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! […]

This weekend was so special because we helped surprise my brother-in-law, Jeff for his 30th birthday! We’ve been helping plan this surprise party for a few months now with his wife, Brittany  and the last few weeks have been crazy making sure all the details were falling into place but WE DID IT! Brittany, you […]