Monthly Archives: March 2009

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bk4

meet my favorite niece, ella jane

ella was sound asleep when i started shooting…she woke up and just stared for a second, then says..BOING! BOING! one of her favorite words to say. lol.

who does that? ella does, cause she’s awesome. :)

i love her hair…and eye lashes…and her beauty mark…and her nose…and…ok i’ll stop. :) melanie’s favorite.

bk4? brian’s initials are bk. then britt (my sis) became bk2. ella became the 3rd klems and now bk4 is on her way!!

ella says, “uno, dos, tres! one, two, three!”…whether we are reaady or not!


don’t you just love this? nonni (my mom) got her this chair last easter, and she jsut thinks she’s too cool when she sits in it. ella is 20mths going on 20yrs.

i dread the day she doesn’t let us shower her with kisses anymore :-/

mommy’s belly button goes, “Bee Boop!”   (notice the other images from our other photoshoots lol)

since 12mths, ella has LOVED to read books. we like to change the words when we read the books over and over…have to keep it interesting!

thanks to dora, ella speaks more spanish than i do after 2 yrs of it in highschool. lol

this picture made me realize, holy heck, ella is big, and she’s about to be a BIG SISTER!!! this is the strangest reality to me. i feel like i’m still waiting for ella to be born!

this shot will never get old. adam’s fav.

you know, adam isn’t a big fan of this shot…but as cliche as it may be, i still like it. maybe because i’m obsessed with everything to do with pregnancy and babies!!

you know who is inside that belly? MY GOD DAUGHTER!!!!! :) :)   i caaaaaaaan’t waaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiittttttt!!! (mel’s fav #2)

britt is my oldest sister by 5 yrs, isn’t she beautiful?  even though off and on through growing up, we spent a lot of days wanting to punch eachother(literally did most the time), haha, we

love eachother now. it’s so awesome having two older sisters to hang out with, talk, just simply enjoy our lives together. in fact, we still have sleepovers! and no husbands allowed!!

it’s so exciting watching her belly grow with each baby and seeing her be such an amazing mom. i know i’m bias, but ask ANYONE, ella is perfect and it’s all because of britt

and brian. just so cool to think about. just like through my whole childhood, i idolized my big sisters and now i want to be as great of a mother as she is now!

this image is purely to make bk2 laugh. while ella was in the womb, we did preg shots and brian had the hardest time with this… i won’t publicly make fun of him, but just know, it’s all

out of love brian. lol.

it just occured to me while commenting that we’ve never blogged ella before?! we’ve taken a million pics of her, but since we have had the blog, we were always

so slammed we couldnt post because we had to work on everyone elses images. you’ll see her around a lot more, don’t you worry!

For now we are all counting down the days til the new baby arrives. she’s due on the 10th,

but i’m hoping for tomorrow! hehe. love you guys, i love you ella! (she always replies, “i love you MORE!”) :)

heart mel and adam

my visit to LA.

went to the getty museum…….RAD!

this is the first thing i saw when i walked in, just happens to be one of my favorite artist.

Alberto Giacometti

shrinking the world with the Tilt Shift.

santa monica pier.

the guy in the bottom right is my friend nick.

he’s a photographer for Evox, specializing in automobiles.

nicks shooting me while im shooting him.

LA Galaxy’s opening day.

unfortunately we didn’t get to see Becks play cause hes still on loan in Milan.

a Landon Donovan G   O   A  L  !    (in the loudest most obnoxious scream possible)

Malibu.   :-D

the pic above was taken from the rock peak in the pic below.

couldn’t leave Malibu without a quick sunset photo opp.

this is my friend dave…..hes a new media designer.

loved this location…..i will be back one day.

thanks for playing along nick.

dave was feeling it….sometimes you just have to go for it.

WestCoast.

dave likes to jump…….

who doesn’t like to jump?

thanks to my homie’s nick and dave for supplying shelter, air mattress, transportation, and fine company.

it was good seeing you guys……..you two christine.

i leave you with a video of myself getting jiggy with it on santa monica pier.

its fun to watch other peoples reactions.  enjoy!

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sophia and isabella.

isabella is the most calm, relaxed and happy baby ever!

she would fall asleep, we wake her up with our shutter…fall asleep…wake her up. you would think a baby, who was SICK, would hate us and cry

the whole time!! nope, she just chilled out and let us do our thing! it did stink though that she wasn’t able to be in may pictures with her sis.

though she felt terrible, we did get a good smile every now and then!  she’s so adorable!!! adam’s favorite.

:)

this is izzie’s big sister, sophia grace. she rocks.

adam took so many variations and they all were so cool. it was a tough decision, but her hair set this one apart for me:)

soph was so concerned with her bow. i think i fix it 45 times in 10 minutes! she is a true girlie girl!!

ladies, what was the first thing you always did as a little girl when you put on a new dress? (me? first i complained i didn’t want to wear it, haha, THEN i twirled)

sophia, i love you…

stacey (mommy) always has an appetite for little toesies!

izzie discovered her tongue sometime ago, it just cant seem to stay in her mouth! lol.

i had to take this picture because i have a weakness for baby clothes and shoes. in fact, recently my sisters and i were at babies R us and let me tell you… they

are going to have to post my mugshot up at the entrance and not let me in because i wanted to buy EVVVVVERYTHING!!! seriously, have you seen this place?!? we are going

to be BROKE one day. lol. not good.  anyway, we took that picture of her hours after she was born and you know a baby is going to be sweet if they pop out

flashing the peace sign!! my kinda girl :)

concentrating hard on her magna doodle.

i said, “soph are you beautiful?” she looks up, smiles and says in the sweetest little voice “hehe yeeeeeessss…”

i want to kiss those cheeks!!!

:)

i hate those houses…but LOVE the girls! i tried so many diff ways to get rid of the houses…ugh!! soph is always so loving and trying to make isabella laugh…

all of us were spinning by this point. she’s smiling at adam being silly as he was spinning. :)

good morning! for the 5th time. lol :-O sorry baby!

about 7-8(?) yrs ago, stace and i started working together.  when she got pregnant with sophia i can’t even tell you how excited i was! daily i

called her to say, “what are you feeling now?!” :) finally the day came, and i rushed to the hospital to see the delivery, and just missed it!!! ugh. sophia became

my ‘niece’ and my parents adopted ‘grandchild’. for the longest time, i swear my dad’s heart beat for sophia. lol. god, they are so adorable together!! they watch her multiple

days a week, even sleepovers. in fact sophia actually thinks ali’s old room is hers! lol.  stace was a bridesmaid and thankfully soph was old enough to walk down the isle at our

wedding in her very own handmade miniature version of my wedding dress!! (thanks bobbi and mike :) )

then 7 mths ago, along came isabella.(which by the way my mom got to be in the delivery room without me!!!>:-( ) holy crap, is it possible to love these  girls anymore?!?!

sophia was the first baby i ever really saw adam interact with…every woman knows, there is something VERY special about watching your man interact with a baby.

sophia also adores adam. how hilarious is this image (my favorite). omg, until after i took this, i didn’t even notice she had pulled up a chair to stand on just like him!!! aaaaahhhh!!! for real? :) :)

:) :)

i need to just stop because i could go on forever…this may be the longest post i’ve ever done!! you dont want to know how many hours i’ve spent on it! the gist of it?

WE LOVE YOU BRYLAS!!! :-D

Adam is awesome.

i need to set this up with a story about how i’m so unsupportive and more importantly stingy. :-0 However long ago it was, adam calls me in the living room and says, ‘i think we should enter this contest, wedcomp08.’ if you know my husband then you know anything he wants to do in life ALWAYS costs money. USUALLY a ridiculous amount, like the vacation to greece he’s been begging to go on. sorry honey, furniture is more important lol! he tells me it’s only 10bucks an image to enter, and you can put in as many as you want. and if you really know me, i put up this great front that i’m confident and well in reality i need constant reassurance. so my response “out of the whole nation, 1000’s of entries you really think WE could win? yah right. you spend your extra money on it”

so adam is in cali visiting friends and attending a photoshop conference through the weekend. he text me a few days ago and says, wedcomp.com check it out. to my pleasant surprise he placed in TWO categories!!!! congrats adam!! :) :) :) you rock. and this was a WORLD competition!! dang…

***i promise i will be more supportive of our work in the future :) ***

24th in ‘getting ready’!!!!  (image from Jenny and Derrick Jackson’s wedding)

13th in ‘ceremony’!! (image from Stacie and Rubin Dastoor’s wedding)

i just took a screen shot of the site so you can see a few more images from the winners. you are welcome to visit the site, there are some pretty cool shots.

so why hasn’t the blog been updated in FOREVER? lol. i was in Disney, chaperoning 45 high school students with my sister and her fiance. it was amazing and the weather was peeeeeeeeerfect! i met lilo and stitch, which may have been the most exciting thing i’ve done in awhile! lol. adam and i love lilo and stitch. (hence our chihuahua named lilo!) and now adam is in cali til monday. i do have some work to post…give us a mintue. lol.

oh yah. the little bunny is Felix. he travels around the world with the students and teachers from our school. he’s just like Flat Stanley.

have a great weekend! peace. mel