{My sweet love}

Montana,
I am SOOOO proud of your patience and your diligence. It astounds me daily that you have this characteristic even when no one is watching. You never complained about working a job that you may or may not keep at SRP for 2 1/2 year. I would have been OVER it in a week, but you persevered. God was paying attention (as always) and in His perfect time, He provided.
Secondly, thank you for driving ALL the way to CA to pick up a piano from your folks so I could enjoy playing on a real piano rather than our old ghetto keyboard. It sure looks pretty in the living room! Thanks for enduring rain and hail to get it to me on your one day off this week. I appreciate it! I can just see our babies and us sitting around it playing songs all night. One day....

Love your sometimes "not so vocal about my appreciation for you" wife,
Aubrey

Faux Paus of Recent

Haha! I realized today that I haven't updated yall on our sweet Iraqi foreign exchange student. Montana & I can't get over how different our cultures and spiritual beliefs are. Thankfully, Tahseen is very tactful:) So for some funny moments of recent:
1- It is SO NOT OKAY to eat food from a fridge that has had beer in it. Who knew? Apparently, this contaminates their food. Some Americans eating my food might like it better with a beer. HAHA!
2-Never let your dog try to give them kisses. Apparently, all dogs have diseases whether they see a vet or not. So poor Charlie has not gotten any lovin' from him, but he has from us.
3-During Ramadan, if you travel 20miles from home- you are able to eat all day long. Moral of the story is- if you fast for church and are hungry, drive to the In and Out 20 miles away and it is okay to eat?!?!?! Interesting.
4-Apparently colorful bras are not an option in Iraq. So in taking an Iraqi to the mall, be aware that heavy staring at ALL THE BRAS will occur. Let's just say I was blushing at all the bras in EVERY store that we sell here.

More to come-
Enjoy your day:)

Valentine - Kina Grannis (Official Music Video)

Sneak Peak

Love love love this family. I am always stoked when clients call back for more photos:) I am truly humbled by it! Maya is 18months and we celebrated by taking photos to commemorate the day! So special! I love this sweet girl!

Something New:)

Along with doing Family shoots this Fall. You can order your Christmas cards through me as well:) These are a small sampling of the options for you. $35 for 25 pack of folded 5 by 7cards or $3o for 5 by 7 one sided card. The more you order, the cheaper that they become:) The important part to know though is that all cards need to be ordered by Oct.31st for me to get them to you. I will be leaving to Turkey to help April deliver her sweet little girl from Nov. 14th -Dec. 13th so will not be around to take photos. Schedule early and plan ahead:)

YEAH! For the website being up!!

I am SOOOOO excited to announce that the website it FINALLY done!!!

www.aubreymariephotography.com

I think it will forever be in progress of updating and changing the website. So take a look and enjoy. Share it with friends:) The winner of the $50 gift cards was emailed so check your email if you left a comment:)
Enjoy and thanks so much for yall's support!

Our visitor

We have a visitor for 7 weeks in our house. He is an English teacher from Bagdad. ASU contacted us to host an exchange student for the purposes of promoting peace in the two countries and loving on these Iraqi students. I will be honest though. I read the email and deleted saying to myself, "No thanks." Then all week, God pounded my heart to do this. To be selfless with my house, to not worry what others would think, & to be bold for Him. So I shared my heart with Montana and of course, Mr. Easy-going was up for it. I don't think he even batted an eyelash before saying "yes." Anyways, we had two weeks to prep a room, etc. for Tahsen. He is a great guy, got a family, and a very devout Muslim. We are learning lots about his culture. Long story short, he is very nice, way cleaner than me, easy to please, and we like it. P.S. It is very close to Turkish culture and makes me feel like we are with the McAdams.....