This week’s blog post is featuring a beach trip to Corpus Christi, Texas(https://www.visitcorpuschristi.com//?utm_source) with three of my dearest friends.
We’ve been making it a yearly goal to do a trip together, usually it lands around our teacher friend’s (Kayla) spring break.

Last year we went to England (which was amazing and I’ll link that blog post at the end) and this year we wanted a more relaxing trip, so we opted for something beachside and relatively close to us. Kayla has a friend from Instagram that lives in Corpus Christi, and she gave us lots of great recommendations for our trip (shout out to Savanna)!!

Most of our days were either spent reading at the beach or at the pool. We stayed on Padre Island and our condo(https://livelybeach.com/#close) was within walking distance to the beach.
We stayed pretty much on the island the whole time, but went out twice for dinner and from what little we saw of the city, we really liked it.

I had never heard of Corpus Christi until this trip, but I highly recommend it for anyone wanting a quaint and family friendly getaway.

I hope you enjoy reading the rest of this blog, and I hope this post encourages you to plan a trip with some of your besties.

Sit back and enjoy watching our sunburns deepen!

I’m from Tennessee and my senior client is from Ohio, so how in the world did we end up in Arizona for her senior session?
Well, a short answer would be, it’s a small world.
But if you know me, you know I’m not one for short answers lol……..

My sweet friend from Arizona, who also happens to be my brother-in-law’s sister, asked me to be one of her bridesmaids in her March wedding. She also asked her fiancé’s sister, Adelaide, to be a bridesmaid. It just so happened that Adelaide was graduating from high school and she really wanted me to do her photos at the time.
When she found out that I was going to be in the wedding as well she reached out and asked if we could possibly do her senior session in AZ, since we’d both be there anyway.
I obviously agreed and was thrilled that the timing of it all worked out.

Adelaide told me in the booking process, that her dream photo session location would have snow and pine trees, but she also loved the desert look of Phoenix.
Well, I like to think that I make all my client’s dreams come true, but I’ll be honest, I didn’t know how we were going to accomplish that request.
BUT
It just so happened that our mutual friend/sister-in-law, planned her bachelorette party in Flagstaff, AZ a week before her wedding, so both Adelaide and I were able to attend.
So of course I brought my camera and Adelaide and I left the party for a couple hours one morning to take her senior portraits!
It hadn’t snowed for a couple weeks in Flagstaff, so we had the idea to drive all the way up to Arizona Snowball Ski Resort, where we found the perfect photo spot, in the parking lot.

Yup you read that right, we did all these snow pictures in a parking lot 😁!
We then stopped at this open field/rest stop on the way back.

After the wedding took place in Phoenix, we were able to accomplish Adelaide’s second request, and photographed her in the stunning Phoenix desert.

I still can’t quite believe we were able to get two completely different locations and seasons all within a week.
Nonetheless, I am so grateful it all worked out beautifully, and I am beyond honored that Adelaide chose me to capture her dream photo session. (also shout out to my friend, Beth for getting married: without you this session probably wouldn’t have happened).

If you made it this far reading, YOU ARE AMAZING. Thanks for being here and I hope you enjoy the rest of this blog!!!