This past Saturday Matt and I got a chance to get away from Cincinnati for a little while and go down to Louisville with our good friends, Adam and Corrie and their kids.  It was a wonderful and relaxing day.  We spent most of our time watching the Olympics, eating, and swimming.  And even though it was only for a day, it was very rejuvenating.  It was just what we needed to tackle our coming week.  We need more trips like this.  Here are a few photos from our trip.

Here is Zeke in the pool.

Here is Ethne in the pool.

This is Adam throwing Zeke to Matt.

Here’s the classic shot of Matt and I.  Because we are photographers, we take all of our photos ourselves!!!

This is Corrie and I’s first photo together.

And finally…Zeke w/ his Uncle Matt (or Unta Dat as he calls him).

This is a tale of 2 photographers, very much lacking in sleep, and their exciting trip to the ER at 5:30 in the morning.

After staying up working until about 2 am, Matt’s left ear decided that it wanted to become inflamed and cause Matt a great deal of pain at about 4 am. At 5:15, after searching WebMD for a diagnosis and google for an Urgent Care facility that would be open that early, Matt decides to wake Ashley up and say “I think I need to go to the emergency room.” So off they went at 5:30 to Bethesda North. When they arrived, there was only 1 other patient there, leaving them to believe that this trip might be faster than they originally thought. Little did they know… Within about 20 minutes of their arrival, 8 other patients walked in, 3 of which had far more serious conditions that Matt’s. So they waited, and waited, and waited, and waited (you get the idea.) Finally around 7:30, they are called back to room, only to wait a little longer for a doctor to come in, look into Matt’s ear for about 0.06 seconds and say “Yep! You have an ear infection.” Total time spent with the doctor: approx. 3 minutes. Total amount paid between the “copay” and prescriptions: $130. Wow! What an adventure.

And as a side note, does anyone else find it odd that the doctor prescribed Vicodin for the pain of an inner ear infection? The Johnson’s sure did!

Hope you enjoyed my story…and I hope your day started off a little better than ours!

Hello all! And welcome to the brand new AshleyJohnsonPhotography.com blog. We are very excited to add this new feature to our website. Please check back regularly for information on promotions and contests and to see some of our latest work.

In thinking about what I should write about in the first Ashley Johnson Photography blog ever…I realized that alot of you probably don’t know much about us other than we are photographers. So let me give you a little background.

Matt and I have been married for almost 4 years now. We met at Lincoln Christian College. After getting married, we moved to Rochester, New York. We lived there for a little over 2 years and then moved to the Cincinnati area. We now live with our two dogs, Addison and Ivy (both named after the Chicago Cubs) and our two cats, Wolverine and Lily (and no, Wolverine is not named after the UofM…he’s named after the X-Men character.) We do not have any human children at this time, only the 4-legged kind.

Matt is a web designer, and a darn good one. He designed my site and many others. You can see more of Matt’s web work at SimplyCreativeWebDesign.com. Matt is also an ordained pastor and currently the Community Life Pastor at the Orchard Church. In addition to my photography, I sell Lia Sophia jewelry. So if you are in the Cincinnati area and you want to have a jewelry party and get lots of free, totally awesome stuff…let me know!

Random facts? We both love wine, the Chicago Cubs, animals, football, Jason Bourne and of course..photography!

Anyhoo…feel free to leave a comment. We look forward to sharing a little more about our lives and our business with all of you!

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