I’m not technically a lousy blogger, because I blog five days a week on my photography blog, but I still feel like a lousy blogger since we update this one so infrequently. I’ll give you the life update, for those of you who care or even still come here, and then we’ve decided we’ll be posting a little bit more over here about our lives and the food we fill it with (which has been pretty amazing as of late).
First of all, we moved into our apartment in Hillsdale (SW Portland) in June and we totally love it. We love it so much, in fact, that we’re actually moving across the hall to a bigger unit at the beginning of September, which will be great since we’ll have a spare bedroom and room for guests and a separate office.
We are continuing to work hard, Eric is doing lots of IT consulting and my business is growing. It’s the craziness of wedding season right now, which it turns out I totally love, and everything is going really well. Other than that, we’ve been cooking a lot and dreaming of traveling a lot. We think we’ve decided to go to Copenhagen for a week in September to see our friends Erika & Morten and visit the city we haven’t seen since just before we got married. That will most definitely be blogged - funny, we started this blog right before we left for our last trip to Copenhagen - back then it was a Tumblr blog, which was fun.
So get ready for food posts, coming at ya soon. Start reading again, because at least a couple times a week, we’re back. 
Hi all:
Boy, we’re getting bad at blogging on here, aren’t we? Well, I wanted to assure you that we’re not giving up on the ol’ blog. Here’s a bit of an update on our developing lives in Portland.
Eric is keeping busy with consulting work, which is great because it’s flexible and he doesn’t have to do all the parts of full-time work that he disliked, like doing performance reviews and all that paperwork sort of stuff. I’m also growing my photography business and the response so far has been great. I’m looking forward to a busy wedding season this year, a busy senior portrait season and lots of busy months ahead. If you know anyone getting married in Oregon or Washington who needs a photographer, send them my way - I haven’t quite filled out my schedule yet for this year.
We’re looking for our own little place to live, and we’ll probably be moving in the next month or two. Then we’ll have all sorts of things to blog about, as we pick out some new furniture, get settled in and get to know a good neighborhood. It’s all happening, as Kate Hudson says in “Almost Famous,” and we’re working on keeping that forward momentum.
This summer, we’ll be traveling a lot (or at least I will) to and from the Seattle area (for weddings) and possibly also to Denmark to visit our dear friends Erika and Morten, who just bought a house in the outskirts of Copenhagen. We feel the need to help them break the house in.
So stick with us, and if you’re feeling the need to read more of my words, please check out my brand-new photography blog, which has a new post on it every weekday. Thanks patient readers!
And because no post should have to exist without a picture, here’s one I took over the weekend at Cannon Beach. Dan & Annie are good friends and they’re getting married in October.
I had a whirlwind of a week last week. I spent the week in fabulous Las Vegas attending the WPPI conference, which is an association I belong to for wedding & portrait photographers. It was my first time going, and I had a total blast. I met other photographers, I enjoyed the parties, and I sat through 44 hours of seminars. I have a mountain of notes.
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I am literally blogging from airport security right now, which I consider to be a triumphant use of dead time.
I am flying to Las Vegas this morning to attend the WPPI professional photography conference, which I am psyched about.
In order to get here, we had to cross the snow-covered coast range…
…then we spent a couple days in Portland, eating Swedish meatballs at Ikea and eating at Portland City Grill, which has the best view in town.
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This weekend we took a little jaunt up the 101 (doesn’t it just remind you of the song from the O.C.?)
While we were in our old stomping grounds, Aberdeen, I had the pleasure of shooting a wedding with the fabulous Molly from Portrait Expressions and we had loads of fun (minus the bad shoes, which I don’t want to talk about - neither do my feet). You can check out some more wedding photos from my shoot on my photography web site.
Then we journeyed back, of course, and happened to hit the Oregon Coast drive right at sunset, which was quite magnificent. We even checked out one of my favorite Oregon Coast spots - the Hotel Elliott in Astoria! I’m writing a story about them, so needed to stop and take photos.
Now we’re back at the beach, where it’s very quiet and we’re buckling down and working hard! Eric made chicken parmesan for dinner tonight with green salad, which was quite delicious. More from our exciting lives tomorrow!
