Alysity & Aryana

I hope you are not tired of seeing my two fabulous nieces because I am definitely not tired of taking their pictures! They were here last week for their yearly summer break trip to Aunt Karen's. Movies, swimming everyday, the gameroom, the mall and lots of friends over... yes, Aunt Karen is tired (and much tanner than a week ago!) but I wouldn't trade spending a week with them for anything in the world!

They love picture day!





Don't let this picture fool you, Aryana is a fireball!



Gorgeous Alysity!



This one totally shows off Ary's personality, love it!



I miss you already, girls! My turn to come visit you soon!

Joseph and Angel...Married

Joseph and Angel met through mutual friends and knew right away that they were meant to be together. They made it official last Saturday at a lovely and sweet ceremony and I was honored to be a part of it.

The ceremony was held at the Little Chapel of Brookhollow which is tucked away in Ransom Canyon, and has the sweetest little details all around...



I just love this set of Angel with her parents out on the balcony before the ceremony...



one of my faves from the day...



mom and dad stealing a kiss :)



Both of Angel's parents walked her down the aisle, so sweet, and I love the way Angel is looking at Joseph...



the bride and groom were all smiles!



They performed the Celtic cord tying ritual which symbolizes two lives being bound together, beautiful...



and then the kiss!



I know the focus is soft in this one but I love the happy looks on their faces :)



My favorite of the group shots...



and a few of the happy couple alone...





by special request, Joseph's awesome shoes (straight out of an old Chicago gangster movie, right?)



and a silouette shot in front of the window.



Then off to the reception, where we grabbed this cool shot of the rings...



first dance, love the way Joseph is looking at his new bride...



Angel's dad welcomed Joseph to the family with a funny story and a tear or two...



and then, fire up the karaoke machine! Here's Joseph singing "I Will Always Love You" to Angel, so sweet...



and at the end of the day, you know girls just wanna have fun!



Thank you so much for sharing your special day with me, Angel and Joseph! I truly enjoyed spending the day with you and I wish you a future full of love, laughter, blessings and happiness. K :)

Where's Andrea?

You may remember the post I put up a while back of Caleb's birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese. Well I sent the pictures over to his mom, my BFF Andrea, and she was like "yeah, why am I never in any of the pictures you take of my kids?" and I was all "because you're always busy running around making sure everyone's happy and y'know, hostessing and stuff."
So I'll be sure to include you in some pictures at the next bash you throw, Andrea!

And meanwhile here's a few regular ol' in the backyard on the swingset pictures we made the other day for Andrea's FB page. And I did make sure to get Andrea in them ;)









And one of Caleb 'cause he's just so darn cute :)



In other news we did a bunch of work to our pool this year, replaced the pump and filter, scrubbed and treated it, and gave it a fresh coat of paint. We did all of the work ourselves (phew!) and it is officially open for the summer, yay! So here I am testing out the first few inches of water as we filled it up, brrrr, chilly!



Who wants to come swim?