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To see all the photos from Watson’s photo session, go here.

Just so you don’t think I’ve completely forgotten about updating my blog, here’s something from Easter Sunday. After a yummy dinner, most of us were lounging outside. The girls were climbing on the wood pile, the adults were playing bocci ball or spectating those playing bocci ball.

On the left is Adrienne. She’s the daughter of my brother’s girlfriend and, after seeing Leo (my brother) take a big bite of lemon grass, she decided to try it. Jade, a good friends’ daughter on the right, spit out the lemon grass and decided to go for lipgloss instead. :)

We started out with a giveaway and my friend Nicole won!

And then two audience members were chosen to play two rounds of “Minute to Win It.” They played Chocolate Unicorn and Junk in the Trunk. They were such good sports and it was so much fun to watch!

This is our lovely all-girl band! We’re blessed to have such a talented bunch of musicians at North Hills and these ladies did a wonderful job leading us in worship.

For our first quarterly meeting, Heather taught. “Ladies in Waiting–What does waiting for Jesus, our Bridegroom’s return have to do with my day today? Everything!”

Flowers by Simple Stems and the lovely Louisa manning the food.

It was a popular event and were were too crowded for the room in which we met–I, along with several others, sat on the floor during Heather’s teaching time! But that was a great thing, because it meant that so many women were able to come and be blessed with worship time, teaching, and fellowship with each other.

You can see more photos from the event here.

This woman came to speak a few minutes for Compassion International, one of the sponsors of the conference. She was sponsored when she was a child and grew up to know the Lord. She’s now going to college in America and hoping to return home one day and witness there.

We got to hear several women give wonderful talks: Jennifer Rothschild, Lysa TerKeurst, and the very funny Chonda Pierce.

After Lysa TerKeurst’s talk, there was a very moving altar call.

The Chick-fil-a cows made an appearance before lunch and gave away some free t-shirts. I got hit with one while I was taking photos! (I handed it off to the person behind me…didn’t think a free t-shirt would fit me.)

Candace Cameron Bure (you might remember her as DJ Tanner!) gave a wonderful talk at the conference. I LOVED hearing her testimony and I’m pretty sure I may have teared up once or twice. And I realized, after looking at the details for other conferences, we were pretty lucky to see her. Candace isn’t scheduled to speak at the EWomen conference in the other cities!

We stood in quite the line to see the lovely Candace. Our friend Rebecca bought her latest book, Reshaping it All, and Ali wanted her to have a couple copies of of the issue of Belle in which Candace was featured.

 

Bryan and Amanda had originally planned on having a courthouse wedding but ended up going with a wedding in the park!
 

It was an absolutely gorgeous day! In South Carolina, March is hit or miss. It could be freezing outside, or it could be in the 70s. We got lucky and it was in the 70s for Amanda’s wedding!
 

Notice Bryan’s green tie? Well, they didn’t get married on just ANY day in March. It was St. Patrick’s day!
 

 

Amanda did her own flowers. Aren’t they beautiful?
 

The photo on the right was the first photo I posted to Facebook after the wedding. It was such a small wedding–family only–that I knew friends were just dieing to get a sneak peak!
 

Bryan & Amanda are both so good looking! I’m pretty sure Amanda could be a model.
 

Yes, the are both very silly!
 

All the family members! In the middle is Elijah, Amanda’s little boy. You might recognize him since I took his pictures last year.
 

 

I don’t know if you noticed Amanda’s teeny bump. But I call the photo on the right, “barefoot and pregnant!”
 

Eli loves his mommy!
 

The new family. <3
Congrats you two! I'm so excited for you and your life together!
 
To see all of the photos from Amanda & Bryan's park wedding, click here.

Well, I’m super glad that Davey invited me to this photo session with Dillon and Tori. They were so photogenic and the location was gorgeous!

This is probably one of my favorite shots ever! See, I had to stay out of Davey’s way, but also be creative enough to get good shots from my location. If I wasn’t the second shooter, I probably wouldn’t have thought to stand where I did.

Dillon and Tori are a long distance couple. He goes to school in Florida and she goes to Clemson! But they make it work by taking frequent trips to visit each other. Dillon came up to SC for spring break.

This shot happened while Davey was taking this shot. Again, another shot that I might not have gotten if I was there by myself. I definitely learned to be creative a look for shots that would be unique–like this one!

This photo session was Tori’s present to Dillion for their 2-year anniversary!

We went to the South Carolina Botanical Gardens in Clemson for the photo session. It’s such a beautiful location!

 
To see all of my photos from the session, go here.
To see Davey’s photos from this session, go here.

I love hanging out with this gal and had so much fun taking photos of and with her. Jaclyn has her own photography blog that you can view here!

Well, Fanechia and Emmanuel, a.k.a. Manny, are getting married soon and asked me to take some engagement photos for them! Actually, she asked me to do the wedding, which I respectfully declined and suggested she ask another photographer. I’m not quite wedding material yet, but I happily offered my services for their engagement session!

This session had definitely been one of my all-time favorites. Manny & Fanechia are so adorable together.
Also, Manny is so funny, so the smiles you see are genuine–not posed!

They made my job so easy! Gorgeous :)

It was hard for me to pick my favorites from the session to blog. So I picked a lot!

Thank you, Manny & Fanechia for having me do your engagement photos. It felt like hanging out with friends instead of a photo session.
Best wishes in your upcoming wedding!
You can see all the photos from this session HERE.