Playing Hooky

We've been having a love/hate relationship with the Golden State since moving here in April. It's nice for me (Jess) to be back around people I know and the places I grew up, but the heat and overdeveloped landscape is killing us. But amazingly enough it only takes about an hour to get away from everyone.

This last Tuesday I (Jess again) woke up feeling under the weather and tired of people. So we took off to explore Northern San Diego County.

The view from the southern face of Palomar Mountain


Outside of Julian


We followed a road out of Julian that I've never taken and discovered absolute solitude in the Anza Borrego Desert




Matthew still doesn't like it here

Natalie & Mike

Natalie & Mike are getting married in October. Yay!!!






















(Lake Elsinore cleans up well, eh?)

Coming Soon

134 N Main St, Lake Elsinore CA

Holy Crap!

I woke up this morning to an unusually high number of views on our flickr page. Turns out our own wedding is featured today on offbeat bride So apparently it wasn't the white-trash hoe-down I had feared.

(photo by andrew bradley)

The Ecstatic Wisdom of the City of Angels

A few random updates on our life: First of all, we picked up a new camera today


What does this mean for you? We now have two good, working cameras instead of one and a half. Matthew is now able to take photos uninterrupted, at random, and without throwing the camera out the window. We also (finally) picked two flash units so we're no longer scared of the dark. Awesomeness is sure to ensue.

Matthew had 5 wisdom teeth (yes, 5) pulled this week. I left him alone for a few minutes and this is what I found when I came back:


We went to LA earlier this week...


... and did a little adding to the ol' sign collection






And that is our life this week. Thank you.

Rachel & Scott

Rachel & Scott were my first wedding:



Scott is currently in Iraq doing non-military car repair or something like that, so we took a few minutes while he was home on leave the first week I was back in California.

Dylan and Sarah's Wedding pt 2

Here are some of the photos from Dylan & Sarah's Middletown CT wedding.
I've been finding myself even more drawn to B&W lately. But it's all good because, seriously, who doesn't like B&W. There are more photos on our flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11484841@N02/




my favorite bridesmaid shot ever


shots with the bridesmaids








watching sarah walk down the aisle








note the best man's reaction











first dance





chicken dance