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We have been busy! yea! I have to catch up on the blogging here. We have Bekah's and Jessica's senior portraits, a big family portrait, and our niece, Amy's beautiful wedding to tell you about.
So I will be posting some pictures one of these days...sorry about the delays! ( you can just watch the little slideshow on the right).

Wedding Check List

To our brides and anyone else thinking about wedding plans, here is a neat link to a Wedding Checklist, starting one year before the date: http://www.costofwedding.com/index.cfm?action=search.checklist&view=print
I hope that helps!
Our next wedding is going to be in Sedona, October 27! Our beautiful niece, Amy Chadwick is getting married there. We are getting very excited about the trip to Arizona. And also very exciting is Both our boys will be there too. I can't wait to see them!

Hope's Senior Portait

What a beautiful girl Hope is. We had a great time photographing her at the arboretum last week.
She is the kind of girl who will be able to accomplish any goal she might pursue. She is smart, kind,
thoughtful, as well as "pretty as a picture". We are blessed to be able to photograph such unique and lovely Seniors!

Our Trip to the Dump (or, what to do when Todd is out of town)

What a great day we had yesterday! Davy, our son, came to visit and I had a nice line-up of fun scheduled. First we headed to the Elite Training Studios, where Michael, the trainer, put Davy and Sue through an hour of kickboxing (I am injured, so I just did core exercises). Then we headed back home and I fixed us all Migas, a great scrambled egg dish that i learned from the Pioneer Woman blog. Then it was off to the Dump! Hooray!

We headed out with Davy as our driver.




We were delivering two huge, old couches to their new home, compliments of the church youth group. They were so big and heavy, we had to borrow Judi's big diesel truck. That was fun. It was a beautiful day to be outside...even if it was outside at the city dump. The clouds were so pretty and the air seemed so clean, even the dump air was not so bad.



Sue was pretty excited about going to the dump. (see her excited face back there in the back of the truck?) I don't think she gets to go there very often. I haven't been very often either, especially since they stopped allowing people to take things OUT of the dump! (just kiddin').










Poor Davy, here he was with these two delicate women and two huge heavy couches. He was so good, he didn't even panic. He was ready to unload them all by himself. As he started pushing and pulling, out of the blue (brown?) came a big guy with on offer.."Do you need any help?". Whoo hoo!
I asked him, "Are you an angel?" then I said "I know, you are the Dump Angel!". I think he was insulted. That was not the right thing to say. Anyway, we got the job done.







After we got home, we left Davy to shower and change and Sue and I headed for the Roseville Galleria. I mean, if you can't shop at the dump, you have to shop SOMEWHERE! My last shot is of the beautiful cloud we saw at the Galleria.

Hunter's First Birthday!

"Aw! that's where I want to be."





Terry and Dillon arrive to celebrate.





September 12: Hunter is now one year old. It's hard to believe he is about to enter Toddler-hood. But now he is crawling and life is changing for both him and Kelly and Cy! I had told Kelly to enjoy every minute of his non-ambulatory life because she is entering a whole new realm of motherhood. Her new cry will be "Where's Hunter?"

Anyway, Hunter had a really cool party. Wonderful friends and family were there and even a little pal of Hunter's showed up...Dillon. Dillon watched all the activity and his father told him, "Don't worry, Dillon, you will have all this fun pretty soon". (Dillon is a few months younger than Hunter.)

Kelly's Mom and Sister made great snacks. There was even Champagne! Not many first birthdays were that fancy! Hunter wasn't too impressed with all the activity, but he did enjoy his Birthday Balloons and a few of his presents. And as for the cake...well, Hunter preferred his cheerios.

A Play on Words

Here is a fun site to play with: http://wordle.net/
These are words from my recent blogs: click on the picture to see them in larger format.

Babysitting Hunter

We had a great adventure this week. Little Hunter was entrusted to us for about 3 hours- ie. the length of the Batman movie. This was a big event because Hunter had not stayed with us for that amount of time before. So this is how our day progressed: After Mommy left, Hunter, with a tear in his eye, quickly started storytime.

Next came weightlifting practice. And lots of photos.

Hunter says, "Enough with the cameras and pictures!"

So it was back to the books.

Now it is time for a walk to the park! Never mind that it is over 100 degrees by now. We just have to go to the park. Don't forget the hat.

Whee! First a great swing with Barbara pushing, Todd photographing.

Oh boy, Wood chips. Mommy never let me sit in this stuff. I'll dig holes here with my feet.
(Mommy was quite surprised when she changed my diapers later...lots of wood chips)

After the walk to the park, Hunter was a little dirty, and sporting his first sunburn. So the best thing for that is a little dip in the kitchen sink. Note the rosey cheeks and legs.

And now it's time to relax, watch some Wiggles on TV and snack on Graham Crackers with Uncle Todd.

As you can see, Hunter just wore himself out. He was ready for a nap and ready for Mom. Luckily, she returned soon after this picture! Boy, was he happy to see her!

Adam and Justine

This past Saturday we had the privelege of photographing Justine and Adam's most beautiful wedding. It took place at RH Phillips Winery in Esparto, California.
Justine, as you can see is a living doll of a bride. She had so much fun and was so expressive, we really had fun with her.
Both Adam and Justine were such good sports it made our day a pleasure. It started out pretty hot, but as the evening progressed a nice cool breeze came up and it was perfect! The neatest thing was watching the festivities under a full, beautiful moon. It was so pretty and really neat when we all sang "That's Amore" with an actual moon shining down on us.
There was great music for dancing and party-ing by Sierra Sound.
Liz Steiner, manager of the Tasting Room did a great job keeping everything organized and presenting a beautiful buffet dinner. We think the winery is a beautiful place for weddings, if any of you are looking...
The whole wedding was very gorgeous with beautiful flowers prepared by Adam's most talented Grandmother!
It was fun having a couple of our past brides present too. It is always fun seeing them. We have the most beautiful brides (and handsome grooms, too!) in the state, I think.



Here are some of the details from the wedding.


Here is one happy couple!!

This is a "must Watch video"

If any of you haven't smiled yet today, please go to this site and sit and watch!

http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/?fbid=0FA_N

It will change your day!

Our New Digital Frame

Our February Photo of the Month from Steve's Digicam- Baby Christian G.


I don't think I told you all that we ended up winning a Digital Frame from the Steve's Digicam photo of the day contest.

I highly recommend these frames for you and your loved ones. They make excellent gifts. I recommend having a family photo shoot and for Christmas, send your parents or grandparents a Digital Frame with the pictures from the shoot! They will love it!
Imagine a nice slide show of your wedding or your baby's latest antics. It is the next-best thing to their being with you.

The 5x7 Digital Frame is perfect for a desk at work, or on a side table in the living room.

San Francisco Day

Time to head home... a new way of travelling around the city.

A picture for my pal, Abigail...for old time's sake.


Sleepy California Sea Lions.


Shrimp at Bubba Gumps. Yum!


A sneak preview of some of the glass. Now you have to go to see the rest. It is spectacular!


Todd posed by the Hammond paper exhibit at the de Young.


Barbara and Sue showing how "life imitates art".



Here we are, Barbara, Sue, Aimee, Todd and Noelle. We are all happy and ready to spend the day in San Francisco.



Instead of more babies or weddings, today I'll tell you about our most perfect mini vacation last Wednesday.

Sue, Todd, Aimee, Noelle and I all piled into Sue's nice roomy car and off we went about 9:30am.
Our first stop was a little tour of Krispy Kreme donuts. Thanks to Pastor Exter's sermon last
Sunday, Barbara knew the exact exit for Krispy Kreme's-Apian Way!

So after such a happy start, we drove into San Francisco and found a parking spot right near the de Young Museum. It was just a short walk to the museum. We spent a couple of hours at the beautiful Chihuly blown-glass art exhibit. It was amazing.

Then we drove over to Fisherman's Wharf, parked in the public parking lot and strolled over to Pier 39 for lunch at Bubba Gump's. We all had delicious shrimp lunches. After that, we walked out on the pier and watched the California Sea Lions basking in the sun.

We walked off our lunches by touring Fisherman's Wharf and walking to Ghirardelli Square.
It was quite crowded so we managed to leave without buying any chocolate!

The weather was perfect (for me). A nice cool day with foggy sea air felt very refreshing before we headed back to 90 degree weather at home.

If you are interested, we will post the rest of the pictures on flickr soon.