Happy Halloween weekend!!! I love Halloween. I do, really. Ok, actually, I just love this time of year! After Halloween is when all the more funner (I used improper grammar on purpose) holidays begin...Thanksgiving...Christmas...New Years...My birthday (what? Ground Hogs day IS a holiday. It's on the calendar.) What's your favorite holiday? (caviat: I don't think that Halloween is a holiday. I don't want to celebrate it as one, but I still enjoy it.) I actually have two favorite's. Thanksgiving and Fourth of July. I love Thanksgiving because I love Fall. I love the colors, I love the food, and I love just being around family, and watching the Thanksgiving Day parade. It's my personal tradition every year to watch it on T.V. in my pj's. OH! And I love Black Friday! Though, I'm not one of those uber excited black friday adventerer's. Nope. Don't wake me up till 11 a.m., please. But I love the hussle and bussle of starting Christmas shopping.
This is our first year being married so we will be going to his parent's house in New Jersey this year AND we are going to NYC on Black Friday. Oh man, I'm stoked! It's only an hour's train ride into the city, I guess. Stoked. Stoked. Stoked!
AND I love the Fourth of July because it's one big summer's BBQ and fireworks and it's summer and everyone is out doing something. I like to be in crowds. Definitely my extrovertedness coming out.
Anyway, that's why I love this season. I just have fond memories of Halloween when my sister, brother, and I would dress up and go out with our parents to trick or treat. Before we could decide on what WE wanted to wear, my mom always had us in uniformed costume's. We would either be cats, rabbits, dogs, or we would put on a pumpkin outfit and we'd all be pumpkin's. Our neighborhood was the prime place to get candy. All the little kids would be out...even the dogs! So, we'd take our pillowcases (haha...yep, pillowcases) and head door to door looking for candy. There were certain houses who would give the BIG candy bars and our neighbors would save special candy just for us. :) It was a good time.
ANYWHO, it is Featured Friday today and I almost forgot! I was thinking of who to feature today and immediately I thought of my friend Kristy! I'm so excited about today's feature! Kristy and I have known each other since Kindergarten. hee hee. :) Oh the stories. She was always a dear friend to me and became even more so when we were the ONLY ones to not get picked for the junior high cheerleading squad. Kristy at least had a good reason for not being picked. I, on the other hand, just stunk. :) I'm not bitter. I went on to cheer in 8th grade all the way up until I was a senior and was a cheerleader at Pensacola Christian College for two years. Anyway, Kristy has always been a very creative girl. I remember in junior high, she would wear the coolest clothes and the cutest earrings and do really artsy-fartsy things. She. was. cool!
In her adult life, she went on to discover more of her creativity and became the owner of Posh Pixel's Design Studio. Go check her stuff out!! She's the creative genius behind my way cute Jenny Anne Photography logo with the umbrella. She also was the one who made my candy bar signs for my wedding. On her latest adventures, she got to travel to L.A. to be with The Hollywood Candy Girls to help design their candy bar for LA Fashion Week. Yes, I'm friends with a superstar! Holler!
Anyway, if you're looking for cute logo's signs, stickers, banners, etc...etc...this is your girl! Just like is says in her logo, she makes life cute.
Kristy, you rock at creativity and I'm so excited for your business and how it seems to be blasting off!!! Keep up the creativity!!
Friday, October 29, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Photographer's Have Fun Too!
I love to dance. I grew up not being allowed to dance, but now...I just love it! I don't know how to dance real well so most of the time I don't know what I'm doing. But I love it! I have always wanted to be a ballerina or take some kind of dance lessons, but life didn't go in that direction for me. The only thing I really wanted at my wedding was dancing. And danced we did! One of my favorite things to capture at a wedding is when the party starts and people let loose on the dance floor. The images that come from those are hilarious and you can often get pretty creative.
The images below were taken from my assistant that day, Paul Barrios. This was from Wensa and Nick's wedding in August...yes, I was working...yes, I was dancing...yes, I was dancing WHILE working. What a great job, eh? Now if only I could dance all day in my day job.
In the card my mother in law (ha, that's fun to say) gave us for our wedding, she gave us simple advice...dance. Just dance. Just let you free spirit go and just dance for the heck of it. Brian and I will dance in the car...and we'll dance at home. I posted on my facebook status a few weeks ago, that I started dancing in the middle of the gym. haha...Brian made me stop. But hey, when you feel a beat, you can't help but dance. And Justin Timberlake can sure make me dance. :) It was good advice my mom-in-law gave us. I will dance. We will dance.
You have to pucker the lips in order to dance well. It's a fact.
Yeah, be jealous of my sweet moves.
The images below were taken from my assistant that day, Paul Barrios. This was from Wensa and Nick's wedding in August...yes, I was working...yes, I was dancing...yes, I was dancing WHILE working. What a great job, eh? Now if only I could dance all day in my day job.
In the card my mother in law (ha, that's fun to say) gave us for our wedding, she gave us simple advice...dance. Just dance. Just let you free spirit go and just dance for the heck of it. Brian and I will dance in the car...and we'll dance at home. I posted on my facebook status a few weeks ago, that I started dancing in the middle of the gym. haha...Brian made me stop. But hey, when you feel a beat, you can't help but dance. And Justin Timberlake can sure make me dance. :) It was good advice my mom-in-law gave us. I will dance. We will dance.
You have to pucker the lips in order to dance well. It's a fact.
Yeah, be jealous of my sweet moves.
Monday, October 25, 2010
I HATE dustballs! (hate them)
I HATE dustballs. Hate them! BLECH! Even writing about them makes me cringe. Even thinking about them makes me gag. Blech! Blech! Blech! Of all the gross disgusting things in this world, dustballs are the things I hate the most. I can handle poop and maybe even boogers, but dustballs...nope, forget it. Changing a baby's diaper doesn't bother me. Cleaning the bathroom and finding a massive ball of dust and hair...well...I want to throw up. I'm so dead serious too. Tonight, I cleaned the bathroom. I fulfilled one of my many wifely duties. I clean. the bathroom. the gross, dirty, HAIRY, bathroom. Uuuuugggghhh....
When I was at Pensacola Christian College, I cleaned bathrooms in the morning for my job. Probably the worst job I've ever had. Not only did I have to wake up really really early to do this before my first class, BUT I had to be in dress code. Which meant, I had to wear a skirt and nylons. Really, a skirt? Nylons? While cleaning a bathroom? If you don't know, PCC had many many MANY rules. One of which was that girls had to wear skirts down to their knees and panty hose (and of course some sort of shirt as long as it wasn't too tight) every day...every. day. Yes, Saturday's included. Though on Saturday's, we didn't have to wear panty hose. BUT if we went off campus on a Saturday we had to wear the panty hose. I haven't worn panty hose since January 2005. And I never will again. Oh PCC, how I do not miss your weird rules. And yes, I had to clean the men's bathroom in one of our classroom buildings. Thus, the reason for my hatred for cleaning bathrooms AND dustballs. I have many PCC stories. They will blow your mind.
I hate dustballs, nylons, and cleaning bathrooms...but I LOVE babies. :) mmm...there is warm, fuzzy spot in my tummy for babies. (It's probably in the same warm, fuzzy spot where chocolate cake belongs.) I really can't wait to have my own babies someday. SOMEDAY, people. Not tomorrow or in nine months...someday. Though Brian and I talk about having babies and how we can't WAIT to have our kids, we want to be married for a few years...mostly to be in a good financial position. But man, I can't wait to meet our kids. They are gonna be SOOooooOOO ADHD hyperactive. Brian is pretty hyper as a 26 year old. I keep hearing all these stories of his hyperness when he was little. His dad had to duck tape him to the chair when eating dinner. HAHA!!! I am pretty hyper and full of energy as a 27 year old. And I KNOW I was REALLY hyper as a little girl. Just ask ANYONE who was my babysitter, teacher, sunday school teacher, nursery provider...oh man...never mind, don't ask them. :) Needless to say, our kids will be CAARRAAAZZY!! can't wait.
On Sunday, I got to meet THIS little dude! Meet Gavin. :) My good friend and fellow photog (and photographer of my wedding), Paul Barrios, had his baby. And yes, this little guy stole my heart. Paul and I sat for a bit looking at some of my wedding pictures, and I was able to hold Gavin the whole time. Oh man, Oh man, Oh man...I could've held him all day. But then he got upset and needed his dad to hold him. While I was there, I took some pics of this cutie-patootie. See below.
When I was at Pensacola Christian College, I cleaned bathrooms in the morning for my job. Probably the worst job I've ever had. Not only did I have to wake up really really early to do this before my first class, BUT I had to be in dress code. Which meant, I had to wear a skirt and nylons. Really, a skirt? Nylons? While cleaning a bathroom? If you don't know, PCC had many many MANY rules. One of which was that girls had to wear skirts down to their knees and panty hose (and of course some sort of shirt as long as it wasn't too tight) every day...every. day. Yes, Saturday's included. Though on Saturday's, we didn't have to wear panty hose. BUT if we went off campus on a Saturday we had to wear the panty hose. I haven't worn panty hose since January 2005. And I never will again. Oh PCC, how I do not miss your weird rules. And yes, I had to clean the men's bathroom in one of our classroom buildings. Thus, the reason for my hatred for cleaning bathrooms AND dustballs. I have many PCC stories. They will blow your mind.
I hate dustballs, nylons, and cleaning bathrooms...but I LOVE babies. :) mmm...there is warm, fuzzy spot in my tummy for babies. (It's probably in the same warm, fuzzy spot where chocolate cake belongs.) I really can't wait to have my own babies someday. SOMEDAY, people. Not tomorrow or in nine months...someday. Though Brian and I talk about having babies and how we can't WAIT to have our kids, we want to be married for a few years...mostly to be in a good financial position. But man, I can't wait to meet our kids. They are gonna be SOOooooOOO ADHD hyperactive. Brian is pretty hyper as a 26 year old. I keep hearing all these stories of his hyperness when he was little. His dad had to duck tape him to the chair when eating dinner. HAHA!!! I am pretty hyper and full of energy as a 27 year old. And I KNOW I was REALLY hyper as a little girl. Just ask ANYONE who was my babysitter, teacher, sunday school teacher, nursery provider...oh man...never mind, don't ask them. :) Needless to say, our kids will be CAARRAAAZZY!! can't wait.
On Sunday, I got to meet THIS little dude! Meet Gavin. :) My good friend and fellow photog (and photographer of my wedding), Paul Barrios, had his baby. And yes, this little guy stole my heart. Paul and I sat for a bit looking at some of my wedding pictures, and I was able to hold Gavin the whole time. Oh man, Oh man, Oh man...I could've held him all day. But then he got upset and needed his dad to hold him. While I was there, I took some pics of this cutie-patootie. See below.
He just needed his dad.
Paul was pretty proud of Gavin's jersey.
I hate dustballs, panty hose, and cleaning bathrooms, but I LOOOOVE little baby feet! So precious.
OH! And little baby hands too!
AND little baby scrunchy noses.
And little baby heads on shoulder's.
And little baby eyes looking at me.
And little baby mouths that make really big noises. ;)
"Oh hey, Dad!"
Whachya lookin at there buddy?
AH! There's the feet again!
He's so tiny. :)
Ya just gotta love when they grab the thumb.
I want one.
:::siiiigh::: babies. God's gift to us. They are so precious and innocent. God is so good to allow to us have such pleasure and joy in children. Though labor and childbearing can't be easy (haven't gone through it yet, so I don't know how it is), God still brings something to miraculous out of it. He brings a little you...a little Him. Babies are just another way for God to get glory. Only he could form such an intricate being in the womb.
Psalm 139:5-6, 13-18
You hem me in, behind and before;
and lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it
For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and
wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book where written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there were none of them.
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
If I would count them, they are more
than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you.
So Much To Do...So Little Time
why, oh WHY do the weekends go so stinking fast? Seriously, someone tell me why? probably because we enjoy the weekends and when you enjoy something you don't notice the time flying by you...hmmm...maybe we should NOT enjoy the weekends so much and then they would slow down? or maybe we should enjoy our work week and they would speed up? i often want the work week to speed up so quickly so i can get to the weekend and enjoy it, but then why do i want life to speed up so fast? if it speeds up, then...well...before you know it, you'll be married with 6 kids all in college and then you'll be wishing for life to slow down instead of speeding up. SO, theretofore, i vote that no matter what day it is...Monday...Wednesday...or a Saturday...life should slow down so we can take every moment in and glorify God in that moment.
ANYWAY, this weekend was quite a blur to me. Brian and I were really tired come Friday night. We ended up going to the gym after work. we were planning on going to a party Friday night around 9pm, but after the gym, we were so wiped out that we ended up crashing at 7:30 and didn't wake up till 9:30 and then made dinner (mac n' cheese, of course!) and watched one of our favorite Alfred Hitchcock movies, Rear Window. To be honest, i was actually really cranky all day friday so it was a good thing I took a nap. I felt like a new person after I did. :)
Saturday came around and we slept in late. Mmm...so glorious! I had a family shoot at 1pm so we headed out the door and made it to Cox Farms where I met the Esmacher's (family pictures below) to do their shoot. Cox Farms...oh goodness. I have never been or seen a place like this. There were pumpkins coming out of every angle possible. Little munchinkins running around every where, every apple known to mankind could be pick up for your tasting, big country bands playing on the stage, and hay...everywhere. :) if I were a little kid, I would've had a hay-day (ha!pun.) there. :)
Picked out his own apple.
Got a fun kiss from mom and dad...still eating his apple.
Looked for MORE apples.
Crawled in a box. (he has big blue eyes!)
Met some pigs!
Got a balloon.
took a picture with mom and dad next to a sweeeeet car.
and held his pumpkin tight.
He had a pretty good day at the pumpkin patch with mom and dad.
After the my family shoot, Brian and I met our friends at a Virginia Winery to celebrate Kristine's birthday. Happy Birthday!! The winery was so gorgeous and I lusted to take wedding pictures there someday. The wine wasn't too shabby either. I'm not a big wine drinker, but I found one I actually liked! Minus the pesky bee's that wanted to share in the celebration, it was a super splendid afternoon with friends.
This was our little picnic at the winery complete with the best cheese (brie), chocolate, and crackers EVER!
Seriously, can't you picture just WAY awesome wedding photos here..
She liked her cake.
and made a wish!
and blew out the candles.
After the winery, Brian and I decided to stop in the cute little town of Clifton. Oh man, the drive around Clifton was glorious! The houses were magnificent! I drooled. alot. Brian drooled. alot. I want to go to there. We saw a fun little consignment store and wanted to drop in on our way back. Unfortunately, they were shutting down when we were going in. Instead, we opted to take pictures on a railroad. Railroad + excellent light from the sun = sweet pictures! I couldn't resist.
This is Brian. He is my husband.
For some reason, I just really like this picture. It's kinda artsy.
He's cute.
He took some pictures of me too! I hate getting my picture taken.
I was watching a photographer across the way taking pictures of an engaged couple. I was slightly jealous.
That was our Saturday! Well, after the winery, we went to the Cole's house for dinner...AND then we went home and crashed.
ANYWAY, this weekend was quite a blur to me. Brian and I were really tired come Friday night. We ended up going to the gym after work. we were planning on going to a party Friday night around 9pm, but after the gym, we were so wiped out that we ended up crashing at 7:30 and didn't wake up till 9:30 and then made dinner (mac n' cheese, of course!) and watched one of our favorite Alfred Hitchcock movies, Rear Window. To be honest, i was actually really cranky all day friday so it was a good thing I took a nap. I felt like a new person after I did. :)
Saturday came around and we slept in late. Mmm...so glorious! I had a family shoot at 1pm so we headed out the door and made it to Cox Farms where I met the Esmacher's (family pictures below) to do their shoot. Cox Farms...oh goodness. I have never been or seen a place like this. There were pumpkins coming out of every angle possible. Little munchinkins running around every where, every apple known to mankind could be pick up for your tasting, big country bands playing on the stage, and hay...everywhere. :) if I were a little kid, I would've had a hay-day (ha!pun.) there. :)
This is Luke.
He said hi to the turkey's.
Picked out his own apple.
Got a fun kiss from mom and dad...still eating his apple.
Looked for MORE apples.
Crawled in a box. (he has big blue eyes!)
Met some pigs!
Got a balloon.
took a picture with mom and dad next to a sweeeeet car.
and held his pumpkin tight.
He had a pretty good day at the pumpkin patch with mom and dad.After the my family shoot, Brian and I met our friends at a Virginia Winery to celebrate Kristine's birthday. Happy Birthday!! The winery was so gorgeous and I lusted to take wedding pictures there someday. The wine wasn't too shabby either. I'm not a big wine drinker, but I found one I actually liked! Minus the pesky bee's that wanted to share in the celebration, it was a super splendid afternoon with friends.
This is Kristine. It's her birthday.
This was our little picnic at the winery complete with the best cheese (brie), chocolate, and crackers EVER!
Seriously, can't you picture just WAY awesome wedding photos here..
(Engaged couple, let's do an engagement session here! Call me!)
Photo credit: Brian Bosak
She liked her cake.
and made a wish!
and blew out the candles.
After the winery, Brian and I decided to stop in the cute little town of Clifton. Oh man, the drive around Clifton was glorious! The houses were magnificent! I drooled. alot. Brian drooled. alot. I want to go to there. We saw a fun little consignment store and wanted to drop in on our way back. Unfortunately, they were shutting down when we were going in. Instead, we opted to take pictures on a railroad. Railroad + excellent light from the sun = sweet pictures! I couldn't resist.
This is Brian. He is my husband.
For some reason, I just really like this picture. It's kinda artsy.
He's cute.
He took some pictures of me too! I hate getting my picture taken.
I was watching a photographer across the way taking pictures of an engaged couple. I was slightly jealous.
That was our Saturday! Well, after the winery, we went to the Cole's house for dinner...AND then we went home and crashed.
Dear Saturday's, please come more often. Thank you.
Love me.
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