The RIDICULOUS month of September

September has seriously been COMPLETELY out of control! It started out with Peach Days. My wonderful bestie Anecia happens to live right next to where they do the booths at Peach Days. So she let me put up a booth for Wolf Photography in her front yard. I LOVED how it all turned out!

I had a lot of new clients book with me which is fantastic! I also got these oober cute, brand new business cards and brochures printed to hand out. I'm seriously in love with how they turned out! My extremely talented friend Meagan Young designed them for me.

Buisness Card: FRONT

Buisness Card: BACK

Brochure: OUTSIDE (folds in three) Brochure: INSIDE

That same day was Teague's 21st Bday, and boy did we party!!!! We threw a Heaven and Hell themed party, and decked out my basement! Complete with flames, clouds, and a killer fog machine! Everyone dressed up in either Devilish, or Angelic costumes. In the words of my best friend Anecia, "I hate the word epic, but that party was seriously EPIC!" It was probably the best party I've ever been too. :

Oh! And did I mention, in the midst of all this, my favorite couple on the planet got engaged!!!! Michael and Anecia are FINALLY making it official! YAY!!!!!
A week after the party, was our 2 year anniversary! Teague surprised me with a romantic getaway in Salt Lake. He got us a suite at the Grand American Hotel. It was by far the most fancy place i'd ever stepped into. The hotel room was bigger than our first apartment. I had such a great weekend!

We got there Friday night, and went out to dinner at PF Changs. If you haven't already been there before, GO! Best food ever. The hotel room had this HUGE jetted tub, and I got to take a bubble bath! It's been years since I have done that.

Saturday we spent the day at the Gateway mall. We went shopping, and I got lots of new clothes and some photography gadgets. We went and saw a movie, and ended the day at my favorite restaurant; Tucanos! It's a Brazilian grill, and they bring meat around the restaurant on these huge sticks, and cut whatever you want off their skewers on your table. YUM!

Sunday we spent at the Spa. We got massages, I got a facial, nails and hair done. It was absolutely fabulous. We decided to eat at one of the restaurants at the Hotel that night, so we got all dressed up and went to the Garden Cafe. It was so good! That night we cuddled up in the hotel room and watched the movies he had got for his birthday. It couldn't have been a more perfect weekend. I have the best husband on the planet!

Teague Breaking into the mini bar

Us on the Balcony

View from our balcony, 24 floors up baby!

Balcony view, daytime

GINORMOUS bathroom

Bedroom

Dozen red roses Teague had ordered, waiting for me at our room :)

Front room and balconyWell...... Almost perfect. Sunday night, Teague got REALLY sick. At first we thought it was just the flu. But he kept complaining that his side really hurt. So, being the worrier I am, I drug him unwillingly to the ER Monday. Turned out, his appendix had ruptured! So they rushed him into surgery to remove it. Everything went really well, and we spent the remainder of our Anniversary week in the Hospital.

Teague in the Prep Room, on his way to surgery

After the surgery, Teague spent a full hour playing with his get well soon balloons while he was on his "happy drugs." HAHA!
Showing off his ER armband

the pictures of the ruptured appendix. YUCK!!!
Needless too say, I am so beyond relieved that September is FINALLY over! It was definitely good, bad and UGLY.

Bucket List

For those of you that don't know, my dad passed away this year. I won't go into more detail then that, that'll have to be a completely different post. But, when it happened, it really made me realize how your life can literally be over in an instant. No warning, the end, done. So, I decided that I was going to make a Bucket List of 100 things I want to do before I die. I decided that I was done waiting, and planning on doing amazing things in my life. I was going to start DOING them! One of my very favorite songs ever has a line that says, "If I can I'll learn, to journey and return, to never rest till I've seen all I can see!" So, this years moto for me is "Never rest till I've seen all I can see!" So, without any further ado... here is the infamous list! (the one's with *** are things I've done!)

1. Step foot on every continent.
2. Go on a hot air balloon ride***
3. Go skydiving
4. Go cliff diving
5. Get a butterfly tattoo***
6. Get an eagle tattoo
7. Go on a volunteer trip to Ouelessebougou Africa
8. See the Great Pyramid of Giza
9. See the Colosseum in Rome
10. Walk on the Great Wal of China
11. See the Taj Mahal
12. Drive over the Golden Gate Bridge***
13. See the Northern or Southern Lights
14. Walk through the Old City of Jerusalem
15. Have a baby girl and name her Kenley Anne Wolf
16. Straddle the 4 corners of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah***
17. Go bungie jumping
18. Own a Great Dane***
19. Go to all 50 states
20. See the Olympics live***
21. Swim with a Baluga Whale
22. Swim with Dolphins***
23. Snorkel***
24. Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure to use it.
25. Watch the launch of a space shuttle
26. Be a member of the audience in a talk show
27. Ride a camel into the desert
28. Plant a tree
29. See the major monuments in Washington DC***
30. Go to the top of the Empire State Building***
31. See a Broadway play, on Broadway!***
32. See the Statue of Liberty***
33. Be my own boss of my own business, doing something I love***
34. Fall deeply in love-- helplessly and unconditionally***
35. Sit on a jury
36. Go skinny dipping in the ocean***
37. Ride an elephant
38. Ride in a submarine
39. Ride in a helicopter
40. Go cage diving with sharks
41. Go cage diving with alligators
42. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone to bed.***
43. Shower in a waterfall
44. Spend a night someplace haunted and record it.
45. Write down my personal mission statement, follow it and revise it from time to time.
46. See a lunar eclipse***
47. Spend New Year's in an exotic location
48. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.
49. Sing a great song in front of an audience.***
50. Drive across America from coast to coast
51. Make a compete and utter fool of yourself***
52. Flip a house, and sell it
53. Write my will
54. Sleep under the stars***
55. Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country***
56. Spend a whole day reading a great novel***
57. Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas
58. Learn to drive a stick shift
59. Build your own house, and then spend the time making it into exactly what I want
60. Grow a garden
61. Spend six months getting my body into optimum shape
62. Own a convertible, and drive with the top down, and music blaring
63. Accept yourself for who you are
64. Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef
65. Give to a charity-- anonymously
66. Lose more money than I can afford at roulette in Vegas
67. Go deep sea fishing and eat my catch***
68. Create my own website***
69. Make myself spend a half-day at a concentration camp, and swear never to forget
70. Live like a local for a month in a foreign country
71. Climb an active volcano
72. Photograph an endangered species***
73. Be in the stands when two rival South American club teams play each other in soccer
74. Drive up highway 1 from Mexico to Canada
75. Kiss the love of my life at the top of the Eiffel Tower
76. Explore the gorgeous Vatican City
77. Go on an African Safari
78. See the Mona Lisa, in person... in the Louvre.
79. Go parasailing over a beautiful beach
80. Become debt free!
81. Go on an Alaskan cruise
82. See a whale (other than at Sea World.)***
83. Stand atop Buckingham Palace and yell 'God Save the Queen!'
84. Have a star named after me
85. See the Nutcracker***
86. Surf the waves in Hawaii
87. Ride a Gondola in Venice
88. Go to a Superbowl game when the Colts make it!
89. Go white water rafting***
90. See the glass ball drop in Times Square on New Years
91. See the Niagara Falls
92. Walk through a real castle
93. Visit the Acropolis and Parthenon in Athens
94. Visit the Leaning Tower of Pisa
95. Visit the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge
96. Learn to ride a Harley, and go on a Hog Rally
97. Take someone on a vacation of a lifetime
98. Have a "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" weekend
99. Eat something completely crazy
100. Buy a beautiful piece of art***
101. Win in a street fight
102. Breed and sell a litter of puppies
103. Bet on a horse in a race, and win
104. Throw a MEGA party***
105. Tell a least 10 people about my bucket list, and encourage them to make one!***
106. Achieve everything on my Bucket List!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MY family pictures!

Many people would think that since I am a photographer, that I would have a billion and one pictures of my family. Truth is, I am HORRIBLE when it comes to getting my own little families pictures done. Teague and I haven't had any done sice we were engaged! So, we FINALLY got some new pictures done, and I LOVE them! So, I thought I would share some of my favorites with you. :)

my personal favorite of the shoot :)

And a HUGE thanks to my fantastically talented sister Annie for doing them for us. Love you Brat!