WPPI in Vegas!

My friend, Jasmine, told me about this convention. (Check out her beautiful photography here.) It sounded so cool, and she ever-so-gracefully invited me to go with her! Her adorable girls have made appearances on this blog before...here, here, and here. I'm kind of obsessed with their cuteness.
Back to WPPI...
It was indimidating, informative, inspirational (I ran out of i's...so much for alliteration), exciting, overwhelming, wonderful, and fun.
I realized that I have a lot to learn as a photographer.
I also learned that everybody has to start somewhere! So here I go...starting my beginning of becoming a great photographer.

Click on the collage to see close-ups of some fun we had!
Yes, we stayed at the Hooters hotel. I giggled every time someone asked where we were staying!

What's Up But?

Don't forget Shakira on the tailgate!
Ahhh the things you see while driving in downtown Santa Maria.

Love

While in Vegas, I sent this to Matt with the message, "Love from Vegas!"

He responded with this picture and the message, "Love from work."

Valentine's Day!

Matt couldn't wait until the 14th, so I got all of my wonderful gifts a day early :) Thank you so much babe!
I surprised Matt with dinner when he got home from work.

Part of his gift was a crepe pan! He has been wanting one since he came home from France. He loves it.

Rocking out to some awesome love ballads. Like how I tricked him into cooking for me on V-day? ;)

I made all of the fillings...we had sweet and savory crepes. We had them at our wedding as well - but didn't get to eat them.
So I tried to re-create part of our reception meal.

We had chicken, caramelized onions, broccoli, a spinach/cheese spread & brie. They were so yummy!

And for the dessert crepes: drumroll please...

Strawberries and Nutella! C'est magnifique!

I love you Matthew Daniel Miller...you are my best boy and reason for becoming a better person. Thank you for laughing with me and adoring me. You crack me up...thanks for giving the blog some love while I was in Vegas ;) More on that trip later! I still need to blog about our fun trip to Philly...too many awesome pictures to choose from!

Matt here, filling in for Kara

Well its me, Matt Miller. I thought I would get in the blog and tell my peeps what is up with me while Kara is in Vegas. Turns out it's pretty easy to get in this blog. It was already filled in... awesome. So back to what's going on. Well I played Rockband today. It makes me really feel like I'm important. I have like a million fans and who can say in real life that one million people love 'em. yeah, not very many. I really should have done homework...man it's too late now. It feels so good to tell everyone that reads this how I feel. Let me ask the husbands of wives with blogs a question. Do you ever feel like you gotta watch what you say in fear that she will put it up on the blog? yeah, welcome to my life. I sleep with one eye open in this house. One eye sleepin', and one eye watchin' out for blogcreepers. Yeah, you heard me BLOGCREEPERS! they'll snap pictures and put them on the World Wide Web when you least expect it. Then before you know it you get fired from your job because your boss saw the mushy stuff you did for your wife and says "you're a sissy lala, get out of my office".
Now I don't say this to alarm you but to warn you. Fox News said these are real and they never lie.

ok bye

Unibrows

This made me laugh my butt off!

Attack of the Chocolate Chips!

This is what happens when he doesn't pay attention to me...






Darn phone rang and ruined all my fun!