A moment…

Posted on May 25, 2010

I’m not saying that this pic is gonna win an award or anything but I LOVE it. You know why?

I see Nancy & Jose twice a week when our kids are running around at their Tae Kwon Do class and we get 30 whole minutes to just sit and watch. For us stay at home mommies you know you NEVER get 30 minds to just sit. Once we hear “class dismissed” it’s back to chaos. Trying to get the kids in the car and back home to continue what we didn’t finish before we left.

SO…I love this photo because when Nancy & Jose got a night away to celebrate a Lyssa’s graduation. I got to see them without the everyday chaos. They were just in their moment so in love. Even if it was only a moment. They stopped and took it.

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Lyssa’s Graduation Party

Posted on May 25, 2010

Lyssa’s Graduation party was at the Coco Palm in Pomona and it was amazing! A beautiful view fit for a wonderful night. It was nice to see her family again who I hadn’t seen since I was a kid. Congratulation Lyssa for all your hard work!

Lyssa and her husband

Lyssa’s dad got in on the fun

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Here’s Lyssa, Kimmy and I (or do I say me? I always get confused!) Whatever, you get the point…

The three of us played softball together back in the day.

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Pacific Youth Cheer

Posted on March 30, 2010

My friend Michelle is the owner of Pacific Youth Cheer. She does an amazing job coaching her girls and LOVES what she does. Check out her website!

Don’t worry if…

your daughter is not not 5 yet

you only have boys

PYC has GREAT things to come!!!

Toddler classes…

dance classes…

gymnastics classes…

all for boys and girls

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Our first vacation!!!

Posted on March 12, 2010

Will and I have been married for almost 7 years and we have NEVER been on a “real” vacation together. We so desperately needed one! So we stared saving and planning almost a year ago. We weren’t sure how we were going to ask someone to take care of our 2 and 3 year old for 7 days but we knew something would work out. Thankfully we have an amazing family who took care of that department So…4 weeks ago we were off to Cabo San Lucas!

I will admit I am TERRIFIED of the ocean. Just everything about it frightens me. Well…I actually jumped into the ocean and went snorkeling! When I first jumped in my heart was racing and I made Will hold my hand. I was NOT enjoying it at all. I was freaking out looking for sharks and not even looking at the beauty that was right in front of me. After a while I let Will’s hand go. Mainly because I knew I was holding him back. I even caught myself a few times forgetting about the sharks and enjoying all the cute little tropical fish around me THEN…all of a sudden it felt like something stung my leg. I freaked out and looked under the water for the shark because I knew that’s what it was :} Nothing! What the heck! My leg started burning and it was getting hard to swim. I went back to the boat and saw my leg had what looked like a big blister forming. AAAHHH!!!!! What is that!!!!! I asked the boat dude and he said it was a jellyfish sting. OMGOSH!!!!! He acted like it was nothing and walked away. I was scared but then thought about it and it didn’t really hurt that bad so I knew I wasn’t dying and if it was serious that guy wouldn’t have just acted like I got a splinter. The pain went away a few hour later and I was fine. Oh and No, nobody peed on me :}

So, I thought I was going to go snorkeling and overcome my fear of the ocean. Yah, that didn’t happen at all! I think it just made me even more terrified! Other than that experience I had so much fun

The resort we stayed at…

We got to hold this cutie.

Whale watching…

I love this pic cuz it looks like that whale is pissed and is going to ram that tiny little boat!

I could not believe some of the things I saw in Mexico. This guy was seriously driving around with those kids on the bike like that. I’m sorry but that guy is an IDIOT!

That’s us with our wonderful friends Ashley and Zach

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Jerry & Charissa’s Engagement

Posted on September 14, 2009

I was so happy to be able to shoot Jerry & Charissa’s engagement photos You see…we had their session scheduled for a few weeks ago. The weekend before, I got an email from Charissa saying we would either have to reschedule the session or possibly even cancel it completely. Why you say? Well, Jerry is a firefighter and we all know about the fires that happened recently. So, he was off workin’ hard and wasn’t going to get a day off to take their engagement photos We worked it out and got them done!!!

ps, Thanks for all your hard work helping put out those fires Jerry!!!

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Charissa, you are stunning and will make a beautiful bride! I can’t wait to photograph you in your wedding dress!

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While I was waiting for Jerry and Charissa’s session to start. I was walking around and saw a dad with his kids piled around something in the bushes. The kids were screaming and jumping up and down. I got curious and walked over to see what the commotion was all about. OH MY GOSH!!!!!! This is what they were looking at. EEEWWWW!!!!! It was the biggest spider I have seen in real life! (The picture isn’t really doing it justice). The spider was, no joke…like 4 inches long. If you would have seen it you would have been so scared to step on it cuz it was so big!

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A day in Pasadena

Posted on August 17, 2009

I finally set aside a day just for me to get out and play with my camera. I went with my friend Megan who got some different shots from the day so check out her blog post. We wanted to play around with the sun a bit. I never have been able to get sun bursts in my shots before. I read this blog post from MCP Actions and realized what I was doing wrong. Now I got it! With a bit more practice I think I can get some great sun bursts, maybe something to hang in my house

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