Two pictures taken nearly 8 years apart… Going through a similar life change… But now they feel worlds apart 💕

8 years ago this month we said goodbye to my “9-5 job” and hello to working fully for ourselves.

Dan had been working from home for about 9 months and I was working about 30 hours a week doing in-home therapy with kids that live with Autism. I LOVED that job. It wasn’t easy to leave (neither was the insurance) but we knew it was time to LEAP.

Man it was scary! I remember one of my first days home (granted I just had oral surgery 😜) thinking how nice it was that I was able to take the time off I needed an not report to anyone else when I wasn’t feeling my best.

8 Years

Since then? Many of you know we’ve been wedding photographers and celebrated our 10th wedding season in 2017! Photography has been such a gift – something I never would have guessed I would be doing with my life. (See that oldie but goodie? My dad took that at a wedding in… 2008!)

I thought I’d be a SAHM driving a mini-van and coordinating play dates.

But instead, here we are finding ourselves at a new crossroads – and guess what?

I’m JUST as nervous.

Or is it excited? Probably both 😉

In early 2016 we found ourselves saying goodbye to a different business Dan had been working on for nearly 3 years. We poured quite a bit of money in it, and it went nowhere. We knew that we would be doing weddings in 2016 and 2017, but we also knew we were ready to regain our summers back.

Don’t hear me wrong – we still enjoy photography, we just knew that the lives we envisioned for ourselves weren’t ones that bound us to 30+ weekends a month, missing birthday parties, family reunions, other people’s weddings, being SO gosh darn busy 7 months of the year and just wanting to enjoy MN summers – because that’s why we all put up with the cold, right?

So Dan made me a website… Which turned into a website for other people which has since turned into our full time income.

And here we are again! 8 years later. Standing on the edge of something new, exciting, humbling and filled with even MORE time freedom to live, do and be where we want.

The biggest challenge of a new adventure is just STARTING (Read: Start by Jon Acuff. Also read Finish by Jon Acuff, goodness knows I need to re-read both!)

Now? I want to hear from YOU. What are you waiting to START. Because guess what – this story could be YOUR story. A story of time freedom. A story of doing what FUELS you. A life invigorated by living out your passions.

I PROMISE you are not bound to a 9-5. Yes – we need people to work those jobs but gosh darn it! Not everyone has to.

It takes work. A LOT of it. But guys! It’s so worth it. I want to hear your dream in a word. What is it? Want to share more that that? Please do – and shoot me a message too. I want to hear those dreams and dream big with you 💕