My husband and I recently had the opportunity to spend a long weekend at the Navy Base in San Diego. There had been recent storms that caused a lot of beach erosion and a ton of seaweed to wash up on shore. Most of the beach looked like the picture above. The water was also filled with churning seaweed as the waves would roll onto the shore. It was quite the sight! 

We had spent the day at another beach a little farther south down the coast, so when someone had asked if the seaweed was bad there my response was, eh not too bad. I had seen some seaweed floating in the water, but what I found on the shore by our hotel was pretty amazing.

The first night I searched through the seaweed with a friend that was there with us and we found some pretty cool treasures! Birds were everywhere picking through the seaweed for food. I didn't have my camera with me, but snapped a few pictures on her camera when we found a starfish and an octopus in pools of water within the seaweed. An octopus!!!! It was a tiny one, but... it was still an octopus!!!  

I came back the next evening with my camera, as well as the following morning. There were so many gorgeous colors to see! I had a blast taking pictures of all of the beautiful colors. These are some of my favorites! 

My handsome hubby and I enjoying the beach! (and way cooler than AZ weather!)

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"We're going to the chapel and we're gonna get ma-a-aried" Do you know that song? Well it just seems to keep playing over and over again in my mind as I've been working on these photos! 

I couldn't have asked for two more fabulous people to photograph for an engagement session and what's even better is that these two are family, my brother-in-law and soon to be sister-in-law!!! We are so excited about the adventure that they are about to embark on together and we were pretty pumped we could spend some time with them during a fun family weekend visit! Being in the military can be difficult sometimes, as you are often stationed away from family, but in this case, we are only a short 6 hours apart!

During our visit the boys did some golfing, the girls had a shopping day, we played lots of different card and board games and we made sure to set aside some time to photos. We explored downtown Phoenix and found a spectacular area filled with color and patterns. Check out the fabulous bird wall!

 As the sun was setting, we drove back to the house and stopped at a field I've had my eye on for a few weeks. I had envisioned the field as a soft, grass blowing in the wind type of field.... I must not have looked too closely... It was more of a prickly, scratch your legs to pieces type field, but I am so glad we stopped. The moments we captured right before our evening light disappeared are some of my favorites. 

Jon and Emily, your adventure is about to begin and we are so excited we get to be a part of it! We love you both so very much!!!

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