How many Rodriguez’s can you fit into the Ace Hotel Photobooth? (six apparently!)

Yikes! So our First Annual Company Picnic … a total success and we’re super stoked for 2009. Gabe, Ashley (+ the kids), Jacqi and I (Boone) spent the better half of last week kickin’ it at the Beach and then around NW Portland.

Besides exploring PDX, sippin’ on Stumptown and picnicking at the Rose Garden, we did manage to get in some awesome time brainstorming and refocusing on our five year plan to take over the world. We’re excited to divulge our new offerings for 2009, as well as introduce two new official members of our team … can you guess who by the pics? We’re working with some amazingly talented people to bring new products and services to the table. We’ll be rolling things out on the blog over the next few weeks. Please stay tuned.

Boone models the company t-shirt and shows off his new shiny white 3G.

Roman pretty much just has one little tuft of hair on the very top of his head.

Vacation is a time for growing a mustache.

Some images from Scott and Candy’s e-sesh up at Council Crest in Portland.  They’ll be having a rocking wedding later this summer out on the beautiful Oregon Coast!

This is Dave and his beautiful newly wed wife, Elisha. Dave and I played in a band together in college so you can imagine how much I enjoyed shooting him at their wedding. You can look forward to more images from their sweet wedding soon. But for now…

I’m glued to the computer this week to clear my desk. We have a sweet July lined up with a few choice weddings in the Seattle area, dropping in on two different family vacations including the San Juan Islands and the Oregon Coast and to top it off, we’re having our First Annual Company Family Summer Picnic!! Haven’t figured out if we’re going wheel barrow races or potato sack hopping but either way it’ll be a great time for our families to hang out and talk some gabriel boone world domination 2009. We’ve still got a lot of images waiting to hit the blog and some little announcements that we look forward to updating everyone on. But for now, it’s work-city so I can go enjoy time with the family and take in the Pacific Northwest which we love love love.

A year ago this past week my grandmother passed away. I don’t have the words to describe her or what she’s meant to our family. I did however tear up hearing my father talk about his mother and the last interaction that he was able to have with her shortly before she passed.

I’m very happy to have had her in my life and that she was able to meet my son Baron. I can remember one of the last things she said to me as she checked in over the phone to see how our family was doing. At that time it was very hard to make out her words but I clearly heard her say, “Pictures keep people close to your heart, Gabey.” I scrambled to write those words down and have them written in pencil on a post-it note next to the monitor in my office.