Let the Christmas Festivities begin! (catch up)

Holy heck it's been busy around here ! Been photographing a few families lately and loving it!

Noah had too much fun notifying the nurse every time he heard the "Beep!"

 Dr. appointments seem to run our lives lately, between regular check up with the boys and my monthly prenatal check up too! Also, believe it or not, I got a bad cold that lasted a whole week last week !

Wednesday we took them to the Ranch House to meet Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus! They've always been so good at meeting Santa. This year Noah asked for a big big flashlight. (he's been obsessed with flashlights since he was two)

Twenty Five weeks, say Whaaaa!?

Thursday Began decorating Christmas tree. Noah took charge and untangled the light and plugged them in. 

Thursday night we drove to our city's most lit up street and walked it. It was so fun and perfect! We've already been there 3x since!

Although we have been busy and I haven't been feeling my best (pregnancy this time around has been painful and not pleasant) we have made it a point to make time with the boys to celebrate the Holiday season! We love this time of year and so do our sons! The lights, the big trees and all the fun activities have them jumping with excitement for Christmas!

Friday night we celebrated our little sister's 17th birthday! It's crazy to think I've known her and seen her grow for ten years! She has such a fun character!

My mom and dad in law treated us all to Boccacio's, it's a fine dining restaurant in Westlake Village on the lake! So romantic and pretty!

Noah was too busy chasing the ducks lol

Saturday we took them to our city's Christmas Parade! They... well they loved it, for the first 15 minutes....
and then they got rowdy and couldn't sit still. Toddler life.
But we stayed for an hour so, pretty sure we almost saw all of it.

 A float handed out free windmills, which became our saving grace, so we ran and grabbed one for each boy! Highlight of the parade for sure!

Also met up with my clients to hand over their family photos I had taken. Yep I need to post about the pictures I've been taking lately. For now here are a couple. 

Saturday evening our friends Steve and Michelle invited us to walk that same lit up street with them and their daughters, that was fun too! It was cold and misty!

Sunday we went to church and enjoyed the Christmas Choir that the kids put on. There was even a Mr. Scrooge! Last year we had the Grinch. I can't wait to have my boys up there singing on stage for our Lord! 

Oh and that's a selfie because well duh I look good! hahaha jk. 

After church, we dropped the boys off at grandma's, and went grocery shopping real quick before meeting up to photograph our best friends for a fun little family shoot. They did so good and their kids were such little models! We had fun!

I asked Suzie to snap a couple pictures of David and I , showed her how to use the camera and look at how cute these came out! Thanks girl! I love them!

That sums up our weekend. We were busy and had fun! I love this time of year!

Pack Wedding (photography)

On October 29th, our friends Michelle and Steve got married! They asked me to be their photographer and of course I excepted. I shot their engagement pictures as well and we became great friends immediately! I love that we met these two! They attend the same church we go to and we had never met! Any who, they had a beautiful small wedding at a nice park with trees for a beautiful backdrop. Steve made all the props himself just days before their wedding, and it all looked so amazing!
They had their "first look" at the ranch house.

What a sweet romantic couple! What makes me happy are having happy clients and they were very pleased. 

Weekend Update (Oct.15-16th)

This past week, we found out the baby's Gender!
Ah! So exciting!

This weekend was another jam packed weekend! Those are the best! On Thursday I got a text from my good friend Victoria, who'm we met when she rear ended us when I was pregnant with Mr. Noah. 4 years ago! We found out she was a photographer and I told her I was too! Ever since, she's called me a few times to assist her with wedding photography and I love it! It had been a couple of years since I shot with her so when she asked me to go with her on Saturday I was thrilled! I was sick with the stomach flu the day before and was so weak on Saturday but I managed to be there and enjoy myself as well. I'll give a little Sneak peek

On the way to this location , I prayed that God has an out pour of blessing for our family. I prayed that I make more than I normally make assisting , I did, and I prayed for more things to come through to help us financially, and they are! I booked a wedding to photograph for the end of this month! And I am babysitting the kids I babysit every so often next week! Thank you God for always providing!
The wedding was amazing! It was at the Belmont El Encanto in Santa Barbara, CA. Such a luxurious location with a stunning ocean view! The bride was the easiest, funnest, most relaxed bride I have ever photographed! Some of these brides can be over the top but this one was so fun! The entire wedding party was fun! The guy's were non stop cracking jokes and fun to be around and even posed perfectly for us! Bravo!  There was champagne before the wedding began, a violinist and cello player during the ceremony, cocktail hour on the Terrace with the yummiest hors d'oeuvres. I didn't stay for the reception, I wasn't feeling 100%, but I did see the set up and it was so classy and perfect! A very well put together wedding.

That night, I got home by 7:40pm, David, I and the kids went to Ihop for some breakfast for dinner and called it a night. I was asleep by 9pm!

Sunday we went to church. We were happy to see David's brother there as well!
After church, we hurried over to the Disney store to get birthday presents for Miciah and Avram's birthday party. We headed over to Fillmore and had a blast at the amazing party! Suzie and Jessie did such an amazing job! The Theme was Carnival and it turned out great! She makes all the banners herself and It looked so good!

It was so much fun! What a great turn out! We all enjoyed ourselves!
We stayed for quite a long time, and enjoyed just chatting with their family after everyone had already gone home.
Afterwards, we drove around, in Valencia and I had planned all day to stop at Pickles, a sandwich deli, because when I photographed the wedding they had those there and I absolutely loved how yummy it was. We got there at 8:13, they close at 9 according to their website, and when we got there, there was a written out note on the door that said "sorry, today we will be closed by 8pm". I was devastated. As I mentioned before, it's been hard to eat something that 1. doesn't make me sick and 2. I really find enjoyable.
When I saw this, I had the biggest pregnant moment I've ever had a cried. Not a loud cry, but a teary can't stop crying cry. David felt so bad for me hahaha! He offered to pick some up for me the next day. He did, bless his sweet heart, but it ended up not being what I thought It would be. So that was a total fail. Poor man, he tries so hard to make me feel better  but sometimes, I'm just not having it. I blame my dissatisfaction on the baby. lol!

That was our weekend for ya!