Wild Animal Park

This year for our anniversary we decided to get away for the weekend and get memberships to the San Diego Zoo and The Wild Animal Park instead of exchanging gift. The membership is such an awesome deal! It's $84 for 2 adults and gets you into the Zoo and the Wild Animal Park for a year with no blackout dates! And it comes with a couple of guest passes! So if any of our out of town friend *cough*ShalayneAshleyCaitlin*cough* decide to come visit us in beautiful, sunny, close to the beach, Southern California, we can get them in with us for free!

We had a fabulous time! Here are some pictures of our first visit to the Wild Animal Park and our behind the scenes tour.

Kimi and Michael "Save the Dates" Engagement Shoot

Two Years

Nick and I celebrated out second anniversary yesterday. We went to Disneyland and watched the new fireworks show (which was great!) and Fantasmic (they added/changed a couple of things, and its still fabulous). We had such a great time, and it was so nice to get away from it all and just hang out with each other at "our place."
It still feels like yesterday that we were taking these pictures, and I can't imagine my life without him. I'm glad I gave the creepy red-head that always stared at me when I was leading the music a chance. Lol.

Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue

My dear friend Kim just asked if I would be her wedding planner!! I'm SOOOO excited. I've always thought I would make a great wedding planner. Why would I be a great wedding planner? I LOVE weddings and I have tons and tons of ideas of all sorts of things to do with any wedding color you could choose. I'm going with them to view a venue tomorrow, and I'm also shooting their engagement pictures. I'm going to have so much fun with this, and I get a clipboard and everything!! YAY!!
Its kind wierd how it happened, I was supposed to be one of her bridesmaids, but she needed to cut down the bridal party, and asked if I would be okay not being a bridesmaid and being the wedding planner instead. I think that was the way of the Lord showing me a tender mercy, because she was picking strapless dresses, and I was trying to figure out how I could be a bridesmaid, but not wear the bridesmaid dress. LOL. So now I get to pick my own dress, and I get to be even more involved in the wedding than I would have been before! Sweet. I love the way things just work themselves out like that when you trust in the Lord. He is so amazing.
So here goes nothing... my first REAL, honest to goodness, getting paid to take pictures photo shoot, AND trying my hand at being a wedding planner. I feel like I'm living out all of the things I always thought it would be so cool to do for a living.

My favorite place.

Lately the Temple has been my sanctuary from the world, which is as it should be. I've been bringing my camera when I go, and here are a few of the images I've captured. I hope you enjoy the amazing house of the Lord as much as I do.

black and white

Sometimes things just look really cool in black and white. I'm excited because I just discovered that my camera has the capability to shoot in black and white.
These crazy plant things are in a planter near the entrance to the distrobution center at the San Diego Temple, and I've always thought they looked cool, and the clouds were really interesting looking, so I took this shot. I think its pretty cool. What do you think?