my son and his buddies

So as I go through this journey as a Mom I start to connect the memories that I treasure from my childhood to the memories and opportunities I have to make memories for my own children. My son briefly attended Kindercare a couple half days a week so that he could enjoy a little social interaction and so Mommy could have some alone time with Isabella and maybe get some work done! With crazy wedding season here we decided to have someone come to the house and watch the kids 2 days a week so we had to trade in Aidan's pre-school in order to make that work. The biggest benefit we saw to Kindercare was the friends he made. Everyday that he'd go to school, the second we'd get there he'd look for Gio and Peegan (Keegan). Everytime I'd talk to him about his day he'd tell me all about Gio, Peegan and often Iby (Ivy). It didn't take me long to figure out which ones Gio and Peegan were! They were the other 2 little boys in the class that were just like Aidan!! Ivy was harder to spot. How to you picture what your son's first baby crush looks like?? I finally got to meet little Miss Ivy at a birthday party and she couldn't have been cuter! She reminds me of me when I was a little girl with white blonde hair always in french braided pig tails! She is a doll and always has her big brother in tow! I love it! Aidan will quickly be that older brother looking after his little sister!!!
Luckily since we've stopped taking Aidan to Kindercare we have been able to get Aidan together with Gio and Keegan at a couple Birthday parties. We invited the boys over for Isabella's Party and I was so delighted that they both were able to make it. I thought I'd post a cute picture I took of the 3 boys. Now if you have boys and they've hit the age of 3 you know how hard it is to get 1 3 year old boy to sit for a picture let alone 3 3year olds...ok no not just 3 year olds these are 3 boys of a very special, crazy, wild, active, rambunctious nature. So I thought I'd share the rare catch!

From left to right Gio, Keegan, and Aidan

Jenaye + Kyle {foxtail wedding, wedgewood wedding, Giants Fan Wedding, Double Tree Wedding Photos}

Jenaye and I have known each other for about 6 years now. We worked together at Best Buy! Wooo Wooo! It was such an honor to photograph Jenaye and Kyle's Wedding a couple weeks ago at Foxtail Golf Course in Rohnert Park. I had most of the images processed a week or so ago and had every intention of going through and picking out a few of my favorites and putting up a sneak peek post last week. Well, I GROSSLY under estimated the work it would be to put together an indoor tea party for my daughter's 1st Birthday. So I got slightly behind (to put it nicely) So I sat down today to pull aside my favorite images for a quick sneak peek before I uploaded the final gallery. Well that was next to impossible! I'm not sure if it was because I haven't blogged in awhile or if it's because I am getting worse at narrowing my choices down but I have never picked this many images for a post before and I CAN'T seem to narrow them down!! So this is basically a sneak peek of their album! LOL because I'm sure these and a handful of others will make the album!
Also I do have to add that this wedding went flawlessly! Not one single bump in the road. It was almost weird! Jenaye's dress had a seam come undone at the top but we got a sewing kit from Sue at Wedgewood and I sewed it back up. But really that wasn't even a big deal, it was one little loopty loop. I'm telling you this wedding was like a picture of perfection!!!
When I do my final consultation with my couples I usually work out a "putting the dress on time" and we work a timeline from there. It's very similar with all couples but with minor adjustments based on each couples desired outcome of images. In order to get all the shots you want we need to be sure to plan out the hours prior and directly after the ceremony just right in order to get all the images with out pressing you for time which will then make you nervous and stressed out. SOOOOO not my style! so I try to avoid that at all cost! Well let me tell you Jenaye wasn't just on time she was early! Because of that the entire timeline ran so smoothly and we had plenty of time to get the shots they wanted and plenty of time to just take our time through everything. It left everyone cool, calm and collected which I think proved beneficial in the images.






Now this picture needs a little explanation! So there we were in the Double Tree parking lot taking pictures of the ladies. I had finished up with the Bridesmaids so they went up to the room to gather their stuff, just as Jenaye, her Mom and I were walking back around to the front we noticed a big pick up truck drive through the parking lot covered in Giants decals. Knowing what huge Giants fans Kyle and Jenaye are (and that Kyle proposed to Jenaye at the Giants game) I immediately ran after the truck to the far end of the parking lot. He must have been dropping someone off at the airport shuttle!! He so kindly agreed to park his truck in the front of the hotel under the overhang in the shade for me so I could take a few shots of Jenaye with the truck! I had sooooo many fun ideas in mind but there was no way to execute any of them with out totally destroying her dress so we just took a few in front of the truck. I wish I would have gotten the guys name so I could call him for a "trash the dress" session!!! If anyone recognizes this truck tell the owner to send me an e mail!!!!!











OK Justin Beiber and any other super cute child star better watch out because this kid is gonna take over the world! Look at how cute he is!!!!!

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Niki + Mike's Green Music Center Wedding Sneak Peek! {Green Music Center, SSU wedding, sonoma county wedding}

I had the honor of photographing the very first wedding held at the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University. The property is absolutely gorgeous! There are so many places to take great pictures, and the construction isn't even finished yet!!! There are so many beautiful wodden doors and gates and gorgeous stone walls and pillars! and the Hospitality Director, Kelley was amazing to work with. So delightful and for the first wedding ever held there she was cool as a cucumber (do people still use that saying??) she was in fact more calm and full of solutions I would have thought it was their 100th wedding.
I have barely begun editing these images (the wedding was yesterday) but I had to pull out several of my favorites and a handful that showed off just how beautiful this place really was.
Now you have to have a little back story on the weather. As many of you know, a cloudy or overcast day is ideal for any photographer! It's in fact our dream! We pray and pray and pray that every morning we wake up and have to shoot a wedding the sun is delicately placed behind a flat wispy cloud. Well I woke up yesterday and the sun was fast pitched behind a storm cloud the size of Texas! But my trusty iPhone weather ap said it wasn't going to rain until 8pm. But either way the sun was still tucked away so there was no direct sun and we were free to take photographs anywhere we'd like with out the fear of the sun getting in our way! Sure enough, 15 minutes before "show time" the bride walks around the corner about to make her final steps towards the isle and as if to slam it in my face that the bride and her family were praying much harder than I was, the sun beamed out of the clouds and lit up the entire lawn! It really was gorgeous! But cool and collected on the outside, inside I was scrambling to get my camera's to "plan b" or "plan sunshine" the rest of the afternoon the sun was playing tricks on me. Hiding behind a wispy cloud, I'd get the group set up and my camera set, my finger would hit the trigger and PEEK A BOO!! the sun would pop out from behind the cloud! It was fun times! But what doesn't hurt you makes you stronger.... ya ya ya and leads you to a bottle of wine at the end of the evening! Luckily I have a 2.5 year old and a 1 year old which makes me no stranger to adaptation. So I did just that. Here is a little "sneak peek" of a few of my favorites and a few that will showcase how beautiful this venue is. There are many more to come!

Collin Bonomo {newborn photos}

I just wanted to share one of my favorites from Collin's Newborn shoot. I'm sure if you've followed my blog for any amount of time then you've read about my dear friends, The Bonomo's and their daughter Kennedy. If not it's a story everyone should know. It will inspire you to be a better person. http://kennedybonomo.blogspot.com/
Collin is the newest addition to the Bonomo Family and it was such an honor and a pleasure to make the trip down to Glendora to take Collin's photos. He was 5 days old! I am tired and about ready to pass out on my computer desk so I can only post 1 of my many favorites from this shoot, ok maybe 2. But I promise I will post more this weekend!

Yolanda's Mother's Day Sneak Peek.... {claremont colleges, family photos at claremont colleges, family photos, mothers day photos}

Yolanda and her family live down the street from our home in Rancho Cucamonga. When we moved we were so sad to say goodbye to such amazing neighbors! I was extatic when Chelsea called asking if I'd do a photoshoot for her, her little Brother, and her Mom for Mother's Day while I was down in the L.A. area visiting my Mom. Here are some of my favorites...








Did I mention that there just happened to be a nudest group at the location we picked??? We went to Scripts College which is one of the beautiful Claremont Colleges. We happend to glance over into the grassy field that was in the center of all of these old gorgeous buildings. We thought there was just one topless sunbather until we heard a group of people screaming and saw them dancing. It was then that we noticed that some were topless, some were completely nude! Luckily Camden was too young to notice! the rest of us just got a good laugh out of it! I think it contributed to some of the great smiles I got from the ladies!