My little friend

Lately my feisty little companion has been overly sweet and loving. It all started Memorial Day weekend when we left the dogs with our wonderful new dog sitter Marcela. I'm not sure what she did, but Rocky was like putty in her hands and he's been a little different ever since. Maybe she's the REAL dog whisperer!! Needless to say, I'm pretty much in love with Marcela now and actually can't wait for her to watch the dogs again. Next time I'll have her work on Rocky's sleeping habits. When they're good, he's the cutest thing EVER, but when they're bad he's up 5 times a night and can't get on our bed himself. You know what that means...I'M up 5 times a night! Thank God for coffee....

Here is a picture of the SWEET sleeping Rocky.

**If anyone would like Marcela's #, please let me know**

More of Freddy & Laura's WEDDING!

Happy Belated 4th to everyone! I spent 3 wonderful days relaxing at the beach, riding my bike around town, and catching up with friends...it was blissful! Oddly enough, I didn't take any pictures, but for your viewing pleasure I have the last handful of photos to show from Freddy & Laura's beautiful wedding.

Later this week I will be posting a few cute shots of Rocky my always faithful companion and best subject along with some info about what I've been up to in the last few weeks - reading, researching, and doing.

Enjoy these pics!

Here is a picture of Lee & I - happy as can be for our friends!

More green

Ketubah signing!!

BABY at the wedding...so adorable

Amazing cake from Jamaica's Cakes on Pico Blvd. Isn't that red wall amazing??

Love the table setting

First Dance

Now I know this picture is blurry, but I couldn't help posting it because Freddy's expression is just SOO him.

Laura at the bar....CELLL-E-BRATE good times!!

The room at the end of the evening

There is a very cool wall outside of the Marvimon and Sweet Monday had a great idea of "ending" the night there with some pictures. Here is my take on them.

LOVE the peace signs!

Laura & Freddy.....WEDDING!!

This is so exciting for me to post wedding pictures on my blog!!! I absolutely LOVE weddings, not just because they are always SO beautiful, but because of the sheer energy and emotion of the day when families and friends come together to celebrate the promise 2 people make to one another. It's just really cool! It's especially cool when you know how right those two people are for each other...like Freddy & Laura. They are a perfect match and their wedding day was a perfect day.

I will post a few images and then include a slideshow that I created at the bottom. Part 2 will come later...I have a few more pictures to work with.

Enjoy!

Beautiful location...The Marvimon in downtown LA

Gorgeous flowers everywhere!

Lee & Mike

Freddy's adorable nephew

The ceremony!

Isn't Laura's bouquet beautiful??

I am in love with this picture...my fav

And here is the slideshow...I hope this works!!

Bon Jovi in Central Park....need I say more?

To all of my NY friends....PLEASE for the love of God (or for me) go to this show!!! This is a Bon Jovi/NYC lover's fantasy!!! If any of you do go, please call me during "Wanted Dead or Alive". I will be waiting for the call :)

Finally...bigger blog pictures

I finally figured out how to make the pictures on my blog bigger!!! Now all of my *few* readers can actually see my pictures the way that I do on my big MAC screen at home. I'm VERY excited. In fact, I got the sweetest email from my mom yesterday after she saw my test photos...thanks Mom for your compliments. You are definitely my most loyal reader ;) My older posts might look a bit weird now that I've changed the picture size, but I'll be trying to re-edit them when I have free time. I've been learning some fun stuff on photoshop lately and am finally feeling comfortable editing my photos and trying to make them look even better than they do straight out of the camera.

On to my weekend which was extremely low key. Lee and I spent the weekend having dinner with friends/family, doing laundry, cleaning the house, watching Law & Order Criminal Intent re-runs, and playing tennis. I have to say....it was one of the most relaxing weekends I've had in a long time! Lee has been working tirelessly on some professional projects and so this was the first weekend in months that he didn't have to work and it was so wonderful.

One of the things we were researching this weekend as we were sitting around is a good vacation place in CA that allows dogs (of all sizes). We're thinking escaping for the 4th, but we want to take our pups with us. We found some houses/cabins in Big Bear area & Lake Arrowhead, but I was thinking more of a resort - pool w/ drinks/tennis/maid service, but we couldn't find anything really great that allowed are doggies. Anyone out there know of such a place? I don't think I can take anymore searching on the internet.

I worked on the last few images from Colin's b-day party, so enjoy. This week I'll be working on the few shots I have from Freddy & Laura's wedding which I'll post a little at a time.

Happy Week!!

This is a test post

I'm trying to make my photos bigger!

What is your life's purpose?

That might sound like a pretty heavy topic for this blog, but recently I came across Steve Pavlina's blog (which I highly recommend reading) and his interesting article titled "How to discover your life's purpose in 20 minutes". I was completely intrigued by this because I have always wondered what the bigger picture is for me - what my life's meaning is; my purpose. Many women say that once you have children you know what it is - to be a mother, but I have a feeling that for a lot of us, it is so much more than that (but including it too). If you read Steve's article he explains that his purpose is layered - it's not cut and dry or just ONE thing.

So I haven't had a chance to do this exercise yet, but I plan on taking some time this weekend to sit down in a quiet space and see what happens. I will post my results next week.

What is your life's purpose?