I miss you blog

Hi.

It's me.  I blogged about the wedding I photographed 2 weeks ago today on my photography blog.  I thought I'd share the link on here.  The bloggy isn't all fixed up the way I'd like it yet, but I wanted to show the wedding images bigger than what I can on facebook.  Facebook is stinky for photos anyway.  So here's the link -  www.saraparsonsphotography.com  - and the reason for all the quiet around here on this old blog of mine.  I just read all my comments on my facebook page and I'm literally so choked up... it may have something to do with the fact that I went to bed at 2am last night, but I honestly am just so so so thankful for the support of my friends.  It means the world to me.

Good night all.

xo

bri's maternity session!!

I loved everything about this session, these two are the cutest couple ever.  We met up at Discovery Park in Seattle.  We looked up photos of the place on the internet.  It looked awesome; reminded me of South Beach here in Friday Harbor.  Well.... we didn't really know our way around the place and I blame it on the lack of signage!  We hiked a couple miles up with clothes, step ladders.... only to find out that we could have driven up to the top.  Haha!  We got our workout.  We never did find the exact spot we were looking for because according to the map (which some nice lady gave us because we literally had no idea where we were going; the place is HUGE!) it looked like it was a ways away.  So instead, we found a nice grassy area with some sun and some shade.  It was perfect.  With these two, you don't need much.

Thanks Bri and Phil!  I had so much fun and I cannot wait for baby girl to arrive!!

xo

when they came to visit

Finally, I'm blogging.  We had so much fun when Sean's brother and family came to visit.  I wish they lived next door.   Here's a little glimpse into their visit to our crazy house...

We ate good thanks to Nathan who stopped at Costco before coming.

Yep, that's 10 dozen eggs and there are 7 gallons of milk in the fridge.

Ella liked to play in Ava's seat.

The girls played a lot of playdoh.

Jonah and Collin played a lot of Hot Wheels.

 We drank some hot chocolate.  Why, you ask... because it rained almost the entire time they were here.  

They swung and swung and swung some more and always with Pirates Booty in hand. 

We went for a hike up Mt. Young and had a little picnic.

 We payed a visit to the park and guess what?  They swung on the swings.

They took the Harley out for a spin.

 We took some family photos and Sean even got a ticket on the way out to American camp.  Awesome.

Thanks for coming, Nathan and Rebecca.  Come again real soon.  xo

me

image credit: my nephew

Busy, busy me.  I'm sad I've been ignoring this blog and all of your cute blogs.  I hope to be back soon with a post full of photos of promised cute children.  For now, here's me taking photos from this weekend.  Prom night.

xo

missing

those piggy tails.

her little voice (which just so happens to sound like "Boo" from Monster's Inc.).

her brother and sisters.

and her mom and dad, too.

come back family, we miss you.

xx

looky looky

My new camera bag!!  She was a little stinky when I first got her out of the box, but it's starting to fade.  She's a beauty.  I couldn't be more happy to get rid of clunky-canon-bag.  This here Jo-Tote is much, much, MUCH easier on the eyes.

blue vs gray

Yesterday there were blue skies.

Today it's raining and oh-so-gray.

I'm rootin' for blue.  Go big blue!

hi. it's me.

Just in case you've forgotten all about me, well, here I am.  I'm back.  I have lots of photos to share.  We had some guests last week.  Sean's brother and family were here.  It was a busy house, 7 children, including our own, but it was so fun.  The weather pretty much stunk-it-up while they were here, but we made the best of it.  We told the kids the rain doesn't make you melt, it just makes your hair frizzy.  Kind of like in the photos above.  Haha.  I hope to have a blog post soon with photos of lots of cute kids.  Thanks for checking in.  

"I appreciate your friendship"  Randy Conover.

xo

Sara

this past weekend

Sean had class in Seattle.

I went along with him.

We left our children with their aunt, uncle and cousins.

Our children ended up getting bad colds and were kinda grumpy for their cousins.

Sorry about that, cousins.

Sean and I ate at Claim Jumper Friday night.

We split a salad and the best sandwich ever.  It's called the Grilled Cobb Sandwich if you're curious.

We shopped at Target and filled our cart with a lot of stuff.

Target is dangerous.  Danger with a capital d.  It's a good thing we don't have one of them Targets in F.H.

Sean left the hotel room for class early Saturday morning.

I took my sweet time leaving the hotel.

Then I went straight to Starbucks.

I had 3 grande, non-fat, extra hot, carmel macchiatos in one day.

It's a good thing we don't have one of them Starbucks in F.H.

I shopped at IKEA for a couple hours.

My new couch is at IKEA.

I will come back for you new couch.

Then I headed to the South Center Mall.

I made a bee-line for H&M.

It's a good thing we don't have a Mall or an H&M in F.H.

It was time to pick up Sean from class.

We were hungry.

We picked up some lunch from Chipotle.

I like Chipotle.  A lot.

It's a good thing we don't have one of them Chipotle's in F.H.

We made the 5:20pm ferry.

We took a little nap in the car while on the ferry.

We finally arrived Friday Harbor at 7:20pm.

We picked up our coughing, snorting, grumpy children from the cousins.

We emptied the car of our stuff.

We went to bed.

Sean woke up Sunday morning siiiiiick.  Real sick.

Stella coughed most of the night.

We missed church.

We're better now.

It's a good thing because Sean's brother and family are coming to visit!!!!!!!

Oh! and while off-island I had the opportunity to photograph a beautiful baby girl and one of her big brothers (the other two were at school).

It was my first traveling photography session.

You can see more of that session on my facebook fan page soon.

If you want to.

I would say check them out on my photography website, but that's not ready yet.

Anyway...

Here's a little sneak peek of the sweet baby.

She was cuuuute.

I wanted to take her home.

She is the baby that was inside the mom in this post.

It was a good weekend.

The end.

oh 50mm lens...

Last weekend I rented both the 50mm f1.2L lens and the 50mm 1.4.  The 50mm f1.2L lens is more than 10 times as much as the 50mm 1.4.  TEN TIMES!!  Crazy.  The 1.2 was built like a tank and was smooth and quiet and felt very nice on the camera, but seriously I couldn't get one sharp image from that beast.  I was greatly disappointed in it and I told Borrowed Lenses as much.  If I'm going to pay $1500 for a lens, it better work and it better focus.  Maybe I got a dud??  I don't know... all I know is I got better results with the 50mm 1.4 lens and that baby only costs around $350.  Now I'm wondering if there is a different lens I should be checking out, like the 35mm?  Anyway, sorry for all the camera talk, but it's on my brain right now.  I'm not sure I'm going to find a lens I like better than my 24-70mm f2.8L.

Here's some images I took with the 50's.  These are all SOOC (straight out of the camera).  Can you tell which photos are with the spendy lens??