Side blog: Personal

I am a crazy MOM! I throw over the top unbleivable parties which sometimes I enjoy more than my kid! I dress up and play the part and I even recruit other adults into this mad circus of fun! I have decided to log these adventures begining with my upcoming Pirate Party for my little Zach. You can find this new web-log here : My Kids Parites

Turkey wrap up

Here are a few images from our trip to texas.

Susie in the Fort Worth Jail:
My adorable Zach at the Fort Worth Zoo. Needing a hair cut really bad.. But ohhh so cute!!!

Susie and Zach on the baby Elephant:

My Grandma ans my sis at the Zoo:

Susie and Zach with Santa at the Mall:

The best moment of our visit: Me winning cards with a crazy high count in my hand and still comin gin 1st place!!!!!

The lazy cat warming up:

Hanging out jsut resting on our way to Texas:

Grandma Robins with her friend Bart at Cracker Barrell:

One of the amazing Arizona Sunsets:

Zach and Em:

More to come :)

Fort Worth stockyards

I'm still here in the big beautiful Texas!!! I am having so much fun we decided to stay 2 more days than planned. My little sis has been the best! I love being here spending time with her and her hubby and exploring this awesome place. One of the places she took us to was the Fort Worth StockYards. It has an old town feel with a live bull and a human maze, tons of shops and cowboys... My kids we in heaven! It was a blast! I will just move on to the faves of the day!
here are some details from around town.


My beautful little Susie:


Adrian ... captured by Erin! Wsh she were in CA and could work with me on everything i shoot!


Zach working on a draw:


Still working on it I think:



Susie's details:



What a little ham!



Love this one.. Christmas card maybe!


Mommy look at all those cows!


My Family.. i love my family!!!!!1



And my entire reason for being here and enjoying this great state.. My little sis, Erin.. I mean Auntie EM!

Happy Birthday to ME!

So what did I get, Well other thatn the great new Taylor Swift CD From my hubby and kids, I got myself a fractured ankle bone!!!! Wonderful gift right?!? Anyway, I am totally fine and have a great new shoe that I get to wear around! I will take some pictures of it one day.. maybe. I can walk around and do all my normal things. But I get to get away with more.. Like not cleaning the toys off the livingroom floor. (which my kids should do anyway) Great thing is that I can sit here with my foot up and catch up on my blogging oh and work on getting my new website up and running!!!!!

For now 2 images from before I gave myself this awesome gift!!!

Zach helping me make our super Saturday Brunch this weekend:

Susie and I at the Walk for Hope on Sunday with our finishing medals!

Look at my Creatures : San Diego Zoo :)

We went to the zoo Last Month while down in beautfiul San Diego for a wedding. SInce I was all ready spending the night there because of the 12 hours wedding day.. I figured why not make it a family weekend! It was so much fun. For those of you have never been to the San Diego ZOO.. you must go ! It is 100 times better thatn the LA Zoo. The animals actually come out and look at you. It is shaded and cool and the whole place is beautiful! Here are my fave images from the day. I love spending time with my family and I love seeing all the awesome creatures.


The first two creatures we saw were these funny looking mamals eating some kind of frozen snack!

They seemd to be very consumed by the sweetness of the treat.

I even got one of them to take a picture with me by promising more treats later.

I saw this very attractive creature waliking on a brigde and caught up to him to get a picture.


Many of the creatures were resting.


Some were so hungry they began to eat dead trees.


The attractive one was able to catch the two funny looking ones for a moment. I couldn't resist a picture of this too,



WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF YOU DO NOT LIKE 8 Legged Creatures... DO not keep looking at this post. I do not hold myself liable for any damages you may cause to your own computer screen after viewing the next 2 images... :)
After that we saw that the creepy creatures were trying to web us into the park and we quickly ran away.. This was hard being that the webs were only 5 feet above our heads.



I can't think of anything clever to say here, just ahhhhhhh! and ewwwwwww! and that you have to walk under these webs to get down from the polar bear plunge and most people didnt even know they were there.

The funny looking creatures caught thsi giant hippo and it just gave up! The power of small children is amazing!



This creature thought I was boring.



Now my favorites:
This is what my house looke like during the weekend when I'm not there....


A calmer creature asked me to do her headshots:



More faves: Look at the love: This takes my breath away! I could totally be a wild life photog!



So cute! looks like a little kid.





That was our adventure this summer.. well one of them.. There were many many others and I plan to blog a summer highlight post soon!

Happy Saturday (only my second free one in months-sad and happy my shoot was cancelled today)

Party time tonight!

Thursday thought of the day

My Grandmother found this for my daughter and is really a statement that explains all that is my little Susie..

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker, (attributed)
US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)

Best Food Ever

Often when My lil' sis comes to visit we go out to eat and her future hubby's favorite place is this amazing Thai food restaurant in La Verne. It was the perfect way to celebrate them getting here and to wrap up a fabulous day of shooting in Seal Beach (one of my beautiful summer wedding couples .. post coming soon)

Picture(s) of the day