Below are the most recent 24 friends' journal entries.

Sunday, December 27th, 2009
sipperphoto	3:05p	Some burned out trees off the side of the 10 freeway. (Comment on this)
Friday, December 25th, 2009
sipperphoto	2:24p	My second time making Italian bread! Figured out I did wrong last time! These look much better! (Comment on this)
sipperphoto	9:36a	Skyping with my family! Technology is great! (Comment on this)
sipperphoto	9:09a	Sittin on the couch, drinkin' coffee, checking emails, waiting for people to show up! (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 24th, 2009
sipperphoto	1:02p	Christmas Eve, Jonson+Samantha+Three | Orange County Family Photographer I am so excited it is Christmas Eve! We will be heading out this afternoon to Chandler, Arizona to spend Christmas with my mom, uncle and sisters. Before we head out though, I wanted to make sure I got to this post. As I promised 5 days ago, I was going to do a holiday portrait session post each day until Christmas and I am one to keep my word. This post features Jonson, Samantha, Sophia, August and Tatiana. If you are wondering, yes they are triplets! I saved this one for last because I felt that it was quite an accomplishment, I mean we got triplets to not only cooperate for their holiday photos, but just look absolutely adorable as well. We first met the family on Halloween when we shot their one year birthday celebration and were so happy they asked us to do their holiday portrait as well. We look forward to watching these three grow and just want to wish them all a very happy holidays season! Cheers, J+D Jonson, Sophia, Tatiana, Samantha and August August, Sophia and Tatiana Three beautiful personalities! Just the girls! I love to take a photo of the parents, you gotta remember how all of this love started! And one for the road...have a very happy holiday everyone! Much love, J+D Originally published at Sipper Photography Orange County, CA based wedding and family photographers. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
sipperphoto	2:29p	2 days til Christmas, Mark+Randee+Lyla | Orange County Family Photographer It is getting close! Only 2 more days until the Christmas holiday is upon us. I just love that all across the world there will be families sharing their first Christmas with a new baby. Such an exciting time as your family grows and now you have new memories to be made. We were so excited to share a first Christmas with Mark, Randee and Lyla. Here baby Lyla is about 9 weeks old as we take her first portraits with her parents. Thanks to Mark and Randee for sharing some of your first family moments with us. Congratulations on your new little one and we wish you all a fabulous holiday season. Cheers, J+D ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
sipperphoto	12:12p	Merry Christmas Gangstas! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
ruudboy	1:17p	Hooray! I'm happily on my Christmas train home, sailing through lovely festive countryside - frozen ponds! - and watching Seinfeld on DVD. Happy Christmas one and all! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
sipperphoto	3:43p	3 days til Christmas, Loren+Sondra+Darian+Connor=Family | Orange County Family Photographer With only 3 days until Christmas, I have another great family to share with you from our holiday portrait sessions. Recently, we met Loren and Sondra at an event for local Orange County Bloggers. The two have a blog called "Land of Gracious Living" which is about living in Yorba Linda, California and their communities events. Sondra really wanted to update her family photo and what better time than during the holidays! A big thanks goes out to Loren, Sondra, Darian and Connor for sharing their holidays with us. Enjoy, J+D ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
Monday, December 21st, 2009
sipperphoto	11:04a	4 days til Christmas, Brian+Shannon+Ben a holiday portrait | Orange County Family Photographer The countdown continues with only 4 days left til Christmas. Today we share with you the holiday session of Brian, Shannon and Benjamin. Here Ben is almost 10 months old and this session was part of the celebration of Ben's first Christmas. He is such a cute little boy, I just love his red hair! I am so glad we got to be a part of such a big moment in this families life. We wish them a very happy holiday as they celebrate their first Christmas as a family. Enjoy, J+D Such a cute little guy! Dad and Ben, the boys! A proud mama moment with lots of love! A fabulous stroll through the park! Originally published at Sipper Photography Orange County, CA based wedding and family photographers. (Comment on this)
ruudboy	11:18a	A vague account of the weekend * Went to the Nine Carols show at the Bloomsbury Theatre on Friday night which was excellent. I can't remember any of the scientists' names now, but I liked the one who did his alternative awards ceremony, and I liked Stewart Lee even though his material was ancient. The elderlyish bloke sitting next to us looked totally mystified by Gary Le Strange. * Accidentally heard Dotun Adebayo when I was listening to the radio late on Saturday night. He's rotten, isn't he? He first hosted a dreadful discussion about Leslie Hughes being sacked as Manchester city manager, then he talked about the snow in America with what he described as "native New Yorkers" as if we're supposed to be impressed by this. Real mericans? Live on the radio? Zowie! The best bit was when he said "'I'm just going outside, I may be some time' as Captain Scott famously said." Um, alright, whatever. * Finished my nephew/niece Christmas shopping at the Science Museum/Natural History Museum shops. Got great stuff, including space ice cream and a T-Rex glove puppet! * Went on a tube walk around the lovely houses and lovely food shops of Kensignton. Holland Park's good though, isn't it? It has a Kyoto Garden and peacocks. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 20th, 2009
ruudboy	11:17p	You know it's Christmas when the Father Ted special is on. Oh, I love it so. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
sipperphoto	3:52p	5 Days til Christmas, Gianna+Vincent a holiday portrait! | Orange County Family Photographer I can't believe Christmas is only 5 days away. I thought it would be fun to blog the last few holiday portrait sessions that I have from this season. As the count down begins, I will be sharing with you a portrait session a day until Christmas. Thank you to all of our families who shared their holiday season with us. We wish all of you a happy holiday! Here is Gianna and Vincent sharing with you their holiday portrait session! Enjoy, J+D I love Vincent's hat and vest! The beautiful Gianna modeling a hair bow designed by her mom at Blooms n Bows Originally published at Sipper Photography Orange County, CA based wedding and family photographers. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 19th, 2009
ruudboy	11:20p	It's Saturday night, I'm in alone and boycotting Match of the Day in a football related huff to watch Love Actually. Therefore, in no particular order, my favourite LPs of 2009. I'll try and write a bit about them, but as usual when I try and write about music I'll probably just end up saying "I like it!" because I'm rubbish at describing music I like. Love Actually's not bad really is it? The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Pains of Being Pure at Heart I may have moaned a bit about their gig a couple of weeks ago, but I still think the album's great. Fuzzy indie rock, vaguely reminiscent of Buzzcocks. Great stuff. This is Contender God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl So this is Stuart Murdoch's B&S spinoff - the story of a mixed up girl sung by three singers he found through internet auditions. And it's beautiful. So listen to the title track: Moofish Catfish - Moofish Catfish And the self-titled albums keep coming. I saw Moofish Catfish supporting someone - I can't remember who - earlier this year, and I picked up their album. I like it. Here's About This Girl. Slow Club - Yeah So? (£4.98! Amazing bargain!) As you may have seen, I went to their gig this week. This is It Doesn't Always Have to be Beautiful: Pocketbooks - Flight Paths I've talked about Pocketbooks loads on here. I <3 them absolutely and I've already shared far too much of their album probly, but have another track anyway - Every Good Time We Ever Had: The Duckworth Lewis Method - The Duckworth Lewis Method It's not every year that a concept album about cricket comes out, and it's not every year that a track written from the point of view of Mike Gatting is released. Jiggery Pokery: MJ Hibbett & The Validators - Regardez, Ecoutez et Repetez Silly, witty, fun, catchy, INDIE! I've uploaded this track, because although it's written from the point of the view of the band, I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments expressed as a punter. It's called We're Old and We're Tired (And We Want to Go Home): (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 18th, 2009
sipperphoto	5:19p	Sipper Photography Holiday Card Happy Friday to all! The holiday season is upon us and the Sipper's are very excited to share Christmas with our families next week. I love this time of year as we decorate our tree, send out the cards, bake cookies, and plan to spend time with our friends and families. Our Sipper Photography holiday card has gone out and we are so happy with how it turned out this year. This is our second year of designing the card and it is a tradition that I would like to keep for many years to come. If you would like to receive one, drop us an email as we still have a few left to send out. We wish all of our clients, vendors, friends and family members a very happy holiday season! We are so thankful for all of you. Happy Holidays! J+D ( Read more... ) (6 Comments |Comment on this)
baseball [ tigtogiba34 ]	1:21p	LOL oh I love mugshots. Does it or does it not have WordUpThome written all over it?!. Billy Wags; I have such high hopes for you. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
sipperphoto	8:50p	Yes! @dickbeas singing Bohemian Rhapsody! (Comment on this)
ruudboy	11:43p	I don't know, you wait all year for a gig at the Union Chapel and then two come along at once. Last night I went to see Danny Boy Kitson, who was his usual touching, thought-provoking and hilarious self. Tonight was Slow Club putting in a late bid for Gig of the Year, with a terrific show. They were everything that The Pains of Being Pure at Heart weren't last week - they engaged with the crowd, they were funny, they seemed like they were having fun being there, and in addition they were wonderful - Becky has superb voice, full of character. And at the end of a great gig, what better way to end than with an encore of Christmas songs and inviting all the support acts back on stage for some fun: (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
paidmembers [ marta ]	3:01p	Statistics for Paid Accounts Statistics are here! You can now see the number of people who have visited your journal, your individual entries, a chart of comments, readers of the RSS feed of your journal, and the last 100 logged-in users who have visited your journal directly (if you've enabled My Guests). Things you should know: -Stats are completely anonymous (only My Guests is tied to username); only numbers are recorded, not any other information -The times and dates in the graph are based on server time, which is UTC/GMT -The light grey number at the top left corner of the graph is the statistical outlier -While the graph may go back in time to this summer, the stats-gathering server was not on constantly, so previous stats may be missing. Today, and going forward, full stats are collected and displayed. -If you opt out of My Guests (meaning that your username will not show up on other people's reports and you will not be able to view your My Guests tab), it does not affect your use of the rest of the Stats - if you're a Paid or Permanent user, you'll still be able to see all the rest of the information on this feature ( Page-by-page walkthrough ) (151 Comments |Comment on this)
paidmembers [ marta ]	2:59p	$10 coupon for your friends! If you have a Paid or Permanent account, you can now send 10 of your non-Paid friends a $10 coupon. Your friend will be able to purchase a Paid Account for $9.95 (instead of $19.95) for one year by enrolling in our automatic payment plan or make a manual payment of $15 (instead of $25). All Paid and Permanent accounts can send out the coupons by clicking here (it's also under Friends -> Holiday promotion in the site header) You can also send to people not on your Friends list by manually entering the username in the field provided If your friend declines the invitation, it will be returned to your available invitation pool and you'll be able to send to someone else You can send the invitations until January 15th (446 Comments |Comment on this)
ruudboy	12:08p	Pow! Take THAT, The Man! Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello has said that beating the X Factor single to Christmas number one will be a "wonderful dose of anarchy". ... "My hope is that one of the results of this whole Christmas season is there'll be a new generation of rockers who will take on the establishment with the music they write." Anarchy! Taking on the establishment! Excellent. This will be a great result for the tiny little independent label that this song is no doubt released on. Epic Records released Rage Against the Machine's self titled debut album on November 6, 1992. The album included the singles "Killing in the Name", "Freedom" and "Take the Power Back". Epic Records is an American record label. It is a premier subsidiary label of Sony Music Entertainment. Anarchy, there. (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
ruudboy	11:17p	I can't find my rug. I'm sure I saw it about a week ago. Srsly, how can you lose a rug? Spike's gone insane, and is charging around the flat like a lunatic. Lynda's just looking at him pityingly. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 14th, 2009
baseball [ chaossix6 ]	4:36p	Lackey, Red Sox reach agreement Big day today. 5 year/$85MM. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/12/14/heyman.lackey.redsox/index.html Does this give Boston the best rotation in the AL East? I think it does. It'll be interesting to see what the Yankees do to counter this. (45 Comments |Comment on this)
baseball [ nymetsfan1226 ]	4:20p	Report: Halladay to Phillies, Lee to Mariners in 3 way trade. (25 Comments |Comment on this)