I shot Kitana’s second birthday towards the beginning of the year. As with most two year old birthdays, there was a swarm of kids every which way you looked. I was drowning in cuteness! Between all the fun games they played, beating the piñata down, and eating fresh pizza out of a real wood-burning oven, I had more than enough to photograph.

And a big, giant THANK YOU shout out to the lovely and talented Erika Ramirez, who helped me out buckets throughout the day!

A couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to be a part of Detective Sergeant John Knott’s 75th birthday party. It was a whirlwind of memories, long-time friends, family, and coworkers coming together to celebrate. Everyone, especially John, clearly had a wonderful time seeing each other again. I hope as many people show up for my 50th birthday as showed up for John Knott’s 75th!

One of John’s daughters retold the story of how John ended up accidentally handcuffed to a chair when she was a child.

Everyone got a chance to see their coworkers in the LAPD from 20 years ago.

I don’t know if you guys know this, but when peacocks squawk, they sound like a woman shouting “HELP!” very loudly. These guys roam the park freely, so when we first started hearing them screaming it was a little bit alarming..

On top of peacocks, there also happens to be a little zoo in the middle of the park, so we went in to visit the animals. Goats sorta creep me out, so I kept my distance from our rectangle-pupiled friends…except to take a photo or two.

Note: This was my first time operating a photo booth at a wedding. It was a LOT of fun! I knew I could expect amazing hilariousness from Jeannie and Junie’s awesome family, and I was right. I went home that night with a stomach sore from laughing and a camera full of silly images and being thrown into the mix myself.

This is my cousin Phillip. He attended the wedding with his wife, Nicole. They are both excruciatingly awesome.

Sexy lady moustaches, anyone?

The loverly Jeannie and her love, Rob.

Junie, you are so gorgeous! <3

As aforementioned, they threw me into the booth a couple of times as well. I relented and went for it.

Everyone is a little sleepy at first on Christmas morning.

San Francisco views. <3

Thank you again for letting us stay at your place for New Year’s and everything else you did for us, Lindsay! <3

Just wanted to put up a quick, cute Sunday post.  Matt and I hung out at a family friends’ first softball game awhile back and I happened to have my camera on me.  So, naturally, I started snapping away as soon as the kids started being adorable

The view from my grandparents’ condominium balcony.

Creepin’ on myself.

Stone Brewery tour.

I kept staring at this guy’s smiley face hat, so clearly I had to take a picture

These are smelly things that you put into beer to make it taste good.

(We got to drive our own golf cart!  It was SCARY but Jeannie and I laughed our butts off the whole way.)

The little guy who bore Mark and Sam’s rings ended up helping me take my favorite photo (bottom image) I’ve ever taken out of sheer hilariousness

Albert made a little buddy

William and Sara are sexy beasts