Happy Birthday to My Friend

Today is her birthday.

Because she is so special, I spent the ENTIRE day going through years worth of pictures.

At a wrestling tournament in 2008.  This is the season that we became friends.  In October of this year, we would start our adventure together as PS Photography.

Here begins a photo collage of 4 years of a friendship that means the world to me.  

Love you Boo!

visiting with our favorite Costco employee

 The day that Target opened in Anchorage.  AKA, the best day of our lives.

Our first trip to CK Seattle for a scrapbooking convention.  But mostly for shopping.

 (Summer 2009, somewhere on the side of the road near Turnagin Arm at our first photo excursion without clients. I remember a crap-load of flies.)

 

scrapping the night away at our local scrapbook store

In 2009, MMMMMM was born.  Still going strong here in the beginning of 2013!

2009 (February) also saw the creation of the Glitterati.  Super duper crafty ninjas.

Adventures in 2009 with kids.  Like the zoo.

school activities

photo session shenanigans

 2010, another year with the Glitteratti

Year two of Creating Keepsakes Convention trips!

The start of 2011, probably revamping our blog.  Haven’t done it since!

Movie night continues!

That one time I took her picture during a kids’ choir concert and she didn’t know it.

AAAnnnnd 2012

When she picked me up from the airport even though I went off to Hawaii without her.

Off to photograph a wedding!

 We discovered Bingo.  And it was brilliant.

Another wedding.  Yay us!

Big hair and big laughs (and big tears) at a friend’s going away party

The following are random outtakes from several years of photos shoots we have done together.

There was this one time, at a wedding, when Tracy lit her hair on fire.

When clients are late, and we are bored...

At a wedding, hiding a snide comment behind Maximus.

Check that light girl!

This became a tradition at every wedding and it still takes us a long time to get it right.

Who doesn’t love a good photo-bomb?

Pretending to light her hair on fire...

Baby whisperer...

Another bomb!

And again!

Some last minute instructions on how to make a marriage last forever.

According to my calculations we have done about 228 photo sessions together over the last three years. That doesn’t count the few that we have each done separately.  That’s a lot photos!

The day we spent awkwardly taking photos of each other.  Can’t wait to do this again!

Happy birthday gorgeous girl! Thanks for always pulling up my pants.