Tomorrow I’m meeting up with a fellow LDS photographer who just moved here from Utah. She takes beautiful pictures like the one below and I secretly want to be just like her. Except now I wrote it on the blog so it’s not a secret anymore. Her name is Bethany Jackman and she actually knows Kelli Nicole from BYU. It’s a funny little Mormon world we have.

I would post a picture of her but someone recently stole her identity and copied all her photos and pretended to be her on their own blog. It was incredibly creepy and now she has disabled right-clicking on her personal blog, which I completely understand. So maybe I’ll take her picture tomorrow so you can see how darling she is. Or maybe she’ll let me post a link to her personal blog, but I’m not going to do that yet since she just had her identity stolen.

I’ve told TH many times that I’m incredibly excited about this meeting because I’m secretly hoping that we as a couple will become best friends with her and her husband. They are both LDS. They plan on moving around a lot. She’s a photographer, she’s having a baby, she loves blogging, she has a photography blog and a personal blog. So far all I know about her husband is that he graduated from BYU with a Masters in Information Systems, but that just so happens to be the exact same degree that TH earned as well. This is a couple match made in heaven, right?

TH has been rather skeptical about the idea of finding a couple for us to be BFF with because the two of us are so different. The women I click with have spouses that just don’t do it for him. The men he likes most will have a spouse that just doesn’t have interests that line up with mine. I think this is a thing that all newlywed couples struggle with, finding not just one friend, but a matched pair. Yes, girls nights are possible. And he can spend time with the guys. And we have been to dinner parties and game nights and gone out to movies with couples, but that connection between wife&wife and husband&husband hasn’t been easy to find.

Sunday night we found the first couple that we both think will be a good fit for us. She loves photography and I’m encouraging her to launch her own business in the near future. I want her to design a website for me and teach me about couponing. He wants to be retired yesterday, just like my husband, which was reason enough for TH to want to talk to him all the time. The wife and I are thinking that getting them together might not have been such a good idea, since they both seemed to spend the majority of their time talking about how to make our grocery, household and personal spending budgets even smaller than they already are.

Tomorrow I’m hoping I’ll meet up with the wife of BFF couple #2. No pressure for Bethany or anything. :)

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