nikki and matt's sealing















two of my best people were sealed in the salt lake temple this last saturday. it was really awesome and really cold. (g and I made it in the group picture...look for green boots and grandma coat).

run down of weekend in utah:

-land on friday afternoon
-head strait to frenchie and pick up lights
-dress fitting
-haircut with shep
-dinner with kate and anna at pizza factory
-apartment that smells like syrup
-sleep
-breakfast at park cafe
-sealing at SLT
-photo time
-awesome bride and groom snow angel photos (coming soon)
-walked down bike path to lunch open house at the afflecks
-walked in mall like zombies
-fell asleep in car in parking lot of mall for 30 mins
-dinner at royal india (favorite indian food in sandy)
-sleep
-church time
-gave baby wright horsey rides in sacrament and tay a makeover
-went to the single young adult class (what?!)
-had slight breakdown about getting married
-lunch with family, cheese fondue
-pack and play
-not enough time to take photos of newborn mary...not fair.
-dinner at wildes. thank you for a fantastic dinner!
-family shower at grandma henriksens
-collected a lot of yummy recipes and told the story of "us" for our family.
-lost grants cell phone
-found grants cell phone
-watched "son of rambo"
-sleep
-caught early flight home
-bumpy ride, three people threw up on our flight
-landed with the electricity off at long beach airport

home with 2 1/2 weeks until the wedding. hollah!

balboa island wedding











































I know this post isn't very christmasy, but I have been working on this wedding and was excited to final get some of my favorites online.

the ceremony was in an amazing church right on balboa island and the reception at the beautiful balboa bay club in newport beach.

happy christmas eve day!

(due to the request of the bride, I have posted only detail shots)

frame emi and kort

to purchase prints from emi and kort's wedding visit here.

(ps. I know I have majorly neglected my blog this past week. I think it's the holidays and planning a wedding myself that is causing me to fall behind. don't give up on me! keep checking back because my goal is to fully remedy my blog problem by wed).

the wedding of emi and kort- los angeles, ca
































































































I haven't posted for a few days..my bad. I am making it up by throwing up a huge ginormous wedding.

it has taken me a couple of days to tackle this beast. so many images to edit through. I really loved re-living a wedding while I look through the images. I am so busy on the wedding day that I don't really get a chance to "enjoy" the wedding till I am looking at the photographs.

this wedding was traditional with some non-traditional touches..alternative music during the ceremony instead of classical, cupcakes instead of a cake and the best part was stand up comedians as entertainment. I was skeptical at first when I heard about this, nervous that if it wasn't funny it could flop. luckily, they were hilarious! I was laughing, my trusty assistant grant was laughing and every guest was as well. it was a hit! I would highly recommend them. the comedian duo basically get details on the spot about your story and then proceed to improv a musical about it. amazing. I was so impressed and LOVED that it was something I had never seen at a wedding before. good job emi and kort!....oh and although it was suppose to be funny (and was), it was still emotional enough that it actually brought tears to emi's eyes (refer to photo with laughter and tears). priceless. I will post the comedians information once I find it.... (have to clean this desk).

you two are so great. I loved becoming friends with both of you and wish you all the happiness life can give. xxoo.

to see more from this event and order prints visit this place.

lisa and dave's wedding








































































I guess when I promised I would post these the next day...I meant the next day I posted. I don't usually post on the weekends. sorry about that. to make up for it I am posting a lot of images from this wedding. when I say a lot I mean almost 80. you might wonder if I have an editing problem. YES! Is there a help group for people like me who can't choose?! the real problem I have (among many) is I feel like I am doing an injustice to the "story" by taking parts out. How do you know it was snowing if you can't see the children reaching for it outside? how do you know lisa let her hair down if I don't show her letting loose? how will you become as obsessed with dave's infectious smile if I don't show the smile while he's busting some hardcore moves on the dance floor? see my dilemma? dilemma solved! post 80 images!

A really, really fun wedding. this group can dance. I wish all of you could have seen and heard their DJ. amazing is the only word to describe him. He participated almost more than best man or girl. wow.

love you two!!!! happy life!

back home

ke'e beach (end of the road, north shore kauai)

the b-maids. freezing but still fierce.
after a fun week and a half away from home, I am back with some great photos and a fantastic case of jet lag...(yesterday I just could not sleep enough).

more later this week from one of my favorite places on earth, kauai and lisa & dave's wedding in utah.

I went from swimsuits, bare feet and $1 papayas to a snow storm sunday morning on my way to the airport in utah. that would mess anybody up.

nellie & kent- wedding day/part 4

I said I was only going to post three parts to this wedding..well couldn't. here is the last and final one. I'm going to miss looking at kent and nellie's faces everyday. maybe you two should come on up to LA and hang out on my trampoline?










































***note to the people who sabotage the getaway car at weddings...at this wedding they put the car on blocks so when they thought they were going to drive away they went nowhere. sad..and pretty excruciating to watch...but I think it was a sabotage success. I've seen a lot at weddings but this was a first.

nellie & kent- wedding day/part 3


















we thought it would be nice to hit some of the hot spots in town before the reception and I am glad we did. we got some great stuff. the library shots are kind of X-rated...sorry about that...well not really that sorry because they pretty much rule. steamy. steamy. can that please happen to me in a library someday?

nellie & kent- wedding day/part 1

























this couple has been waiting patiently to see their wedding pictures for weeks and to reward them I am going to post their images in 3 parts!....I act like this is for them but really there are SO many I loved that I can't narrow them done to 1 post...lets just say I took "a lot" of photographs on their wedding day.

ceremony: redlands temple
day of the week: saturday
number of family/friends in attendance: can't count that high
temperature: at least 105
level of awesomness: high to very high.

in the future

I will post more of...

the kelly family

madeline & mom

nellie & kent

grandma at the cabin

lisa & dave

I am off to girls camp till saturday. I feel like a horrible bad person for neglecting my blog and so many deserving people from seeing their photos. Believe me when I say it will be a welcome change to catch up on work when I am back saturday. Who knew I could miss photoshop?

until then...

i'm slow

I haven't been posting as constantly as I would like...sorry about that. I've been busy. busy worrying about the mouse found in my house yesterday. no joke. I'm grossed out...but posting the rest of this wedding by tomorrow will help me feel better.

any suggestions for rodent control? seriously gross.