day 274: Last night we went to the Santa Monica promenade to eat at my favorite restaurant Real Food Daily, where I unwittingly poisoned my friend Paul by feeding him nachos with fake cheese which were made out of cashews. I forgot he was allergic to nuts. Sorry Paul, I feel terrible!! Anyhow, once we left the disastrous dinner we went for a walk down the promenade, which is quite festive for the holidays. Yay for holiday lights!

day 273: This evening after work Ben and I went to an ugly Christmas sweater design party. Everyone brought a sweater and we had piles and piles of felt, hot glue, and googly eyes to make the most ridiculous sweater possible. Ben’s was pretty sweet.

day 272: I get a huge kick out of this photo and if you’ve met Rita you probably know why. She has a habit of staring people down… or rather looking expectantly at you… I think she’s always asking if you’d maybe like to give her a treat. Or if you’d like your feet licked. In any case this is her signature pose. And her scarf says Happy Holidays. I’m quite entertained 🙂

day 271: Ok… the front facing logo was not intentional… sorry if this looks like an ad. Ben and I have been so busy we haven’t actually had that much time to just hang out lately. This evening we went to get coffee and talk about what we’re getting everyone for Christmas (yay!) and I took this photo… and then later realized that the logo was front and center. oops. Like starbucks needs more advertising…

day 270: I was up on a stool last night putting groceries away in one of our high shelves when I looked down on the counter… and for some reason was quite entertained by the angle. It reminded me of a cooking show camera angle… although if cooking shows were done in far less nice of kitchens.

day 269: On Monday (sorry again for the late posting) both Ben and I were up late working on projects on our computers. This is Ben’s oh my gosh it’s 1 am and I’m so sad that my portfolio won’t upload face. We went to sleep shortly after this and he uploaded it the next day. Nothing ever seems to go right at 1 am 🙂

day 268: This afternoon the family got together at mom & dad’s to decorate the Christmas tree, one of my favorite family traditions! While we were there Valena and John stopped by and brought my favorite little guy… he didn’t do much decorating but he did make a fabulous lego spaceship. And of course I had to take at least a couple photos of him. He’s just so cute!

day 267: While we were in San Diego I got the chance to shoot some engagement photos for Rocky & Eddie who are going to be married in July in a fabulous destination wedding (super exciting… I can’t wait!). This is one of my favorites… more as always later this week on my “official” blog 🙂

day 266: Sorry for the sporadic posting! I’m still taking the photos, I’ve just been so busy it’s been hard to find the time to blog them on the day I take them! Friday we packed up to head down to San Diego again… this time for a Christmas party. Not much time for photos on that day!

day 265: Obviously I know it’s not Christmas yet… it’s not even December yet. But Ben and I put up our Christmas tree and I’m super excited for all of the festive decorations going up all around town. We still have the outside of our house to decorate as well. Yay for holiday decorations!