this week has been ridiculous! as a few of you may know, my car got broken into - yes, again. that puts us at just about one major automotive crisis per month this year. i’m choosing to take it as a sign that God is done with our current cars and can’t wait to get us somethin’ new ;)
i digress… i’ve been under a mountain of paperwork and decided to trip back through time.
a couple weeks back nellie and i got to spend a few days in vegas with of few of our closest friends… here’s the frames.
breakfast…
and lunch…
on our way up, we were trying to determine if this was a poor coincidence or a prophetic warning.
little stretch break portrait session. here’s one that nellie got of me.
and one i got of my hotness.
mmm… this image is sooo right, i can’t describe it with words!
in an attempt to stretch every penny as far as we could, we spent a good portion of time prowling for $5 blackjack. i try to stick away from “posey-posey” pics like this, but john looked so dirty, i could barely resist.
yah, we hit vegas hard…
we had a great trip, and i’d drop anything to go again. can’t wait ’till next year ;)
after locating jordan’s clothes, the boys got him tux’d up and ready for the big day. jordan + katelyn had a breathtaking wedding at the supah-fly levyland in carlsbad.
of course, the fun for me was gettin’ to photobooth a lot of the friends and family…
you know what they say : “there are no heterosexuals in a male group shot”
WYATT!!
a little tooo serious…
the lovely bride and her red-neck studly groom
and his other lover,
i’m doing a lot of digital spring cleaning. so, there will probably be a few more posts like this. i feel like i’m finally starting to emerge from the mountain of work that i left behind in january.
regardless, there have been a lot of fun experiences that i’ve wanted to document — the first of which was jordan’s bachelor party. i honestly don’t have much to say. weird things happen when you get a bunch of christian guys together and with a stripper off the menu, some of the guys got a little… restless.
dear bloggers,
as we touched down in shanghai, i began my regular post-flight routine. find signal, get mail, read blogs. however, despite a swift completion of the first two, the third was causing me some trouble. blogger, squarespace, wordpress… all the greats running, slower than christian bales career between newsies and batman begins.
ding! the proverbial light-bulb went off.
so, i played a little game - “stump the chinese firewall.”
doing standard google query for “noodles”, “rice”, “apple inc.”, etc yielded normal results, as you can see :
however, i conveniently “lost connection to server” every time the subject matter was in any way, well… democratic. note the highlights in the below:
i’m no economist or or social-journalist. i’m just a guy that wants to see what’s going on in my friends lives. so all this is to say - it’s a shame that the government here finds your exploitation of freedom repulsive. if you don’t see my comments, it’s not because i don’t love, it’s because china hates you.
for those of you who visit the blog to see what nellie and i are up to, move on to the next post… there is nothing for your hear! of course, if you are a super-nerd, like me, and wonder how the cats play when the wife is away, you are in luck!
if you haven’t heard yet, i got a new camera the other day. because this is a “nerd” post, i’ll tell you that it is a Nikon D200 which has been nocking my socks off! of course, now i have a sweet camera and no lenses ;)
my good friend lorenzo saw my lack of foresight and very generously filled my need. he is an incredible photographer and you can see his stunning work “here”:http://ttl-zo.blogspot.com.
we drove around to find the filthiest spot we could to and start shooting. we had a great time together, and i can’t wait until our next run in!
this was a stretching experience for me, as i don’t often go out looking for inanimate objects to shoot, but i learned a lot. enjoy.
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no last week we got a surprise call from “nate keiser”:http://theimageisfound.com with a very exciting proposition. as a part of their new “shootshops”:http://theimageisfound.com/shootshops for aspiring photographers, they would shoot us and buy us dinner for the small sacrifice of leaving work for a couple hours. it was a very difficult decision i know, but admittedly worth the sacrifice. ;)
we felt so honored to be a part of the first of many successful workshops. congratulations to “eight20 photography”:http://eight20photography” for taking this huge first step.
of course, today i kept the camera at home and left the shooting to the pros… click on the picture to see some more great shots from the shoot.
notextile. 
one of the great joys of spring-break is that it brings a dear friend home to us. josh dunn was a big part of our wedding and one of those friends you love to have around. whether watching chappelle show re-runs or learning a rockin-awesome dance for our wedding, josh always brings his a-game.
so thanks ang, kevin, kerry, liz, angela, “duffy”, christian, and brenna for ditching work and school to commemorate this spring-break.
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after much planning, deliberation, rescheduling, and renegotiation, we finally made it to disneyland with john + channing. a trip with the four of us was long overdue.
the four of us have a bit of a history at disneyland in that the four of us took off during a group trip to disneyland ( summer 05 ) before they were dating. we had so much fun as a forsome that we did everything we could to “encourage” them in their feelings for each other. of course, time would tell that the relationship required very little “encouragement” from us ;)
here’s some fun pics from the day. we love you guys!
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and one of my smokin’ hot babe of a wife!
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