Fun in the very hot sun

This past week i was asked to go up to Green Valley lake with some churches as their photographer. The only people from costa mesa that went were Gary, Darlene, Andrew, Mark, and myself. I knew two other people starting out but i learned to make freinds fast. it was a lot more fun than i was expecting and ended up having a blast. i came away with a little over 1,500 "good" pictures, and probably deleted close to the same number that i kept. Each night they showed a slide show of my pictures (which was pretty cool) but definitly stressful finding time to edit and delete close to 500 pictures each day. I had quite a few people come up to me each day sharing with me that i should seriosly consider going into this field..and after hearing that close to twenty or more times.. i might consider it. at least make it a serious hobby. ha. i dont know. anywho. Here are a few..ok a lot.. of my favorite pictures from the trip.

Quite the adventure

Today we had a blast. Batstone, or better known to Nevaeh as "lOra", and i met up with Nina and the girls today to go to Prehistoric Pets! Nevaeh is not intimidated by death or gross things (she was very into the dead fish at the pet store....) so we figured the reptiles wouldnt scare her. we were right! she had a blast. the coolest part for me was when the lady carried out this huge comodo dragon and fed it a "dead" rat! it was crazy. i was so intrigued to watch that i forgot i was holding nevaeh and quickly covered her eyes as i realized what was for lunch, hoping not to forever scar the young child. we found a tropical fish shop a few shops down and decided to peak in. they had THE COOLEST fish! the ugliest and most bizarre fish..yet reasonably priced and very cool. all i know is i am definitly getting a few in the near future. hehe.

I came back over to watch the girls tonight and we enjoyed a plethora of veggie tales. Char was cute and danced around to the into of the song and later was feeling left out and crawled over and sat in my lap for a good while.

Bubbles!

Little House on the Prarie Style

So Sera wanted to do a photoshoot the other day and she had this dress that she has been wanting to use apparently. of course it is this old fashion "prarie dress". she found this brick church that she wanted to shoot at but luckily we didnt have enough time to go out in public. THANK GOD! i am not secure enough to walk around huntington beach looking like i belong in the 1800s. ok its really not that bad. she did want me to wear this bonnet she found, but thats wear i drew the line. haha. no bonnet! both of our "sweet cameras" died and the battery on her 'average' camera was about to die. so here are some of the shots we got in our limited time.

For those of you who dont know (probabably a few of you) my freind Sera is going to school for photography and is getting really good. she likes using me for her projects and such but for the most part the photo shoots we do are just for fun. Here are a few from previous shoots. just to give you an idea into our lives..occasionally.

Our first shoot

Shots on the Roof!

"Twiggy" shoot. Yes, i know the this one looks awkward. its supposed to. we were coppying one of Twiggy's old pictures.

Georgous Chloe May

For Corynne..

I'm a whole new person...

from the head up at least...specifically my hair cut. thanks to Sarah Balos. color and cut..and better bangs! ha!

San Onofre

Early this morning Batstone invited me to join her family down at San Onofre state beach for the evening. One of their family freinds (Louis from Mustard Seed Faith for you avid Calvary peeps) and his wife have been camping down there for 5 weeks! talk about checking out and relaxing all day! every day they get up at 5 to take their RV from the campgrounds across the street to get in line to enter the park, hoping to make it to the beach before the first good surf session...surf for a few hours, rest in the RV, go back out for a few more hours, have dinner, go back to the campsite and start all over at 5am the next morning. that is what i call 'dedicated beach bummin'. anyways, they invited us out for dinner! it was a lot of fun, and the beach was as gorgeous as ever. especially this particular beach you feel like you are in paradise, completely distanced from life. its a completely different world with the tiki huts, long perfectly carved waves, warm water...just heavenly. too bad its like an hour away.