It's true, Darby actually steals the cuteness from other dogs. Ok, I get it.I know. I am already THAT girl. But really, how can you help it when you have THIS to look at?! I don't even try. I am in love. with a dog. She is the most snugglycuteamazingpreciousdelicious little bear in the whole world. For those of you who can't get enough, here is more Darby!

Since she is technically "Joe's dog", we are going to try and get these two shots of her at each of her photo shoots. It will be fun to watch as she stops being little and turns into a much bigger snugglycuteamazingpreciousdelicious big bear.

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It was pretty hot, so she was panting a lot. I couldn't get her to make my favorite face which is closed mouth and ears perked up. Next time.

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  1. Laura:

    Too too CUTE! Makes me want to see what kind of wonderful pictures you can capture of my two :)

August 18, 2010
 

Meet Darby

 
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This here little amazing bundle of cuteness is Darby. She is a goldendoodle- which is part golden retriever and part standard poodle...and I am totally smitten with her. Another special thing about her coming to our little family is that she is Joe's first dog ever. I took these photos to commemorate her arrival tonight real quick before the sun went down. I'm already turning into "that girl" gushing over her all the time, but she really is amazing. Don't worry, I am sure you will all get the updates as she grows and becomes even more wonderful.

look at those lashes. melt my heart.

She is just learning her name when we tell her to come, but tonight Joe was getting her to run all around so we could take these...

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  1. Laura:

    Too too cute :) … Welcome to the dog-world Joe he-he … they are great!! Jeremy already loves our little girl more than me LOL

  2. chelsea:

    I could just die. She looks like a stuffed animal. Can't wait to meet her!

  3. Sarah:

    OMG! Can we bring her to my bridals?!?!-Sarah

March 26, 2010
 

Florence

 
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Two more stops on our Italy adventure...Florence was delightful: lots of shopping for leather goods, long walks, amazing amazing food, and pretty weather. One of our most favorite things of the whole trip was seeing The David in Florence. Many tour books told us to be prepared for very long waits to see some of the famous art that is in Florence, so we were shocked when we passed the door to see The David because there was no one in line. It was really awe-inspiring. In the Uffizzi Gallery, where so many great works of art live, they have been protecting art in the gallery for over 500 years. And we think something that is a hundred years old is old! Wow. Joe and I were pretty excited about getting a street artist to draw our picture. It was really fun to watch, but we do think we look a little young:) We like to think of it as a picture of us if we met when we were 15.

Here are some of my favorite shots from this magical town.

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When Joe and I set off to Italy, there was no great plan in place. We found some rooms online, knew roughly what day we wanted to be where, and that was about it. In my great effort to get freed up to get out of town, I did nothing to prepare. Anything that was a plan didn't get planned by me!! We basically got on a plane armed with a Rick Steve's Italy book. It was our guiding source to everything we did. If we would have lost that book, we would have been in some deep trouble! So, needless to say, we really had no clue what to expect because we didn't prepare for anything! For those of you who know me, this is so against everything I stand for with my type A personality it's not even funny.

Joe and I get along famously. We aren't one of those fussy couples, but there was one moment that I was SO mad I could hardly stand it. Joe didn't do anything wrong, necessarily...there was quite simply a train strike, which, obviously, was his fault. Clearly. It was his fault there was no where to sit in the train station, it was his fault it was raining, it was his fault that it was freezing cold, it was his fault my bag was heavy, and basically it was his fault that there was a train strike. Rational, I know! Ladies who read my blog- I know you can understand this.
Anywho, after the train strike decided to end and we finally left the train station after being there for about 5 hours, we arrived in the sleepy little region on the Italian Riviera called the Cinque Terre:)
This region consists of five little towns that have a population of around 500 each. We ate, we walked, we took pictures, we watched the sunset. It is a magical little place. This is where Joe had his favorite meal: Pesto Pasta. Sounds simple, but the pesto is made local just up the way, so it was absolutely delicious. This area was much more colorful, so I was in photo heaven! Take moment and look at these pictures and dream of summer;)

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  1. Caroline@carolinecollie:

    Those were b-e-a-u-tiful, Lindsey! Your next adventure should be to South Africa… There are some amazing subjects in this neck of the woods! :)

  2. cinque terre:

    Hello, thanks for your beautiful pictures.. just want to invite you and your readers to our site about the cinque terre
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March 16, 2010
 

Magical Venice

 
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Although we were there for less than 24 hours, Venice was my absolute favorite city that we visited. Maybe its because I love the water...and boats...or just the fact that when you get there, you are totally taken in by this city on water. We, of course, took a Gondola ride (all you people who said not to waste the money, are you crazzzzy?) and fell directly in love with our driver, who has been a Gondolier for over 22 years. He had great English and we chatted with him about everything Venice.

St. Marco's Cathedral was my favorite church (sadly, no photos allowed). There was so much Christian History in all of Italy, it was really mind blowing. When we first arrived, it had rained all night and the tide was high. We were astonished to find that most of the entire city was under water. Apparenty in the winter it is much worse than the summer months, but two and three feet of water covered most of the streets. In the Cathedral, water was even into the vestibule. This is just a way of life in Venice, the water rises! There is no solution, so the water just comes into the buildings. Crazy right!? Joe and I were in awe of how the city just puts these platforms all over the place and people just walk on the platform to where they want to go- that, or you just wear galoshes, which many people do.
Here are some of my favorite photos from Venice- and I should have mentioned yesterday many of the photos from our trip that I am blogging Joe took. Love it!

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  1. Wendy:

    Beautiful, Lindsey.
    Absolutely beautiful.

  2. Ashley:

    you are making me want to go back and take a million more pictures!!! LOVE how you captured it all!

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