La Vie En Rose

We photographed many sunsets and sunrises over the two weeks we were in North Carolina.  This post is to share some of our favorites with you.

Like we mentioned previously, we've gotten really into making gifs lately so we made some of waves.

One day we were on the upper deck and we saw some dolphins swimming in the surf.  We tried to take pictures, and this is the result.

There were a lot of amazing sunsets and sunrises over the ocean while we were there and it was really fun to try to capture them.

There are masses of massive birds that hang around the pier and eat all the bait they can get their beaks on. (They're so fat we are unsure of how they can fly.)

We're sure going to miss seeing the ocean every day- Lake Erie hardly holds a candle to it but we're still excited to return home to the beautiful fall colors.

Music for this post:  La Vie En Rose// Daniela Andrade (cover)

Six Years of Awesome

This post is to celebrate six years of putting up with one another. 

We met at a book club in October of 2008 and bonded over our mutual love of cats.  We still share that love to this very day. 

The following year we went to North Carolina together for a week.  We were there over halloween so there was a lot of pumpkin carving and dressing up involved.

This was our first of many Halloweens together.  We regretted wearing footie pajamas because North Carolina is hot, even in October. 

The summer of 2010 we both had long hair so we decided to donate it to Locks of Love together. Neither of us ended up liking our short hair very much but it's grown a lot since then and we don't plan on cutting it anytime soon.

We went on a road trip to Pennsylvania with our book club two summers ago.  We had read a book about the Johnstown flood so we spent four days visiting the town, learning about the history, and having lots of fun.  In this picture we're at one of the flood museums (there were way too many). 

This is last winter at a book club where we learned endless ways to wear scarves (nobody could decide on a book so we substituted).

Sometimes we like to do silly things like go to JC Penny and try on all of the crazy dresses we can find.  The workers weren't too happy with us for trying on so many with no intention of purchasing anything but we had a blast.

We've both been playing piano for a long time.  We play duets together which is where we got the idea to make the 'Just Duet' shirts we're wearing in the picture above.  We recently changed piano teachers but we loved our old teacher Mary like she was family.  This picture was taken at our last recital with Mary this past Spring.

A celebratory selfie from when Annie got her braces off last June.  That was a happy day full of dinner, a boat ride, and ice cream by the lake.

These are from these past two weeks while we've been in North Carolina on vacation together.  We had photo booth open and we were messing around with all of the filters you can use, we were nearly in tears from laughing so hard a few times! 

Though we've had out rough patches, (like anyone would) we are always there for one another to make each other laugh and smile.  We became best friends six years ago and we plan on staying that way for a long long time.

Fancy Dresses on the Beach

On a day that nobody was home, we were bored of school so we decided to ditch for a photo shoot on the beach.

We borrowed some random persons stairs for some of the shots after we discovered that the pier where we initially wanted to take pictures was occupied by a girl (who seemed to be under there purely for the shade so that she could use her phone).  The stairs worked out nicely though.

It was fun going down by the water for some of the pictures.  It was a little windy so our hair kind of went wild and it was sometimes difficult to not get a backlit picture but quite a few of them turned out!

Jumping around in dresses is more fun then you'd think.

So is spinning.

When we finished at the beach, we decided to take the ten minute walk across the island to the inter-coastal waterway.  On the way we noticed a porch swing below someone's house so we decided to use it in our shoot.  We encountered a lot of prickly pears (little demon cacti that stick in your feet and cause lots of pain) they tried to deter us from our goal but we soldiered through.

There wasn't much to do in the way of poses at the inter-coastal waterway so we just threw water (how weird).

On the way off the beach we met a lady who offered to take our picture for us, it took her like six tries to get two (kinda backlit) pictures but we thought it was nice to have one of us together.

We got a lot of strange looks for wearing fancy dresses on the beach but we were having fun so who cares what a bunch of fishermen and beach walkers think.

(We would like to thank you all for taking the time to look at our pictures and kindly ignoring our terrible tan lines.)

Music for this post:  Riptide// Vance Joy

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