Vow Renewal

For my parent's 25th wedding anniversary they decided to renew their vows. So this past weekend we headed up to Steamboat Springs to celebrate. I wasn't their "official" photographer, but I did take a lot of candid pics! (OK...So I always take a lot of pics!)  It was a beautiful ceremony held at the Steamboat Grand Hotel. Their vows were so heartfelt that I think everyone cried at some point. Their marriage is a true inspiration to us all. I thank the Lord that they found each other and I pray they have many more years to enjoy life together! I have a TON of pics from that day but here's few of my favorites...

Listening to Mel give a speech

Saying their vows

Love was in the air!

I love you both so much. You mean the world to me and I am honored to be your daughter, to know you both and to have the chance to share my life with you. Words cannot express my "Thanks" to you for all that you do for our family. I pray you love each other more and more each day!

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Family Portraits

A couple weekends ago we headed up to Boulder with a bunch of family (not all of my family, just my sisters and their immediate families) and took some portraits for a 25th wedding anniversary present for our mom & dad (a.k.a. Snork & Connie) It was about a BILLION degrees that day and besides our faces nearly melting off...it all went well. AND...we managed to keep it a secret until the big day! 

Here's the whole gang....

The Burroughs (us)....

My sister Mel with Taco & Butter Girl.... (lol)

My sister Katie and her clan....

My sister Kerrie with her cutie's....

And last but not least...the sisers! (and yes, I spelled it without a "T" on purpose)....

I am truly blessed to have these beautiful women in my life! I love my sisers!

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Rainbow Cloud

We just spent the most amazing weekend up in Steamboat Springs celebrating my parents 25th wedding anniversary. (I will post some pics of that soon) But on the way home I saw one of the most incredible things I have ever seen in my life! We had just passed through the Eisenhower tunnel and as we were coming through Loveland we looked up in the sky to see this oddly swirled cloud. It was like it had been dry brushed in the sky and it was filled with rainbow colors. No actual arch of a rainbow anywhere in sight...just this one swirling cloud filled with radiant rainbow colors. We all just stared at in in awe. I finally thought, "Holy cow, I need a picture of this!" The only thing close to me was my iPhone so I tried getting a pic as quick as I could. Unfortunately, we passed most of it by the time my camera was ready to click but you can still see the tips of it over the mountain as we passed. It was truly remarkable and probably one of THE coolest things I have ever seen in the sky in my entire life!

God, your creation is amazing!

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Goin' RETRO!

OK....so these pics are from a little while back when my friend Cara was out visiting me from Florida. She's my "photo buddy."  Every time she comes out to visit, it's like a whirlwind of photo shoots! I LOVE IT!  We have so much fun dreaming up places to go and things to shoot. When she was out here in February we decided to go a little retro and ended up shooting in an old laundromat. It was SOOO much fun! I have a ton of pics from that day but I thought I'd post a couple here just for fun!

After the laundromat, we decided to just head downtown and see where we could find. And...many photos later....here's a few....

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Western Boys

A while ago I did a photo shoot for Lifeway. They are a Christian company that does, among many other things, Vacation Bible School curriculum (or VBS).  They have been a client of Scott's for a long time and at some point one of the guys Scott works with, Gordon, saw some photos I took of the kids on Facebook. Gordon asked Scott who took them and after he shared with him that I took them and actually did photography on the side, Gordon asked me if I could take some photos of my boys for this years VBS! I was completely honored that they would ask me to do it and it's really cool to have the boys photos all over the VBS stuff. Although I took the photos a while ago, I couldn't post them until now because the theme for VBS is a top secret deal until the big reveal each year. This years theme is "Saddle Ridge Ranch" so they wanted western themed pics of the kids with a "big sky" Montana feel. 

I have to tell you that the first day we went out, I found this great location but it was really windy so the boys both refused to even get out of the car! I was NOT pleased (OK, I was seriously disappointed...Oh alright, I'll admit it, I was down right mad!) but I've learned that you can't "force" kids to take pics or they just don't come out good. The next time we went out it was still a little windy but they actually made it out of the car. Truth be told, I had to throw a little mom guilt out there to make it happen, but I wasn't going home empty handed two times in a row! The boys ended up having a lot of fun and I was really happy with how they did. They just look so cute! I know this is a lot of pic's but I just couldn't narrow it down anymore....I have a problem with that! : )

Lifeway ended up only using one pic (the last one in the list) but I will cherish all of them forever!

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Party Poppers!

Just over a week ago, when Cara & CJ were out visiting us, Titus got it in his head that he absolutely MUST have some Party Poppers. Ya know....the little bottles where you pull the string and confetti explodes out of them? I have no clue where the idea of Party Poppers came from but he was utterly relentless about asking for them. He had gotten a couple good notes from his teacher that week so we said we would reward him with some. Nice parents huh? ..."You did good in school Titus? Let me reward you with some small explosives!" So we took him to Party City and got him a couple packs of them.

CJ also picked up a pack and got in on the popper action. As they began to fall on the ground I noticed that they started landing in some really cool patterns. So I pulled out a big sheet of white paper and started photographing them as they landed. I messed around with the exposure and I think they'd actually make some really cool pieces of modern art. I'm gonna get some prints made, or maybe wrap them on canvas, and put a set of them in one of the kids rooms.

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