Pay attention to what your paying attention to.    

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about this statement.  How am I spending what little time I do have?   Between Facebook, Twitter and a zillion other iphone apps…there are a lot of days where I zone out and just let things come towards me when it comes to social media.   I have to admit…I like substance.  I like to read things that matter.   While I appreciate someone that can succinctly say something in 140 characters or less on Twitter – I’m just not very good at it.   And while I love the minute by minute updates on Facebook…I find it more important for me to be living my life and being present with all of you I am face to face with.  I just don’t feel as though MY minute by minute is that interesting.  Maybe it is…but I’ve yet to find a way to be very good at that yet either.   But am I the ONLY one?

I’m on a new found old-fashioned kick of finding substance in what I’m paying attention to.   I want to read things longer than 140 characters and I want to be face to face with more than facebook.  

So, I thought I’d share a few things I love paying attention to….

If you are a bride there are some tremendous blogs out there that didn't exist when I got married.  Filled with endless ideas...I love Southern Weddings by an incredible friend and editor Lara Casey.  Abbye over at Style Me Pretty is phenomenal and so gifted at bring great ideas to brides.  

For you photographers, there is one blog in particular that I would recommend paying attention to…The Business of Being Creative is an amazing business blog for creative individuals written by Sean Low.  Sean is Preston Bailey’s former right-hand man and he has been in creative businesses for quite some time.  His insights are so valuable. 

For design folks and everyone with a love for great art and design – I love two blogs…Rifle Design and Design Sponge. 

And for every mom photographer out there…no one shares her heart more than Me Ra Koh out of Seattle, Washington.  

I would love to know what you are paying attention to!  PLEASE!  As I update my blog reader I would love to add some great reading material and follow the lives of inspiring people.  If you know someone or something inspiring, funny, smart – or just plain entertaining – can you leave your thoughts below?  I’d LOVE to know!

Pay attention to what your paying attention to…

This morning I'll let the photos do the talking.   Here are a few from Marisa & Jed's engagement session that Katie photographed on film this past fall at Dunton Hot Springs down by Durango, Colorado...oh how I love you Colorado!  

Here's to a good one - Matt, Story and I are off to the beach!!

much love,

Jenna

Just an image or two from a baby session that Katie photographed a couple of weeks ago.  This little sweet pea is SO precious! 

Happy day today!

(PS - if you came to our blog looking for updates on our family adventure down here in the USVI - pop on over to our family blog at Two Months in a Tent...it has been a bit of a crazy adventure but we are staying positive and happy as best we can and will look forward to the next adventure! I guess that is what life is all about - right? Thanks to all of you who have been SO SUPPORTIVE and incredible to us already! You rock!)

Dear Katie - 

So right now I imagine it to be about 2pm in Paris.  A great place for you to be on your birthday...maybe you are by Notre Dame, maybe you are sitting at some cafe with some hot frenchman, or maybe it's margot ;) but either way I hope you are taking it all in!  This is one of those moments in life that you will never forget.  Soak today in and enjoy where you are TODAY in your life and know how much I love you and miss you! 

You are such an inspiration to us and every single day I thank my lucky stars to share life and business with you.  You inspire me and push me to want great things for us and others.  You mean the world to us.  

So much love and HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! 

Jenna, Matty & Story (who thinks you are the cat's pajamas!)

Today is the day - we're off and away on our big adventure to the Virgin Islands.   Things are happy around here - less the few last minute freakies of forgetting something and missing everyone we love - BUT nonetheless we are HAPPY!  

And speaking of happy...here are a few images on film that make me happy.

And a few inspiring words from none other than the Incomparable Dr. Suess...I love these words - 

"Congratulations! Today is your day.  You're off to Great Places!  You're off and away!  You have brains in your head.  You have feet in your shoes.  You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.  You're on your own.  And you know what you know.  And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.   You'll look up and down streets.  Look'em over with care.  about some you will say, "I don't choose to go there." With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down a not-so-good street.  And you may not find any you'll want to go down.  In that case, of course, you'll head straight out of town.  It's opener there in the wide open air.  Out there things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy and footsy as you.  And when thing strat to happen, don't worry.  Don't stew.  Just go right along.  You'll start happening too. "

Oh! The Places You'll Go!  

HAPPY day to you!

Jenna