Mom and me...a day of adventure

Saturday, I had the privilege of spending all day with my mom! We headed up to Santa Barbara for a day of bonding. The drive up was wonderful! The mountains we could see from the 57 were stunningly covered in snow, surrounded by a halo of clouds, and bathed in yummy golden sunlight! We hit rain in LA, but by the time we made it to SB, the sun was shining, and the air was clear and cool.


La-La land in the rain!
I think this is part of an art museum....anyone know for sure?
"OLLYWOO!!!!" (anyone remember what show that is from?)
We grabbed Panino, and stopped at Katee Grace Clay's new apartment in Santa Barbara. She is in an old Victorian Style house about 2 minutes from downtown with a few other girls from Reality Carp. The architectural details are awesome! Here are just a few I snapped while eating my sandwich, picnic style on her floor.



One of those gorgeous flowering pear trees.
After lunch, we headed up to David Jay's Freedom house to get in on a few minutes of his Freedom & Slumber workshop. These workshops are an awesome way to connect with other photographers from around the world, as well to learn from one of the best photographers, and businessmen in the industry! When we walked in, DJ was in the middle of a lecture, but stopped it anyway, and introduced me to the group. I ended up having the opportunity to model for them, and we spent the rest of the day hanging out, and learning about each other! Thanks guys for an awesome day!

This is the breathtaking view that my dear friend gets to wake up to daily...pretty insane!
DJ's house was one of the houses on his street that DIDN'T burn in the Tea Fire a few months ago. Thank God! This is the front entrance of what was one of his neighbors homes...(the house in the background was a different property)
Luckily, I brought my camera, and had the chance to shoot a few myself!
Amarillo's own Justin Wesbrooks...
Miss Kristin Renée...
hehe....Mom wasn't too thrilled that people were taking her picture. But she's so pretty! And I kinda "neglected" to warn her that anyone in sight is fair game for photogs.... O:) It was really fun to have her there! She hasn't ever been at a workshop with me, or really seen me model, so it was great!
Miss Ashley Stephen...A new SB local (as of 3 weeks) by way of Georgia!
The infamous DJ... :)
Kristin again


Ahmet Z. Ayyildiz...
Ashley...
The reflection of the blue sky and thunderclouds made awesome colors and reflections on ocean...




The guys shooting us girls...too cute! Troy Grover, Ahmet, DJ, Justin, and Mark Dong
Some lady painting the gorgeous scene in front of her

Josh Newton...ALWAYS on his phone...lol

The wall behind the VW dealership....such sweet textures!

catching up...

I am a terrible blogger. It's just fact. But, I'll make you a deal, you continue to read my blog, and I'll write as often as possible. Deal? Great.

Ok...in the 3 months since I've blogged, SO much has happened! There has been Thanksgiving, and Birthdays, and Christmas and New Years, countless high school events...and in case the last post didn't give it away...I have a beautiful new piece of jewelry, and am engaged to my best friend, the love of my life!

I'm not going to run through all the dirty details of everything that's happened, instead...I'm going to post a few pics from each event, and a brief description and consider myself caught up! :) (they won't be in order because I'm not that good!) :)

January 3, 2009...Disneyland for my "sisters" birthday! So much fun with Lo and Meg!








Ice Skating in downtown LA with my fiancé!! :)




Our favorite date spot to catch the Holiday Magic before Christmas!
Studio 22 Country Christmas Party 2008

rolling out 18 batches of sugar cookies! It took 7 hours and produced 783 decorate-able sugar-cookies!
Traditions at Christmas are the best! Esp cookie decorating with Mom, Meg, and Lynette!
(Meg had just attacked me with icing...lol)


Our beautiful tree Christmas morning!
Great Grandpa & Grandma (96 &95) hanging out...waiting for presents to start!
In our PJ's Christmas morning!!!

The day after Christmas, after spending half of Christmas Day & the 26th, with the Steiger's in San Diego, we met Jennifer and Tony for dessert at this AMAZING place... Extraordinary Desserts


We walked around Balboa Island with mom and dad (& of course the amazing red cups)


Although I was off for a couple weeks, I babysat a couple times, so Zach and I took Sid to the Spectrum and on the ferris wheel. It was so much fun! We played pretend family for the day! :) He's going to be such a wonderful daddy! (whenever that time comes! LOL)


New Years was spent, again, on the streets in Pasadena. We learned so much from last year! We were blessed to start off 2009 with our best friends!





While the boys made us breakfast before the parade...we stayed bundled up!



more pics to come soon! and more of a real update on life! :)