My Work Friends

Over the past year and a half I've had to opportunity to meet and become friends with some people I do business with! It truly is another world I never knew existed but I am so glad I found. 

In having my own photography business since May 2012, I've grown so much as a person, business woman and friend. With in that time I've become close with some great people that I otherwise would have never met! 

And we sure have a lot of fun together at 

all our OCAR Events that I get to Photograph!! 

Christy 

tracy & Abe

peter g. always looks out for me

and trys to help me network

gary, friend and fellow photographer

but thankfully not a full time one!

photographer i mean....

Shelly, my mama cheerleader

my buddy dan, aka danny zuko

my bestest friend tracy

sarah

joyce who has always helped and supported me

Lisa! we do bikram hot yoga together...

I am so blessed!! :-)

4th of July

Hope you all had a great Independence Day!

I love days off. They are the best!

We slept in (obviously), and then headed

to the Ward Party. Then went home, took a nice

nap, relaxed, BBQ-ed on our balcony..

played video games.. watched tv...

relaxed some more.. and played with our pup!

We headed up to our nearby hill where I go

all the time to take pictures. Whisler Ridge Hill.

We saw minimum 30 shows from our spot!

It was awesome!

((trigger LOVES lasers!))

Life Lately

Wow, i feel like i just can't catch up anymore

life is busy with work and church and working out.

it just never ends. I don't want it to end up

but sometimes you just need a break. 

so glad we got to do that this weekend

with some friends from Idaho, 

Kevin & Gretchen

we went down the HB Pier 

enjoyed a stunning sunset

& ate at Rubys

The next day was hoping the beach would 

be warm.. but Laguna failed us.. it was

so windy and cold.. no sun :-(

we stayed about 1 hour, ate lunch

then headed back to our apartment pool

where it was much warmer!

aaron loves those chinese therapy massages..

we've gone to get massages twice this month 

already! we are in pain....

Aaron and Trigger napping... we find ourselves

here a lot..

                                      

Trigger and I running some work errands! 

it was about 100 in the car and 95 outside...

therefore the tongue is waaay out.

                                     

i love this little guy

with the weather being so nice in the evenings its

fun to go hiking or running nearby.

the aliso creek trail is a famous one for sure.

i find myself on it quite often.

the views to saddleback are great and i love

exploring back there.

the recent Super Moon.. it was way better

to see in real life!

 

I've found myself at the beach a lot

for work lately. I'm not complaining, trust me.

I have this awesome telephoto lens where

you can zoom in and see something a few

miles out. I spotted this ship in 

San Clemente one day!

another great shot from a Dana Point job I had.

I seriously love my job.

and I love my job so much that they even

put me on the cover of the magazine?!

I was soooo stoked! I'm front and center in the

purple shirt with my camera wrapped around

my neck. I have to say, in the 1 year i've had

my business... I never thought i'd make 

an impression so good as to get on 

their magazine. I must be doing something right.

YAY

Life has been great, just super busy.

I kinda like it that way though.

Things to look forward to:

4TH OF JULY

ARW PARTY @ HOUSE OF BLUES

5TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

ANNIVERSARY TRIP!!!

my little human and lunch

my little pup is turning into a human. 

puman.

This is in our bedroom and he'll just perch up on the window sill

and watch other dogs or people go by. So funny.

For visiting teaching this month, I was 

fortunate to get 2 new girls

to teach me. I am thrilled to say the least.

They took me out to Rocq Cafe 

in lake forest.

If you haven't been, it is a little gem 

and you need to go asap.

right now. run. it's a french place.

I got the la normande crepe with ham, 

swiss cheese, 

mushrooms and a mouth full of other 

flavors on a wheat crepe... 

I've never had a 

non fruit crepe 

before so I wanted to see what

 that was all about. 

So. Good.

I also got to try a macaroon

for the first time! 

LOVED THEM.

chocolate mint is my favorite, 

of course.

and lastly how could you go wrong with a
 8 minute 1994 ab workout via youtube

Please check it out and do it every single day.

I am. 

You'll be better for it.

and p.s. i hit over 100+ miles of running 
so far this year
i am excited. i need to get
my butt in gear if i'm going 
to do 1,000 though!

relief society night

Relief Society Night

don't you love it? i do. for the most part.

im on the committee so i help with set up, clean up, 

planning activities, etc... it's fun!

tonight was the RS Birthday! i'm not sure what

year. but it's a big number.

check out these ADORABLE cupcakes a very

talented sister in my ward made. 

we made a cutesy craft... quote with scrapbook paper,

ribbon, flowers and frames.... 

i invited my good friend Trish to come. i always try and 

invite her to the fun nights :-)

and lastly... what would be blog post with out a panoramic image!? 

This is in RSM from my church building.

 incredible view!

not sure what that white stuff is on my phone camera... ugh...

Ski Day :: Snow Valley

epic ski day

((snow valley))

can you imagine me skiing? I couldn't. but I did it anyway. I have always snow boarded, all the three times I did it. the hubbster has always skied and wouldn't you guess, his first place he ever skied. ever. The Alps. yah, the ones in switzerland. so needless to say, he's experienced. 

blake (left), aaron (right), skiing the alps in i think 95'

now back to me. we went with our close friends the johnsons - he is really good but she has only gone once before so we took a beginner lesson together. perfect idea. it really gave me the confidence i needed. and the teacher was awesome. so we learned the basics and an hour into the lesson he'd asked me if i skied before, i said nope! yaaaa, thats right. 

aubrey & kaleena

so off we went, on our own. lesson was over and i was good to go. i was ready for the slopes. so we went on the next level up from the "bunny slope" and we cruised down in like 2 minutes flat. unfortunately at snow valley that day they only had 3 runs open. only three.

aaron & chad - the pros.

after 3 runs down the intermediate hill somehow hubbster convinced me to try the BIG ONE. the really steep one. the only reason i really went up there was for the long lift ride up (if you know what i mean...), oh and the view. the view was epic. 

to say we had fun would be an understatement, we had a blast!

husband & wife skiers! looks. so. good. hot.

ski lift!

coming down the mountain with kaleena

i totally crashed and took a nice nap on the way home. man, what a fun day. 

lets do that again! 

(besides the falling down part where the ski rammed into my leg and now i have a really bad bruise)

((video clips))