I started my first journal in the seventh grade. It was a wide-ruled yellow notebook leftover from sixth grade english. Every night in my blue flannel pajamas, hair pulled back and zit cream on my face, I would dump my pre-teen soul onto it's spiral bound pages,...
Jeff and I arrived home from our week in Nicaragua at 2:00am on Monday morning and didn't wake up until noon. At about ten in the morning, I woke up bleary-eyed and drooling with Gracie sprawled across my chest, pinning me down with her shocking ability to multiply...
I used to be SO PROUD of my flip-flop tan lines on my feet - two white lines cutting through my super dark feet from wearing my Rainbow sandals everyday in the California heat. Those tans lines are the mark of a true San Diegan - always in the sun, never with...
Jeff and I landed in the capital of Nicaragua on Tuesday at noon after a sleepless red eye flight to Atlanta on Monday night. Blurry-eyed and hungry, we were greeted by our driver from the non-profit we're working for with the news that the highway to Matagalpa...
I was packing our suitcases yesterday when I suddenly realized that it's been a year since our last international trip. Over the course of 2010 and 2011, we traveled a ton and got to visit 12 different countries for incredible destination weddings, non-profit...
As winter slowly fades into spring, we have just a few more warm and hearty dishes to feature here on Recipe Sunday, and this one totally takes the cake for the fanciest potato side dish I've ever seen - sweet potatoes rubbed with cumin, baked to crispy, then...
You know how they say you shouldn’t cry over spilled milk? What about spilled salt? ‘Cuz I definitely did. On New Year’s Eve of 2009, I won the cutest salt and pepper shakers from Anthropologie at a bridal shower for one of our brides. At the time, I didn't have...
If you've been reading Recipe Sunday for any length of time, I'm all about easy deliciousness. The simpler and tastier the dish can be, the more I can convince the world that I'm a kitchen goddess and NOT a fumbling madwoman. Watch out world. She's got a pepper...
A month after I quit my corporate day job back in 2008 to work on our photography business full-time, Jeff and I moved to a fairly well-off, middle class suburb. I was ECSTATIC to be working from home after years of working in a corporate office all day and editing...
I'm a little forgetful. Ok, a LOT forgetful. But only when it comes to sweets. And when I say 'sweets', I mean when Jeff says really sweet things about me. One day he'll tell me that he thinks I'm a wonderful writer and go on and on and on about my entertaining...
Happy Lovebirds Week!! In honor of Valentine's Day , we have a very special dessert coming your way today - not only does it taste like a millions bucks, but it's GORGEOUS to look at. And isn't that what love is really all about? A sweet soul wrapped up in a cute...
Good grief - our brand new dutch oven is AMAZING. Over the past week, everything I've made has come out like a dreeeeeeeeam. There's been layers of flavors that I never knew existed ("was that cinnamon in the chicken thighs??"). Today I made a butternut squash soup...
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We're Jeff & Erin
It’s our job to help you slow down and experience every moment of your wedding day – because we believe that it should be savored from top to bottom.
We’re Jeff & Erin Youngren, a hubby & wifey wedding photography team that believes timeless trumps trendy, life is best done together, and tears, hugs, & high fives should never be held back. We consider our couples part of our family – and we cannot wait to meet you!