Well folks…it’s finally time!!! I am so excited to say that I will no longer be posting on this blog because we are now officially Frenzel Photographers, and we have a new blog! Derek and I will both be posting now, which should be fun… So let’s say a goodbye to wordpress and get on over to our new blogsite! Just click on the picture and it’ll take you right on over to www.frenzelphotographers.com.

Hi all- Happy Memorial Day!

I hope on this beautiful CA day you are able to have some good time with family and some good time to reflect on the great sacrifices so many have made for us to be able to enjoy this day. To all who have served, and do serve our country and especially to those families who have lost a loved one… thank you! The sacrifice, bravery and dedication of your loved ones will always be respected and remembered by me.

Now I must get this off my chest… I really loathe the internet right now!!!! There I said it, now I feel better. I’ve been trying to publish my new blog for over a week now, to no avail. The company I’m hosting through has been really no help; but I pray we are getting closer! So I have all these fun new posts up and ready to be read at our new location, but alas no can see them!

So, until all the stars align and we are able to get the issue figured out, I thought I’d say an unofficial hi from Frenzel Photographers. Check out some of our new print work…

First our purty new logo…

Next our new business cards… I heart them!

And our “About Us” brochure…

Ok, fun huh?!?

Happy Monday!

As I’ve been saying for awhile now… new things are in store for me here at SF Photo… New things like Sarah Frenzel Photography is actually going buh-bye. My husband Derek has joined my team and now our photography business is his official full time job too! I couldn’t be more thrilled for this! So, in honor of my new CEO, CFO, CCO (that’s chief construction officer- he builds stuff really well!), and many many more things… we’re changing our name and our look. We are also bringing you a lot more of ourselves- enough “trying” to be a certain thing- more specifically what I thought a good photographers branding should look like… boring! We are who we are and we hope you like us! If not, don’t hire us… if so, we’ll look forward to chatting with you!

We’ll be making the big shift in a few days, but for now… a little taste of things to come…

Happy Thursday!

Wow the past few weeks have taken me for a ride. I was just writing a friend about what’s been going on in life and thought I’d share it here too. Almost 2 weeks ago a friend of our family suddenly and tragically died. He was an awesome man with such a sweet wife and 3 great girls. He’s been a good friend to my dad for over 10 years and was my sisters basketball coach all through high school. The memorial service was Monday, and it was jam packed! Which was a testament to the influence he had in so many lives. It was amazing to see and hear so many stories of Tony’s influence; but it’s been gut wrenching thinking of his family left behind.

On Monday I also learned that my old neighbor, died in her sleep unexpectedly and tragically. Erin was so young, vibrant and sweet and had  been married to her love for only about a year. She was the daughter-in-law of our pastor and the daughter of a family in our church.

It’s been incredibly hard to make any sense of this. And now that I’m a wife and a mom I feel the pain for people on different levels than I did when I was single. My heart is broken for the families of both Tony and Erin.

But on the upside of this ride, God has been showing up in really cool ways in my life. I’ll share more of this later… but just know that it is so exciting when God provide in ways you couldn’t have imagined yourself and through avenues you didn’t even know to pray for. He truly does care about the big and little things… even when our emotions tell us otherwise.

And on the business front…I’ve been lost in a sea of designing, processing, more designing, learning HTML, and creating. Although things are going more slowly than I would like, I can see the light at the end of this “re-branding” tunnel. The website is still a little ways off, but we should be up and running with our new blog in no time! (Cross your fingers, say a prayer, and kiss your lucky rabbit for me!)

So, I’m still here… strapped into my seat, awaiting the next twist, turn, up or down (please not a down though! I’ve had enough of those for a while).

Easy smiles. Gentle kisses. Contagious laughter.  These are the things that marked our day- Amber & Greg are such a cute couple in love.

After seeing another shoot I did in the east Yorba Linda area, they decided they wanted to do their session there too. Amber & Greg, like us, live out in east Yorba Linda, and for those of us affected by the fires last November, it means something to see the gorgeous wildflowers in bloom against the black of the burnt out riverbed landscape.

As we started the shoot they were quick to inform me that they, “weren’t good at this,” and that they “don’t like being in pictures.” I kinda laughed, smiled, and said, “Ok… you two are gorgeous, and I think you’ll do just fine!”

And of course, I was right… they did fine… so much more than fine that I had a really hard time picking just a few to share, so here’s a bunch from our time together.

we started out playing around by the train tracks.

See Amber, You do a great sexy face… rarrrgh!

now onto the river bed.

Gotta love that soft hazy light in these next few, as the sun is setting.

One of my favs of the day!

So I was snapping a shot of them looking at me, smiling and all of a sudden Greg busts out this face, and the rest went from there! I love it when my clients let loose a bit and aren’t afraid to be silly.

If I haven’t said it before, I’ll say it now… I LOVE my new camera!! This shot was taken after the sun went down…A-mazing!

Amber & Greg- You guys rocked it and it was so fun getting to spend some time with you both!

Happy Tuesday all!

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Doug and Wendy’s slide show is finally ready for your viewing enjoyment! Yeah!

I would have had this up sooner, but the plague swept through our house these past 2 weeks and between all four of us we’ve had 7 filled prescriptions, 5 trips to doctors, 4 major colds, 2 eye infections, 1 sinus infection with a little case of strep and a partridge in a pear tree!! Geesh! We are mostly on the mend now though… thank you Lord!

Back to Doug and Wendy… Sit back, get comfy and just click on the image below to enjoy their beautiful day.

and for all of Doug and Wendy’s family and friends… Their entire event will be available to proof and order here.

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”

1 Peter 1:3

Happy Easter! I hope everyone had a wonderful day of Celebration!

And some pics of Easter happenings…

It seems impossible to get a good snapshot of the 4 of us since the kids are SO squirmy and wild right now, but I thought, “It’s Easter, let’s try to get one.” So this is us outside after lunch with Derek’s fam.  And seriously… am I supposed to be a professional? Who picked to stand in front of that background?!?

and one of the kids, just as good in quality- but at least the subjects are cute!

and some more I posted of yesterday’s fun time w/ my family are here.

Ok, off to enjoy the rest of the evening with my hubby and kids.

Oh btw, I am SOOOO excited… because we are finally getting some new pro photos taken of us this coming weekend! It’s only been like 5 years!

So it’ll be a fun week of camera activity… 4 shoots to do and 1 shoot of us!

Happy Sunday!!

As Derek and I drove to the church for the wedding day of Doug & Wendy, I looked out my window and couldn’t help but think, “Wow! God made a good one.” It was a beautiful day- gorgeous blue sky, puffy clouds and a gentle breeze. I love it when a wedding starts with gorgeous weather. Then from gorgeous weather we went right on to a gorgeous bride and an all around amazing day!

Doug and Wendy are incredibly kind, genuine and fun people, and from hanging out with them for their engagement shoot, I knew their wedding day was going to be so full of love, laughter and joy- which it was, of course!

I’ve just started processing, so a full slideshow will be coming later, but for now here’s a little re-cap of the day.

The bride getting ready.

some details.

How amazing is her dress !?!

Wendy, you are just beautiful!

The ever handsome groom.

A cute ceremony moment

first kiss!

The new Mr. & Mrs!!!!

Wendy and her girls!

At the reception they had an adorable table set up with all kinds of fun candy to make your own to-go box. Hence the ring shot.

The Father/daughter dance was so sweet.

And some of my fav shots of the day… from Doug and Wendy’s first dance.

Doug and Wendy- Thank you for inviting us to be a part of your amazing day! We pray many blessings on your new life together, and hope you are having an incredible time in Bora Bora- I’m jealous!!

Check back later for the slideshow with more images.

Over the past 6 weeks God has been doing some amazing stuff both in our own lives and in the life of our church as well. 2 weeks ago we had a commitment service for the Global freedom initiative our church has been rolling out. This campaign has 3 main parts- 1) Doing some necessary improvements and expansion on our church campus 2) Ministering in our community by partnering with several local non-profits to help with things such as after school programs, a crisis pregnancy center, feeding homeless, etc. 3) Building schools and vocational centers for the Dalit people in India. The Dalit’s in India have captured the heart of many in our church and our leadership responded to God’s call to this HUGE task… to one day Free the Dalit people through education.

So over a short series we studied topics such as ownership, commitment and risk. It became clear really fast that this was about so much more than giving $ to a campaign. This was about living not for ourselves, but for our Creator. For Derek and I it quickly became a journey in faith, hearing God’s voice, taking risks and ultimately living our life for more than just the here and now. We were very challenged and encouraged by the whole thing and we are SO excited to see how God uses this time in our church to change our own lives and to impact our community and the world!

Here are some images from commitment Sunday.

Pastor Matthew Cork giving the message

It was so cool to see the Jr. High and High School students all pumped up and ready to go! They made signs, and brought their “piggy” banks to the front as everyone else brought their cards forward.

Dr. D’Souza, who works in India with the Dalit Freedom Network, came to share and encourage us all. He always has great stories of amazing things going on in India!

making commitments

Here are many of the people who run the programs in and around our community that we will be supporting.

people bringing up their commitment cards, cash and piggy banks.

I’ll end with a sign that pretty much sums it up for Derek and I. As uncertain as life is financially for so many of us; it is exciting to be a part of a movement of people who are choosing the path of faith, the lesser traveled road- one that involves not reliance on our own abilities and accomplishments, but on God’s sovereignty, provision and goodness.

So what’s new with the Frenzel kids?

Well I almost officially have 2 toddlers! Raylee is 10 1/2 months old now and yesterday I found her standing in the middle of the room not holding onto anything! She’s been cruising for a few months, but this standing all on her own is new. I don’t think I’m ready to have 2 walkers, but I guess it doesn’t matter what I’m ready for cause it’s coming quickly! My peanut is also quite the mischievous one- Let’s say she goes for a cord that’s plugged in, I say, “Raylee danger! No touch!” She’ll stop, turn and look at me and flash a big smile, then turn right back around and touch it!!  That girl already knows how to use her charm- we’re in trouble!

some cute shots Derek got of the pumpkin.

Raylee and Jackson have quite the budding friendship. It makes me smile to see how much they adore each other. If Raylee is napping longer than him or not up when he’s up in the morning he will always ask, “Where’s Raylee?”, or “Can I get Raylee?”. They’ve developed some games in the car too- Raylee will start kicking her feet real fast, then Jackson kicks back, then Raylee again, and so on. They also do the back and forth thing with loud noises- You know in Dumb and Dumber when Lloyd says… “You wanna hear the most annoying sound in the wold?”- yay like that! And words too (sorta). Jackson will say to Raylee, “Say Da-Da” or “Raylee say Ba-Ba”, and she usually does! He also asks her to say motorcycle, ballon, firetruck, etc. to which she usually answers back with a loud “aaahhhhh!!”

here they are having a little screaming war!

oh, I love this shot!

On the Jackson front- Some of my fav things he’s done/said lately…

- He always asks me “Mama what time is it?” and when I tell him he then repeats the time back to me, and a few minutes later I’ll hear him saying to himself, “It’s 3:48″

-He LOVES music and after hearing a song a few times he can sing it! It’s pretty crazy to hear him just start singing along to a song on the radio, or to hear him walking around the house singing everything from, “Come Thou fount” to “The Farmer and the Del” to the new U2 single “Get on your boots”.

-The other day I told him we were going to the park to play with cousin Kate and he quickly jumped in, “I go play with Kate and Everett and Aunt Heidi and not Michael” I said, “Your right not Michael, why not?” And he said, “cause Michael go work, like Daddy go work!”

- His prayer the other day at nap time… “Dear Jesus I thank you my daddy go work, thank you my cars, thank you my ball, thank you my milk, thank you my church (we had just gone to bible study- which he loves!), please help Raylee have sweet dreams, help mama go work (I tell him that I work while he naps), help Jackson good nap and Jesus I love you. Amen, sweet dreams! -So precious- I heart him!

Here’s a fun little series Derek got the other day of our little man.

Happy Thursday!