I'm going to Vegas baby!

For some people like me who don't gamble, that might not sound very exciting, but I'm totally stoked. So why you ask might I be going? For nothing other than the biggest wedding and portrait photographers convention in the world. You can ask Kristy. For the last year there hasn't been a day when I don't think about photography. I love it. I'm infatuated with it. Over the past year I've taken nearly 70,000 photos.

At WPPI, I'm going to be taking classes from some of the biggest names in wedding photography. I'm excited to bring back some of the latest in albums, techniques and ideas for all of my clients.

Any of you wedding photographers out there may find this video funny, it's got some of of the big names in photography in it.

What a trip

I finally decided to go through my pics from Mexico. It was absolutely awesome. I mean I do love the rain and the all the green of the northwest, but it's nice to go get some sun and forget about working for days. I didn't think it would be a highlight, but not having access to my cell phone or internet was like living an alternate life. Our biggest worries were what to see and eat next.

I loved the port In LA. We were next to the coolest bridge.

The dining on the ship was excellent, some people chose to eat hot dogs and hamburgers by the pool but for the same price we always opted to eat 5 course dinners.

I love fresh fruit, it's amazing what you can get on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere.



We were able to see some ruins in Colima, they just discovered them less than 20 years ago and they've only dug up a small percentage of what's there

Kelly, Matt and Kristy

Our ship, it's kinda big

Water taxi taking people from Yelapa (a small beach only accessible by boat) to PuertoVallarta

Check out this construction, this house is sweet.





The best tacos are made on the street, not the restaurants.





I was so excited to find these huge sparklers, it was kinda anti climatic watching them burn, I was hoping for a bigger ball of flame from the unregulated homemade sparkler.

This church was awesome

After a day of excursions we would come back to our rooms to find our towels made into all sorts of creatures

Matt working it for the camera

Maybe you had to be there but I think this one is hilarious

Kristy and Andrea waiting for there turn to go para sailing






Matt loved his meal choice








Christmas dinner

All of my wife's family and Me

Kristy's favorite on ship activity, resting



The girls

It was a shocker going back to Portland weather the day after it snowed

Oh Mexico

Wow, it's been a crazy couple of weeks. My daughter Abby burned her hand pretty bad in a cup of hot apple cider and she ended up seeing two emergency rooms and stayed the night in a burn unit. The burn is finally starting to look better and she's a lot happier now. Sorry for not blogging last week but with Abby in the hospital, my last week's photo shoot being a top secret Christmas suprise, Kristy having a kidney stone, and me putting together my new computer it just didn't happen. The next couple posts will be of some fun families I got to work with this last week. Enjoy!

For the next week and a half I'll be on a cruise in Mexico. I'm going with all of my inlaws and I'm so stoked to see and feel some sun. One of Kristy's aunts is watching our kids. We feel bad for ditching them over Christmas, but at least they're only 1 and 3 and hopefully won't get scarred for life. I'll reply to all of your emails on the 27th when I get back. Merry Christmas!

It's Snowing!

I love snow. I love that when the snow sticks here everything shuts down, and makes it seem like simpler times. It's the perfect reason to play hooky. It gives an excuse not to go to school or work and provides something to do in the off time. I love how it makes everything so quiet. I love the white vegitation everywhere and the cold (especially while I'm under my electric blanket).

couldn't resist

My 3 year old got a kick out our friend's elf video, so we had to make one of us. Click here or on the pictures to see it.

Merry (early) Christmas from our family!

Sisters

With all of my wifes sisters in town they wanted a little shoot with all of them and I was happy to do it. I got the group and a couple individual shots of each of them.

My Parents - Love Shoot

I've never done a photoshoot of my parents, this summer they had me get the rest of the family, but we forgot to get their picture. They were willing to go out in the cold with me for a couple of minutes so I could get a few shots of the two of them together.

It's Kristy's Birthday today!

Kristy is the best friend and wife ever! Happy birthday Kristy!

You should go to her blog and tell her Happy Birthday (even if you don't know her) she'll appreciate it, especially since she's getting over a little flu today.


Since I don't believe in posting without a picture, here's another one from the pumpkin patch.

Pumpkin Patch

This year we went out to Remlinger Farms to get our pumpkins. Dallin loved riding the tractor out to the Pumpkin patch. There are so many great pumpkin patches in the Seattle area we decided we're going to visit a new one every year.

I love this one of Abby Kicking it.
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Abby was kind of sad when she figured out she couldn't just take a bite out of the pumpkin




Kristy's boots are stylin