BASED IN IRWIN, PA
serving the Pittsburgh, PA area
WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY
ENGAGEMENT PHOTOGRAPHY
Ten days ago, we went on our very first amusement park trip of 2020. Since it’s still winter here in south western Pennsylvania – every amusement park near us is closed. So, if we wanted to ride some roller coasters, our options were pretty much one: head south. However! That has all changed this year...
Can we just say that I’ve saved “the best” for last? At least, the “most fun” for last? I have to admit – this crazy “roller coaster” journey that Derrick is on truly just gets better & better. I would have never guessed that my innocent suggestion, “Hey, why don’t you start an Instagram account,”...
Last summer, Derrick & I took our little family to 6 different states & visited a total of 10 different amusement parks (plus 1 indoor waterpark). With the success & growth of Derrick’s YouTube channel, we needed to visit new parks & ride new roller coasters so that he would have continued content to publish...
When we went on our first big trip of the summer, we hit up 4 different amusement parks. We had fun at each & every one of them, but Dutch Wonderland in Lancaster, PA was definitely (and easily) our favorite of the tour! We really didn’t have many preconceived notions about Dutch Wonderland. Other than...
THERE IS AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS BLOG POST!CLICK HERE TO GO THERE NOW. I’ve spent a solid 1/3 of my life in Deep Creek Lake, Maryland (I’d say half, but let’s be honest, weekends & a few weeks in the summer don’t quite add up as far as I’d like them to). We’ve done...
Hi! I'm Kara!
Welcome to my blog!
I am a full time engagement & wedding photographer based in Irwin, PA & I love to write!
I blog about 3 main topics:
•the beautiful love stories that I capture with my camera
•our adventures visiting different amusement parks for my husband's YouTube channel
•and the every day, crazy life as a family of 4.
I'm so thankful you've found your way here!
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[…] It has been a week in the Abbey house. When I wrote last Saturday that Leander was back in the “massive teething” stage, that was just because I didn’t know what else to attribute his fussy, clingy, not-quite-normal attitudes to. Well, on Monday morning, Derrick to our “family car” to work so that he could get the oil changed on his way home. Something always happens whenever Derrick takes my car – the car with the carseats in it. Always. And, so we laughed about it as we went to bed Sunday night – and then I cried when we woke up Monday morning & Leander was covered in a rash. See? Something always happens. I panicked quite a bit, but after talking to my Mom & doing a bit of research, I decided that I thought he had Roseola. If you’re unfamiliar, Roseola is a childhood illness that most kids pick up between 6-24 months of age. It starts out with a few days of a fever & the kiddo acting lethargic (but not really any other symptoms), and then as the fever breaks, a rash appears & lasts another 2-3 days. Those symptoms fit how Leander had been acting to a T. We had simply been attributing it to the mouthful of teeth he was getting all at one time (seriously, the kid has at least 6 teeth breaking thru at the moment). So, I decided to keep a close eye on him, but “Dr. Google” said there was no need to take him to the doctor unless his symptoms exceeded the “normal”. Sure enough, after about 48 hours, his rash went away & he’s been 100% fine ever since. He likely picked it up while we were at American Dream. […]
[…] life was “normal” – and it literally feels like it’s been eons since we went on our trip to American Dream (when in reality it was just 8 weeks ago). I printed a bunch of photos from our American Dream trip […]
[…] one at the end of April/beginning of May, and one in June. The February trip happened as planned (that’s when we went to Nickelodeon Universe at the American Dream Mall) and then March arrived. You can probably fill in the blanks that our next two trips were scrapped […]
[…] February, we took some time off & set off on our first trip of the year! We visited the newly opened American Dream Mall & Nickelodeon Universe – an indoor theme park – complete with roller coasters, flat rides, over-priced food, and Nickelodeon characters (like […]
[…] 2020, we visited Nickelodeon Universe at the American Dream Mall in East Rutherford, NJ (and we went in February, so no germs to worry about yet!) On our way home, we stopped at Great […]