Maddie Oh Maddie.....6months!!

Rob, Karly and Maddie......the perfect family! Serious! Rob loves Karly so much and their baby girl is so adorable and hilarious! You may remember Maddie from our 6 weeks Portrait Session. I cannot believe how much she has grown! We went to one of our new locations and I love it, the birdies were chirping and the crickets were singing, I felt like I was in some Utah or Idaho state lol.

Anywho, we got some good stuff of the fam shots. I love the one where Karly is just crackin up with Maddie......perfect! Annd, everyone talks about how much Maddie resembles her daddy, so of corse Karly brought a perfect outfit for that "VERSION 2.0" Mini Tee and Red Shoes! Karly brought the entire closet and we just couldnt pick any outfits, because ALL of them were so cute! As we were taking pictures, I found myself cracking up because Rob is just hilarious, the comments he would say were so funny that I found myself shaking from laughing and had to re group my focus! ;)

From Maddie's favorite teddy, Gunther, to her lovely tutu chewing and gold necklaces....She was ofcorse my perfect little model. Thank you Rob and Karly.....I cannot wait for her 1st YEAR birthday! Time to get started on her Dedication Announcements!............Love you all!

Capturing the harmony to life's melody

Amanda Joy

Anita & Travis- Engagement Portraits 4/17/10

I have been looking forward to this Saturday for a while now.

I've known Travis and Anita for several years now, before the dating and before the engagement. So, when I got the call from "Bubba" (Travis) that he was getting married, I was so excited for the both of them!! I, ofcorse, asked the next important question...."Whose your photographer???" lol He simply just replied "YOU!". It has been so awesome to be friends and capture their relationship! We started off at our lovely Train Tracks and Rustic Fields, we had to cut it shot before Bubba's eyes melted out of his head, due to a surprise allergy attack. With his red, watery eyes, he was still the gentleman he always is...helping me carry all my props back to our car. Tiny Anita was so cute at stopping in at the nearest Pharmacy! We decided to head out to our 2nd location in hopes that the burning, itchy and watery eyes would calm down.......See Anita, even your Beauty makes Bubba cry (heheh wink wink).

We arrived and with no red eyes!! Wooohooo. We headed down to the beach and I was totally excited being that Bubba proposed to Anita at the beach, so it was kind of this great memory!!! You all know how I love the details and secret meanings behind things like that. Bubba and Anita were awesome! Anita was simple gorgeous with her awesome brunette hair and perfect eye lashes!!! GORGEOUS and a bit Jealous. And they were pretty cool at laughing it off when I didnt tell them a wave was come ;) heheheh.

Thank you Bubba and Anita for letting us be apart of some of the most memorable moments in your life. Thank you and we cannot wait to see what and how God uses you both!!! Get ready, buckle up because its ganna be an awesome ride!!!...............Up next, The Wedding!!!!

Capturing the harmony to life's melody

Amanda Joy

Jessica Rodriguez- Portraits Sunday 4/11/2010

Grass fields, train tracks and vintage suite cases!

I had been wanting to take Jessica's Portraits for awhile. She is to dang cute with her style, hair and her boots! She has the sweetest personality and is just so cute! She wanted me to have full reign in our location and which shots to get, which was totally fine by me! I brought a few of my favorite props and we meet up at my new favorite spot! She was so awesome and perfect to pose...she has this gorgeous slight smile about her and was willing to do anything...even lay in tall dirty grass! I just love this girl!...climbing steep hills and even braving a train....Jessica was so awesome!

We will definitely be using a few of these images in our up and coming Expo. To Jessica and her mama...thank you for letting us capture her beauty and charm. She is so cute!!! Thank you.....cant wait to do it again!

Capturing the harmony to life's melody

Amanda Joy

The Rodriguez Family- Saturday 4/10/10

Saturday was a wonderful time!

I meet up with The Rodriguez Family at the Long Beach Shoreline Village. It was so cute! Little Vintage Ice cream shops, the harbor and the setting sun!!! Vanessa wanted to have her family's portraits done here. She told me a story of how she and Gilbert, the girls' daddy, would take them to this place when the girls were little babies. Now, all growing up and beautiful, I definately was excited to take their memories at a place where they have many good memories! We started off with some family portraits, then with Vanessa and Gilbert, I believe she had mentioned they have been together since they were 14 years old. How amazing and wonderful and to see the love they still have for each other...I couldnt help but snap a few. With the girls, it wasnt even hard to get a great picture of them. I had joked with Gilbert saying he's eventually ganna have to give away three brides..............I just got a small smile out of him.....;) wink wink. The girls were perfect, so easy to direct and so gorgeous! Each one has their own personality and we totally wanted to capture that.

Vanessa, Gilbert and girls........thank you all so much for letting us be apart of your day and for the million outfit changes....OMG so cute and so much fun! Girls, you rocked it! Thanks again all!!! Looking forward to our HS Senior Portrait Sessions!!!!
Capturing the harmony to life's melody

Amanda Joy

Chocolate Eggs, Sunday Outfits and BOW TIES!

Oh my goodness!!
Well for Easter Sunday, we all like to get a bit decked out. I love to pull out that once a year dress, if I dont get any new outfits hehe. Well, at church this past Sunday, we celebrated the resurrection of our Lord and Savior! It was an awesome time and powerful! Apart from that, my friend Deanna had her son Jax. Let me tell you the minuet I saw him, I just picked him up and me and Vic just loved it.....I did say a little prayer for no "Baby Virus" lol (Sorry mom). So, After service, I grabbed little Jax and sat him in a great chair and just couldnt help myself snapping a few pics. He had this adorable News Boy 1920's hat, a white collar shirt, brown leather shoes, annnnnd a brown satin BOW TIE! This kid was so cute. So here was my Sunday Easter High Light....snapping a few of Baby Jax on his first Easter. Thanks Deanna!!

Baby Jax, 3 months

OUR FIRST EXPO!!!!

I cannot tell you how excited I am.....Im shaking as I type the words! We are headed to our very first expo! Im so super excited!! See I just said that. The down fall is we only have 1 month to plan and prepair, being it is MAY 1st!! I have my design already set to go for our booth and we are going to be the WOW factor at this event! Im so excited!!! We will be in LA County for this fancy shin dig and are going to have not just our booth set up but a Fancy Shmancy Small Studio set up, incase peeps wana take a few pics! We are so excited and my poor Vic is getting all the tools, hardware needed....my booth is a special surprise, so I dont want to spill the beans.....but I cannot wait!! In the mean time, I have revamped our design which y'all have been seeing about a month or so now. ANNNNNND....dahn dahn dahn daahhhhn, Ive been working these past two weeks on our Martketing Material Designs!!! Im so in love with them, the color and everything! We still have a few things to re-design and some to "invent" lol; but we have gotten the pic chunk out of the way!

Our Marketing Materials include:

*Business Cards (obviously lol)
*Referral Cards
*Pricing & Package Information
*Portrait Session Details
*Welcome Letter
*Ordering and Product Guide
*Brochures (coming soon)
*Thank you note cards(my favs!!!)

So, I've uploaded a few images of the final design! I cannot wait to print these bad boys and get crackin'. We will soon be getting our Welcome Packets and Pamphlets together after the summer!! Yeah......its ganna be one crazy SUMMER!!!

Capturing the harmony to life's melody,

Amanda Joy
IT'S CRUNCH TIME!!!