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Posted on March 10, 2011

this is Z “bed time”…..  every morning when he gets out of the tub Zs favorite thing to do is to RUN… nekked.  he thinks its the funniest thing Ever!  he laughs and spins and begs us to chase him.  yesterday morning, there was an added bonus… i was changing the sheets on our bed!  so then it became a game for him to crawl up the footboard and jump on the bed and mess all my sheets up!  i just Had to grab the camera and get some shots of our little guy….. {zackary, 19 months old}

i also wanted to include a shot of our canvases you see in the background of these shots.  the three shots above our bed are handheld shots richie took of us a couple years ago with our 200 lens.  i had them printed HUGE on canvas and i Love them!  they are also pretty special to us because these are the only copies we have of these shots.  they were among the thousands that were on my ext hard drive that went bad.  we had all our client stuff backed up but not our personal stuff….  a hard lesson to learn…..    anyways… they are hotness for our bedroom…  oh la la…  and THIS is what i mean when i suggest “print em BIG”!!

Posted on March 9, 2011

this time of year is like product central over here at the jagg house!  we have ordered a million books and albums and new marketing material for clients as well as us!  this week, we got in OUR new sample albums and i LOVE them!!  we put together two sample engagement books and one big wedding album!  i am happy to share pics of them!!  : )

i also want to show some of our booth for our first bridal show this weekend!  richie and i have worked SO hard to get all this done!  i have to say, richie built the table from scratch, totally by himself!  its Perfect for the show!  while he was building pretty much everything you see here, i was designing product.  i love how we work together!  theres no way i could do this alone!  our business is doing well because of how hard we Both work… and its soooo worth all the sweat and tears and running after zack stealing everything off our desk and shoving whatever he can up into our printer!  life is good….  : )

we can’t wait to show pics of our “final product” at our booth on sunday!   as nervous as i am about it, i know our booth is gunna ROCK!  gotta run…. zack just decided his nap is OVA!  just in time! 

Posted on March 8, 2011

yesterday was a mess for me.  i have so many amazing clients who look up to me and seem to trust me with the most important things in their life with ease.  “of all the things about my wedding i worry about, i don’t worry about you and richie at ALL”, charlotte told me two weeks ago as we met at a coffee shop to talk about all her wedding details.  and it makes me feel SO good.  so confident.  so real.  and then… reality strikes.  yesterday was one of those missing brain days.   shoes.  my downfall.  richie will atest…. shoes and me are a bad mix.  i love flats.  the cheaper the better.  and i wear them FOREVER.  like years.  i bought the absolute Cutest red flats from payless shoes on richie and my first real trip together.  i looooooved them.  i wore them incessantly.  i also had a pair of gray and yellow flats.  ahhhh my yellow shoes.  most all my clients can tell you, on their shoots i wore either my yellow or red flats.  i wore both of those poor shoes into the ground.  richie would always ask me to go get some New Shoes!  ones with maybe some SUPPORT in them?!  so starting off our busy wedding year i said, “ya know, maybe i should look into getting some shoes at a Real store that i could wear at weddings.”  so i took it upon myself in the few hours before charlotte’s rehearsal to visit Belk and find some cute, i mean COMFORTABLE shoes.  and i did find them.  *score*  i walked out of belk completely ready for my rehearsal dinner with my New Shoes!  i even texted my mom and shouted (text shouting) “MOM!  i got my first pair of REAL SHOES!”   long story short, rehearsal comes, an hour in i have a blister on the back of my heel. fail.  i drive back to the hotel.  i get my old faithful pair of “bedazzled” (as richie calls them) shoes.  those shoes were $9.99 at target and while they aren’t the most Beautiful shoes, they are REALLY comfortable (as richie laughs in the background).   next day, richie takes the “real shoes” back to belk and gets a bigger size for me and brings them to me and yeah, too big.  fail again.  so sad, because they really were Awesome shoes, i place them all wrapped up in their tissue paper, back into the box and vow to return them when i get home.

now, we are at yesterday.  i am out running errands like a crazy woman, and i say “ya know…. since i’m out, i’m going to return these shoes!”.  sounds like a Great plan.  richie totally supports this decision. now begins the adventure in my shoe return. before i start that, however, let me say i love richie.  he’s so good for me.  he keeps me sane and on the straight and narrow…. well maybe not the straight and narrow so much as we ride all the crazy curves together!  we are together all of every day.  which wouldn’t work for some people, but for us, it works Beautifully.  when we are APART however, things just don’t go as smoothly.   this is my case in point…

i pull into the parking lot, and manage to get parked without too many people staring at my squeaking van with the missing hubcap.  score one for me.  i get out of the said van, and as i get out i start thinking about how nice it is out, and i make the short, but breezy walk into belk.   then i realize as i start to look for the shoe department, mistake number one.  i left my shoes in the van.  so i turn around hoping no one is watching me and wondering why i Just walked into the store and then made a u-turn and walked out. “oh this is so normal for me, this is nothing.” right…..  so back out the van i go.  i grab the box of shoes and head Back into the mall completely oblivious to mistake number two….  as i start to head to the shoe department, i know i will need to have my receipt out so i reach in the box to get it out, because i put it there so i wouldn’t lose it, right?, um…. yeah well i THOUGHT the receipt is in there.  yeah, its not.   so at this point i am standing IN belk with a box of “real shoes” and no receipt.  this starts all the panic in my head.  “oh great… now i have to walk OUT of a store with an item in my hand and NO receipt. ‘yes, sir, these are a return.  i am NOT shoplifting.’ ‘um, i have these shoes and i need to go to my car to get my receipt.’ yeah RIGHT.  i am so going to jail.  do i go ahead and approach someone or do i just walk out?”  i chose the “just walk out and pray” plan.  so i did.  again hoping no one was watching me.  and who knows if they were… my head was pointed right down to the ground.  i am sure i didn’t look suspicious at ALL.  so i go to the van, AGAIN, and get the receipt, which i then remembered where i put it, i just Thought i put it in the box, or maybe i just thought it was a good idea at the time.  anyways, i shove the receipt in the box and head BACK into belk… AGAIN.  i manage to get to the shoe department and told the gentleman standing behind the counter i had a return.  he asks if i have my receipt.  “yes i do” as if everything that transpired in the last 15 minutes was totally normal.  i asked for a 7.5 Wide, since the issue was the back of the heel, and maybe because then i thought i’d seem to know what i was talking about.  but no, those shoes only came in medium width.  i texted richie looking for some kind of support, knowing that i’d have to look for another shoe.  so i hung my head, and started my search again.  i am a horrible decision maker.  i agonize over decisions.  and now, i was starting at square one with this whole “shoe search” thing….

THEN, there they were… like the store was dark and this beam light shone down on this Gorgeous pair of calvin klein shoes and they glimmered in the light.  i think they were singing.  i went and picked one up and took it to the counter and asked for a 7.5.  he came back with them, and i picked out the perfect chair for me to try on these perfect shoes.  as i unwrapped them from their encasement of perfect tissue paper, it made me happy to know i was the First person to try on these.  i could take them home knowing we were a perfect match, and it was just the two of us.  so excited, i slipped them on envisioning this “cinderella” scene with the glass slipper.  hmmm. “dang these are tight.  i can hardly get my foot in them.  maybe they run tight?  REALLY tight….  or maybe i’ve been wrong about my shoe size for the last 30ish years.  i have to go ask for a bigger size.  but i’ve never worn an 8.  oh well.  let me go ask.” so i went to repackage them back in their box when i then realized…. i was trying on the SAMPLE.  a size SIX!  duh!!!!  embarrassed, but relieved, and again hoping no one was watching me, i tried on the Correct 7.5.  and it fit.  like a glove.  and i pranced all around the shoe department convincing myself that YES they fit, and that YES it was ok for me to pay this rediculous amount for these “real shoes”.  it made me sad to put them back in the box, but i did, and i paid for them, and i texed richie “i want to cry.  i love these shoes so much.” 

as i introduced my new shoes to everyone at home, everyone ooohed and ahhhed over them. and i wore them to the gym to take the kids to their KidzFit class, and then back to the gym to pick them up, and i wore them as i swept and washed the kitchen floor, and as i ate pizza.  and i just Love them.  this day showed me how UNperfect i am.  and how sometimes i feel like things like this just don’t happen to everyone.  but i’m a real person, who makes a lot of real mistakes.  i’m human.  i’m not superwoman.  and own up to the fact i can’t get my crap together sometimes.  that i make too many appointments for one day.  that i misspell the word “photography” alot.  and that once i almost left a child at a soccer field.  thank you to all the people who still love me regardlessly and who put a lot of trust in me.  i’m not perfect.  i own up to that.  and i need richie.  and i thank god for him Every single day.

last month i threw out my red shoes.  and i threw out my gray and yellow shoes.  i said, “now is the time to let go and to get some shoes that are Good for my feet.”   blog world… meet my new “REAL” shoes…

Posted on March 3, 2011

in january, richie headed out to the cotton room to do charlotte’s bridals.  with me in the bed with the flu, he headed out alone.  i was SO heartbroken because i had waited forever it seemed for this day to come, and alas, there i was, unable to hardly move.  richie did a fantastic job and these turned out so beautiful!!  i’m happy to be able to post them since charlotte and mark were wed this past weekend!  : )

Posted on March 1, 2011

this weekend, charlotte and mark were married in charlotte’s hometown, sumter, south carolina.  they chose the AMAZING o’donnell house to have their ceremony and reception and WOW what a property!!   you couldn’t have asked for a better venue for them to have their wedding!  and it was the end of february, yet the weather was 70 degrees with bright blue sunny skies!!  the day was, in one word, perfect!  charlotte and mark, we hope you love your sneak peek into your day!  (sorry for the long post…we have been itching to shoot a wedding, so we got a little crazy in the posting….)

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