Dia de los Muertos

I came across this event while grabbing a bite to eat in Oceanside the other week and thought it would be super fun. Dia de los Muertos was really fun to shoot and was a learning experience because I am just not the familiar with Mexican traditions. 

I went to get one shot and was super stoked when I got it. I really wanted a photo of the lady in white with the full face makeup. She is part of a dance they do for their holiday, I wish I could give you more info  but I don't want to lead you astray and give you the wrong info so here is the video of the dance form last year (click). Super fun!

Halloween time!!!!

This was the best Halloween yet!!!!! Kelli and I usually don't do anything for Halloween but this year we co-hosted a party at our friends Deb and Jame's house and we rocked it out! we did a little rock band, which I'm terrible at, and a little ping pong and a photo booth. here are the pics from that an one extra for dessert.

I was bacon and James was eggs, get it- bacon and eggs :)

Bobby was a ghost

Buzz Version 3.5

Here he is again!!!!!!

I took Buzz on a little exploration trip into a grove of eucalyptus trees and he was in HEAVEN. This little guy loves twigs, sticks and leaves and this place was filled with them. He was so stinking funny running around cause he would get a mouth full of twigs then drop them and get another mouth full of twigs 5 inches to the left of him, I guess grass is greener on the other side. Being in he is own little dream world, he was barking for no apparent reason and running in circles chasing the leaves falling from trees due to the windy day. He was a little kid in a candy shop. 

^Buzz's big boy bark *woof woof*

^Buzz stalking his twigs

^Fav pic of the day

Niveen and Michael

Better late then never... 

I shot this wedding a few weeks ago and life has just been too crazy and i totally forgot....oops. well anyways, I had the opportunity to second shoot east coast big hitter, Glen Cooper. He was super dooper nice and let me do whatever the quack I wanted. It was like being the primary with no worries :)

This wedding was too stinking fun. Niveen is from Pakistan and Michael is from Santa Barbara, the twist on this wedding was it was their second one. Their first wedding was in January in Boston all decked out in Pakistani wear and tradition. This wedding was their second and a little more Americanized  (I think that is a real word).  The ceremony was "normal" but Niveen still wore her traditional dress. her dress was my favorite. It is different from their first wedding but hand made by the same person from Pakistan. Each dress takes 1-2 months of crazy skills.... AMAZING!!!!! I would love to shoot more of these weddings. Anytime, anywhere! 

^thats me in the food thinger :)

halloween prep

hahahahahah halloween time is coming!

Kelli and I are pretty darn excited for halloween this year for a few reasons. One because Buzz is going to dress up with us, and we have friends to spend the time with us. You cant have halloween without pumpkins so we each got one and did our best to create our little jack-o-lanterns. Unfortunately, all the pumpkin patches close a 9:00 so we had to go to Vons which actually had a pretty darn good selection, minus the one or two rotten ones that were stuck on the bottom.

Our friend Debra has never carved a pumpkin before. Weird, I know. I think she has been living in a cave for the last 20yrs. Anyways, we all had a great time and made some awesome pumps!

I did Jack form Nightmare before Christmas; Kelli did Mike from Monster's Inc; Debra did Minnie mouse, and James did a classic Jack-o-lantern :)