Ryan and I will be out of the office, so if you need to get a hold of us, just e-mail me and I’ll try my best to get back to you as soon as I can.

For now, I wanted to announce the winner to my contest. I planned to do it earlier today, but things came up and I didn’t get the chance to..

So the winner to our contest is Jan Michael Duya! Congratulations Jan Michael! I sent your $50 Apple Gift Card before I left for our trip so you should be getting it soon! :D We hope you enjoy it and THANK YOU for participating!

Here’s a picture that we took before boarding our plane this morning. It was taken with an iPhone and I’m so bad at taking these self portraits… :P Sorry so blurry.

Thank you both for giving me and Ryan the opportunity to spend time with you and for giving us the chance to get to know you both.  You two are the sweetest and I’m glad we’ll be taking your wedding photos.

You two kept telling me that you both weren’t “picture people”, but I beg to differ. You both did great and I guess watching “America’s Next Top Model” worked out because I didn’t have to tell you to, “smile with your eyes!” haha :P  To tell you the truth… I have no idea how to “smile with my eyes” but you two knew exactly how to do it heheh :D

We hope you enjoy these photos from your engagement session! Don’t forget to check out your slideshow by clicking here!

Thank you so much!

xOxO from the Solitario’s :D

For example, I got my hair done again for a Brazilian Blowout!  However, the stylist’s schedule (the one who did my hair before) and my schedule did not sync, so I found another stylist who also does the Brazilian Blowout. Her name is Flor and you can find her on Facebook. She did an great job and so I wanted to give her some credit on my blog.

Afterwards, Ryan and I went shopping because I needed to buy two more suits. It’s always a happy feeling when I find a suit that actually fits me. One of my simple joys! :P

Ryan and I were gonna go out for lunch, but we decided to just go home and get Chinese food, relax, and watch a movie in the living room.  It really was a treat for us to just be home today…

Then it was time to get ready for an engagement session with Nick and Amadelle. I’ll be posting more photos from their session, but for now, here’s a teaser :D. Ryan got this shot and I really, really, really, like it a lot!

We were invited by Nick and Amadelle to get some Korean BBQ, but Ryan and I wanted to go to church to try and make it to vow. I’m glad we made it just in time.

After vow, Ryan and I decided to hang out with my brothers, Johnson and Jordan, because we wanted to spend some quality time with them before we leave on Tuesday. We decided to eat at Hofs Hut where we ordered two entries and shared with each other…

And that is how we spent our Saturday.

The End.

My good friend, Yvonne, wanted to take family portraits with her parents and Daniel’s parents as we document Danielito at age one :). Thank you so much Yvonne and Daniel for again, giving us the opportunity to photograph your family :D

We hope you enjoy looking through these photos and don’t forget to check out the slideshow as well!

Yup!! he can walk now!!

One of my favorite photos!

He’s so adorable! I loved the jeans-like diaper that Yvonne had him wear hehe :D

I’ll end it with this picture because it makes me happy :D

I know.. I know.. yesterday, I posted up my recent engagement blog post on the ES-Sense Fan Page on Facebook, but Ryan told me that was okay…  You see.. I still need to keep that site updated… so just to let you know, the only reason why I would go on Facebook is just to update our Fan Page Site :D

I’ve been doing really good too! At first, I had these withdrawal symptoms from Facebook! I just had to know what everyone was up to! But after a few days.. I realized I’m actually okay not having to check everyone’s statuses.. :P  I guess what helped too was that I removed the FB App from my iPhone!  Now, I’m able to get A TON of things done!  This evening, I was able to upload my most recent family photo session, edit the photos, and export the photos.  Before I sleep, I’m going to upload it all on smugmug so that by the time I wake up tomorrow, I can burn the photos and get it ready for my friend Yvonne!

Here’s a teaser from our Tuesday Family Photo Session. More photos from the session will be posted up tomorrow… for now… it’s time to go to bed! It’s now 12:52 AM!

Have a great Thursday everyone!

Fast forward to this past weekend.  We all met up at Coronado, CA in the San Diego area to take their engagement photos. We decided to do a morning photo session around the area and I REALLY, REALLY ENJOY CORONADO A LOT!  I thought it was the perfect place for their photo session and I’m really happy with how the photos turned out.

Jay and Honeylette: I hope you enjoy the photos as much as we enjoyed spending time with you both! I’m excited for your upcoming wedding and I know it’s going to be a lot of fun!  Without any further delay, please click here to view the slideshow.  I think I chose a perfect song for your session, because even though we only spent two hours with you both, I know that your life together will truly be full of smiles.

So I do this thing with my couples… where every time I count to three, they need to come up with different poses… Jay & Honeylette couldn’t think of what to do, so they started to do the Robot instead!

It’s either they are laughing with me, or at me… :D

Honeylette, you are so beautiful! Inside and out!

Jay, you’re not so bad looking yourself :D

Honeylette told me that Jay has shelves of Superman memorabilias. Now this picture can be part of the collection as well!

I’ll end this blog with the following picture, just because…

This week is going to go by really fast for me and Ryan and then we’ll be out of the office from July 20 returning on August 23!!! We still have a couple of photo sessions coming up before we leave as well as getting things out and ordered for our friends, but don’t worry, Ryan and I are really working overtime to get things out before we leave. :D

I hope everyone has a wonderful week and a good Monday! :D

Oh My Goodness Gracious! He is so adorable! :D I’m sorry Giles, but I see Michelle in baby Gabriel!  It’s okay though because Gavin is totally a mini-Giles :D

Tomorrow, I’m going to take more baby photos but for now, here’s to introducing Gabriel Micah Evangelista Ordinario :D

Welcome to the world!

I was right :).

We met them over a week ago for an engagement session at the Pasadena City Hall and Ryan and I had a blast photographing them. I think most of our session was filled with laughs all thanks to Jonathan who kept us all entertained and who kept Johanna happy. It was so easy to capture the essence of their personalities and their beautiful souls… :)

I am looking forward to document their wedding day this coming August! :D

Click here for their slideshow or scroll down to view some of their photos.

Afterwards, we decided to go for a walk. First we thought about walking around the mall, but later decided to go to Upper Newport Bay in Newport Beach, CA. We walked along the dirt path and realized how beautiful and peaceful it was over there so, not wanting to forget our “date night”, I took my camera out and we shot some photos of one another.

It’s wonderful how I am now able to bring my camera with me at all times because of my Kelly Moore Bag! Now I really have no reason to not have my camera and now I can capture and remember special moments like the one Ryan and I had this evening.

My handsome husband :D

and me… :P I have NO IDEA how to smile/act in front of a camera.  :P