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meet nat and ka-loon. they are getting married next month here in virginia. nat is a friend of talida and a whole circle of friends whose weddings i am shooting over the next year. i love hearing nat talk she is from australia and i love her accent. nat and ka-loon are so cute together. they are so in love and so silly together at the same time. we did this shoot in old town manassas. look how cute they are! i can’t wait for their wedding next month!

i went home to houston to shoot glennie and benny’s wedding. i was glad to be in texas but also i had been looking forward to this wedding for a long time. glennie and benny are two of the prettiest people. glennie is so fun and i just love being around her. i have loved seeing the pictures and the planning of this wedding. my favorite thing about this wedding was all of the traditional Indian ceremonies. i am so grateful to have been apart of this wedding and it was by far the most exciting wedding in a long time. between the dancers, all of the beautiful saris, the crazy fun wedding party, and the outfit changes i was on my toes all day. and it was along day. 10 hours of shooting. the wedding was at St. Laurence Catholic Church in Sugarland and their reception was at Texas Safari. so congrats to the self procalimed “blennie”!!! and thanks for being so amazing!

click here to see their slideshow. enjoy!

this weekend i was in houston for glennie and benny’s wedding. i also got to shoot patricia and ryan’s engagement session on sunday before i came home. patricia is my little cousin (well 2nd cousin) and it was so fun to see her and to meet ryan. I have not seen patricia in a few years and i was so happy when she asked me to shoot her wedding this march. lisa came with us and it was a good thing because we had a much easier time not having to park the car all the time. so thanks lisa for driving us!!!  anyhow i love this session so much and i love these colors!!! what makes me so happy is that both patricia and ryan think they are not photogenic and they don’t really like having their pictures taken. well i think i have 100 times over proven them wrong!  aren’t they just so cute together? it was really fun going back to houston and shooting. 

in other news: will got his cast off yesterday, so that is great!!! and kate is running her 1st 5K run on saturday morning! exciting times around here!!! 

well this morning while i was on the phone with an old friend i didn’t even think to wonder what will was up to. he was being so good and quiet and i was actually having an uninterrupted conversation for once. well when he came down stair with his shirt off and a little mischievous look on his face i decided to go take a look and see what he had gotten in to. will is such a boy and he loves squirting out things just to watch how it works. well take a look at the pictures but our playroom is really fresh and clean. it got shampooed, microdermabrasion treatment, moused, hair sprayed, lathered up with shaving cream, and moisturized. YUP that is what will was up to. at leat it was all cleaner and easy to clean up. but that is will. on that note here are a few funny things he has said lately. never a dull moment in our house. 

1. since this week is the letter “H” at school and he wants to take the ipod he decided he was going to get away with it because it was not an ipod anymore it was an h-pod. 

2. he really thinks the national anthem is sang like so: jose can you see….

3. his favorite song is the soul buttah song. other know as “all these things that i’ve done” by the killers

on the less messy side of our family, kate ran 2.2 miles yesterday with josh. can you believe that i can’t even run 1 mile i don’t think. =)

so as most of you know i have not had many weddings this summer because of the move here. so i told all of my new friends here if they ever needed me i was kinda bored and dying to shoot but only until i got really busy in october. so a few saturdays ago i went to shoot this wedding with kate triano. i had family in town and could only shoot for 2 hours but i headed over to the church to start shooting with the guys while Kate was with the girls. it always amazes me how different second shooting is from being the main photographer. as much as i like the laid back care free role of 2nd shooting, which i have only done a handful of times,  i like my job best. it was really weird showing up at the wedding having never met sarah or john. normally i am like an old friend by the time my clients wedding is happening. we have shot engagements, emailed a billion times, i have been informed of all of the wedding detail ideas, inspirations and just about everything. i normally know the brides parents or at least the mom. and i like it that way. i expect hugs when i show up at the wedding not introductions. anyhow, as nice as sarah and john were, it is just not the same. BUT i did get some amazing shots and their wedding was beautiful. as you will notice there are not any reception pictures here, that is because i only stayed for the ceremony. that was really strange. it is like i missed the party. oh well i can’t wait to see Kate’s pictures so i can see what the  rest of the day looked like. =) thanks kate for letting me hang with you and curing my wedding craves. 

well this weekend my sister in law nicki, brother in law jeff and my niece and nephew hannah and jacob came to visit from houston. we had a house full of kids and there was never a dull moment. it made me realize how un-baby proof our house is and how different our lives are now that we don’t have babies. we had a lot of fun and i really miss living in the same town as them. we went to the capitol and all over dc to see all that stuff and then the next day we went to mount vernon which i really liked! i didn’t take too many pictures because i was so amazed and loving just being there. history is so cool to me. i wish i would have liked it more in school and i wish i could remember it all. i guess i will have to re teach myself while we live here and see all i can see. enjoy the pics of the crazy kids. =) happy monday!

 
oh ya that pic of kate and will was when it was getting dark and i was trying to get the kids to sit together for my mom and kate was not punching will but this picture sure makes it look like that. too funny! =) sorry mom i did not get that picture for you. i will do a real session with them soon. XXOO

so on tuesday night we had a photographer dinner with over 20 photographers from the DC, VA and MD area. we went to gorden bierch brewery in tysons corner. armin defiesta organized the whole thing. it was a lot of fun to get to hang out with a bunch of other photographers. you can imagine there were lots of cameras and lots of iphones. i usually do not bring my camera to things like this unless we are shooting because i would rather concentrate on hanging out and eating. so when you don’t have a camera you get goofy shots of you with the crazy lens. so i thought i would share my dorky looking picture as well. =) Sorry i have not been blogging much lately but i am resting up for this crazy busy fall that starts now for me. so don’t you worry there will be lots of posts coming real soon. this month i am going to houston for glennie and benny’s wedding, patricia and ryan’s e-session, jeanie’s bridal session and then i am going to alburquque NM for jeanette and brandon’s wedding. but you want to know what i have been doing? i have been meeting with lots of brides booking up 09 pretty fast, i shot a wedding with a new friend up here kate triano, and i have been enjoying this beautiful fall weather here! it is amazing and i love it! it is so crisp in the mornings when we walk kate to school. the leaves are starting to change and i can’t wait for it to happen even more. well that is about it. Nicki, Jeff, Hannah and Jacob are coming up this weekend. that is my sis-in law and family. That will be fun. so have a great weekend everyone! i am sure we will take pics this weekend and i will post them soon!

and thanks to noah hayes for taking these pictures!