Happy Birthday Riley!!!

Happy Happy birthday RyRy! My nephew just turned 2 today and my sister sent me these pictures of him and his birthday cake.... He is just too cute and I love that smile!!!!



I can't wait to get to San Antonio so I can watch him grow up!

Auntie Kara loves you little man ;-)

New Phone!

So I had to get a new phone cause my other one ended up in a sink of dirty dish water.... oops...I dried it off and even took a hairdryer to it... didn't work...lol
It then started vibrating and would not stop. So off to the AT&T store I went. They had a great deal on this pretty burgundy Blackberry... so I just had to get it and I am loving it so far!

New addition to Albumesque....

Albumesque is a album design company founded by
Amy Nave and Mary Jane. These wonderful ladies are both very talented wedding photographers and designers. They have designed wedding albums for some of the top wedding photographers in the industry. I have know both of them for the last 8 months and have had the pleasure of photographing weddings and engagement sessions with them both. I have also been interning at Albumesque for the past month and I have learned so much. I met with Amy today for our weekly meeting and she has been so happy with my work that she has asked me to become a designer with Albumesque. I am so excited to be working along side these talented ladies.

Amy and I...



Some of my images and designs from an engagement session I second shot with her

Las Vegas trip and WPPI

This past week I went to Las Vegas for the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International Convention (WPPI). It was wonderful.
I was able to see Matthew Jordan Smith who is one of the photographers that I am inspired by. He talked about photographing what you love.
Another seminar that I attended was by Sandy Puc.
She is such a wonderful photograher and a beautiful person. She talked about how to market your photography business. However I went to see her because she would be talking about a organization that she helped start Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep. This organization provides photography to familys where their newborn baby will not make it out of the hospital. The photographer will come to the hospital free of charge and photograph the baby and family and provide them with a DVD slideshow set to music again free of charge. I plan on becoming apart of the wonderful organization. Sandy also does a lot of charity work and promotion for Race for the Cure.
My friend Christine and I had red swollen eyes after hearing Sandy speak.... but it was so worth it... we feel so honored to be apart of such a wonderful community of photographers.

Vegas is a fun city to photograph... We stayed at the Monte Carlo and the convention was at Ballys and Paris... fun fun







The first image I took with my new camera...the canon 5D! From the hotel room... New York New York...

Speaking of our hotel room... my bed was really comfy.... lol

Our last day we made a quick trip to Red Rock Canyon just 20 min outside of Vegas!
It was awesome!

Love the donkey sign.... ;-)

The sky was just beautiful... puffy white clouds and so blue!


Christine and I with red rock in the background...


Can't wait till next year!