Recession Costume Party
November 22, 2009
Boo! But, Katie as always took her lemons and made us some lemon bars and a “Recession Costume Party” to be envyed. The theme of the dress up was, “My dream job.” And let me tell ya the LBC’s dream jobs differ a tad from the Newps dream jobs, but awesome all the same. Katie was so cute and served us “Recession food” as in Pigs in a blanket, Cheese Puffs, Gummi Worms, Cheezits, Gummi Bears, Jungle Juice and Peach Schnapps…. Check it…
Gold Digger, Singer, Boxer-ina, NYC Housewife
So I think the boys were a carpenter, a handy man, a hit man and a Porn Star?
Diggin' and Boxin!
Gangster, Receptionist, Hooters, Astronaut...
"Oh don't mind us...we're artist."
Peace Out-erspace!
Haloween 2009…Best Costumes Ever!
November 5, 2009
Jayden the Alien!
We’ll let my cousins, nephews and girlfriends babies go first….
Ashton "The Pirate" RRRrrrrr!
Sonny as Popeye the Sailor Man!
Birds of a feather get their Halloween party on together!
No Rockstar can resist a Senorita
The Parisian and The American that are giving birth to a Green Card 
Trooper the Terrorist...this was awesomeness!
My "hot date" Miss. Teichman!
xoxoxo
TTFN!
Pumpkins, Decorating and Sonny, Oh My!
October 31, 2009
Nini's Twilight Obsession
Tori's Alligator
Krystyna's Totem Poll
Mitch's over achievement. Punk! He totally won!
Later I went over to my sister Dana’s house and helped her decorate for her annual “Haloween Monster Bash”. My nephew Sonny was messing around outside with us while we tried to set up. He’s so much fun! He’s so different from playing with little girls like I’m used to. It’s like playing WWF with a little Noam. I love that kid!
Monster Bash 2007
Monster Bash 2007
All smiles, all the time.
I want to kiss those cheeks!
Messin' around in one of the coffins
Kiss for Aunt Nini!
Paella and Traveling Princesses…
October 23, 2009
The Getty
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First me, then Jeannette and now Jess and April are off to Spain. I gotta admit I’m a tad jealous they are all there experiencing it all together. I would love to go back to Barcelona and see the Gaudi’s. Crazy beautiful! Yesterday, I got my postcards from all of them. Postcards are so trippy to look at. I’m always like, “Wow! How many hands has this tiny piece of cardstock been carried by just so it could get into my hands on the other side of the world” Trippy huh?
Anyway, so for April and Jess’ Bon Voyage party we had an intimate gathering of just a few of us on Jess’ patio along with a huge pot of Paella that I was quite proud of. I was really nervous to make it since Jess is always hosting us and is an AMAZING chefista herself. However with the awesome cheerleading of my mother over the phone I was able to make a great dish. I even took a picture…check it out…
Muy bueno!
If you want the recipe I highly reccomend it! You can get it here. I can’t wait till the girls get home to tell me their Euro stories. Hopefully they weren’t followed by strange men and almost kidnapped like me. Oh the perils and beauty of traveling alone. I’ll never do that again. I’m so glad they have eachother!
Kitty Shower
October 11, 2009
Boo!
Meowtastic
Dear Kitty Daddy...
Crista’s Bebe Shower!
September 17, 2009
Mom's Famous Royal Icing Booties
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- The Moms
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- The Grand”Moms”
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- Jayden and his beautiful mama Scarlett
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- Richard and his beautiful self :)
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- Sonny and his Nana
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- Love him!
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- La Familia (minus about 10,000)
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- Hostess with the Mostess and her handy helper Aunt Lisa
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- Mom’s Famous Royal Icing Booties
If I come back in another life…
September 14, 2009
…I wanna be Armenian! Cause they know how to party! My roommate from college, Maral just had her bridal shower in L.A. at The Mirage. It was definitely a party you would want to be at on a Saturday afternoon. Over 100 women dined on delicious Armenian cuisine of hummus, kabobs and the crazy raw meat sauce that I usually avoid. They danced to traditional Armenian tunes, doing their little “fly swatting” moves as I call them. They played traditional Armenian Bridal Shower games, such as blindfolding the Bride-to-be and having her touch people and try to guess who they were. Then somewhere along the assembly line they sneak the groom in. Maral was so adorable! She struggled to guess who everyone in the line was, but the second she put her hands on her fiances head she screamed “Vicken!” These are some pictures I shot on a Nikon D40. Maral wanted the day documented and then made into a book on Blurb.com. These are some of my favs. I tend to like setting the camera to a high ISO and using no flash. More artsy that way. I can’t wait for the wedding!
Bon Voyage Jeannette!
August 31, 2009
Lisa's AMAZING Backyard
The last time I went to Spain I pretty much just packed up all my stuff, threw it in my sisters non-existent storage spaces at their houses, borrowed a back pack, put $300 bucks in my underwear and hopped on the next Virgin Atlantic flight. After I was there I realized I didn’t need Europe, I really needed some therapy… oh well. Nice “vacay” though.
Jeannette on the other hand is a woman of introspection and planning. A true Capricorn to the core, she has planned her trip to Spain for a couple of years now and the universe has greatly helped her plan it. In her planning she met an amazing woman named Pilar from Barcelona who has set her up with a room in her families home to stay in while visiting Spain. She has been connected to people living in Spain who have given her the necessary insider tips and info about living abroad and working abroad. And of course her boyfriend made her watch Taken. (Nice one Chris.)
Jamie, Jessica, Jeannette
All in all the most remarkable thing about Jeannette’s journey has been her faith in it. She has felt such a calling to visit this country and it seems that she has been patient enough to go when she if physically, emotionally and financially ready. As always Jeannette is an example to us all that good investments reap good rewards.
Me, Laura and April
These are a few pics from Jeannette’s Bon Voyage Party in Lisa’s AMAZING backyard! I want my wedding (if/when) to replicate an evening garden party like this. It is unbelievably charming and the food of an assortment of cheeses, mushroom and vegetarian sausage quesadillas, rice pudding and Jessicas lemon cupcakes kept us all happy campers! Bon Voyage Jeannette! We will miss you! xoxo
Tyler and Becky Waldron’s Wedding
August 27, 2009
On August 22nd, 2009 Tyler Waldron became the luckiest man (and Mormon) alive when he married my best friend Becky Lynn. God really did get out his best spices and fairy dust when he made Becky. She’s beautiful, but down to earth, smart but totally quirky, funky yet classy and forward thinking yet thoughtful. And did I mention INSANELY good at planning a wedding ?
Now, when I hear ”Wedding in the park” I think a bucket of KFC and grandma’s old blanket, but Becky sees the cutest wedding on earth…and that is just what she put on for all of us at Heritage Park in Fountain Valley.
Beckys wedding was probably the funnest I’ve ever been apart of. Everything from the flowers to the lemonade stand were a “family/friend affair.” All us bridesmaids got together the night before the wedding with another high school friend Nicole and made all of our own bouquets, boutineers, and crosages…while Becky made her rockin’ veil with a yellow flower (white flower out, yellow flower in, per my suggestion
Becky didn’t get to bed till’ 3 am that night/morning and had to wake up at 6 for her sister in-law Sherri to do her hair. But, it was so worth it to see her come out of the Newport Beach Temple lookin’ like the hottest (yet modest) wife in the WORLD! Her gorgeous dress was designed by no other then the awesome and amazing wedding dress designer, but HERSELF!
But, all in all when I think back on the day I don’t necessarily think of a “man and woman” coming together, I think of a family coming together. The way the day went with groomsmen hanging ribbons, brothers DJ’ing and all the 50 or so little kids running up to the Lemonade Stand (that her brother Dan painted) to get lemonade, water and kool-aid…and how cute all of them looked with their mouths and chins stained with red. I’ll think of how freakin’ funny all the nieces, nephews and cousins looked dressing up in costume for the the PhotoBooth. How gorgeous the 150 yards of Triangle Flags her mom cut and sewed looked through out the park, in the gazeebo and on the dance floor. How much fun people had playing all the games set out in the park like, Bocce ball, Badmitton, Bowling, Smash ball and Croquet. No, this wedding reminded me not of the beauty of a man and woman coming together, but of the beauty that man and woman can make by creating a family to love and to cherish… and how blessed I was to be apart of it.
Suck it ya hippies!
August 25, 2009
Nothin’ like a Bachelorette Party in Newport Beach! After some din-din at Yard House we made sweet and modest Becky Lynn take her guitar out on the Newport Beach peninsula and sing for money. She had a ghetto-fabulous sign that said, “Need money for Honeymoon.” Courteousy of Miss.Robin. We encountered our share of haters, male hoochies, drunks, narcissist performers, busy cabi’s, waiters wanting to hear a tune and Mexicans.
The quotes of the night are the following:
“Suck it ya hippies!”
“Don’t worry I can say that…I’m Mexican.”
“Ladies I’m going in the yard house. If you need me, I’ll be in the yard house.”
Whatever the case Becky girl made some hot cash for her honeymoon with Tyler the smiler! So much for the haters!
