Author: Leslie
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Aura Aura portrait
I just posted this story on my instagram account but thought it would be fun to share with everyone. If you’ve never heard of Aura Aura, check out their website to learn more about the process and read over the color guide while you’re there. My friend Liz treated me to my portrait and it…
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Baby Girl #2: Goldie Louise Rodriguez
Three months since our last post and here we are, almost five months pregnant with our second girl!!! I thought I’d share the story of how we landed on the name Goldie Louise (Goldie Lou!). The easy part was Louise – it’s Javier’s mom’s middle name (well, the English version – in Spanish it’s Luisa).…
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Visiting the Bernheim Forest Giants
It’s a long weekend for Javi and it’s been a good while since we’ve been on an adventure outside of our 15-min driving radius, so we decided to take a trip to Bernheim Forest and check out the Forest Giants! We didn’t do much research before going…we heard it was best to visit before 11…
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A Short History of Nearly Everything (since September)
I finally found a tiny block of time in my day for a little blogging, so I asked Javier what I should write about. His response was to “do like that book of yours” and write a “short history of everything” – if you haven’t read a Short History of Nearly Everything, I highly recommend…
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DIY Big Face Poster – Reprise
Back in 2012 Javi and I wrote a post about how we made DIY Big Face Posters for my dad and brother’s 30/60 birthday party. I put the post up on pinterest without knowing anything about how pinterest works (I still don’t really know much) and since then the post has brought over 200,000 views…
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We swapped our carpet for vinyl planks and EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL.
When we moved into our house last year we tore out carpet, painted, redid the stairs, replaced 18 windows, and added a fence and started a garden. Everything ground to a halt when Penny arrived. Besides a new baby, what really stopped us was the fact that all of the rooms we now want to…
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End of Summer Adventures
Last year I was 36 weeks pregnant with Penny when we went to the KY State Fair…5 weeks away from her birth. We took this photo… El año pasado 36 semanas de embarazo con Penny cuando fuimos a la Feria de Kentucky…a 5 semanas de su nacimiento. Sacamos esta foto… And we decided to re-take…
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Pile Composting: How and Why
Composting is great for the garden and beneficial for the environment in general as we reduce the amount of trash going to landfills. Composting can be done on different scales; from huge industrial operations to small home-based systems. In this series of posts I want to share the 4 ways I compost. I already discussed…
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Penny Firsts and More Vacation
We are currently in the middle of our vacation week and Penny has gone through a number of firsts over the past few days! She saw the ocean for the first time: Estamos en la mitad de nuestra semana de vacaciones y Penny ha completado varias “primera vez” durante estos dias! Vio el oceano por pimera…
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Seal Beach Vacation 2018
We made it! We did a cross-country flight with P and I didn’t freak out from turbulence (because there wasn’t any) and P was super chill! We also lucked out and had an entire row to ourselves during the long flight from Chicago to LA, and now I’m convinced that we will always need to…
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Penelope’s Nursery Tour
Penny’s room has been a work-in-progress since we moved into the house, and we are adding to it all the time. There was no rush for us to finish P’s nursery before she was born because we didn’t really use it for anything besides diaper and clothing changes until she was about six months old…
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Dad Life in 35mm
After the post 35mm moms I had to do the same to celebrate Father’s Day! If you missed the last post, I’ve been busy scanning hundreds of my grandma’s Kodak slides (and I’m moving on to the McClure family next) and falling completely in love with the treasure trove therein. I had never seen any of these…
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Summer So Far
School is out, lightning bugs are here, and it’s 90 degrees every day this week, all of which make it officially summer regardless of what the calendar says. We’ve been making the most of it already with the help of Gia and Jackson – it’s fun to watch them learn to love summer and I…
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Taylorsville Lake
Every summer we look forward to frequent trips out on Taylorsville Lake with Marian and Stephen on their boat Water Music. Last June I had a pretty big baby bump on the boat…this year that lil baby was decked out in a super cool baby life jacket ready for her first dip in the lake! She…
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Trip to Alabama and Penny’s First Flight
Between Javi working on new furniture to sell and my wedding photography schedule, most of our free time has been spoken for this spring. Last weekend we set aside our projects and took a few days to go and visit my aunt Jane and uncle Bruce in Alabama. A few years have passed since we…
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Lately: Photos and Weddings
**photo session giveaway details at the end!** Wedding season is officially underway and I’m currently booking for 2019! I love shooting these crazy events full of love, happy people, and sweet details. I’m such a sap. This is my first wedding season since I joined Humming House in 2013…I had to give up weddings for…
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35mm Mommas
Over the last two months I’ve been scanning my grandma’s old family slides and have collected some real gems of motherhood and grandmotherhood in photos from the 1950s-1980s. I’ve been obsessed with photos my whole life (surprise!) and pored over our family albums as a kid to the point where I thought I had seen…
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Derby 2018 Pt. 2
On Derby morning I did a quick photo session with Corinne and her group of friends from law school before they headed off to Churchill Downs. It would be so much fun to shoot a Derby-themed wedding…all of the fashion and colors and hats and mint juleps. Or maybe I just need to book a…
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Derby 2018 pt.1
Happy Derby! It’s been so crazy around here with Derby season, wedding season picking up in my photography world, spring landscaping and gardening, and on top of everything Penny is teething so we are surviving on minimal sleep. On Thursday night we went to Javier’s company’s annual Derby party at the Kentucky Derby Museum and…
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Leftover Winter
Last Wednesday morning we woke up to a blanket of soft, fresh snow – the most snow I’ve seen in years. I couldn’t pass up the chance to get plenty of photos, especially while my mom and grandma were in town visiting. As soon as P woke up from her nap we bundled her up…
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