Life Through the Lens

Aly’s Photoshoot

My friend Alexandra asked if I could be the photographer for a shoot she wanted to do for her friend Aly.  Aly is a mom and has recently gotten into crossfit.  Alex some ideas for a styled shoot and we ended up going around in circles trying to find a location, but ended up right next door to the hairstylist’s shop…which happened to be a studio.  We went for 2 different looks since we were limited on time.  We only had the studio for a few hours.  But I think the results turned out well for a first time model.

St. Patrick’s Day and Marc’s Birthday

You can tell I’m behind on my posts when its about St. Patrick’s day…

Every year around St. Patty’s day, Marc celebrates his birthday since he likes to get drunk. It fits perfectly with the holiday theme.  I headed out to San Diego on Saturday and we met up early to head to the St. Patrick’s day parade in Balboa park.  Lia was extremely excited as she loves parades.

 

Afterwards, we went back home and chilled out before preparing for Marc’s Bday celebration party.  Lia again was being extremely cute again and got a huge kick out of the vuvuzela I bought at the parade.  Ericka enjoyed some mother daughter bonding time as well.

 

Party Time.  I made some Vietnamese (although they were Irish for the day) grilled pork skewers for Marc.  It takes about 2 days of prep work, but they are worth it.  Ericka made some corned beef and cabbage along with some Irish soda bread.  Everyone else seemed to have brought alcohol laced desserts. Good times ensued, but we are old and everyone petered out around 11pm.

Brian’s Weekend Visit

Beefcake was in AZ for work in early March and flew in early to so he could drive out to the OC for the weekend.  Though it was short, it was a lot of fun.  We went out for some Sushi at Yabu in West Hollywood with Brian’s friends Matt, ZiZi, and Jenn.  Then the next day we met up with Hoa for some Dim Sum in Westminster.

San Antonio 2013

After snow test, we headed out to Uvalde, TX to the Continental Tire Proving grounds to test those tires in the wet. We normally fly into San Antonio and stay the night after we fly in and before we fly out.  Usually, it’s a nice place to relax after a pretty strenuous testing schedule.  It also beats staying in the tiny town of Uvalde.