Doug's Wedding

My brother Doug was married to Audrey Tan about two months ago and here are some pictures from the wedding. We're really excited to have Audrey in the family now and we all love her! She's great for Doug! They had a really good group of photographers at their wedding who took about a billion photos and they were all perfect. This photo, obviously, was taken by yours truly. Not bad eh? You can almost tell what the people in the photo look like! Anyway, it was a lot of fun to be there and see them make those commitments to each other.

Now the rest of this post is about Chris - he was the next biggest star of the show - for his parents anyway. Chris was the bible bearer, so he was lookin' good in his little tux. Here's a picture of his GQ-style pose with Audrey before the wedding.

Just a short FYI - it's not easy keepin' a 3yr old in a tux. Especially when the wedding is at a beautiful golf course where there's so much running to be done. He did pretty good for awhile but had to break loose a few times before everything officially started. Seriously, what's a guy supposed to do?

When it all came down to his part, his parents let him down and threw in a few stumbling blocks. Terise sent him down the aisle too early and I was busy struggling with the aisle runner-thing. But, he came up big. Listen to the "oohs and awes" in the background. Here's a final video of Chris that my dad took.

Congratulations again to Doug and Audrey and best wishes to both of you!

Corona Del Mar Beach Trip

A few weeks ago I took a day off during the week and we drove to Corona Del Mar to enjoy a nice day at the beach. We decided to get there in the morning because 1)we're not huge fans of having Luke (8mo old) in the hot afternoon sun and 2) I've always loved the beach in the morning. Chris still gets a little apprehensive when we go to the beach and this trip was no exception - especially because he and I were walking around the rocks and tide pools, which made this trip much more hazardous than our other beach trips.
After settling down and eating some snacks on the beach we encouraged Chris to throw a bit of food to a couple of pigeons that were nearby. Seriously, we didn't see any other birds on the sand. But, news of food scraps travels fast in the bird kingdom and in a few minutes we had a bunch of birds coming after us for our food. Eventually when the novelty had worn off I was trying to shew the birds away and there's was this one seagull that would swoop in on our food if I had my back turned on him for more than a second. As we later found out when we left for the day there's a whole gang of birds up on the cliffs.
I love this picture though because I captured Terise and Chris in the moment, but Luke is looking back at me so we can see his handsome little face!