Palm Springs. The Portraits.

: Thursday, July 29, 2010

This post is dedicated to my roomies. These three girls are the ones I spent the most time with during my trip to Palm Springs. We four decided to wake up at the crack of dawn {5:30AM!} to shoot photos of each other. Since it’s more bearable to shoot when it’s 95 degrees outside than it is when it’s 110 around 6pm =) So we all crawled out of bed, tried to look our best without coffee and ventured around the hotel with our cameras in hand. It was SO much fun, and I’m so glad we decided to get our butts up and not sleep in. Here are my favorites of Amanda, Mary, and Jackie.

First up is Amanda. She’s full of life, love and kindness. She’s the one who orchastrated this entire trip. She made all of the girls goodie bags and even handmade our little name tags on the front of the bags! She ate porridge every morning, I think she just wanted to say porridge =) I’m pretty sure she’s been married the longest out of the whole group and her husband ate all of my jelly belly’s =) The first time I ate Indian food was becuase of her and it was pretty yummy. She’s beautiful inside and out.

Jackie is the only one I had met prior to this whole trip. She is ridiculously talented and has always been an inspiration to me.  I thoroughly enjoyed our chats about life and love as we layed by the pool each day. Her faith is strong and it’s pretty contagious. She’s an amazing mom to the most adorable girl EVER. {Note to self, when a mom tells you that you should put on sunscreen listen to her, she’s probably right.} She did, and I didn’t, and I peeled. Thank you Jackie, for being the woman that you are.

Mary is honestly the nicest person I’ve ever met. She makes you want to be a better person just by talking about life. Is it strange that she’s been one of my best friends for months now and this was the first time we met? I think not. =) She’s talented and driven and has the cutest dog named Rilo who likes to snuggle. She encourages my crazy thought that one day Ryan Gosling and I are going to get married and she got me hooked on How I Met Your Mother. Thank you Mary, for everything. I love you.