It's here!

I just walked in to "downtown" Laguna to get the mail.  It's twilight, and all of the palm tree trunks are wrapped in Christmas lights, the "winter-themed" (we're very PC in Laguna) art palettes are hanging from the lampposts, and the Laguna Pres church bells are playing Silent Night.

I love Christmas in California!

I miss you.

I'm working but will be back soon. Check out what I've been doing for the past week or so on photoblog.

Passing on our Legacy

It is with a swell of pride in my heart and a tear in my eye that I write to you today. There are so many things that we all desire to achieve in life, and one of them is passing on our wisdom and life lessons to those who come after us.

In light of this, I couldn't be prouder to introduce to you what has now become the next generation of bloggers. I'm so pleased to see these young ones walking the straight and narrow at such a young age.

Congratulations and welcome to our world!

Dana Warren Herring
Hayden Casey
Lindsay Greer
Aubrey Naish West

The makings of a great photo shoot

2 spots left . . .

We are getting so excited about our trip to Nashville! I have 2 photo timeslots left if you are interested or if you have friends who you think might be. Please feel free to pass my info along! I have gotten a couple of questions about if the photos have to be used for Christmas Cards - definitely not! One of my package options is just for the shoot and then you can order individual prints.

Who wouldn't want a turn in front of the paparazzi lens . . . .

Also I'm booking CA timeslots for the next few weekends. I know Christmas seems far away but it will be here before we all know it!

Wow. I'm glad I cut my hair.

4th Annual Christmalloween!

I'm discovering how much I enjoy annual traditions. It's so fun to look forward to our favorite yearly celebrations, and I love saying "The (insert number) Annual (insert holiday/party/celebration)".

With the holiday season upon us, we have many of these annual traditions to look forward to! We kicked off the fun this week with the 4th Annual Christmalloween.

What is Christmalloween, you may ask? Allow me to elaborate. 4 years ago (so I'm told - I wasn't around in those days), "the boys" were at their house on Halloween and started giving away random items from their house to trick-or-treaters. The concept of giving gifts rather than candy soon developed into a full-blown Christmas party that now involves house decorations, Christmas movies, a Christmas Cookie station, and lots of wonderful gifts for all of the children.

So Wednesday night we adorned our red and green (I forgot to get a photo of us! bummer!) and headed out to participate in the festivities. It was a great night and the kids absolutely loved it! Several kids came running up yelling "The Christmas House! The Christmas House!" and I think we saw a few little characters come through the toy line more than one time. What a fun night - here's some photos:

The cookie/cupcake decorating station:


Santa Josh handing out gifts to the kids.

This lucky girl got the That's So Raven puzzle:


A Hello Kitty pack - "You're a kitten and she's a kitten!"

A Pslams calendar for the too-old-to-trick-or-treat-kids:

Friends:


What a fun night - we can't wait until the 5th Annual!

Halloween Celebration . . .

. . . at Disney!! (have you noticed how much I use ". . ."? - it's probably my favorite punctuation; that, or the semi-colon)

We started out our Halloween celebration this year by going to Disney!

Don't miss the mickey made of pumpkins:

Friends waiting for Space Mountain - it got shut down about 10 seconds before it was our turn - we still haven't been on it!!:

More friends - we were trying to be awkward. I think it only worked for me and Kyle . . .

We love Disney.