Spring Break so far...

I got a really great full time job opportunity last week so Brandon gets to quit his job and come home and be Mr. Mom! 

YAHOO!

I've been looking forward to this literally for  years!

Brandon is always so busy, he's always working, he's always studying, he's always doing something.

 I feel like he never gets to come on trips with me (and if he does he has to stay in the hotel and study),

 he never gets to go do fun things with our families, 

and he never gets to do anything that he really wants to do!

 so I was MORE than happy to take a full time job so that he could have the next few months before Medical School to be a free man! 

And so far the turnout has been great

His last day of work was last Saturday and this week is spring break so we've already gotten away to do some fun things.

On Sunday night Brandons dad said

"Hey we should go to Vegas tomorrow!"

so 25 minutes later our hotel was booked and we were at home packing

(Thats one thing i LOVE about my father-in-law! he's way spontaneous  and always follows through!)

We mostly went down to hang out at the pool so we booked our room at the fabulous 

Mandalay Bay because they're pool is like a beach!

.Evie of course LOVED the sand and the pool.

I loved that Brandon was there and SLEEPING on a lounge chair!

Not up in the hotel

not doing homework

not reading a text book

SLEEPING!

My mom loaned me Jareds old "Mom Rigg" :)

So Evie and I have been going on lots of bike rides lately!

It's spring in St. George already and I LOVE it!!

I honestly never want to move anywhere cold ever again!

A few nights ago we went on a date night with a bunch of our good friends from Brandons (old) work!

We were going to go bowling but it was league night so we headed over to the batting cages at Fiesta Fun!

This was my first time EVER batting at something and I did WAY better than I thought I was going to!

We let Evie crawl all over the ground out by the cages and get filthy so when we went back inside to the arcade to play air hockey we just let her have at all the kiddie playground stuff

Her FAVORITE new thing is the slide!

(pardon the hat hair)

This little slide was like 3 feet long so she could go down it all by herself

and she went CRAZY!

as soon as she was down the slide she was back up and trying to climb back up it again

She'd get overly anxious at the top and accidentally front flip and tumble all the way down and she'd 

STILL 

want to get back up and go to the top again!

It was hilarious!

Well spring break still isn't' over! 

I think today we're going on a hike with Brandons family and I can't wait!

More pictures to come on that 

until then

xo, Meg

UT NV AZ and back

This month has been CRAZY! We started off the month up in SLC for a couple of shoots

then back down to St. George for my 24th BIRTHDAY!

.man i'm old.

then we came home and headed off to Arizona for Brandons birthday/ Valentines Day AND a medical school interview!

We were leaving on a sunday and Evie learned to crawl that morning! 

(I think I already told that story in my last post but here are some pics from the day she learned)

Brandons Interview went great and he was accepted to Midwestern YAHOOO!!

*this school is my top choice for obvious reasons*

We spent Brandons birthday / Valentines Day hanging out on the sofa while Evie slept on us. 

It was just what we needed though.

We both work a LOT so we never get to just sit together anymore.

After that Evangeline gave us lots and lots of face kisses (attacks)

and then we went to Brandons FAVORITE restaurant of all time!

It's the little tiny place in the middle of an asian strip mall but it tastes JUST like Taiwanese food!

We got home from Arizona and 2 days later I took off to Las Vegas for a conference

This year I got invited to attend WPPI

.Wedding & Portrait Photographers International.

and it was AMAZING!

I met so many famous photographers

and attended so many awesome classes!

I went down with 4 other girls and I couldn't have loved being in their group more!

I could gush on and on but I won't bore you guys :)

I'll go into more detail about WPPI on my photography blog later this week.

.anyway.

My conference ended on Wednesday so Brandon drove down with Evie and he flew out Wednesday afternoon to his next interview in Des Moines.

On Thursday my mom and brother came down for Jareds soccer tournament!

He didn't have games until Saturday so we hit up the pool side ALL WEEKEND!

It was amazing to have sun on my skin! 

Last year I hardly went outside cause I was either 9 months pregnant or I had a new born and it was 100 degrees every day down here in St. George.

Evie is A FISH!!!

You can't GET that girl out of the water!

She loves the pool, she loves the hot tub, she loves the bath tub!

(and as of 30 minutes ago the toilet bowl.... 

note to self: close all toilet bowls from now on...)

This girl is into EVERYTHING!

She is the most mischievous little thing i've ever seen!

I was having fun taking pictures of her all morning and then I lost my model to the Hot Dog Dance...

I don't know what it is about that song but as SOON as that song comes on every bit of her focus goes directly to Mickey Mouse?...

Anyways.
thats it for today!
E and I are going to go for a bike ride now
:)

Xo, Meg