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dress shopping with mindy

May 27, 2008

I met up with a couple of the Colorado Springs girls for a little coffee drinking and wedding dress shopping this weekend.

wedding dress shopping

We were there shopping for wedding dresses for Mindy, but I fell instantly and permanently in love with this purple dress for fairy princesses:

fantastic dress of wonder

I was devastated to learn that the shop isn’t carrying the dress anymore, and unless I can find a way to take four inches off my rib cage to squeeze the zipper shut on that dress, I’ll never know the joy of owning it. I’m pretty sure my new mission in life is to score this dress (in a real human woman size) on ebay.

Along with trying on my dream dress, we did a fair bit of veil and tiara playing. I didn’t let the fact that I am not a bride stop me from bridal accessorizing. Here is my favorite shot of Bernadette and me getting our fabulous on:

fabulousness

Thanks for a wonderful morning, ladies! I’ll be emailing you pictures soon!

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mandatory listening for everyone

May 22, 2008

I finally finished listening to last week’s episode of This American Life and when I finished it I had two urges: (1) to bury some money in the backyard and (2) to force everyone I know to listen to it.

The podcast is all about the economic downturn and why the mortgage crisis became a problem for everyone and not just sucky for the people going through foreclosures.

It’s hard when listening to the podcast not to think about the last time banks made risky investments. Of course, I don’t see any banks closing or any Hoovervilles popping up around town, so I’m going to trust NPR with their relatively optimistic outlook.

(To listen to the podcast, as I’m pretty much ordering you to do, follow this link and click on the “full episode” orange link on the left about halfway down the page.

And as promised, another photo from Bernadette and Haydn’s engagement portrait shoot in Manitou Springs, Colorado:

colorado wedding and engagement photography

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Mother's Day Pictures

May 13, 2008

Our engagement shoot with Bernadette and Haydn this weekend had to be canceled because of weather, so for the first Monday in a long while, I don’t have new engagement photos to show!

But we did have a wonderful Mother’s Day that included breakfast at The Egg and I (a hearty breakfast is one of the Turchin fam’s favorite things) and a trip to the Royal Gorge in Canon City.

colorado springs photographer and son

colorado springs breakfast

After breakfast we drove and drove and drove (I wasn’t sure where we were going–it was a surprise) to the Royal Gorge.

colorado springs car ride

The highlight of the trip for Will was seeing the trains. He wanted to watch the train from the bridge forever!

colorado springs wedding photographer and son

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