Monday Monday Monday! A bad word for many people, including myself most of the time…not today though, no way. Why? Well I’ve had two lattes already today and I was able to get some sleep last night (not the norm) so I’m feeling refreshed and ready to start the week. PLUS the weekend was awesome with a fun engagement session in the rain. Rain is becoming one of my new favorite things for shooting. ANYWAY, on to the post. Today I’m sharing with you the engagement session of Cici and John and let me warn you…they.are.amazing. We spent a few hours in Poway with this couple last month for their engagement session and we had such a great time. They are adorable, fun to be with, and have FABULOUS style (hello red shoes from my favorite store). Plus we brought the yellow chair and that always means good times if you ask me. The light was beautiful, the day was beautiful, and the couple was beautiful. Cici and John, you’re amazing and I can’t wait for your San Diego wedding in October!

ps. Today marks my  27th year of life, and I’m seriously not much of a birthday person BUT since I know you were up ALL NIGHT LONG trying to decide what gift to get me, let me help out by saying the only gift I need is a comment on the blog (or two). If you are a reader of this blog and have never commented (I know you’re out there!) then what better day than this to reveal yourself right? Come on, it’s my birthday wish AND it will make my day. Ok, enough guilt tripping…enjoy! Muah!

Oh Monday, dreaded Monday….why must you always leave me feeling so tired? These blog posts are what keep me going…and you thought I posted these for you? Purely selfish my friends. KIDDING! You know I love you! I am pretty tired today, a good tired of course because we had a fabulous weekend of weddings, shoots, and client meetings (2 more spots for 2010 open!). PLUS we got to pay a visit to my adorable little 3 month old niece, Addy, whose cheeks I consider to be one of God’s best creations (quite kissable….referring to the cheeks on her face of course you silly people!).

I have an extra special wedding post to share with you all today. Tyler and Emily are probably one of my favorite couples. We met them through my best friend/roomie from college and have grown to be very good friends of ours. We met them for the first time in San Francisco for their engagement session a year ago and immediately hit it off. They are so easy and fun to be around and not to mention generous (Emily has picked us up from the airport numerous times and let us stay at their place in the city). I was seriously dying for their wedding date  to arrive at the end of 2009. Well arrive it did and it was AMAZING! They had a beach/country themed wedding because Emily is from California and Tyler is from Montana….the perfect combo because it was perfectly them. The ceremony was the beach aspect and couldn’t have taken place in a more fitting place than Carmel, it was lovely and the light had  me doing backflips (ok, maybe not literally…but if I could do a backflip I would have done 20, the light was that good). After the ceremony we headed over to the country themed reception complete with personalized belt buckles and beer mugs in the shape of cowboy boots as favors. All you out there who consider your group of friends to be a little on the wild side, I think Emily and Chappy (Tyler’s “real” name)  may give you a run for your money because this party DID NOT STOP for hours! It was intense, in a awesome get your crazy dance (and drink) on kind of a way. Pretty sure I slept until 1pm the next day, yes, it was that awesome. Ok, so I could go on about this wedding and how much I love this couple and how much they mean to me, but I’ll save that for the next time I visit them. However, I just want to say…Emily and Chappy, I feel honored and blessed to have met you and to have been a part of your wedding day. I look forward to your friendship and to watching your marriage grow…we adore you!

OH, and I couldn’t leave out a link to the wedding trailer that Aqua Vivus did for Emily and Tyler! Working with Tom was of course, a blast as usual and his work is breathtaking. (video by Tom, stills by us). Enjoy HERE!

BACK FLIPS!!!!

Hey there internet friends! We just thought we’d post a little something to start your weekend off right (happy Friday btw…who doesn’t love Fridays right?).  This past week Rico had the opportunity to attend the Ultramegeddon workshop with Mr. Roboto himself, Jeff Newsom. Jeff has always been an inspiration to us in our photography so it was awesome to be able to meet with him and learn from him. Well, you can’t get a bunch of photogs together without doing a shoot, so I just wanted to share some of the visual goodness that Rico shot while at the workshop. Enjoy and happy weekending my friends!

Had to include a long exposure shot from the night time galavanting mission at pirates cove.