My Mom and Me!!! Sonrisa...

{ Click on the image and hear the party music... }

This is the last of all the party fotos that were taken for Sonia's 40th Birthday Bash at Geezer's...

Hope you enjoyed them all...

Niki's Growing Baby, Aubrey...

{ Click on the foto and you can see Aubrey kick... }

Niki has been taking monthly picture's at Reinbold Photography, her favorite place to work, to keep a track of how she is progressing with her pregnancy. Now she can take all the information that she learned and put it to use with her new Nikon camera and her new baby.

Just remember...Baby poop STINKS!!!

More Happy Party-Goers @ Geezers...

{ Tony, Pimpia, Jacqui, Vanessa & Carlos... }


{ Jacqui and Vanessa...2 Beautiful nieces... }

{ Joe, Sonia - Birthday Girl and Niki... }

Here are a few more fotos from the party at Geezer's. Stay tuned for more...

Happy Birthday Sonia!!!

{ Sonia and Alex }

{Sonia & Alex }
{ Alex, Sonia, Rosie & Tony }

{ Tia Teresa, Sonia, Sonia's Mom-Tia Rosita & Alex's Mom-Delia }


{ Nicole_7 months pregnant & Tia Teresa--My Mom }

We partied hard at Geezer's in City of Industry...It bring's back memories of good times for myself and my Mom...Clara worked across the street and we celebrated numerous company functions there for Adams Elevator. Sonia celebrated her 40th birthday with family and friends and as the pictures indicated, we all had FUN!!!

This is just the beginning so stay tuned...

Hollywood Park Memories...

{ Lauren, My Mom, Lupe & Jesse... }

{ Start of the race...Hear the hoofs? }

{ Come on, Come on, Come on!!!! }

We went to Hollywood Parl on Memorial Day...We all got together to celebrate it one more time since the track will be demolished to make way for a shopping center and housing. We actually went to EAT!!! Corned beef sandwiches, fried alita's, a glass of cold beer.

Got to love the memories...

Beautiful Plumerias....Blooming!

{ Click the photo and smell the fragrance... }


{ Click on the photo and you can feel the drops of water... }


It sure makes all the weeding worth it...I keep fertilizing and weeding and planting the plumerias in larger pots and now I get to enjoy this all summer long. This is only the beginning and I stil have 3 more colors that are to bloom...Red, mini-pink and multi-colored...And don't forget the white one's that I posted last week, they're the biggest and most fragrant. In case you don't know, plumerias are from Hawaii...

Save the Date for Niki's Shower...

{ Click the invite and hear the rattle ring!!! }

Here's a small card that I created to remind everyone to keep this date open...It's at Lupe's home in West Covina and it should be lots of FUN!!! Sorry. it's for girls only... But I'll be there taking lots of fotos...

Guerrilla Lighting??? Fun Class...

{ Christie smiling...Studio lighting... }
{ Studio lighting, Christie in wedding gown...}


{ Christie, outdoor Guerrilla lighting... }


{ Christie...sun is down... }


Took one of the best classes that I have taken to date...Ben Chen is a noted photographer and he works in a fast-paced method, Guerrilla-mode. It was all hands-on with very little theory. Boy was it fun! We all learned quite a bit and these photo's are proof....Hope you enjoy them.

Flores Rojas...Que maravilla!!!

{ Just a bunch of RED somethings...Scarlet Trumpet Vines }


{ Here's a close-up...found them in the alley behind Station #1 }


{ Just a small perfume odor...I think the hummingbirds "Love" it... }

When retuning from a call at the station, we ran across these walls of color. I don't think that I have ever seen this much glory in the 7 years that I have been here...Maybe it's just my new camera that makes me appreciate everything just a bit more! If you know what they are named please let me know...

Right now they're just Flores Rojas...

Feliz Dia de las Madres...Happy Mother's Day

{ My Mom and Me....}


{ My Mom and Lupe...}



{ Sunny California Sunset and beautiful plumerias, they're blooming!!!...}

We had a great time celebrating Dia de las Madres, at Lupe and Jesse's home in West Covina. My Mom made stuffed meatballs for dinner. I know it sounds Italian but it's really not, it's an old recipe from my Tia Margarita. It was a slow day and my Mom was sun-burned since she spent the day before in 29 Palms at Yoli's house...110 degree weather and the wind burned her face.