Taking a blog break

I am in the midst of making some exciting changes to my senior photography business, alt-senior.com so I will be taking a break from my blog for some time. please keep checking back here because I will be back - it will just take a while - probably 10 months or so. thanks!!

Bad blogger!!

i've been all healthy again (thank you everyone for expressing concern) just incrediably busy with wedding stuff - oh and i did some fun stuff too. i have a bunch of stuff to post but have to get my jobs done and outta here first. thanks for being patient!!

i'm sick

i'm so sick - so sorry but i just have to lay low for a little while and get better. its been well over a week and i'm not going to get better at this pace. thanks for your patience. :)

Our Pammy plays Softball - and she can kick some serious butt too!

The winning team!

playing outfield

stealing a hug with her pammyand stealing a kiss with her pammy - love the foot in the air
pammy as catcher - have these people never heard of safety gear?!
a hard hit to center field and she is off!
dude, you have NO BALL in your glove! get your dirty mitts off my pammy!
Our Pammy is on a softball team so we went to go see her game on Sunday. Her team is in 2nd place and faced off against the first place team - and won!! It was 8-7 right in the last inning with a doozey of a home room too! what an exciting game! Pammy played really well as usual (even though she modestly said she sucked:) Here are a few highlights. Thanks for having us at your game Pammy!

It was suppose to be a relaxing weekend in San Diego, but...

usually when i'm about to complain about how bad my weekend was i start by saying "at least no one died" but in this case someone did. my weekend in short summary: a one hour train that took 4 hours, one dead person who never should have stepped in front of that train, one daughter with stomach flu a high fever and vomiting, one scared shitless bicyclist who now absolutely wishes he never pounded on the back of the car of a protective mother as her/my child was vomiting in the backseat (I rarely get angry but when i do...), one husband who never should have described a 1000 sq ft cottage as a "beach HOUSE," a night spent on the one comfy bed in the beach cottage with a sick child rather than being out on the beach like i really really really wanted to be, one set of lost car keys, one taxi driver from hell. i'm sure there is more but i'll stop there other than to say that one of the reasons we went was to pick up our extra car for Lance but I dont have it now because of one dumb ass stupid head momma's boy cry baby who will remain nameless. the good news for me is that sheri LOVED her photos and wants to more "creative ones" which is really good for me because i really need to photograph something very very different right now. ok, enough of my whining. my heart goes out to the train engineer - i know these things effect those guys a lot.

Sheri

Really, there aren't a whole lot of words that need to be said here. The images speak for themselves - not only did her physical beauty shine but I was happy to capture her amazingly joyful spirit. She is mature beyond her 18 years, can sing, dance and act like no ones business, is generous, sweet, super smart, sassy beyond belief and just when you think you wouldn't be able to stand all this good stuff in one pretty girl, she just happens to be one of the friendliest people ever. This is one amazing girl. She will be off to Fresno State at the end of summer but I hope to be able to get at least one more session with her before then! Thanks Sheri and Brett for a really fun day!

Meow.....zzzz......

here is my little leopard after an exhausting day at her summer program. today was drama class and the teacher was demonstrating theatre makeup so she got to be a leopard. but look how sleepy she is. i made a mistake and saved these as adobe rgb so the colors got lost but the originals show her amazing green eyes. my sweet girl.

Farmers Market

i love her little pink tennies

the families were so proud - lots of applause

Todd worked from home today so we actually got some time together which was nice. We have heard about how great our local farmers market is but since its on a Wed. from 3-6 we couldnt ever go until today. What a fun little outing. Great food but I especially liked the ballet dancers performing - not what one expects from a farmers market but it made it all the sweeter. Its at the corner of 3rd and Bush if you are ever in Santa Ana on a Wed in the afternoon and are hungry.