It has been a long couple of weekends here in the Dowler household! We spent last weekend traveling to Ohio to be with Ryan’s family and friends along the lake (since our boat trip had to be cancelled!) and this weekend, we spent helping my parents move. It’s been a lot of driving, lifting and […]

One of the best things about being a photographer is that I get to travel all over the state of Virginia- even out of it – to capture all of my clients’ special moments. If you know anything about me, you know that travel is one of the things in this life that makes my […]

Okay, this is probably one of my all time favorite weekends of the year! I LOVE this new tradition with my grandmother, aunt, mom + sister: drinking wine + painting! This year, we chose to go to Muse Paint Bar in Virginia Beach and it was SUCH a blast!  We painted this gorgeous landscape of […]

This past weekend, I found myself finally getting around to weed my garden. You’re probably wondering why the fact that I got my WAY overgrown weeds under control (about a week later than I should have) is worth any of your time and I suppose that’s a fair question. As I was pulling up all […]

About a week ago, I was scrolling through the fabulous Emily Ley’s blog and found the Simplified Series and then found Mackenzie Horan – a blogger who is just FABULOUS. While scrolling through HER gorgeous blog, I came across a challenge she gave herself and posed to her readers: choose 101 goals to complete in 1001 days. […]

Back in July, Ryan and I had a portrait session with Rosie Omar Photography to celebrate our one-year anniversary and I’m SO excited to get to share them with you now! Rosie is just so full of laughter and smiles – it was awesome to get to be on the other side of the camera. […]

Ah, Monday. You’re back. I guess I hoped that somehow we might get an extra day in the weekend this time, but alas – I was wrong. 🙁 The weekends really go by so fast (or is that just me?!). I usually use these Dowler Days posts to talk about what we did over the […]

This July, Ryan and I took our first cruise on Royal Caribbean with my parents (Joan + David) and his parents (Sandy + Herb). It was a fantastic trip – we got to stop in Bermuda, the Bahamas and their island Cococay over 9 days. Getting to travel with our parents definitely made this a […]

Awhile back, I introduced two of our sweet fur babies here on the blog: TOC and Grey Cat. If you follow me on social media, you know that we have one other bigger fur baby too, Shelby! She’s such a sweetheart and I’m so excited to finally share the last piece of our little family […]

For our first wedding anniversary, Ryan and I decided to take a trip back where we got married. Ingleside Vineyards rents out two cabin properties, Summerton + the Pointe, which is along the river. We were so excited to find out the Pointe was open and available for rental so we booked it right away! […]