Valentine's Day Pictures

One of my recently acquired jobs (that fuels my ever broadening horizons in the field of photography) is product photography for Old Town Imports. If I'd known that such a title as 'food stylist' or 'prop stylist' existed a few years ago, I'm sure I would have changed my major. And probably universities. Let's just add one more to the list of majors I would have loved. I think there are at least 20.

I loved how the shots of Ella turned out... shooting 'still life' is much harder than it looks, but it's always fun to have a new challenge.

Anniversary Fiesta

So, every year we have a dinner to celebrate my Mom and Dad's anniversary. Every year we have a theme, and this year we had a fiesta. It was loads of fun and the food was amazing. We had shredded chicken tacos with all the fixins, Erin made seven layer dip, and my grandparents brought fresh chips and salsa from the amazing La Casita. We bought green apple, pineapple, and orange soda from the Latino aisle at the grocery store (always fun to try something new), and had virgin strawberry daquiris. Delicious. For dessert I made Macaroni Grill's version of tres leches cake, Lemon Passion. It takes a lot of prep and has essentially four different recipes, but it's completely worth it. It's my new favorite cake.

We decorated with Martha Stewart's tissue pom poms hanging from the ceiling and lots of candles and confetti on the table. We made place cards and wrote names in Spanish 'daughter number two, mom, grandma' etc. I don't speak Spanish, so I looked up the terms on a translator site. Hopefully they were close :)

Themes are so much fun and make special occasions even more fantastic. It's even more fun when people dress up according to the theme. Try it!