If you have been following my blog for awhile then you know that I also love doing street photography (view here & here)  as well as being a wedding photographer.  I decided to combine both loves and photograph an engagement session in the style of street photography.  The hustle and bustle of the city, the bright lights, and the energy of the people are some of the many reasons why I love photographing in the city.  The style of photographing that makes you feel like you are in that moment.  I also really love capturing the love between two people and there is no greater joy than that.  So here is the combination of the two, please leave a comment or email me at kandsphoto at gmail dot com and let me know what you think

I’m so thankful to Sergio and Lacey for being the great friends that they are and braving the cold, almost freezing, night so I could capture this vision I had in my head.  I asked them to be my subjects for this shoot because they love the city life as much as I do.  They love the energy of the city and the life it breaths.  There is always new moments happening to capture with new people and new adventures.  It’s the perfect place to people watch

I do plan on doing lots more of this type of engagements and currently I will run a special for this type of session. So let me know if this is something you want to do for your engagement session and we can capture your own love story.

I hope everyone had a very Happy Thanksgiving and enjoyed spending time with their loved ones.  Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, its time to turn the focus to Christmas, YAY!!!!  It’s my favorite time of year.  This year Ray and I braced Black Friday at Target for a Christmas Tree and decorations, yep that’s us the one person standing in line for 2 hours at 1am without a TV.  We wanted a grown-up Christmas tree this year so we could retire our sad Charlie Brown tree from CVS that my parents bought us 5 years ago to go into our apartment.  We ended up taking it to our house and have been here 4 years and this will be the first year that we have a real (well fake but you know what I mean) tree.   I can’t begin to tell you how excited we are, yep we’re silly but it means something to us  We have also started buying little Christmas things to help decorate the house and get into the spirit of Christmas.  Plus we will be hosting Christmas this year so we want our house to look festive when everyone comes into town.  I hope you enjoy the pictures and feel free to share yours as well as I always love to be inspired

If you a regular follower of our blog then you might remember that I said I was going to start taking some more pictures for me and doing more street photography.  So I found time between my weddings and sessions to go out and take some pictures in Dallas.  Its so much fun to walk around just taking pictures with no stress or set schedule.  Of course you know I love weddings and capturing couples in love but street photography is a lot fun as well.  So here is the fruit of that labor.  These were taken in Downtown Dallas and on the SMU campus.  I would love to hear your thoughts

If you missed the blog I posted awhile back that had some New York street photography, click here

Today is my 4 year anniversary with Ray, YAY!!!!!!!!!  It’s hard to believe we have been married for 4 years, I kinda feel like where did the time go.  Time really does fly when you’re having fun  Ray is truly amazing and I’m so blessed to have him as my husband.  I’m so lucky to have such a supportive, loving husband and partner in life.  I fall more in love with Ray everyday.

I can still remember how nervous I was standing up at the altar with you, literally my legs were shaking so bad.  I’ve never really been one to like the spotlight on me, so having 100 people staring at you can make you a bit nervous.  I remember trying to focus on one face as we faced our guests, and I couldn’t.  Yep nerves got the best of me.   But the one thing I wasn’t nervous about that day was marrying Ray, it was the best decision I EVER made.  I LOVE YOU HONEY!!!!!!!!!!

We then spent the next 2 1/2 weeks exploring Italy together and we had the best time.  I think if you can travel to a foreign county, navigate around, and not want to kill each other then you can do anything together I’m sharing a few of our snapshots from Italy with you.

And this is still one of my favorite pictures of the two of us, we used it for our Save The Date

Last year I talked about how Ray and I met and all that lovey dovey stuff.  Click here to go read it

Happy Anniversary Ray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A couple of months ago I headed up to Colorado for my cousin’s wedding (see pictures here) and I wanted to share some more pictures from the wedding.  In these you can really see how crazy/fun my family is. The picture above is my cousin Mikey (the groom) waiting for the ceremony to start.

My mom with my two uncles.

Mikey and my brother Jason are in the left picture and Mikey and one of his long time friends on the right.  They love to ham it up for the camera

My cousin Jered with his son, John. I love this picture!!!!!

Mikey and his new bride Stephanie really went for it.  Haha I love that they didn’t hold back and really smashed the cake in each other’s faces!!!

My Uncle Bill (the Father of the Groom) putting on his grandson’s tie. Love it!!!

This picture is of my Uncle Preston and Uncle Rob, yeah there are no words for this one.

My mom (on the right) and my Aunt Jane (on the left) and my Aunt Pam (in the middle and also the Mother of the Groom)

My darling husband dancing, gotta love him

My brother Jason, yeah he really hams it up at weddings.

Mikey dancing with our Grandmother, no worries she was having fun

When you get my brother Jason and my cousin Mikey together hilarity ensues!!!!

My parents dancing, awwww