Meet the Chins.

Last weekend Steven & I went up to LA to visit Mark & Julie for the first time. It was so fun exploring their yellow Spanish-style home — they have the coolest antique furniture & prints on their walls! I also loved the warm light spilling in through all their windows.

Jules welcomed us with yummy fresh fruit, homemade guac, cookies & coconut macaroons. They also had vases with fresh-cut calla lilies from their backyard all over their house. So lucky!

They prepared for us a fancy stir-fry dish on a bed of spinach. Uber healthy but lots of protein — we loved it.

After dinner we went on a brisk walk around the neighborhood, a daily routine for them. Steven & I walked behind them, tripping over cracks & panting from trying to talk & walk at the same time. I felt like we were kids tagging along with our parents hahah. Came home & enjoyed french-pressed mochas, ice cream, & macaroons. :]

It was so sweet seeing them in their element & bustling about the house together. Only three months, but they look like they’ve been doing it for years. Thanks guys for making your home such an inviting place for us & showering us with lots of love (and food)! Miss you & hopefully see you soon!

Self-Portrait.

My second official project for my graphics class. We had to do a self-portrait of some sort, while incorporating words. My dad’s response upon seeing this:

Interesting. What is it supposed to be. The figure looks like you except the lip. ^_^

Please be nice.

P.S. This hymn was near & dear to my heart in college… I came across it in J.I. Packer’s Knowing God, and everything about it was perfect. Kind of forgot about it until James mentioned it in a sermon a couple months ago. Made my heart smile.

Date: Del Mar.

So Steven and I have always had this theory that when a person comments on his significant others’ blog, other people are less inclined to comment. Which is why we hardly ever comment on each other’s blogs haha. My last post was a case in point. In case you were wondering, though, that isn’t why I haven’t been posting. Life has been crazy busy, and weddings and showers are taking over my life. I’ve been helping people with little things here and there, and I never say no, cause I love the opportunity to practice all art forms. It helps me grow. I’ll post those projects up little by little…

On Saturday I had the privilege of shooting Tim & Juliana’s wedding (my very, very first wedding!) with Hannah Michelle. A lot of thoughts on that, but I’ll write about it when I post the pictures. And I’ll post the pictures after I learn how to real edit in Adobe Lightroom (Dale, help please!). On the way home from the wedding, I got into a crazy car accident, where my car spun out on the 605 freeway. It was kind of sort of really scary. I called Steven as soon as I could get to my phone (my hands were shaking like crazy), and as soon as it started ringing, I started bawling and could not stop. Steven says it was the scariest call he’s ever received; he said he felt like his heart literally sank. There were so many things that could have happened (I could have hit other cars when spinning out, I could have crashed into the wall… I could have died), but I came out injury-free. Just shaken up, and sad that my car looked so sad. So all in all, you could say we’re pretty thankful.

I have been car-less for a week now. On Tuesday Steven drove me down to San Diego for work, and we ended up just staying in town for our date night until after traffic died down a bit. I requested our date to be in Del Mar, cause I absolutely love the view of the ocean and shore from the top of the hill. It kind of takes my breath away, it’s so beautiful. Photos don’t do it justice, but they’re all I have to show: