Honey in the Kitchen

So my husband loves to cook and he is a great cook.  He often surprises me (especially after a long day at work) with a nice, warm meal!  I love him.  On the weekends we get a bunch of groceries and cook all day so we have leftovers for the week.

Damon obicha da gotvi i mnogo dobre gotvi.  I chesto kato se varna ot rabota i toi veche e vkashti, me chaka topla mandjichka.  Abe mnogo si go obicham be!  Prez weekenite kupuvame produkti i gotvim, za da ima hrana za prez sedmicata.

Downtown Janelle

So my friend Janelle and I went downtown one Saturday to take some prego pictures of her and we ended up parking in a garage building that had one of those mechanical barriers that lift when you pull the ticket and then when you leave you have to pay your ticket to the machine and then the thing lifts up again so you can exit.  However, on the way out the thing wouldn't open.  And there was no attendant.  And noone answered the phone when i called the customer service number.  There was another car behind us and we just could not figure out how to open the stupid thing.  I even thought of driving through the thing cuz my car is old and i already has a few dents but i wasn't sure how badly it could damage my car.  Damon said good thing i didn't :).  So that was when Janelle came up with the great idea to maybe walk to the other side and pull a ticket as if a car was going in and I will be ready to go under the raised thingy (going the opposite way since that side was working).  Brilliant! Well, but the smart garage thingy people had thought about that too and no ticket was coming out because we assumed a car had to be there and even though Janelle was pregnant - could not fool the machine.  She even jumped several times.  But no.  And the car behind us was still waiting.  So Janelle came up with another smart idea.  Since there was some room between the wall and the thing that raises, and the other people's car was smaller, she convinced the lady driver that she can "squeeze in".  So while her car was on the other side, going the wrong was, and I was ready to go behind her, Janelle will pull a ticket and we both will be ready to just drive off in the couple seconds the thing was up.  Guess what?  IT WORKED!!!! it was a fun little adrenaline rushed photo shoot!

Herding Cats - The McGinns

This was a fun shoot that ended with Jason concluding that we need to wrap it up because "this is like herding cats".  This is now my favorite expression and it comes to mind every time I take pictures of families with small kids.  I love the McGinn kids - Caitlyn and Camryn were the flower girls at our wedding.  So this shoot was a combination of Cooper taking off every 30 seconds or throwing rocks around, Camryn freaking out at anything that flew in the air fearing it may be a bee and Caitlyn just being tired of walking around while auntie Zlatsie (that's me) looked around for a picture location.  I still think we did ok herding the cats :)

    

The Froehlichs

The Froehlichs were probably my first family shoot - and i'll tell you - it was hard work so i am glad they know me.  Gavin was a great model, but Grayson was not going to have it.  He wanted to do everything else (including stand next to me on the step stool I was climbing on to take over the head shots).  So in most of the "family" pictures - it's a 4 member family - not 5.  But we did get a few good shots of everyone.  Morgan, the baby, was great, she was at a perfect age - she can't move around yet and i was able to take some great photos of her wonderful eyes.

The Franco Girls

The fun girls are Tomi and Gabi - my friend Joelle's girls.  They were at work one day with Joelle and we went to the park during our lunch break and took some pictures.  The girls loved being models and as we were finishing up - they were asking me when were we going to do this again.

 

Molly Fife

I have been planning to start a photography blog but that is not moving as fast as I want so for the time being I will be posting pictures on this blog.  Molly was a 2 week old baby, it was absolutely easy to shoot her since she slept all the time.  We did have to stop 4 times for her mom to feed her and immediately after that to change her diaper.  Her mom was a great sport and Molly even ended up in this green pot - she woke up and was not a big fan of it.

Vesela Koleda / Merry Christmas

City Center

S Damon otsednahme 3 vecheri v novia hotel v City Center (proekta, po koito Jelko raboti). Mnogo sam vpechatlena i mnogo sam gorda s Jelko. Jelko ni razvede parvata vecher i ni razkaza razni sluchki po razlichnite zabelejitelnosti.

Damon and I stayed at Aria at the City Center when it opened - City Center is awesome - it's my new favorite place. Totally different than anything else we have here. My bro worked on the theater building and i am very proud of him.

Recepciata - tova proizvedenie na izkustvoto, koeto visi nad recepciata e profilat na reka Kolorado
The front desk - the thing hanging above it is the profile of the Colorado River (i was told)


Crystals - the mall is architecturally my favorite place. I went back several times just to look inside.
Kristalite e molat i e mnogo gotin arhiteturno vatre.









Teatarat na Jelko otvan







Ednata ot vecherite Madlen ni sreshtna za po edno (2-3) piene i vecheria :)

Cake Decorators

Moiata priatelka Susan i az se zapisahme na klas za ukrasiavane na torti. Vchera svarshihme parvo nivo i skoro shte se zapishem na sledvashtite. Vapreki che samo tova mi triabvashe na glavata tozi mesec s ludnicata na rabota, mi se otrazi mnogo dobre. Dvete zakluchihme, che prosto sme jeni s mnogo talanti (tia sashto e fotografka i dvete se uprajniavame zaedno). Smiatam, che mnogo dobre se spravihme. :)

So my friend Susan and I signed up for a cake decorating class. It was a crazy month at work but every Wednesday we went to class and it was super cool. I think we did pretty good. This was just level 1, we have a couple more to take. Susan and I decided that we are just destined to be women of many talents! Susan is also a photographer and we practice together whenever we can.

Parvite rozichki






Tortite ni ot "zavarshvaneto" / Our graduation cakes - mine inspired me to go home and watch How The Grinch Stole Christmas

Neonovi svetlini - My new favorite place in Las Vegas

Dnes Janelle, Treasea i az hodihme do "grobishte" za stari neonovi Las Vegaski tabeli. Beshe mnogo interesno, no sashto beshe i mnogo goreshto. A te imat poseshtenia samo ot 11:30. No izdarjahme.

The neon sign bone yard (yes, the correct term IS bone yard) - is my new favorite place in town.