The new blog is finally finished so I will no longer be posting here!! Wondering why it tool a bit longer than expected?? Well, head on over to find out the good new :)
we made it back to Sacramento after spending a beautiful weekend in Paso Robles for my sister's wedding! I can't wait to share all the images with you! For now, here is my very beautiful sister on her wedding day!
My sister is getting married in just 6 days and my heart feels all giddy inside for her! Is there anything better than being surrounded by friends and family....making fun memories....laughing.......dancing....celebrating? I don't think so.
On a different note, this was the second year I got to go to Lake Tahoe and photograph a few of my favorite families. These girls are so cute together and so much fun to photograph....and I can only imagine all the fun memories they will share and make in the years to come!
Today's Friday Photo Tip is about finding good light around your home. There are a lot of good places to look but today I wanted to let you know about doorways. Did you know that your doorway is a great place to find pretty, soft, flattering light? Well now you know that it is :)
Favorite Summer Memories:
From Riley's birthday party:
I was in Tahoe a few weeks ago for a family shoot and took these while I was there:
and my little Remi:
Good morning! I saw this on youtube this morning and thought you might like it. It's a baby french bulldog that can't get up. Enjoy his overwhelming cuteness!
Who doesn't love babies....I mean really, who can resist their chunky goodness and those big toothless smiles. Yes, sometime they don't sleep when we want them to and yes, their high pitched cries can sometimes make us want to cry ourselves.....but the love and joy they bring to our lives far outweighs the temporary stress that comes with raising a baby. I promise.
If we're friends on facebook or twitter, then you may already know that this week started out a little (okay, a lot) stressful.So here's the story. Our puppy, Remi, tested positive for Parvo. I didn't know much about Parvo except that it usually kills....my eyes filled with tears when the Vet told me. She continued to explain that he would have a 50% chance of surviving this....my eyes filled with more tears and all I could think was, "how did this happen....he can't die...he's only 6 months old!!! The Vet told us his best chance of making it through this would be to have him check into the hospital where he could receive IV fluids and nutrients. So this is what we did. And then we waited....and waited...and waited until finally 7pm came and we could pick him up. The report was good...but he still wasn't out of the woods. We got to bring him home that evening knowing that the next morning, we would have to bring him back for another day of treatment.He woke up at our house in good spirits (which was refreshing because all night, it seemed as if he might just stop breathing right there on our floor). So we got ready to bring him back to the hospital for day 2 of treatment. The real test for day was to see if he could keep his food down without vomiting. So I left the hospital at 8am praying that he would survive this. I was nervous all day. Finally, around 5 o' clock, I called for an update. He was BETTER!! He kept his food down all day...and the vet told me he had so much energy he tried to escape!! Hallelujah!! I'm so thankful for all of my twitter and facebooks friends for keeping Remi in their thoughts and prayers...I'm confident they helped him get through this.So you may be thinking, isn't there a vaccine for Parvo? And the answer is Yes. Remi had received 3 vaccines already for Parvo but he still had one more to go...and my understanding is that they aren't 99.9% protected until they have all of them.Knowing that he didn't have all his shots yet, I didn't take him around other dogs unless I knew the owners and knew that their dogs had received all of their shots. I did however take Remi out on walks around our neighborhood. Knowing what I know now about Parvo, I wish I wouldn't have ever taken him out of the house until he had all of his shots. But not taking your dog out of the house still doesn't mean they are safe from getting it. As I've learned in the past week, Parvo can live in your own backyard....for up to 10 years!! Since we are renters and have only lived in our house for a year, it's quite possible that he could have got Parvo from digging in the dirt in our backyard.There's one other place he could have gotten it: The Del Paso Vet Clinic. When I went there for Remi's shots (just 5 days before he came down with Parvo...and also, this was my first time going to this Vet), I had a bad feeling. I noticed that a lady came in the waiting room to clean after we had been sitting there for a good 10 minutes. I also saw several sick looking dogs leave the clinic while we were there too. So although I can't be sure, I have a gut feeling that he may have picked it up while we were there to GET his Parvo shot.Needless to say, I did not take him back there. Now I know that there are also a lot of negative things that have been said about Banfield, but they were the ones that treated Remi through all of this and our experience with them was nothing short of wonderful. I have them to thank for saving our dear puppy. It was hard preparing ourselves for the fact that our 6 month old puppy might die....especially since Riley would repeatedly say things like, "Mommy, Remi is my best friend...I miss him"....and... "Mommy, Remi is my brother right?" Thankfully, this story ends well, because right now he is happily wagging his tail running around our house looking for things to get into (hopefully not my shoes).We have to keep Remi quarantined for the next week while it passes through his system...but only so other dogs can't get Parvo. We also have to mix 2 parts water with 1 part bleach and clean our entire backyard with it...again, this is so we can prevent any other dogs from ever getting it.
"What I really wanted to say was how this animal had touched our souls and taught us some of the most important lessons of our lives. A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours....Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things- a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty'"
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