Ordinary Fridays

I can't wait for more ordinary Friday's with Brian.

Tonight, we ordered Domino's Pizza and had Cake Love cupcakes for dessert.

Mmmmm...SOOO good!!

After a very productive day of me moving out of my current house

and into one of our pastor's house on the Hill for a month

and then Brian and I buying my wedding band tonight,

we opted for an easy night in with pizza and sweets.

I can't wait for more of these kinds of days with him. :)

Cakelove. I got carrot cake and Brian got 44th and Caramel and Sea Salt...err something like that.

Nothing better than Domino's and an old Alfred Hitchcock movie.

I'm also preparing to shoot a wedding tomorrow at my church.

I rented a 17-55mm f2.8 lens for the occasion.

And let. me. tell. you.

I AM IN LOVE!!! (with the man in the picture)

but also with this LENS!!! mmm it takes SUCH yummy pictures!!!

When we got to the mall this evening, it was such lovely weather, I couldn't let it go to waste...

Sooo Brian kindly agreed to be model.

I think he does a FABULOUS job. :)

Talk about yummy. :)

"Today was a fairytale

you were the prince.

I used to be a damsel in distress

You took me by the hand and you picked me up at six.

Today was a fairytale.

Today was a fairytale

I wore a dress

You wore a dark grey t-shirt

You told me I was pretty when I looked like a mess.

Today was a fairytale.

Time slows down, whenever you're around.

Can you feel this magic in the air?

It must've been the way you kissed me.

Fell in love when I saw you standing there

It must've been the way,

Today was a fairytale.

Today was a fairytale
You've got a smile that takes me to another planet
Every move you make everything you say is right
Today was a fairytale
Today was a fairytale
All that I can say is it's getting so much clearer
Nothing made sense until the time I saw your face

But can you feel this magic in the air?
It must have been the way you kissed me
Fell in love when I saw you standing there
It must have been the way
Today was a fairytale
It must have been the way
Today was a fairytale"

Taylor Swift

Yeah, I can't wait to marry you, Brian Bosak!!

I love you!!

Little Joys

Category: Life

My bridal shower is coming up on Saturday. (!!!!!!) :::Insert excited fist pumping here::: My sister Mandi, maid of honor, is doing a splendid job of pulling it all together. I can't wait for it! My mom, sister, future mom-in-law, future sister-in-law, and future dad-in-law will all be coming this weekend for the shower. I can't wait! I'm SO tempted to take a peek on our registries to see what we've got, but I have been disciplined and have not done so...Brian has...but he's not telling me. :) So anyway, I wanted to get a new dress for the shower. Please note: I hate dress shopping. Hate it. If you noticed from my status on Facebook, I hate dress shopping. It's ridiculously hard for me to find a dress I like, that is cute, fits great, affordable, and modest. It's practically impossible now that most dresses are WAY TOO short and WAY TOO expensive. I had gone shopping with one of my dear friends (and bridesmaids) Regina and was so discouraged at not finding anything. I wasn't going to give up though! I'm a determined little booger! So, last night, I decided to head for Georgetown. Now, if you live in DC, you know that G-town is pretty expensive with stores like JCrew, Banana, Tommy Hilfiger, White House/Black Market, Cusp, and other cute little boutiques that I will never EVER afford. (which I'm ok with because a woman's beauty is not to be of her adornment, but in the quiet and gentle spirit...1 Peter 3:3). But a girl does want to look and feel pretty, especially when it's a big day...like a bridal shower day. I was feeling pretty hopeless in finding a dress and was even gonna settle for buying a dress for $100. YIKES! Yes, I know....

But, whilst walking to the uber expensive stores, I remembered this WAY cute second hand thrift store. I didn't think I would find ANYTHING in there, but it was worth a shot, right? As you all know, I'm sure, thrift stores are definitely a hit or miss. You can browse through all the gross 1980/1990 clothes with the embroidered reindeer Christmas sweaters or the puffy sleeved prom dresses or the almost torn shirt to find just one little treasure. I had almost given up hope when I saw this super cute yellow eyelet dress hanging in the middle of the rack. I pulled it out to see what size it was...alas, there was no size on the tag. The sales lady didn't know what size it would be either. I looked it over a few times and concluded that it would be way too small for me, but decided to try it on anyway...couldn't hurt, right? Well, to my dismay, IT FIT!! It looked GREAT TOO!! I felt like the sisterhood of the traveling pants where the pants fit EVERYONE. It is perfect for my bridal shower. I felt relieved and excited to wear my new dress on Saturday. I was rather proud of myself for being financially thrifty! Yay! Go me! And uber excited that God provided! Yay! Go God! And just even more excited that I can add little accessories to my new dress for a little creative touch by yours truly. So just by adding light pinkish flats, blue rose earrings, and a light pinkish ribbon from Joanne Fabrics to go around the waistline for a belt, this dress has a whole new look to it! Yay for creativity!!

Creative little touches is what makes life, your surroundings, people more interesting.

This blog is just about the little joys I am enjoying right now....

This picture and the fact that my church is together in one room again.

Going for peaches at Eastern Market on Sunday morning before church with Brian.

Having a girl moment in the middle of a mall with a dear friend eating Godiva Chocolate. :)

Him. :)

Our newest member of the houshold, our phern, Phillis. Brian takes care of her till I move in.

This WAY AWESOME toy I picked up at the orthodonist yesterday. :) haha...watch out, Bri!

And super cute bobbypins and necklaces from Etsy.com and the way cute wrapping the sellers put them in. The bobbypins came in the little bag, and the necklace was wrapped in the floral material. These will also be used with my dress. :) If you haven't checked out Etsy...you GOTTA! Everything is handmade which means it's all original. I just love original pieces.

The Hippstamatic app on my iphone! It take pictures in a completely different light. It has changed my photographing world! Brian took this picture, unbeknownest to me, whilst I was intently listening in at our member meeting Sunday night.

The rest of the little joys do not have pictures, but are worth of mentioning nonetheless (nonetheless = awesome word)

Hugs from Brian after the zipper from my dress breaking and calling my mom in tears. (yes, the zipper broke...getting it fixed today)

Sweetened Green Tea...sweet and healthy.

The way God provides good gifts for his children.

Rocking awesome deals from craigslist for our furniture!

And this verse I read today:

For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind.

and declares to man what is his thought,

who makes morning darkness,

and treads on the heights of the earth--

the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!

Amos 4:13

I'd LOVE to hear what your little joys are!! Leave me a comment...or two...or three...or 27.

: )

simply.

jenny.

Lovely. Simply Lovely. Aaron and Sarah, a Vermont Wedding

Have you ever been around a person for just one minute and KNEW absolutely KNEW they had the peace, love, patience, joyfulness, and gentle spirit of Jesus?

Well, this weekend I had the privilege of being my future sister-in-law's wedding photographer. I had never met her before so this was going to be my first time as well as being the photographer. It was fun to try to balance putting on the hat of future sister-in-law as well as wedding photographer. I was in the "zone" a few times and had to remind myself that I'm not JUST the photographer, but am also working with my future family-in-law too. :)

Her wedding was in the lovely and rural Vermont. It was so nice to get away from DC for a bit, but this place was literally out in the middle of nowhere. :) It was sweet though...very homey and rustic and just....well...gone from the rest of the world.

Sarah and Aaron just have a sweet sweet spirit about each other and their relationship. Aaron is the youth pastor at his church and loves on those kids so much. Just from watching him with the ring bearer's and the flower girls and other youth that came to the wedding it was easy to see how he easily relates to them and loves on them. It was also easy to see the kids responding to him and how they just adored him. Sarah is going to be the Proverbs 31 woman of a pastor's wife, in deed. She evidently loves people...you could tell from the line that was outside this window of all the people waiting to get into the church. The church was literally PACKED with friends, family, and church members who knew and loved and wanted to joyfully celebrate with this wonderful couple.

At the end of the reception, Sarah wanted to just worship Jesus. So she had planned for a few of the youth group kids to set up their guitars and drums and microphones so they can have a little worship session. Sarah, without any fear or hesitation, just got up in front of everyone and sang...with her eyes closed, her hands raised towards Heaven, and heart full of thankfulness and joy, she praised her Jesus...on her wedding day! :) Ah-maze-ing! She and Aaron were the LAST people to leave their reception...which doesn't usually happen. They were in no hurry, they wanted to fellowship and love on the people that were there. I couldn't help but stand at the back table and watch Sarah worshiping. The people that stayed for the end, were just gathered around her, joining her in song, or just closing their eyes in praise to Jesus. At mine and Brian's previous premarital couseling, our pastor talked about the true beauty of a woman which is mentioned in 1 Peter (right?) about how a gentle and quiet spirit is one of honor and worth and pleasing to the Lord. God was pleased to hear his daughter's praise on her wedding day. When she got done singing, I told Brian that she is a woman of a gentle and quiet Spirit. I can only hope to be like that someday. :)

But anyway, I'll let the pictures do the rest of the story telling for you....

You can't see the writing on the whiteboard in the back, but it said: "The King will desire your beauty, because he is your Lord, bow down to him." Psalm 45:11. I thought this was SO fitting for Sarah on her wedding day. I don't know who wrote it or when it was written, but it was just perfect. I have another picture of it where you can see the words better.

I don't think I saw one person receive so many hugs in one day. This is just one picture of the thousands of hugs Sarah got on her wedding day.

Dear Sarah! What a joy it was to be your photographer! Thanks for being so easy going and even getting down in the grass in your dress so I could take this pretty picture of you. :)

All the ladies and fellas.

Ok, just the ladies now. Woooo weeeee, they totally rocked the purple!

Sister hug!

First walk down the aisle as hubby and wifey. :) Sarah couldn't stop smiling.

I have never seen SO many kids at a wedding reception. This little girl was one of many that danced with Sarah...and well, danced with whomever and wherever.

Ok, one of my favorite pictures! As a photographer, some churches have limitations to where you are allowed to go, but here I was allowed to get right up front when the bride came down the aisle and her future hubby saw her for the first time!! And ladies and gent's...WE HAVE LIP BITING!!!! SCORE!!

One last look before she meets her groom.

The anxious bride waiting in the nursery.

I LOVE this picture of the first kiss...she is just smiling away waiting for it... :)

Umm...yes, ad.or.a.ble.

They had a dollar dance at their reception where anyone could pay a dollar to dance with either Sarah or Aaron and allllllll the little kids lined up to dance with them. Aaron mostly just twirled every little girl around. :) So sweet. Just what every girl loves to do in a dress...twirl.

The men. So, I'll let you in on a little secret...the last one on the left...yeah, I kinda had a crush on him. I think he might've had one on me too since he kept following me around. I thought he was pretty cute...maybe he'll call!)

I just LOVE this shot!! THis is Sarah anxiously waiting in the dressing room to get ready.

OH! And did I mention that their church is just WONDERFUL?? EVERYBODY, and I mean EVERYBODY pitched in to help pull this wedding off. All the ladies were either cooking in the crock pots or baking some yummy dessert to help feed everyone. Such a vision of what the body of Christ is like...you shall know them by the love they have for each other.

Ok, who gave this kid sugar? Ring pops. Rock!

Crockpot magicalness. :)

The didn't have a cake so instead, Sarah purchased a chocolate fountain where they fed each other a chocolate covered strawberry, and as you can imagine...ALLLLL the kiddos never stepped away from this. :)

mmm....hugs...love. :)

AND her flowers, she put together herself. She picked most of them from a garden of a lady in her church. She said Sarah could have anything she wanted in there. :) So kind. BUT alas, this is also where Sarah got bit by a horse fly...ON HER EYE!! Thankfully, the swelling went down after a day...but have you ever seen Hitch where he got food allergies and his eye puffed up? Yeah, pretty much, that was Sarah. Poor thing.

Ummm...yes, that IS a log cabin in the middle of the woods. Look at it sitting there all cozy.

Mountains, fog, weddings...amazing.

and last but not least...you always get a picture of the shoes. :)

Sarah and Aaron, thank you for letting me be a part of your special day. It was an honor to watch your joyfulness, love for the simple, little things, hugs, smiles, and godly spirit. I can't wait to get to know you more as my future sister-in-law!!!

simply.
jenny anne