Catie Ronquillo | Photographer

Every end of the year I find myself writing out resolutions for things to do and not do in the upcoming year. But over time, I’ve found that resolutions are much like rules. Meant to be broken. Expected to be broken. ...

Let me just say that 2009 has been the best year yet. This year was huge both personally and for my business. January: I joined a fitness bootcamp through Ala Vie Fitness. I woke up and started exercising before the sun rose. Crazy. February: I attended my first WPPI Conference in Las Vegas...

We just got home from a whirlwind visit home to my parents in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as a quick jaunt down to Disneyland. In the span of six days, we traveled on four airplanes, in the midst of a guy trying to blow up an international flight, crazy...

Thanks to you, awesome blog readers, we raised 75 cans/items of food for the North Texas Food Bank! When I delivered the box to their headquarters this afternoon, it amounted to 55lbs of food! Woo hoo! So what does 55lbs of food look like...

I’m. so. excited. Tomorrow night we’ll be heading back to California for Christmas! Yay! This will be our first time back since our wedding in July. And as much as California doesn’t scream cold weather or winter, it is home. For me, it screams HOME. Familiar faces. Familiar surroundings. Fami...

Ikea furniture assembly is not for the faint of heart. This weekend Cent and I ventured out to Ikea to purchase an entertainment center, gifted to us by Cent’s parents, since our TV has been sitting on the floor since we moved into our house. A month ago. ...

Yesterday I received a package from home. A box full of ornaments! And not just any ornaments, penguin ones! If I haven’t mentioned it before, penguins are my favorite animal. Not sure why. Well, kind of. In second grade, my teacher, Mrs. Evans loved penguins. ...

Oooh! A wedding! Several months back, before I got hitched, the lovely Tiffany of Adeline & Grace Photography invited me to shoot a Napa Valley wedding reception...

And suddenly we’ve hit mid-December. How the heck did that happen? We’ve put up our very first Christmas tree as a couple. When we bought our house I asked Cent if we could get a tree. While I knew that we would be out of town for the holidays, I still wanted something Christmas-y for our house. So...

This past Saturday I had the wonderful opportunity to give back to my new community. I had heard about Help Portrait a few months ago. I had scoured the different sites for locations and wondered if there was an effort going in Dallas. Fast forward to last week...