The Sweet Life

Marybeth and Anthony are a week into what my sweet husband calls ‘the engaged high’.

I met Marybeth last year when she sat for our family through the awesome agency we use (cannot recommend them enough). She found herself coerced into staying late one night to help me package christmas card orders…and funny enough, never came back (though I think she left the agency to go back to school, I hope I didn’t scare her away).

That experience led to a sweet email last week letting me know she was engaged, and would I be available to take some engagement photos for their Christmas/We’re engaged card. I fired back a response that I was officially closed for the season…BUT…if she didn’t mind a quick 15 minute session in the alley behind my home I could fit her in.

They trusted me enough to ignore the trashcans and obvious ‘alley-ness’ that is back there…and we dug around and found some truly amazing textures, perspectives, and red berries (I jumped up and down when I saw the red berries!).

Now, I love kids. I truly do. I love babies that have pee-pee accidents and that curl into warm little fuzzy balls. I love toddlers that drool and walk in the opposite direction of where I want them to go. I love kids with missing teeth and teenagers with gawky smiles.

But can I say, really softly…that I think I love engaged couples too?

(Shhh! Don’t tell the babies!).