a quick shot from Christmas of jac's bump next to our new fire pit. five more weeks to go!!!

last night we headed over to our church's big Chrissie bash! grace made her acting debut as a mouse and a very loud singer for their "away in a manger" song. it might just be because we're her parents, but it was darn near the cutest thing we've ever seen :) here's a few snaps... here's grace all dolled up in her mouse costume :)

during the narration anytime mouses were mentioned they had to do this little mouse scratching action thing :)

! ! ! AWAY IN A MANGER ! ! !

it was so cute...after the song was over and all the kids had exited the stage grace wouldn't budge, she just stayed out there until another cast member finally had to come bring her off the stage! it looks like we have a performer on our hands :)

just downloaded a card that had been in our point and shoot forever and came across this little gem :)

we've been so swamped and battling being sick and shootshopping that we haven't had much time to blog any "pro" work lately...we're storing it all up for winter when we'll blast the blog with all of the remaining weddings and tons of portrait shoots to blog for some comfort blogging through the slow season :) well this morning i was looking through a family session i shot last week for the awesome reed family and this shot jumped out at me so i figured i'd share :)

i think we have a problem...we have a tie for favorite comedy show in the kaiser house...arrested development (the long time champ), then a couple of weeks ago on a whim we bought all five seasons of curb your enthusiasm and LOVE it! we are seriously considering finally getting hbo so we can watch this show when the new season airs the end of this month! if you have a sense of humor (and you haven't seen curb your enthusiasm) do yourself a favor and buy yourself an early Chirstmas present and have some good laughs :)

...but yesterday i did a little work around our yard (which desperately needs some help). i headed down to grounded in encinitas and picked up these awesome metal planters for some new succulents i found at the nursery. the planters are HUGE...like two feet square...that was fun to fill with dirt :) i was given a handy tip tough for when you have to fill a huge pot like this though...you can fill the bottom with packing peanuts or empty bottles to take up some space. the succulents are called fire stick or something like that...gotta love the name! anyway, that's all for nate's gardening minute today....

wozers...another shootshop come and gone! yesterday we had an awesome group of 17 photographers from all over the country over to our studio for a full day of talking, philosophizing, shooting, and processing. i know we've said it before, but we are truly humbled by the fantastic photographers who've taken time away from family and work to attend our one day . our way shootshops! we put our all into making these a fantastic and challenging experience for our attendees and we can't thank all of you enough for your attendance, enthusiasm, and encouraging feedback :) yesterday we had our friends michael and nellie up to the studio to be our fantastic models and run around oceanside with us for a few hours...thanks guys! here's a few of our favorite shots from our shoot...

some off camera lighting magic :)

michael is a stud-and-a-half :)

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after well over 900 votes (holy crapola!) and a heated race we are happy to announce the winner of the ring shot contest with over 200 votes is number 20, the russikoff wedding! they're taking home the grand prize of a 12x18 inch gallery canvas of their winning ring shot and a 16x24 gallery canvas of their favorite wedding or engagement image...CONGRATULATIONS GUYS!!!

a few pics of grace eating breakfast and watching cartoons this morning :) happy monday everybody!

wow, what a day! yesterday we had a RADTASTIC group of sixteen awesome photographers up to our studio in oceanside for our first one day . our way shootshop! we had such a great time with everyone and feel deeply honored that all of you took time out of your lives to come share yourselves with us. we would also like to give a huge thank you to david and natalie who were our gracious model couple for the day...nothing like loving it up in front of sixteen strangers :) we'll actually be shooing natalie and david's wedding in january so you'll all get to see this beautiful couple again soon! here are a few of our favorite images from our shoot around town...

david is such a stud!

thanks again for coming everyone..looking forward to our next shootshop on tuesday! if any of you photographers out there would like to be first to know about any new shootshop dates, please be sure to join our email list!

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