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Hiyeeee, I’m Emily!! I’m a goofball, adventure obsessed, vegan/crunchy boy mom, hot messing my way around Oahu, Hawaii.

I specialize in couples photography-especially the wild, messy, adventurous type!!

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Hi hiiiii!!! . . . I wanted to just say thank yahs so much to you beautiful people for hanging out here. I am super super grateful to be able to have this amazing “job” aka get to hang out and create with awsome people !! 💃🏽✨ . . . . I am just your local Californian-Hawai’i gal with two crazy little monkey boys and the sweetest husband. We all live for Jesus, anything outside, and exploring our backyard. I’m crunchy, veg-head and love spontaneous plans. Especially now with my two little guys, ask my friends- last minute plans are the way to go!! 🙌🏽🤙🏽 I’m a 7 on the enneagram but now thinking I may be a 9 also/instead? 🧐 I’m introverted buuuut opposite of a homebody 🙃 and drink a big pitcher of green protein smoothie err day. Let’s be frans? 🙌🏽 . . Pc @psalmsthirtyfour
Seriously one of my favorite elopements to date. You want to know why? Nothing really went as planned due to the weather 👻 but we seriously made the best out of it and had so much fun. . . . The weather on Big Island had been great alll week- except for the day they got married!! I'm talking a big sky with no clouds- just a big huge open gray sky, with some big pockets of those beautiful rain streaks off in the distance. . . . But we had the best time ever. And got soaked. And definitely wore a combination of both of their clothes while I threw mine in their dryer on HIGH in the last 10 minutes before I took off to the airport. And your girl looked realllllll put together at the airport after getting rained on for the last couple hours 😎 . . . I feel like for every wedding that its inevitable that something won't go as planned, just with all the bits and pieces that need to come together! Maybe most not quite as dramatic as this 😂 But we really have choices of how to react- we can prepare the best we can leading up to the day, but then the day of, just laugh it off and try not to sweat the small details! . . . . Our wedding was super DIY, and I had signed up for Spotify Pro account to save money for the DJ 😂 and Andrew and I worked months on our playlist, perfectly selecting each song. WHELP I FORGOT TO DOWNLOAD THE LIST to the tablet that we used, so our poor Sound guy was stuck just using an old one that they had, or creating one real quick! WHOOPS. Lets just say there weren't any of the fun 50's and 60's songs we had selected and got some Enya and Sade instead ✌️ if you're married, did anything not go as planned on your day?
HERE’S TO HOPING (and actually WORKING towards) BEING JUST AS IN LOVE AND PLAYFUL AS THESE NEWLY WEDS EVEN WHEN WE LOOK LIKE DIS 👵🏼🧓🏽( swipe 🤣🤣) — . . . . . . I know that a lot of people try to stop aging and getting older and can be kinda funny about stating their age! But you know what? Each year we have is such a blessing. Andrew and I pray together every morning, and one thing we pray for is to live a long and full and happy life together. So no need be funny about age because heck, each year we have together is a gift!! Can I get an amen??! . . . That being said I am doubling up on my sunscreen, thank you FaceApp!! 🤣😝
✨Haiku Tuesday ✨ Today was perfect Until the meltdown snuck up Sorry Kailua 🤷🏼‍♀️ . . . . . . Whelp we had a hot hot summer day and played HARD and stayed a little too close to nap time! 😝 whoops. But we had fun!! . . PS use code Emily10 at @knottedfern for 10% off these cutie rompers!!!🤩
What is your secret (or not so secret!) dream job?? . . . When I was a kid I wanted to be a marine biologist. Where my animal lovers at??!! I just knew it would be so cool to be out on a boat sailing around and playing with big ol sea animals and hiyeeee I have always loved adventuring and seeing new places. . . . To be honest, I never thought I would be a photographer, it was never in the plans. But I am seriously so so happy to be doing this and am stoked to be able to live out my dreams of getting to explore places with awsome people!! . . . BUTTttt if I could choose to be anything, and school/time/finances were not a factor, a marine biologist would still be a top contender of a dream job!! For now I'll just play in the water with amazing humans🙃💦!!
I hope you know your worth!!! Yesterday at the beach I asked a stranger to snap a quick photo of me with the two boys (tryna get better at that.) . . . If I’m honest seeing the photo of me in my swimsuit was slightly stressful 🤣🤣 and discouraging. My body looks so different from before I had kids. And when I had more time. And spent almost every day either on the gym, running, hiking, yoga, etc. And time to healthy meal prep more. . . . . But you know what? Our bodies will change regardless of the amount of time we pour into trying to stop that change. And in this season, my boys and my family need so much of my time! Yes I can dedicate more time + money to getting “my body back”, but in this season I’d much rather be there for my boys. My identity is not defined by how I look in a swimsuit. When I’m older and looking back on all these fun times, I want to be able to reflect back on how I was able to be present with my boys, supportive to my husband, and got to stay active and find some balance 🙃 not investing so much time in my body so that I could look “good” and how I looked pre kids. My body is strong and healthy and I’m so grateful for that. Even though it’s not as toned as it used to be 🤣Can I get an amen!!? . . . Telling myself this truth all the time, because I’m not immune to social media/pressures either (though I wish I was!!)
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