San Diego Engagement Photography - { Stephanie & Louie : Engaged! }

When I met Stephanie and Louie for the first time , we chatted a little business....but mostly , we kinda just hit it off as friends from the get go. I think our meeting was over 2 hours long as we chatted about everything that we had in common. Its easy to say that these two are so cool, down to earth, and just fun to hang out with!  Stephanie and Louie booked me quite a while ago, so I was pretty darn excited to finally get to hang out with them again! I met up with them in the Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego, and we walked around and hit up a bunch of super fun places - including Petco Park , a sweet bar, The St. James Hotel roof top, and took a little trolly ride (there was a small fear that it would possibly take us to Mexico with out our passports, but luckily we only went down one stop and it brought us back ;) ).

Stephanie and Louie - I had a fantastic time walking around with you two, I can't wait till your big day in October! :)

Family trip to the San Diego Zoo! :)

Hi friends! Just wanted to share a few pictures from our trip to the San Diego Zoo a couple weeks ago.

Jordan is 8 months old now, and seriously LOVES animals, so we thought it would be a great time to put our annual passes to good use! :) 

Checking out the Meerkats (mom and dad's favorites)


(hello handsome!)





Sun bathing!


Jordan was really not so sure about the goats....can't say that I really blame him.


The fish were a big hit...


...but the picture taking might not have been ;)





So the giraffes did something a little crazy when we are there. Not sure if its really blog appropriate to explain, but this was the expression on the giraffes face after he did something really yucky. We were cracking up.


Checking out the koalas...that I did not get an actual picture of (koalas are cute, but Jordan is cuter).





Somehow , these little animals made a little home on Jordan's head. Weird.


More gift shop fun!


My favorite picture of the day! :)


....it was a long, but very fun day!

Yeah...okay, so I took advantage of getting married.

Yeah, so Ive had my picture taken a few times in my wedding dress.

Maybe I'm a diva and like to have my picture taken, maybe I just have some awesome photographer friends that I want my picture taken by , or maybe I still some how owe more on the dress than I bought it for 3 years ago - and want to get a ton of use out of it.......

Either way.... we now have MORE rad pictures in our wedding attire.
And when I say rad, I mean, Ohana rad.

David & Kim (Ohana) , and their awesome daughter April (April Marie Photography) had their way with us and the outcome was nothing short of AHHMAZING!! The experience/good times would have been more than enough for me, but then these totally rockin pictures ended up on their blog a few days later. I am still in awe. They are just too good.

I will stop typing and share the goodness (its much better than my explanation!).......




Totally a favorite!








One of my faves!











I am sorry that I am sooooo tall and hot! ;)


I know, I know......they are big.


One of my total faves! (tying for 1st place of all favorites)








I think this is my number one fave! I have no doubt in my mind that this will end up on a HUGE canvas in my apartment!





ohhhh man!...we should be models. ;)


We rule.


So Sean and I never took engagment pictures since we were on such a tight budget before we got married, and I am soooooo happy that we got these! Kimi totally rocked it and some how made me look way sexy (but I cant say the same for Sean ....he is always sexy) .
Warning : The following images may make you blush (well, I did at least).



wowza!

(okay....so I might have a lot of favorites......)

In conclusion, I just wanted to say a HUGE thank you to David , Kim and April. David was such a rockstar working it out even though his ear was about to kill him! But I am honestly IN LOVE with these pictures. They are wayyyy too good! I love you guys! :)