jenny & baby battlestar

introducing my soon to be sister in law, with darren making a guest appearance (g's brother) and the real show stopper, little baby bump! our very own baby battlestar! my cute cuddly, mad over his aunt rachel, soon to be nephew!

photographing and looking at these images truly remind me how blessed I am to be adding these people to my life.

jenny has been such a positive influence on me this past year and a half. she is one of the most Christ like people I know. so forgiving. so generous. so accepting. she is a magnificent mother, wife, woman and sister. her smile makes me smile and her love helps me feel welcomed into her and her family's life. I love darren for being so kind to me and for showing his desire to be close to family. I love chasen for showing so much inner strength amidst life's challenges. I love jori for tenderly letting me know I'm needed. it wasn't long after grant and I started dating seriously that jori said to me "I hope you and grant are always together", when I asked her why, she responded, "because I don't want to lose you". is there a better compliment coming from a child? I love tani for her energy, personality and bright spirit. AND I love baby battlestar. I look forward to him making messes, screaming all day long, peeing on everything in sight and me still melting every time when he looks at me with his perfect little face.

jenny, thanks for adding so much beauty to my life. I love you.

on the web

I shot a wedding in washington dc, a few years back and the sister of the groom had just started getting into photography. since then we have chatted a few times about the biz and she recently has started a photographer directory and featured me on it! how great! take a look:

http://web.me.com/rachaeloborn/directoryofphotographers/T.html

thanks rachael! I am honored. plus you have a really great name..minus one "a".

disney criminal

last night grant and I went to disneyland for 1 hour. our passes expire on monday and we were down in the area so we popped by for the last hour the park was open. In the short hour we were there we rode big thunder mountain, haunted mansion and pirates of the caribbean and were then escorted out of the park by security. yep. escorted by security.

The whole thing was pretty ridiculous but pretty rad all at the same time. it involved us having our own boat on pirates (because it was 10mins before closing). they sat us in the middle row of the boat and half way through the ride we decided we wanted to move up a row..or two. yes, we knew it would be breaking a rule to jump seats during the ride, but we waited till it was practically stationary and no one was with us and we follow the rules way to much. so we jumped up a row. we thought we had outsmarted them and done it in the darkest spot (are their cameras infrared?). after we had done it they asked us through muffled speaker voices to move back a row. we did. I thought it was over after that, but as the ride ended the president of disneyland rules (or so it seemed) and a security officer were waiting for us. they threatened to take our season passes away. we acted aloof and innocent. "we only wanted a better seat...". they acted like they were giving us a lucky break by letting us walk this time, BUT next time we won't be so lucky. apparently we now have a tainted record. are they serious?! wow!

It was kind of embarrassing considering how old we are, but maybe it's just what I needed to remind me, with the 3-0 birthday coming upon me, that i'm still young and reckless. definitely made me feel young...maybe too young. I don't think poor grant had ever broken any rules, so as the sweat gathered on his innocent brow I soothed him with the positive, at least we didn't get thrown in disney jail.

oh, disneyland. how unreal can one place be?

ps. you may be more like crazyland but I love your vintage posters!!

the haunted mansion one has always been my favorite! but the tomorrowland ones are pretty amazing.

here's one place you can buy them...but I'm sure there's others.

correction..

..to yesterdays post.

jamie oliver "whazes" not "whizzes".

thank you grant for bringing that mistake to my attention.

I love him

I do miss "naked chef" but "jamie at home" is SO good. makes me want a garden something awful. nothing is more exciting that when he whizzes stuff up. I could watch him whiz all day.

watch him on the food network saturday mornings (or tivo and watch him over and over).

white family- laguna beach

this family is seriously awesome.

I photographed their wedding almost exactly a year ago and even on that very day, when I didn't really know either of them, I felt like I did. they are so gracious, laid back and just all around beautiful people.

their son riley is so adorable. I love the fact that both of his parents practically grew up in the ocean and he doesn't want to come within 20 feet of it. he would scream and point to land any time we even approached foam...but as you can see as long as we were a healthy distance away he was super easy to photograph. by the end of the shoot he had lost all fear (and I dare say may have developed a crush) and was all up in my wide angle's grill...made for some GREAT images.

thanks you guys for yet another fun saturday at the beach house.

(psss. this location is where we will be having our wedding dinner/party....I am seriously freaking out over it. private beach cove, complete with a fire pit inside the beach house!!! thank you so much m & p!! xxoo)

I need a new planner

I am a paper planner sort of girl. I know some are super electro with their calenders, but I need to scribble. I had a perfect 2008 planner from staples. It had monthly views and weekly with tons of blanks pages and spaces for my lists, but it is no more! I can't find it anywhere.

I did find these:

..from here and they look pretty great, but I can't see the month view...what if the cover is flimsy and the paper is cheap?

does anyone have any paper planners they love? or are all of you reading this post from your iphone and wondering what "paper" is?

purrrlicious

saturday we took some pretty great shots of purrington. we needed to showcase his long hair before a cut. more of these lates.

just got back from hawaii and have a lot of stuff to edit through and will be doing that in the next day or two..be expecting, more white family, more hawaii, more purrington, more weddings.

lauren-kauai

white family- sneaky peaky

riley, you are such a heartbreaker. more when I return to the mainland.

kalihiwai beach- kauai oct 2008

(shauna and lauren's bums)

shave ice w/ ice cream

since I am in hawaii again I thought it might be fitting to post some more hawaii images from my last spin here.

here is coconut and passion fruit shave ice on top of macadamia nut ice cream, oh with toasted coconut on top. thank you ever much shave ice truck in hanalei. I love you so very much.

what's up to me

just a little shadow of myself saying what up to my initials I saw in the sidewalk while strolling through hanalei a few weeks ago.

...and now I am in oahu, staying in laie for the week... here for the photography workshop. thanks to the interweb I will still try to post something every day I am, but don't mistake post blogs with me being in front of my computer. you can still email and call me if needed but I might not be able to respond till the evenings.

aloha and mahalo.