let The Dogs Out?" followed. 

And then more photos:

This was probably one of the warmest Halloween weekends I ever remember experiencing which made it that much better. How was your Halloween?  And more importantly, how long do you think this amazing weather will last???