Hi everyone,

We’ve just returned from an amazing relaxing 10 days in Phoenix. Sigh. It was a great way to recharge our batteries and prep for an incredibly busy time meeting with new clients.

Of course, we can’t go anywhere without a camera (or can we? More on that later…) so Michael met up with the incredible Justine Miller from Phoenix to second with her on an engagement shoot with Jenna & Marc (you can see Justine’s blog post of them here).

Here are some of the shots Michael nabbed during the shoot.  Hot!!

And here’s Justine working her magic.

Speaking of magic, we went on the craziest road trip ever.  It all started with a cold.  Andrew had the sniffles and he fell asleep in the car while we were driving to the science center.  We decided to keep driving and let him have a good nap.  Well, 6 hours later we found ourselves in Disneyland!  Here’s an iPhone snap of  the wind farms in California.

We had nothing with us. No change of clothes, toiletries….camera….  (Now don’t worry, we had plenty of clothes and diapers for Andrew.  At least one of us was prepared!).  It was the most spontaneous thing we have done in a long time.  We picked up a little Canon from Target, spent the night at a Best Western, and took in Disneyland the next day.  It was amazing!  It was raining a bit, and so Disneyland was absolutely dead.  There were no lines, and we walked right on to every ride.  Andrew loved the rides.  He would cry when we got off the rides, try to squeeze through barriers to get to more rides, and kept saying ‘ride?, ride?’. We left when Andrew was ready for bed, and drove all night back to Phoenix.

The whole trip was so surreal, and it was a great break from my normal sensible, organized, well-thought-out self.  And that’s the story of Andrew’s first trip to Disneyland!  Here are a few snapshots.

To cap off the trip, we had a celebrity sighting in the Phoenix airport!  This is Michael and Andrew with Nick Stahl, the star of the HBO series Carnivale (sadly, I was watching the luggage at the time, so didn’t get to meet him).  For anyone who hasn’t watched this show, I suggest renting it.  It was a short-lived series, but like any HBO series, immaculately produced. (And yes, it’s super blurry, Nick’s wife took it on our iPhone – thanks!).