I’ve become obsessed with Seattled-based, Erin Vey photography. Her blog is appropriately titled, “bark.” She captures the true emotion and bond between dogs and their humans and finds ways to make the dogs look like superstars! She has a gorgeous Great Dane named Gracie who is her muse. Gracie is such a diva.

What’s better than an old Golden with his baby?

This is Erin’s Great Dane, Gracie. Look at those lines!

I don’t think it’s any secret how much I loved our professional wedding photos. It was the best money spent on wedding details and our photographer is a true artist.

As part of our wedding package with her, we received 12 photos mounted on boards in various sizes from our engagement session and from my bridal session. We displayed them around the wedding reception. After the wedding, I had them framed in black frames with white mats.

Then I decided that I wanted our hallway to look like this.

I also love these two photos (in poor quality) from Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott’s house. I love all the photos lining the hallway and the two gorgeous prints of the two of them in their bedroom. Someone posted a comment on Mojito Maven’s post about it only being right to hang photos of the two of you in your bedroom. No kid photos, no parent photos. Just the two of you in your romantic room.

Because I only had about 12 photos of all different sizes, there was no way that they’d all fill up the walls, so we ordered more. A lot more. In 4×6, 5×7, and 8×10. I framed one large bridal portrait and then there are some really fun candids. We got some gorgeous photos of our parents and one of my favorites is of Todd’s hands.

The frame shop called yesterday to tell me that they’ve finished framing them all, so we’ll get the hanging done tomorrow before our house guests arrive.

I’m not the first to post about this. Mojito Maven asked for everyone’s advice on what to do with wedding photos. I promise I’m not trying to steal her post. I’m just so excited about our photos being finished. I actually don’t want anyone’s opinion on whether or not they like my idea of hanging up all the photos. We’ve paid for the photos and the framing and we’re doing it anyway! I have a few small prints in the guest bedrooms. The photographer gave us a disc with all of the high-res images and I’ve been able to print these on my own.

As the years go by, I plan to have Kelly come take photos of our children and our home and we’ll replace our wedding photos with these.

Mrs. Newlywed also did a post similar to this one asking for your opinions on having photos of yourself in your home. I sort of think of it like this: it’s our home and we’re starting our own little family. I have photos of my brother, my parents, his parents, our dogs, and us as a couple. These are all the people (and canines) I love and I’m happy to see their pictures hanging on our hallway walls.

I think one of my favorites that I ordered is of my mom and me dancing to “Sweet Caroline” at the end of the night. When Neal Diamond says, “Reaching out– touching me— touching you” we reached out and held hands and the picture turned out so great. It’ll be hanging in our hallway.

Todd and I have a huge crowd of people coming in town this weekend for the USC v. Tennessee game. Thirteen of his law school friends will stay at our house from Friday until Sunday. We’re very excited because it promises to be a very fun weekend. I’ve got a lot running through my head of things I need to do to get ready. I’m going to make some casseroles to have ready for Friday night as people trickle into town, I need to get tailgate food in order, and wash all of our towels and sheets to make sure that everyone is accommodated.

Todd goes out of town today until late Thursday night, so I’ll be handling most of this on my own and I wanted to make sure that we weren’t forgetting something before he left town.

I called Todd at work to run some of this by him and here’s how the conversation went:

Me: “We need to make sure that we have tailgating in order because it will be so late when you get back.”

T: “Yeah.”

Me: “We should just order some chicken and pick it up on Saturday morning. I’ll make pigs in blankets, cookies, brownies, and something else that will stay hot.”

T: “Sounds good.”

Me: “You’re going to help me, right? I just don’t want to forget anything.”

T: “I understand.”

Me: “Well, are you writing any of this down?”

T: “No. Actually, I really haven’t even been listening to you. About fifteen emails just came in and I’ve been reading them while you’re talking.”

Excellent!

While I’m on the subject of TV theme songs, why don’t we just listen ot Josh Groban sing all the classics by himself? When I saw this on Emmy night I was blown away!