Frozen Music Studios Photography

It's that time of year!

Yes, I mean it's time for the Minnesota State Fair!  We're planning a trip to the fair sometime this weekend, and I am very excited!

I would like to know from all of you, what are your favorite things to do at the fair?  Favorite building?  Favorite food?  Favorite ride?  Favorite thing on a stick?

Here are some of my favorites:  Ye Old Mill Ride (ooh so romantic), the Giant Slide (so high-tech), Cheese Curds (of course!), Corn Dogs (on a stick!), the Fine Arts Building, and getting samples of honey in the Ag/Hort building.

What do you love about the fair?

Winner

Just wanted to say thanks again everyone for the awesome birthday wishes.  I had a nice day with Josh relaxing and eating cupcakes, shopping and going to my favorite restaurants.  :)

I also wanted to announce the winner of the last give away during my birthday week.  It was... Kier who said, "If I won this gift certificate, I would schedule a family appointment with you guys and get some great shots when Ike comes home from Iraq for three weeks in October."  Congrats Kier!  

Thanks to everyone who commented this week.  Enjoy the prizes!

Last Birthday Week Give Away!

It's so wonderful to hear what you're all doing to live greener lives.  Every little thing truly adds up and makes a difference in our planet's future!

I wish I could give you all a Sigg bottle...I am just that excited about them!  Today's very lucky winner of the FMS Sigg water bottle is... Molly!  Molly said, "I cloth diaper my daughter part-time and use an eco-friendly laundry detergent (country save) for all my laundry! :)  what a great give-away!"  Congrats Molly!  Please email me with your mailing address so I can send that out to you.

Today is the last day of birthday week give aways.  Tomorrow is my actual birthday, so I plan to spend time relaxing and eating delicious food and possibly watching Grease.  (It's a birthday tradition... my friends were always delighted to watch Grease at EVERY birthday party sleepover I had growing up.)

This morning I am giving away a $75 Frozen Music Studios Photography gift certificate.  This can be used toward any session fee or print purchases.  Yay!  To enter, leave me a comment saying what you would use the gift certificate for if you won.  To double your chances... become a fan on the FMS Facebook page!  If you submit a comment, I will enter your name twice in the drawing if you're a fan on Facebook as well.

Good luck everyone!  Contest ends tonight at midnight.  Have a wonderful weekend!

Prepare your ears for awesomeness

First off, thanks everyone for the great birthday celebration ideas yesterday!  The randomly selected winner of the Caribou card is... Gwen!  Yay!  Please email me your mailing address and I'll get that sent out right away.  (P.S. I did make a Caribou run yesterday, and it was delicious.)

OK, so today I am giving away a CD that I've been listening to a lot lately.  If you haven't heard of them, you need to check them out now!  That's an order!  Ok, just kidding.  But, you really should.

 

Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps is a rockin' awesome band from Minnesota, and they just released this CD, which is amazing.  I love it.  My favorite song of theirs is not actually on this CD (sad, I know) but, you can hear it any time you want on our website because Caroline is cool like that.

So... all you have to do today to enter to win is comment on the blog... on any post, about anything!  Easy peasy.  Good luck!

5 Years!

Ally's Slideshow

For Roger & Gale, and all of Ally's family and friends... I put together this slideshow of Ally's senior photos a few months ago, but it was never posted on the blog. So, I am posting it now, when words are not enough to express our sympathy. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.   God's peace, Josh & Laura

Glimpse

A teeny tiny sneak peek of some fun I had this weekend with my gorgeous models.  To be blogged at a later date!

Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

Hope everyone is out enjoying the sunshine and doing some relaxing this Memorial Day weekend!  We have completed our two weddings for the weekend, and of course, both were beautiful and we're excited to get those posted this week.  But first, it's time for us to relax as well.   Can't wait to soak up some sun tomorrow (under SPF 100 sunscreen!) and get out to Zorbaz on the lake as well. :)  I've been looking forward to this all winter.

Us

 

As photographers, we are always behind the camera, and rarely in front.  We were in desperate need of some current photos of the two of us for our website and just for our walls at home!  Before this spring, our most recent photo session was our wedding 5 summers ago!

Luckily, I was able to get ahold of Shawna at Shawna Noel Photography out of Grand Forks, ND to shoot a session for us.  We met up with Shawna and Kory in downtown Fargo, and tried out a few spots we had been eyeing for a while.  We had a lot of fun, but it was pretty weird to not have a camera with!   

Here are a couple of the awesome images from our shoot.  Shawna just posted a bunch more over on her blog that you should check out too!    Thanks again Shawna & Kory... you rock!

 

 

 

Bouquet Alternative

If you've been reading this blog for a while, you've probably gathered that I'm a pretty big fan of Etsy.  Well, today I found something really interesting on there that I wanted to share with you all, especially those of you who are in the middle of wedding planning.  This is a really cool twist on fake flower bouquets.

  

They're not silk flowers, they're FELT flowers made by RibbonsNBowsBoutique on Etsy.  I think they're really funky and neat!  You can make custom orders for all of your wedding flowers in your wedding colors.  These would be especially precious for a flower girl.  How fun!