I sat in the middle of the circle and drank it all in. I was caught in a sweet mixture of girly laughter, warm light, thick air, family love, English phrases, and Spanish dichos. Laura had invited me to her bridal shower just a few days before her wedding in San...
Couple: Theary and Martin Venue: El Dorado Golf Course, Long Beach, CA Coordinator: Candice Bradley, Dolcissima Events Wedding Date: September 9, 2007 Photographers: The Youngrens I am getting extremely sentimental on this warm Tuesday morning. One of our sweetest...
Welcome back to the kitchen and the second installment of Khmer cooking with The Youngrens. I hope you enjoyed the trip to the Cambodian market yesterday, smells and everything! Last week, we featured Jeff's appetizer of Khmer Spring Rolls, so this week its my turn...
Last week, I featured the spring rolls that Jeff and I made at our cooking class in Cambodia for Recipe Sunday, but that was only one of five dishes that we made during the whole afternoon class, and that doesn’t include the best part of the whole experience – a...
A few weeks ago we posted some images from one of the most relaxing spots we visited in Asia - Japamala Resort on Tioman Island in Malaysia. Well, in case you didn't get enough goodness the first time around, and in honor of the fact that we're lazing on another...
I'm in the middle of one of those life tornadoes. I feel like everything is swirling around me, uncontrollably, but in an organized cyclone shaped fashion. With the business, emails, phone calls, shoots, laundry, packing and unpacking, petting Gracie, cleaning the...
It's the first question that everyone asks, and rightly so. What was our favorite place on our trip to Southeast Asia? It's also a tough question to answer, and rightly so. We pet tigers, we rode elephants, we jumped through waterfalls, and we hiked through...
Coming home to a mountain of unopened mail after a long trip is not exactly the most welcoming picture I can imagine. In fact, upon our last return from a trip, Jeff and I walked straight past the stack of white envelopes placed neatly across our kitchen table,...
Its BAAAAA-AAAACK! After a *brief* hiatus, Recipe Sunday is back in full swing here on the bloggy blog, and I've got such a crazy assortment of recipes in the bag. You may have heard through Twitter and Facebook that Jeff and I took cooking classes on our trips to...
Today we're featuring the second half of Ryan and Chelsea's amazing Chicago wedding. These two were incredibly relaxed the entire day and you could tell that they were so excited to be married. It rained and poured every day leading up to the wedding day, but the...
His oldest sister saw it immediately, but she couldn't put a finger on it. His mom saw it too. So did his baby sis. He was different. Something had changed in their brother and her son. He acted differently. There was a quiet confidence and a deep calm that...
Ok, I'm about to say it, and I pray for a little grace on this one from my dear bloggy blog readers: traveling sucks sometimes. And... well... traveling can be HARD. Really hard. Oh yes, bloggy blog, traveling is still fun. A whole lotta crazy stinkin', boot...