I live for days like today......

So, it's Friday morning, 7:28am to be exact.  And tonight we will be hosting our "7th Annual Halloween Bash ~Studio 54 Style".  We haven't had a day off together in the past 3 weeks so here's what we have to do today: (oh well, you're only young once, right?)
~ steam clean our carpets
~clean the house
~buy our halloween costumes
~confirm our VIP status with the clubs we'll be attending tonight
~decorate
~buy food and beverage for the party
~finalize some hilarious thematic games for the party
~ HAVE A BLAST WITH GREAT PEOPLE!

Why am I most excited???
My favorite Asian Persuasion is flying in from Alanta, GA tonight just to attend our Party (Aimee Sloan)
AND my favorite Jersery Girl (Addie Young) will be attending our party for the 1ST TIME EVER!!!  Addie has been living in crazy places over the past 7 years and has never been able to attend one of parties before.

Now break out that disco ball it's time to party!

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Exhausted, Excited, Exhausted, Excited........

WEDDING SEASON........

This weekend alone at Seville we have 4 weddings, one 20 Year Reunion, and a 90th Birthday Party...and I'm exhausted, and I miss my husband.

I cannot remember the last time we had a full weekend together ( oh wait... I guess I can remember that was in the Bahamas, but even then we were SO EXCITED to be on vacation that we celebrated the entire time ~ so much for relaxing)

Ahh..... and it's JUST the start of season.  BUT I'm am SOOOO excited to spend time with some dear friends at our upcoming:  "7th Annual Halloween Party"!!

I miss my friends so much and cherish the time we get together!  To remind myself...  why I love our crazy, hectic, exhausting  life.. I decided to post some photos from our past Halloween Parties.


2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

Here's to another great party!!!

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Who are these Two new Roommates Sitting at our Lunch Table??

So I always refer to Andrea and Melissa as my "roomies". I lived with Andrea my freshman year of college and my senior year of college. And Melissa lived with us our senior year. We had such a blast together... since then we've all gotten married, bought homes... and had babies? Well I don't have a baby yet... but I  had some major "baby fever" having lunch with these four last week.

I was kind of in shock sitting at the lunch table watching my dear friends as mothers. And baby Gregory (Melissa's 1 1/2 year old) and baby Liam (Andrea's 4 month old) are such precious little gentlemen!

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Justin's last day at Seville

So... everyone always asks me where my husband works and I never know quite how to answer this simple question. Over the past year I would have to answer the question like this....

Well let's see....

He’s a full time student working on obtaining his doctoral degree in Physical Therapy

He’s a main and second "shooter" wedding photographer for Still Life Studios on the weekends

He’s a personal trainer at Seville one day a week

He owns and operates our own photo company: Social Grace Studios

So as we began to think about the fall we realized that we wouldn't have a day off together for six weeks. Because ~ I work Tuesday through Saturday at Seville and Justin will be "shooting" every Sunday... and Justin has school Monday through Thursday every week. And on top of that....Justin needs to study practically every night! Wow... I'm wondering will it ever slow down? Probably not!

Rather than Justin going delirious we came to the conclusion that it would probably be best for Justin to drop his Personal Training at Seville. After working at Seville as a Trainer for the past 4 Years, Justin says goodbye to Seville....oh how I will miss our Saturday afternoon subway lunches together.

I got to thinking.... hmm we will ever work at a country club together again, probably not. It’s been fun!!

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Happy Housewarming!

Congratulations to my friend Juan!  Juan and I have worked together at Seville for quite some time.  He and Brian are the offical owners of a new home in Gilbert!  We had the opportunity to attend their Housewarming party and see their new pad.  They've put a ton of work into it and it looks just lovely! Congratulations Juan and Brian!

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Naseem's Birthday...

So I have this friend Naseem, who I love dearly...but I never get to see her enough! Although we only live about 20 minutes away from each other ~ scheduling is always crazy... we get lucky if we can get together evey three months. But when we do... it doesn't take long at all.....to pick back up.

Naseem turned 29 a few weeks ago....we a Sweet Tomatoes date was in order ~ one of our favorite spots!

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Recent Work: Social Grace Studios

Justin recently had the opportunity to capture some beautiful images of Michelle. 

It was a warm summer day, and Justin was able to capture some outside shoots and studio shoots.

To view more images of this photo session please visit our website at Social Grace Studios

Go to the Proofing Gallery and type in the password  Michelle. 

Congratulations to Michelle and her Husband !

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