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Pretty accurate for how I feel about the fact that in just a couple hours from now, imma be rolling up to the KC airport and snatching one of the dearest and most amazing friends I have, @michele.devries, I can’t even wait for every second of the next few dayssss!! 🌿

Corn dogs and fresh squeezed lemonade. Concerts and giant slides. Watching chickens get baths and a hands-on chicken blow drying sesh. A fair square, aka: a rice krispie treat as big as your head and of course, on a stick. RV touring and dreaming. Skits and shows with oohs and ahhs. Tons of photos and endless laughs. Over 15k steps and nearly 12 hours in one day. Family time and a slew of new memories at the one and only Iowa State Fair. That was my weekend friends, what did yours look like??

Happy Friday friends!⠀
That’s me there, the blonde on the left, having a delish iced vanilla latte with two other boss babes in the area. ⠀
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There’s so much goodness that comes out of the creative industry. So so much. And a big one is the connection and real friendships that you make with fellow pros! Truly both near and far - (hellllloooo IG friends I’ve never met but feel like I’ve known forever. I’m looking at you).⠀
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These people can relate, understand, gab for days, encourage and crack you up all at the same time. The local ones you’ll come to love are there on wedding days to help, to high five, and to make sure you eat food. ⠀
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Basically none of this would be as good as it is without all these people! Soooo if you want my advice - go on out there and find, connect, and foster these friendships for yourself yo! You'll thank me later.⠀

Where should we do bridal party photos!? It’s an often-asked question, it’s a good question, and it’s a question that is always gonna be answered based on where the light is, and what the light is doing! ⠀
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Buttttt for me at least, if good light just so happens to be near some awesome tall trees...welllll then that’s definitely gonna also be a part of my answer!! 🤘🏻⠀

Running a business is hard.freakin.work. and if anybody ever tells you its all rainbows and unicorns, newsflash: they’re lying. Of course, it’s all worth it, duh. But just because something is worth it doesn’t mean that when crap gets hard or overwhelming that you don’t still feel all those things. ⠀
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I’d like to say all the above and then go into how appropriate this pic seems, how it speaks of powering through, hustling hard, growing strong through all the messy dirt or some other nugget of fluffy wisdom. But I got nothing. So here ya go, you get what you get and you don’t throw a fit! But maybe, just maybe, someone else needs a reminder that even as business owners, we are allowed to have bad days 🤘🏻 ⠀

wedding tip // trust your photographer when they tell you these moments matter and that they should be photographed! It’s easy to think that getting ready is just getting ready, but there are little moments that happen - just like this one - when a mom zips her daughters wedding dress - that are so much more than what they appear!

my claim to fame: I started these hashtags - #reallifetruthpost // #thegirlbehindthegrid

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