It’s true.  We’re those kind of people.  The ones who talk about our dog like she’s our kid :-)  But seriously, have your seen our dog?  She’s adorable!  And has tons of personality to go along with all those good looks.  Having a little summer down time has given us much more time to enjoy the finer things in life . . . like going for a walk in the park.  How cute are we?

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Whew!  It’s been a very busy and very HOT few weeks for us.  We’ve been neglecting our blog a bit – not because there hasn’t been anything to say, but mostly because there’s hardly been time to say it!  Between the fourth of July holiday, Ryan’s birthday festivities, living out of suitcases for days while our AC was out (yuck!) , and everything else, it’s just been a super crazy time for us.  So much for having the summer off!  Our shooting schedule may be a little bit lighter (cause no one wants the theme of their Arizona wedding to be “sweat”), but we’re sure keeping oursleves busy.

We’ve got all kinds of fun stuff in the works that we can’t wait to share with all of you!  In the coming weeks we’ll be introducing a whole different look and feel for Simply Knot Photography.  Ryan and I have been talking a lot lately about who we are as photographers and what our buisness is really all about and we’ve kinda come to the conclusion that we’ve outgrown a few things that we put in place when we first launched out buisness.  The first thing to go: our logo and color scheme.  It’s time to kiss the old black and white ”SK” goodbye and say hello to this this cute little number:

So much more FUN and FRIENDLY, right?  When it comes to working with our clients, we’re ALL ABOUT the fun and friendly so we thought that it was time for the look of our buisness to reflect that too!  We also wanted to get away from the more tradtional look of our old stuff and emphasize the modern look you see in our photographs.  No stuffy traditional stuff here!  There’s a lot more changes to come, inlcuding a brand new AMAZING website so I hope this little taste will hold you off for a while ;-)

Wanna hear a little secret about our new logo?  The four dots are not only a cool graphic element, but they represent the letter “G” in the braille alphabet . . . “G” for Gotcher :-)  I’m probably the only one who cares, but I think it’s really fun that it has another meaning.  Don’t forget to leave us lots of comments below to tell us what you think!

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith came to Arizona!  Meet Christina & Matt and their kids McClellan and Varity!  They live in Kansas and were traveling through AZ to get to California on vacation last weekend.  Christina and I met way back in our high school years at Grace Community Church.  Later in college she used to come to our thousands of parties that we had over at the old “bachelor pad”.   We stayed friends ever since and through facebook she let me know that the whole family would be back here soon and wanted some portraits together.  HOW FUN!

They wanted the photo shoot to be at a nice little ice cream shop in Old Town Scottsdale called The Sugar Bowl.  They seated us in the arcade room so the kids had plenty of stuff to play with.  We started off by getting some ice cream.  At times it got kind of messy. :-)

It was so cute, every time McClellan took a bite of his ice cream he turned and posed for the cameras.

I love this one of Father and Son.

Matt gave McClellan some cash for the arcade.  He made him work for it!  Awesome!

Now time for some FUN at the arcade with the kiddos!

I don’t think they allow this but hey when your this cute you can do pretty much anything you want!

McClellan’s winnings! YAY!  He knows he’s good.

McClellan and Mom teamed up on Dad in air hockey.  Dad still won though.

SO CUTE!!!

We were able to get a few posed shots in there too.

But it’s usually what happens in between the posed shots that adds some comedy. . .

This girl loves her sugar!  Here’s a few of Verity.

What an adorable shot of Mother and Daughter.

We had some fun with this cool mirror.

While Denise was taking some portraits of Matt, Christina and Verity, I was able to snap this shot of McClellan playing some games. I love that they’re all in the background!

One last shot of the whole family.

Thank you guys so much! We had such a great time with you and your family! We hope you had a great trip and are now home safe!  Come back out and visit soon!!!