whew...what a week! vegas was a blast...but man are we exhausted :) we met tons of amazing photographers, caught up with old friends, and learned a bunch...we are so excited to get our shooting season underway!

it sure is great to be back home here with grace...here is a pic we took last night of her asleep in the middle of a page turn :)

last night we were lucky enough to be included in a dinner get-together of eight wedding photographer couples from all over the country. we all headed out to p.f. changs for a night of fun, good food, and many laughs! a HUGE thank you to the amazing joel and rita wiebner for putting everything together and for inviting us :)

after dinner i had this crazy idea to get each couple to lay on the ground in the parking lot, hold a video light on themselves, and let me shoot them with my little point and shoot :) i can only imagine how stupid the group of twelve of us looked doing this in the parking lot :)

it was so nice to meet all of you! if anybody got any other cool pics, email us!

it's hard to blog every day in vegas! so here is a random pic from the shops at the bellagio :)

some more random images from the convention here in vegas....i swear we'll get back to posting "real" artistic photos soon!

here is a very typical scene of the westin lobby...all us photo nerds glued to our laptops :) this is the man, the myth, the legend; huy nguyen...the best darn wedding photojournalist in the world! on the right, mike and paula luna having a laugh during a seminar.

yours truly with my lovely wife...and justin lyon with a surprise cameo! on the right, one of our favorite photographers from australia, the dear vanessa hall!

two mojitos and a treo...a very familiar site at the bahama breeze party :) and the usual suspects...us and the lyons.

jay reilly and anna k sporting the same color suede jackets! and lastly, our good friend from san diego, the fabuous sarah france!

one of the greatest things about the DWF convention is getting to hook up with old friends and make new ones. last night we planned to head down to dinner solo before the nights festivities got under way...a few phone calls later, bumped into a few people in the lobby and presto, dinner for 14 please!

yours truly with my "way to hot for me" wife jaclyn. the uber talented duo, jesh de rox and anna kuperberg!

amelia lyon and angie sloan. mr. funny face matt sloan :)

our friends mike and paula luna from san diego. us with the super susan stripling and her studio manager inga!

the infamous reilly brothers...jay and andrew!

yesterday morning we embarked on the drive to vegas with jay reilly, andrew reilly, and amelia lyon. i had grand plans to stop at this abandoned waterpark off of the 15 in the middle of no where but when we arrived we were unfortunatley met with security patrol :( crap.

here is one of the only shots i had the chance to take at the waterpark before we were kicked out :(

so we all headed down the road to another abandoned building this to take a few shots...

did any of you have the chance to watch this amazing mini-series on discovery HD last night?!!?! WOW.

the planet earth mini-series is an 11 hour portrait of our planet earth filmed in all high definition over the course of the last five years. the imagery is simply breath taking! jaclyn, grace, and i watched three hours worth last night and our jaws were open for almost the whole time....except for grace who was busy asking questions, naming the animals, pointing, laughing, etc :) it is so hard to put into words just how moving and emotional it was to watch this...what an amazingly beautiful planet we live on!!!

you can find out more info about the series on the website. if you missed the six hour premier last night you can purchase the dvd set. be sure to tune into the discovery channel next sunday night, april 1st for the second half of the series!

our favorite week of the year is finally here!!!

tomorrow morning we will be heading out to las vegas for the DWF convention. we'll be in vegas all week and won't be back in the studio until monday april 2nd. genevieve will be holding down the fort all week and we will be checking our email and phone messages as well.

we will be caravaning out to vegas with amelia lyon, jay reilly, and andrew reilly and hopefully stopping at some fun places along the way for some pics! the pics below are from last years trip out with jay reilly who was kind enough to shoot these cool pics of us and our other baby :) there is a really funny story about the scary situation we encountered making these images on our old blog.

on a side note...if any of you fellow blog readers (or stalkers) happen to see us wandering around in vegas, stop us and say hi, we'd love to meet you :)

every thursday we take grace to her j.w. tumbles gym class in encinitas. it has to be one of the cutest things to watch! grace and 5-10 other 3-5 year olds running, playing, jumping, tumbling, swinging, rolling, etc. is quite a sight to see! what makes it even cuter is that grace is totally the superstar teacher's pet :)

yesterday we finally brought a camera to class!

hmmm...can you guess which one is our lovely daughter???

somebody pinch us!

we got a mesage on our phone today from people magazine asking us to submit a photo essay to be featured in their first ever "real weddings" issue that will be on newsstands in june. now nothing is set in stone yet, but they "like our chances" and "love our work!" so lets all keep our fingers crossed and see what happens...

but whoa...people-fricking-magazine...how cool would that be?!?!

phone number blurred to protect the innocent :)