To California and BACK!

We went to California for a wedding and got to spend some quality time together.

With all of the wedding madness, I don't have one single picture from that night with my

 husband, which is a bummer, 

but my mom took a few for us the next day.

Because my mother and her friend, 

Kim are SO INCREDIBLE, 

Jeff and I got to spend our 

VERY FIRST NIGHT ALONE TOGETHER 

since we had Tyler, back in 2007.

It was much needed and so much fun.

We tried to get a family picture... 

but it just didn't happen...

Poor Luke had, what we now know 

and are still fighting off,

the rotavirus and he was the only one who really even liked doing pictures ;)

The BIG KIDS were having too 

much fun at Grandma's house.

They didn't want to stop 

chasing lizards, turkeys, deer, or 

any of the other wild life that live 

all over their property.

 At the wedding, Jeff managed to connect with

 one of my very favorite families in the world

 while I was off with the wedding party doing photos and other weddingish things.





THE BROWNS live on the street that I grew up on

 and Jordan and I have know each other since we

 were 5 years old.  Jordan now lives in Texas

 and he brought his 5 year old daughter, Kylie

 out to visit his parents and to go to the 

wedding.  We popped over to their house and did

 a quick shoot with all of them.  

It was great to reconnect.

BEFORE the wedding, I drove out to California, 

leaving my wonderful husband to take care of our little ones.  

Needless to say, HE IS AMAZING.  

He did a great job at home and flew alone 

with all three of them to Sacramento.  

He has earned major dad stripes 

and deserves a diaper free day.

the rest of the trip consisted of car rides,

 San Diego,Sea World, more car rides, 

Luke VERY ILL and puking, 

screaming children, laughing children, 

tired children.

That was our 2 weeks in a nutshell.