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On Friday I will be headed to Raleigh, North Carolina to do a boudoir shoot for a rockin photographer that lives in the area! Weee! So fun! I’m nervous! 1.) I hate flying and 2.) doing shoots for really good photographers is always a little intimidating! HAHAHAHA! SUPER excited though!
For the So Cal peeps, I will be back late on the 31st. Those of you who had your sessions this past weekend will get your galleries before I leave. Mwah!
We’ve had a crazy past couple of months. My poor kids have been neglected (not like CPS neglected but like “we want our mom to play with us again” neglected) and its easy to try to please everyone else first because the kids never get mad at you. I’ve been crazy busy, my husband’s work schedule has been nuts ( I feel like a single mama this past month, thank you my husband’s company if you even read this. Doubtful. LOL!!) Add some sickness on that and NO BUENO! So anyways, I’ve finally starting to wrap stuff up but still crazy and my kid is hanging on me saying “mama! Mama! MAMA! I want a snack! Read me this book! Let’s play hide and seek! Wipe my butt! I drew you a picture!” All the parents out there know what I mean! It’s pretty much impossible to get any type of work done at home.
There comes a point when you have to realize and say “screw it! My kids need some attention!” SOOOOOO, Jevin got to go with grandpa on his truck route (my dad is a long haul truck driver) because he is out of school this week. Jon is away working again, I miss him! (No, this is not an invitation to come murder me, I have dogs, big ones.) But you dont really realize how much someone helps out until they arent here! I’m not the best domestic goddess and one day he came home after a few days and looked around and said “What, did your maid quit?” HAHAHAHA
Soooooo it’s girls week this week! I wanted to take Daph to do something fun too instead of staring at me working. LOL Today she had her very first manicure and pedicure. Thank you Professional Nails for being so good with her! She felt like such a big girl!
She asked her if she wanted a flower and she said “Flower? On my TOE?” HAHA
finished product (and yes, we had smoothies for dinner! Hey dont judge. LOL)
Now it’s time to go find something healthier for dinner and then have a girls camp out in the living room. When she falls asleep, I can sneak away and get back to work. Sometimes you just need a quick break!
Update on the Snap! meeting! We had a pretty big response so we had to draw names out of a hat due to space and seating for my studio. The 10 names drawn were:
Deanne B.
Sarah T.
Kathleen M.
Sarah A.
Steph
Patty R.
Candace S.
Vicky E.
Alison
Kristy R.
We will email you ladies with more info! If anyone is unable to make it let us know and we can draw out of the other names. Those of you who aren’t able to attend this one, we’ll be doing another meeting soon so stay tuned!!! We looking forward to meeting you!
And because a blog post looks totally empty without any images, and because I havent taken any today, I am going to add a music video of Lauren O’Connell and Julia Nunes who I think are awesome. Independent artists rock. They are both on iTunes too:
Friday I had a fabulous time with *T* at her boudoir shoot. Hope you had a great flight home, T! After the shoot I went and checked into a cute hotel down the street from my studio called The Keating. My hubby was meeting me down there after the kid pickup/drop off schedule, LOL. (Thanks mom and dad for watching the kiddos!) We were headed to the Dierks Bentley and Brad Paisley concert later that night and decided to stay in town. The concert was fun, although CROWDED. I’ve been to that venue a few times and I have never seen it that crowded. It was practically a make out session with the stranger next to you. 
Let’s also add that open toe shoes in an overly crowded country concert (think cowboy boots) is NOT a fantastic idea.
I got to the hotel about an hour before my hubby so I entertained myself by taking pictures. HAHA
being a dork per usual (p.s. dont judge me, I walked a couple blocks in the rain! LOL)
The concert was fun, no pics though….no “professional cameras” allowed. Darn. We had fun with our friends Courtney and Danny. Afterwards we hit up the Yard House for some late night nachos and coconut shrimp. Yes, that is probably why my pants are tight. :P My poor husband was so tired he fell asleep in the booth. Getting up at 3:50 am for work that day probably didnt help the “tired factor.”
The next day we got up and headed to pick up the kids at my parents house and for my sister in law’s baby shower. Yep, I have a niece on the way! Sophie should be making her debut in November sometime. Danielle, I am forcing you to take maternity shots this week. You have no choice in the matter. 
Kelsey, the hair and makeup artist for the boudoir shoots, is a super crafty one…she made this cute cake and the yummy sangria. I’m super impressed, I cant even make a Betty Crocker cake with box instructions.
No baby shower is complete without beverages for the non-pregnant peeps.
Okay, that’s all my jabbering for today, I am headed off to a beach family shoot. Watch for a blog post tomorrow about the “SNAP! Jam” information. Kristin and I are going to draw names out of a hat tonight and will post the info tomorrow on both of our blogs!
The rockin’ and fabulous child and family photographer, Kristin Rachelle, and I are excited to introduce our very first SNAP! Jam in downtown San Diego. We are opening it up to 10 photographers so email or post a comment by October 4th if you are interested in attending! If more than 10 people are interested, we will draw names out of a hat.
This meeting will take place in my downtown studio at 7 pm on Thursday, October 15th and will be a social gathering to get to know each other and talk a little bit of shop. Kristin and I are known to be a little goofy so you might even have fun. 
The cost is free for the meeting, but we will require your first-born child in the event you don’t come ready to have fun. 
(<—- I stole Kristin’s words cause she is better at this than I am.)
