4 THINGS...JUMP IN

It has been a week of loving life and wanderlusting for my upcoming adventures. I hope you jump feet first into whatever you have coming up in this next season; traveling, art adventures, career, school, parenthood, marriage and all the other good things in life.

Dreaming of: Spending time on the lake at Keely’s mom’s house in Wisconsin.

Photographing: Yesterday, Mike and I had the most beautiful weddings. It was so fun to tell each other what happened at the end of the night. We are two lucky people to get to share the magic of our client’s wedding days. As always, we are crazy lucky to have the world’s best second shooters!

Loving: Maryanne McGuire and I bodysurfed for two hours in the ocean at sunset in Coronado. It was magical.

Learning: Mike and I started up The Define School this week. It is amazing to be in a class with people who are so similar to me both professionally and personally.

Big hugs,

S.

4 THINGS...FREE TO BE

Free to play, free to swim, free to be creative. I am feeling so grateful for my freedom to explore new opportunities in this industry that allow me to live this wonderfully creative lifestyle.Watching: The Comedy of Errors at the Old Globe Theater

Photographing: It's a double wedding weekend at the New Children's Museum and Hotel Del. I also did a fun infrared shoot with my friends at the San Diego Botanic Gardens and a rad commercial job for CAKE.

Reading: The Pout Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen. One of my favorite things to read is a sweet children's book to my nephew. He can only say 6 words, and pout pout is one of them

Dreaming of: An art date doing some fine art printing with my friend Maryanne Mcguire

xoxo Suzanne

4 THINGS...SLOW IS FAST

Everything is busy but everything is so good. I feel energized by the people who are constantly in my life and those who I get to see only once in a special while. Slow down life, you're moving too fast.

Dreaming of: Is it strange that I'm already dreaming of Christmas. I don't want the summer to end and I definitely don't want daylight savings to start, so my mind immediately looks for a silver lining...Christmas. My first Christmas with everyone in San Diego. Mike will make me gingerbread cookies in the shape of donuts and I will attempt to decorate. Take that daylight savings.

Photographing: I had an art date with Kate and Audra. Lately I am drawn to shooting indoors. I have visions of light streaming in through the windows. It's moodier than I'm used to. It feels good. Today we will shoot Sarah and Tim's wedding at Casa Romantica with Donna Urban.

Reading: This week is the week that I went to book club without having even downloaded the book. Whoops. Too much pool time with Gaiden I guess.

Creating: I have been water coloring a lot this week. The house is messy and I am happy. Sometimes life just stops for me. And I paint. And nothing else hits my radar except the beauty of moving colors around and trying to coax my vision onto paper.

xoxo, Suzanne

4 THINGS... REFLECTING

It’s Sunday, and I cannot believe that July is almost over.Writing: I have been tapping into my inner artist and handwriting my morning pages. Putting pen to paper is strangely relaxing.

Dreaming of: A few more hours in Big Bear at Jen Nesovic’s cabin before we go home tomorrow.

Photographing: Underwater with my friend Anna. I love her exuberance and watching her grow up over the years.

Swimming: this week I’ve been in the pool most days. It’s been a turbulent week & I’ve plunged into the water over and over again to let go of it all. Thank you water.

xoxo,

Suzanne