............. KINGSLEY ................

Meet Kingsley. I've been waiting a long time for this little one! I can't believe the Grovers finally have a dog! YES!! There are plenty of people who needed a sneak peek of this little guy so I thought I'd put him up here for the world to see, he deserves to be seen by the world after all... wouldn't you agree?


Meeting our cat, Owen






First bath - I'm excited, he's...







Kingsley and his new favorite toy/brother Jerry - He doesn't discriminate.

WEEDS...

... are sometimes the most fascinating subjects to me























Im heading to Bakersfield for an engagement session and a wedding... more pictures to come soon!

just having fun...

I went out on a little walk around my house the other day and took a few shots of my surroundings. I didn't get much, but since things are a little slow when you move towns, I thought I'd share some of my favorites :)





I am just fascinated by all the nature we have in our new town, did you know Sacramento is called "The City of Trees"?!










I stumbled across an old piano someone had smashed to pieces, and I think I just might have to make something out of some of its remains... :)

WELCOME TO 331

Welcome to my home... I was getting just a small (ok, maybe a large) amount of pressure to post these pictures, and since I don't have a personal blog, everyone is invited! So, here is my wonderfully old house - my husband and I share this rented house with a cat, a creature in the wall and a backyard tenant! We love it - and so do you :)





Here's the view as you walk in the front door...




My new favorite detail, the typewriter (I'm not exactly sure how it ended up claiming the second desk... maybe I'm just getting tired of computers...)









Say hello to orange chair number two - that's right!




where I spend most of time time playing - I mean working. working.




Guest room. Why does everyone seem to be drawn to this color blue. If I had one ounce of painting energy this would be GONE. Sorry everyone - but your blue pains my eyes.




Kitchen.




boring bedroom.




And I mostly put this one in here because our toilet is now awesome. :)


Hope you enjoyed the tour - come and visit soon!

WE MOVED!

Well, it's been quite some time since I last posted, (maybe I just have to accept my fate as a terrible blogger?), but this time I have a grand excuse - or at least something worth noting on this blog even - Eddie and I moved to Sacramento (Roseville to be exact) this month! Just in case you weren't sure where...



It has been a long and crazy month full of new adventures and now I'm finally coming back to reality and will resume my postings as normal...hopefully. Business here will change to say the least but I am excited about the new possibilities presented in being closer to Sacramento and the Bay Area!! I love this town! We are living in an awesome old house in downtown Roseville that was built in 1936 - I am absolutely loving it! As we search for a house of our own to buy I can't help but fall more in love with old houses, they are just so unique - and smelly and quirky and not perfect and fun! Anyway, thank you all for your patience as I made my way up north. I am still booking weddings all over California and I will be posting my last adventures with some families in Bakersfield over the next couple weeks!





(images courtesy of a good friend/non-photographer/but would do an awesome job if he was - Ryan MacDiarmid)

EUR O P E.

Well.... I sort of went to Europe this summer. I took my camera too can you
imagine that? The combination of these to has caused a few people to continually
ask me when I'm posting pictures of this event. So for all you pestering and
rather bothersome people, here is a smathering of photos for your eyes only
(and anyone else who cares). I would like to dedicate these to my husband
who made me take "the small camera" - seems he's the only one who thinks
that things get stolen when you travel. I love you Eddie!




















everywhere we went the "futbol" game was on....





























and of course... us! (well at least the first one is me, I think Eddie
found a new friend for life!)

STRANGE WORLD WE LIVE IN

I was photographing some seniors downtown and this poster just begged to be noticed, I can't bear to imagine the fun I'll be missing out on come May 14th.

SACREMENTO

first posts are just supposed to be awkward, well, getting on with it...
these are a few fun nature shots from a field in Sacramento. My husband
and I planned a fun weekend away with our friends and I ended up tromping
around in a field full of mosquitoes taking photographs. That kind of stuff
tends to happen to me a lot lately.



























Of course we had to take a few jumping shots at the end...why not.



This is how our friend's daughter Macy felt about all the mosquitoes.
You'll understand why grown ups like to play in fields later Macy,
it will all make more sense when your older I'm sure.