Disney Fairytale Pirate Wedding

18 Tuesday Oct 2011

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Avast there, Matey…Ye come seeking adventure in salty old pirates, ay? Well, this here be the wedding for ye.

I was so excited to photograph this wedding, I couldn’t sleep the night before! This Disney Fairytale Wedding took place at the Grand California Hotel. Wendy (the bride) told me before about the little touches she added, and they turned out amazing. She actually made the beautiful hats that all of the bridesmaids wore! This is just a small sample of photos, I couldn’t wait to post them. 🙂

This is exactly where a pirate should be at a party, methinks. ^_^

Scrapbooking Giveaway

17 Monday Oct 2011

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*Edit for Winner* The winner of the scrapbooking giveaway, chosen from a random generator at random.org is…lucky number 13, Kelly!

Kelly, e-mail me and I’ll send you the link to get the program. I hope you have as much fun with it as I’ve been having.

~Jenna

Scrapbooking Giveaway: My Memories Suite Digital Software. Value of 40.00$

When I was asked to host a scrapbooking giveaway for My Memories Suite Digital Scrapbooking, I jumped at the chance. My Mom and I love to make digital scrapbooks. We’ve made photobooks as gifts for our family, and we’ve also used digital scrapbooking to make children’s books for my nephews. Kids love seeing themselves in books that look like professional hardbound children’s books. It’s a creative way to get the kiddos reading, and I treasure the book that one of my students made for me as an end of the year teaching gift. Someday soon, I’m going to create a book for Little T that documents his adoption story. After working with My Memories Suite and seeing the possibilities of their program, I can’t wait to get started.

The cool thing though, is that you can make more than hardbound books. You can also make cards, digitally interactive books, DVD’s, web videos, and lots more. You can save the images of your scrapbook and print them out yourself, or have them made into a fancy book! Here’s a video of the Scrapbook I’m putting together of our trip to the Hot Air Balloon Festival:

And here are a few of the pages I came up with. I made these with the MyMemories Suite Software. I haven’t purchased any kits yet, but they look awesome. The great thing about the kits are that they last forever, it’s not like buying paper scrapbooking items that you can only use every once in a while.

The winner of this giveaway will receive the complete MyMemories Digital Software Suite program, a value of 40$. There’s nothing more you need to make these easy peasy scrapbooks, just some pictures and a little creativity. 🙂

To enter:

1. Visit MyMemories and leave a comment here on this blog post telling me which digital scrapbooking kit is your favorite.

Additional Entries: 

2. Follow the MyMemories Blog

3. Like MyMemories on Facebook (BTW~When they hit 10,000 likes, they’re giving away a free IPad). Their Facebook community is so much fun, definitely check it out!

4. Follow MyMemories on Twitter

Winners will be announced on this post, one week from now. I will post the winner and they can contact me through my blog e-mail address: thislittlemail@gmail.com, and then I will forward them the code to use to download their free software! Exciting!

And if you already use MyMemories Digital Software, you can use the special code below as a 10$ coupon! w00t!

Just copy and paste this code during checkout for your coupon: STMMMS21031

I Heart Faces: Tickled Pink

16 Sunday Oct 2011

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This week at I Heart Faces, the focus is on the color pink in honor of breast cancer awareness. The picture I decided on was from the wedding I photographed on Thursday. The wedding took place at Disneyland and was pretty extraordinary. The theme was pirates and the bride put together the hats all by herself! She said she might start making and selling them on Etsy. I hope she does, because she is uber-talented, and I was thrilled to be a part of her event. I can’t wait to get a set of her photos processed!

On a more serious note…

They chose the color pink in honor of breast cancer awareness, but I hope you’ll excuse me as I talk about another type of cancer. Around a year and a half ago, my friend Jen lost her life to cancer in her spinal cord fluid. It was fast, it was sad, and she was too young to be taken away.

Jen and I worked together at Disneyland. I can’t walk around the park without thinking about something funny that happened to us while working. When I said goodbye to her for the last time-one of the hardest and saddest moments of my life-she took my hand and told me the park wasn’t the same after I left. If she could hear me right now, I’d tell her that life hasn’t been the same since she has left. She was funny, vibrant, and one of a kind. I miss her.

Cute, and not so much….

13 Thursday Oct 2011

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Things Little T has done this week that are super adorable:

  • Taken a tissue and attempted to blow his nose like Momma J.
  • Started blowing kisses while saying “mwahhhhhhhh”. It’s funny to hear his version of what we sound like.
  • Discovered he loves streaking, and runs down the hall giggling and laughing whenever he can get away before his bath.

Things Little T has done this week that are not-so-super-adorable:

  • Went through a biting phase, thankfully this ended when he discovered that biting is followed by time out.
  • Started screaming in imitation of Momma J, who was doing a silly opera voice. Oh, how I wish I hadn’t done that.
  • Discovered he loves streaking, and runs down the hall giggling and laughing whenever he can get away during a diaper change.
He certainly keeps things interesting around here.

Learning to Clap

09 Sunday Oct 2011

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This week over at I Heart Faces is a focus on hands, so I’m posting a photo of Little T learning to clap with Big T. Little T is very proud that he’s mastered this new skill. We are too, because he’s starting to clap for us all the time. Nothing boosts your ego more than hearing applause as you enter a room, do a dance, sing a song, or make a meal. At some point, I’m certain that one of the grandma’s is going to pull Little T aside and tell him to stop encouraging his wacky parents. But until then, you can find me singing, “if you’re happy and you know it…”

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We are sooooooo fancy schmancy!

08 Saturday Oct 2011

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If you happen to stop by Whole Foods, Henry’s, Sprouts, or any other natural food store, check out our family in the latest issue of Kiwi Magazine. They interviewed us about our adoption, and they even included a picture of my little babycakes.

Trevor couldn’t help poking fun at me, because I had this unfounded fear that the story would end up being something like “the dark side of adoption”, or “who on earth let these people be parents?” I know you’re surprised when I say it was a very nice article, right? 😉

Elizabeth Foy Larsen, the author who interviewed us, was very easy to talk with. We knew we were in good hands. The article breaks down the three different types of adoption, something you learn a lot about when you start the adoption process. It’s a great read, if I do say so myself.

It was the day of a million doctor visits…

05 Wednesday Oct 2011

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Monday was a busy day. We had to drive to CHOC to get the results of Little T’s MRI, then we had to drive to the neurologist in another city to go over the results, and then we had to drive to another hospital to visit the burn center. It was a doctor extravaganza! That last sentence makes it sound a lot more fun than it really was, doesn’t it?

There was good news all around! Little T’s MRI came back and everything was great and just like it’s supposed to be! This means he’ll most likely grow out of his hypertonia and there aren’t any serious underlying issues. We thought this would probably be the case because of how much he’s improved, but it’s nice to have the medical documents to reassure us.

At the burn center, Little T was having a great time in the lobby. Now that he’s walking, it’s like he’s discovering a whole new world. His new favorite thing to do is to walk around and point and shout “look!”

Here’s what he wanted me to look at in the lobby:

The flashing exit sign:

A teddy bear:

And a few toys on the table:

We circled the room and he shouted for me to look at the same things over and over again. He’s such a cute little baby.

The burn center took his bandage off and said he had healed up. Isn’t it amazing that skin can grow so quickly? Little T felt his finger, bent it back and forth, and stared at it for the longest time after they took the bandage off. The doctor said he was a smart kid. I might be biased, but I agree, heh heh.

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It’s so strange…

29 Thursday Sep 2011

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Little T wasn’t himself this morning.

All he wanted to do was make mischief.

When I asked him to say “momma”, he gave me a great big roar instead.

When I asked him what he wanted to eat, he said “blocks and snails and puppy dog tails”. 0_o

He chased the cats all over the house.

And stomped on top of the city that Big T built.

I finally pulled him aside and said, “Hey Little T, what’s with the attitude?”

“Isn’t this the way you’re supposed to act on Halloween?” He asked. I had to explain that we had a while before Halloween.

“OOOOohhhhhhhhhh,” he replied.

He felt really silly.

“Don’t feel bad,” I said. “Something tells me that Miss Piggy didn’t get the memo, either.”

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