Kindygarten Graduation

Sorry it has been so long since my last post. I have been spending a lot of my time in weddingland these days. I have also been blessed with Jessie's company for the last month plus and have been trying to take full advantage of it. It is serious business celebrating being 30 all year long and really takes a lot of energy! We have decided though to continue the celebration on to 31 next year. After all, you are only 31 once. The rest of what has been occupying my time, space, being is too arduous and unpleasant to go into here. You can all read about it in my memoirs one day. But back to celebrating being 30 and did I mention single? Not officially of course but close enough to be celebrated. For now, let's look at some photos of Amélie's Kindergarten Graduation...



Here she is, the Kindergarten graduate who knows how to tie her shoes and can almost ride her bike with no training wheels.My beautiful Gigi is in New Jersey right now visiting her grandparents. I am sure she is getting spoiled rotten and having the time of her life but I sure do miss her.

Gigi turns 10 tomorrow

The very first time I met Logan was on her third birthday, seven years ago tomorrow. She made me pretend to sleep on her grandma's couch and would get mad every time I tried to get up. She was a beautiful little girl with a lot of hurt and anger and sadness. And now she is about to turn ten and has grown into an even more beautiful big girl with a truly happy smile and a spirit like no other. I look forward to watching her grow into an amazing woman. I can't imagine my life without her. Happy birthday Gigi!

Amélie ties her shoes

This did happen about a month ago but I know that you all wish you could have been there too to see Amélie tie her shoes all by herself for the first time (second actually but practically the same thing). Since you couldn't be there, I documented it for you! It was an exciting and momentous day for both of us.

I wish I had more to say but the combination of having to deal with a divorce that seems like it will never end, reading "A Reasonable Life" which, while it has some truly valuable lessons and makes a lot of valid points is actually quite a depressing book (unless you are able to find a group of your best, coolest, most resourceful friends who want to buy land with you and live self-sufficiently off of it), eating too many microwaved frozen mini corndogs (because of depression caused by above list), and then watching all of my netflix DVD of the L word in one fell swoop way too early in the evening - timing is everything when spending a Sunday night alone as you must plan the end of your TV viewing to coincide with the time you go to bed , otherwise you create a gap and then must find something to fill it with other than more mini corndogs - wow that run-on sentence went on for so long I don't even know where it was supposed to be going. I think mainly I have a case of the blahs leading to a lack of desire to write more which is probably a good thing judging by my last sentence.
Enjoy the photos of amazing Amélie and I'll try to perk up by the next time I post.

Yashica

Here is the latest design created by moi.

Budgie Smugglers

Here are some pics from Saul and Melissa's beautiful and fun wedding last weekend in Northern California. I am too tired still to write much. Plus the pictures pretty much speak for themselves! I had a great time and it was really wonderful to see everyone. I will post the stuff from the day after sometime next week.

My beautiful Auntie Sarah aka mother of the groom

The fam!

I just want to know exactly who got married? It looks to me like Saul is going in for a kiss!

Get ready here comes the hair...

I ask you, does hair get any better than that????

I think we all know whose inappropriate comments girl Erin is laughing at here!

Yes, our family is multi-talented. Saul dancing with his mom.

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My fabulous date Jessie being fed an apple by the guy in the pink budgie smuggler!

Vegas hangover and a big welcome to little Darioush

Congratulations to Brian and Shebreh. Baby Jamshid has now become baby Darioush and is adorable from the pictures I have seen. I think he looks a lot like his daddy right now but that will surely be an ongoing debate. I am still recovering from my Vegas hangover. No, I did not drink the $20 beers at the casinos. I mean to say that Las Vegas itself gave me a hangover and it has been a rough transition back, though I did have a lot of fun and it was incredibly inspiring to be around so many talented photographers. And I even got to meet one of my favorites, Jose Villa. Not only is he extremely talented, he seems to be a really sweet, down-to-earth person.
Being that I am still recovering, here are just a few more shots of Shebs and Brian. I will write more about my trip and hopefully put a few photos up from it soon.

Shebreh is so beautiful!

Thirty amazing years

So, this is me at 30...I had a wonderful birthday today and feel like my life is truly blessed because it is so full of beautiful people who love me and show me how much they care about me. I did have a few moments of melancholy thinking of all of you who I wished could be nearer to me physically, but I could feel you here with me and know that I am so lucky to have you in my life wherever you may be. Thank you all.