Trip to Montana!

So I didn't get a chance to tell anyone about this trip! Just a month before I was set to leave for Vegas I found extremely low airfare to Montana! My best friend lives in Livingston outside of Bozeman, so I have a permanent farewatcher on travelocity to notify me when I might be able to get a cheap ticket out to see her! The deal was too good to pass up. Brooke and I went to photography school together here in Glenwood and she owns her own studio in MT. She just moved into a new downtown retail location that I have been dying to see. AND I got a major guilt trip about how Olivia, her daughter, was growing up so fast at 2.5 yrs old- that if I didn't come, I'd be missing out on seeing this awesome time in her life.
*Sigh* Oh so guilty!! It worked! Brooke convinced me to buy the ticket for the last minute flight and I jumped on a plane to Montana! We had a great time. I got to visit with Olivia, who is just the cutest thing on the planet- and she's beginning to realize it. ;) And Brooke and I bounced business ideas off one another and shopped for new accessories for both our studios! (yes I carted all sorts of things back in my suitcase to Colorado!) So it was strange that I got to see Brooke again less than a month later in Las Vegas, but I wouldn't have been able to see Olivia or her new studio space, so it was definitely good that I went. Here's a few shows from my little point and shoot. I actually didn't get out my "real" camera the entire time I was there! Ok, I did get to shoot a wedding with Brooke while I was there. The two of us have never shot together for a job before, so that was a lot of fun. ANYWAY! These are just snap shots from my little Casio point and shoot.

Olivia asked me to come over and sit and watch a movie with her on her big bear. So of course Brooke managed to make sure she got a photo of the two of us. As we were taking these, Olivia said, "Mommy, take a picture of my friend Erin!" awww...! My heart completely melted. We also went to Chico Hot Springs while I was there. It's funny, I think I have been to that place 3 or 4 times since I have been to the one here in my own town! I guess those are just the kinds of things you do when you travel! It doesn't hurt either that I think it costs $3 to swim at Chico and it's well.... a lot more here. ;) The water is not natural hot spring water either, just spring water, and it's heated and placed into the pool. So no chlorine or stinky egg smell- which is just so nice. Isn't this little one just a ham? Oh! I miss them already...Aren't we cute? haha- Brandon took a few shots of us as we walked down the street by her studio. It just completely cracks me up.