That time I went to look at christmas lights and someone got stabbed.

You probably think I am kidding, but I'm not.

On Tuesday Night I went out with my family and some friends to walk Christmas tree lane, which is usually a family friendly place where you walk down this long strip of houses who have went above and beyond with their Christmas decorations.

Its like crazy packed with people though, because you can usually only drive through it but a few nights they open it up just for people to walk through.

So this particular night someone totally got stabbed.

Apparently gangsters also enjoy looking at Christmas lights because it was definitely a gang related stabbing.

Did I also tell you I was almost in the middle of these gangsters fighting?

Yeah, they decided to almost throw it down as we were walking by and I practically had to walk through them, luckily I found a way to kind of walk around them.

They calmed down though before anything got crazy and separated ways and somehow a couple of them ended up walking right next to me as I loudly exclaimed how stupid gangsters are and how they think they look so tough when they really look like idiots.

oops.

Lets all thank the Lord that I wasn't the one stabbed right then and there.

After the almost gangster throw down, we just kept walking and then turned around at the end of the street.

As we walked back, around the same spot where the almost fight happened we saw a guy laying on the ground surrounded by his friends.

And guess what?

Yep, he was one of the gangsters we saw earlier, and he was also stabbed.

I wasn't really surprised, I could tell when I saw them earlier that they probably had weapons on them.

Its sad that we have gotten so used to things like this that we just kept on walking like nothing had happened.

I'm sure if i had been there with my kids like so many people were that I probably would have been a little more worried.

The picture below was also taken after the stabbing, as you can tell I wasn't really worried, and was still able to have fun :)

Who puts cows in their yard as Christmas decorations and doesn't expect someone to take a pic like this one??

Anyone else have any scary Christmas stories to spill??

Here's to hoping for a safe rest of the Holidays!

-Jamie

Santa Margarita Ranch

Do you see that Beautiful barn in the first picture??

My friend Hula is getting married there in February!

Jealous yet? I know I am.

On saturday a bunch of us drove to San Luis Obispo to check out the wedding venue so we could decide on exactly how Hula wanted to decorate it.

These are just a few pics from the day, we also did a little mini photoshoot in front of the barn because well...look at the barn. Who wouldnt take a second to take some photos in front of it??

I am pretty sure the girl who gave us a tour of the venue was pretty entertained by us. We practiced dancing into the reception and if she saw us doing our photoshoot then she was definatly entertained.

And even though my hair is really bright and usually makes it so you can see me coming from a mile away I found it necassary to also wear bright yellow tights.

You know, just in case they lost me or something.

I will be back to show you some more pictures, and more stories :)

So make sure you stop by again ;)

See you next time!

-Jamie

And this Award goes to....

Me!!

Yeah you heard right. I got an award :) I think the last award I received was from my 7th grade cheer coach for MVP I think...something like that for still going to cheer practice and competitions even though I was really, really sick, like didn't attend school for a couple months sick.

Anyways...before I lose your attention Kenli from With Love, Kenli gave me the Liebster Award :)
And before I posted this I got another one from Sarah from Stars and Rainbows, Thanks so much girls!!

They are so sweet, I didn't think my little blog deserved any awards but thanks!!!

So, here's how it works:

This award is given to blogs with less then 200 followers that you think deserve a little bit more recognition.

Here are the rules:

1) Show your thanks by linking the sweet person who nominated you.

2) Leave links to 5 of your top blogs and leave a comment letting them know!

3) Post the award on your blog.

4) Enjoy the Love :)

So here are my top 5 blogs :)

Megan from Zip Tied

Michelle from She said

Tori from The Editorial

Superficial Sanctuary

Jolinda

Make sure and go check all these wonderful ladies out!!

-Jamie

sneak peek ;)

Today you will get a sneak peek of my room because I know you were all dying to see it right??

Its really not that exciting though, I actually didn't even take these photos with the intention of showing you my room, they are just some pictures I happened to snap when I was playing with my new camera, and lucky you some of them came out good enough to show you.

So now you can enjoy sorta/kinda seeing my bedroom that is probably very not exciting.

Honesty is the best policy right??

K this is actually a picture of my poorly painted nails, but my room is in the background...still counts right?!?!

FYI: these were taken before I cleaned my room and did my laundry.

Again not really a picture of my room, but aren't my socks cute?!? 

This is what sits right next to my bed, you know, the necessities ;) 

Magazines, nail polish & a cup of coffee :)

My cases that hold Make-up, Jewelry and Hair accessories that I haven't found a place for yet so they just sit in front of my window, good thing they are pretty :)

Well that's it folks.

I know, I know, just kind of a teaser but My room is actually super lame. 

I have zero pictures on the wall, and probably wont put any up.

The only thing decorating my walls is my necklace and scarf hooks, again not the most exciting thing.

In any case, I hope you all enjoyed my not so fabulous bedroom sneak peek ;)

Until next time,

-Jamie

Behind the scenes.

Before we show you the pictures we took for the portfolio I mentioned that we photographed I thought I would show you a few behind the scenes shots :)

Enjoy :)

And there may or may not be a few self portraits that snuck in there somewhere...not really sure how that happened ;)

Sorry for so many pictures but we have never been able to take any pictures of us taking pictures so we kinda took a lot.. and this wasn't even all of them :/

This shoot was really fun because not only did we get to photograph some gorgeous people we also got to get our hair and Make-up done and jump in front of the camera too :)
 I cant wait to show you the pictures we got, they are Beautiful :):)

On a different note the only time I ever wish that I was really tall is when I am photographing, did you notice the awkward stance I had to have the poor guy stand in??
I am thinking I should start wearing platforms when I photograph so people don't have to uncomfortably bend down for me. But then I would probably fall and then break my camera and that just wouldn't be good either. Nah, Ill just make people keep getting low ;)

Can we also discuss how unattractive those jeans look on me??
Those happen to be my favorite jeans that fit me the best too, which I am now realizing is very very sad because all my other jeans must just look horrendous on me.
I think I might be going shopping for some good fitting jeans pretty soon.
Anyone have any ideas where??
Help me out people! Don't let me walk around looking like that anymore!
-Jamie

flashbacks :)

This weekend me and my Best Friend had a flashback.

We attended our sorority masquerade banquet and decided to wear the same dresses we wore to the one we went to exactly 3 years ago, so of course we had to re invent one of the pictures from then.

And btw we weren't seriously posing like that 3 years ago, I believe we were making fun of people who posed like that, just so you know lol ;)

I wasn't even gonna go because as I mentioned before I am a cheapskate and didn't want to pay.
Then this sweet girl invited me to be her date so I didn't have to pay :)
So of course I accepted free dinner and dancing and getting to wear a pretty dress again, who wouldn't?!?!

This was our table of old folks...not really but we were the oldest people there, I am only 24 and was older then most of them by a few years.

They served coffee after dinner which was one of the most exciting things of the night next to dancing to "party rock" while being squished in the corner of the dance floor.

We only danced for about 15 min, just long enough to get our shuffle on and then snuck out and went to Starbucks where they were out of white mocha.
I was really taken back because I only get drinks with white mocha, it completely threw me off and I had to re think my whole order.
Best friend to the rescue though, She remembered a drink I had tried and liked before.
Good thing she remembered because I was at a loss, I wasn't feeling a pumpkin spice latte which is usually my go to when I don't get white mocha's.
Important thing is that I got my caffeine.
We finished the night by watching the Hangover on tv which is way better then watching on dvd because its nice and edited :)
No nasty talk ;)

We also Had a photo shoot earlier that day where we shot a portfolio for a hair/make-up artist :)
Also the reason my hair was so rockin ;)
Cant wait to show you the photos!!
Hope you guys had a great weekend!
Until next time,
-Jamie

Exciting things :)

First of all, yes I did. I bought the Biebs Christmas Cd.

Its fantastic. 

I love that Ludacris raps in one of the songs, which just happens to be my favorite one :)

I know I already talked about this but here is proof that my friend Diane was here for thanksgiving, we obviously had to stop at Starbucks before she had to catch the Amtrak back to so-cal.

It's finally pretty here. All the leaves have changed color, except now I think they have all blown away because of the crazy wind we had yesterday. I was nervous all day that a tree was gonna fall on my car.

It didn't, Thank God. 

Did some bridal shower planning with the girls. Its gonna be so cute! I cant wait, we have so many great ideas :)

It was my Dads bday yesterday so we went and ate a yummy bfast at my favorite bfast place.

I was happy to find out that target had quite a selection of cards having to do with farts. So of course I got my dad one.

He loved it.

And last but not least....

I finally got my very own camera!! I have never appreciated the fed ex guy more then I did yesterday when he delivered it :)

If you don't know, Breanna and I only had one camera between us because well cameras cost money and we couldn't afford two.

But we saved up all our earnings and was able to purchase another one this week!!

So thank you so much to everyone who hired us to take their photos! We really appreciate it!!

So those are the exciting things that have been going on with me lately.

You have anything exciting going too??

Let me know!!

 :)

-Jamie