How can it be nearly the end of August already? It has been a whirlwind of a month. So much has happened that I barely feel like I've been able to stop long enough to take a breath.


Our two year anniversary was at the beginning of the month, and we had a lovely evening complete with a teeny tiny cake!


At the beginning of the month, our dear friend and roommate Kim packed up her things and moved to California, and we had goodbye dinners galore and a final photoshoot before we took her to the airport.


My lovely friend Kirstyn came home for part of the summer. She spent the last year teaching elementary school in Palestine and left earlier this month to teach a second year. I miss her already! We got to see her a lot before she left, though, so that was good.

I also got to see our friends Lanie and Austin, which was amazing. I haven't seen them since our wedding and it was lovely to visit!


We went to Tulsa for Kaytee and Ronnie's housewarming party. They are two of our closest friends and they bought the sweetest house earlier in the summer! I wish the house was a LITTLE closer to where I live, of course... hah! But all the same, it is a lovely home and fits them perfectly.



We did a photoshoot of the two of us (hooray for automatic timers on cameras!) and I got eaten alive by bugs, but it was worth it.


This beautiful baby boy, Milo Elliot Portello, was born. He is our first nephew! We spent a whole weekend at the hospital with Lindi's sister Melissa and her husband Joseph, and after 62 hours of labor, this spectacular little person joined the family. Lindi took photos during his delivery. He is so precious! We are going to spoil the heck out of him, no doubt.





We celebrated my birthday with some of our best friends, delicious treats and a very fun photobooth complete with props.

(I just adore this photo of the gorgeous lady I married.)

(We have fun leaving each other mirror notes!)

And Lindi and I had a free weekend this past weekend, which we VERY rarely do. We almost always have photo sessions or weddings to shoot, or plans with family or friends. It has been such a breathless month, though, that we decided we needed a few days to ourselves just to unwind. We spent Saturday morning yardsaling, and went to the farmer's market for a huge bag full of veggies and stopped at a restaurant that uses locally grown fruits and vegetables and had lunch. It was delicious! We went thrifting in the afternoon, and between that and the yardsales, we ended up with three vintage typewriters, some board games, a huge bag of books, some fun costume-y things for photoshoots and a 1947 Victrola that will hopefully work once we've gotten it rewired. It was a lovely day! And on Sunday, we just relaxed and baked and watched a movie and made dinner with our farmer's market loot. It was such a good weekend.

And, August. Whew! It's nearly over, and it was full of a lot of amazing things. I'm ready to take on September!