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so last weekend i went up to NYC to visit veronica and jason for their engagement session. This was my first time to new york ever and it was awesome hanging out these two! it rained bad on saturday so i ended up going up around 6pm just to shoot at this one music venue that they love called the Music Hall of Williamsburg. then to make our dinner reservations at schiller’s. way cool restaurant and yummy food by the way. then we went to a little mexican place called mercadito for a margarita and to meet up with veronica’s bridesmaids. THEN we went to the porch and hung out there for a while. finally after several taxi rides and one subway ride we ended the night with a walk in times square, and a slice of pizza. bright and early we got up and veronica and jason made breakfast and then we took their adorable french bulldog Wimbly out for some shots with him. Wimbly is my new best friend incase you were wondering. we took a walk to a neighborhood park on the upper east side. he is such a great city dog and it is so sweet how much veronica and jason love him! after that we went to central park, bethesda terrace, and the brooklyn bridge all before my 2pm bus back to DC. enough about what all we did i have to tell everyone how adorable veronica and jason are. i have not ever seen a groom as into his bride as jason is with veronica (although i can think of a few recent ones that come pretty close). they are so sweet to each other and you can see it all over veronica’s face. she knows that she is loved! jason is always telling her how amazing she looks and playing with her hair, it is so stinking cute!!! it was amazing to hang out with them and get to know them. thanks guys for showing me NYC and being awesome hosts!

when i got home last night from nyc i had a fedex box waiting for me. laura and eric sent me these adorable texas cookies! first of all i love getting boxes and this box is my perfect favorite color combination! and finally these decorated sugar cookies are my all time favorite cookies! SO THANK YOU LAURA AND ERIC!!! and now my kids think you guys are the coolest. having a cookie and cup of hot tea was the perfect way to wind down from a crazy weekend. and for those of you that know me well you know i am going to try and find a hiding place for these so my family forgets about them.

last weekend when i went to annapolis to shoot laura and eric’s engagement session, josh and the kids came with me because our good friends now live there. the laughlin’s lived right across the street from us in texas and their kids are kate and will’s best friends. i am so glad they are not too far from us so we can see them often. i think we are taking all the kids to a museum this weekend in dc. it is rare to have such good friends close in the military. anyhow during my shoot josh took the kids over to watch their soccer games and after we hung out at their house and had some amazing fresh market seafood. yummy crab cakes and i know i am strange but i was the only one who did not have a huge lobster. while the boys went to get the food nikki and i hung out in the yard with the kids and i took a few pictures while we were supposed to be making pasta. oops. sorry kevin. good dinner with good friends. 

last weekend i met up with laura and eric for their e-session in annapolis. eric is in the naval academy and laura lives in austin. they are so cute and it was so much fun getting to walk all around the naval academy and then just the town. annapolis is amazing! i love all of the colored houses and the water. i think my new fall favorite color is purple because of laura’s shirt and her way cool hair piece. she bought it on etsy and it was a fall feature. so cute! it looked stunning with her red hair and her eyes! so you will have to wait awhile for their wedding pics because they are getting married in may 2010! anyhow, i am blabbing because i am riding on a bus to NYC for the weekend to shoot with veronica and jason. the bus has wifi and power plugs at each seat! so i am multitasking baby! enough of that. thanks laura and eric for the jamaican tea and for showing me around annapolis. 

jeanette and brandon were married at paako in the beautiful sandia mountains in new mexico. it was a great weekend even if i was sick and taking sore throat medicine every 4 hours. funny, the few times i have ended up shooting a wedding sick they still end up being some of my all time favs. i loved the ceremony being in the mountains and just looking all around, it was so beautiful! jeanette was stunning and everything was just perfect! all of the jewish traditions were beautiful. after the ceremony we took a golf cart around and drove up to some spectacular locations to take pictures of just jeanette and brandon. these are always my favorite pictures and i think every bride and groom should plan time like this.  the reception was in the club house at paako. mary did an awesome job making sure everything went as planned. during the reception they made an announcement advising everyone to stay inside because there was a bear spotted outside. that was fun being in the mountains in the dark thinking about all of the wildlife there could be outside. lisa and i had so much fun being in albuquerque, NM and we loved spending the weekend with jeanette and brandon. thanks guys for everything! 

    
    
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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.