Happy Friday everyone!!

Tomorrow brings Augi’s 28th birthday and we are celebrating with a raging kickball game inspired by one of my favorite wedding photographers, Jessica Claire. We rented a softball field at our favorite local park and split our friends into two awesome teams whose names were chosen by the birthday boy himself: The Black Robocops vs. The Cobra Commanders! We wanted to give the teams a personalized edge, so Augi designed the team logos and we used our friend’s silk screening machine to imprint the baseball tee’s we ordered in bulk.

We are super excited and can’t wait to dress the part, have some healthy competition (ha) with our closest friends and take goofy team pictures. So expect a pretty big post on Monday recapping the celebrations and please pray for good weather. I would hate for us to be rained out!

May the best team win!

Augi and I are blessed enough to have many amazing friends that we care about deeply, so I thought it would be nice to let them speak for me on this post. I asked both friends and family to list what they thought of when Augi came to mind and here is what they had to say about the birthday boy:

Penn says…bruises on my butt cheek. Augi’s someone I’d always want on my team, in my corner, on my side. the guy I’d pick to go with me on a 4 hour car-ride, the co-pilot with the right sing-alongs, awesome sammiches, and fantastic conversation.
Yuni says…awesome rum punch mmmmmmm. Cool guy great guitarist.
Kavita says…silly photographer
Nivian says…rockband skillz
Richard says…Jazz Guitarist, Flying Camel Kung Fu, Sunshine!, Strawberry, Design Guru, Shutterbug, Busy Busy Busy!
Jennie says…Meli. Awesomeness.Photography.Creative Genius.Husband.Bowling.Beard.El Sanchez, which makes me think of “mustache” for some reason.
Mom says…beautiful, kind hearted, always well-intentioned…a gentle spirit from birth! Happy birthday babe! I love you!
Tracy says…Throwing paper balls three floors down to the bat cave, playing the guitar at work, sometimes being a bit dramatic but that is why I “heart” him so much, grabbing my boob, out of nowhere, in front of ANETers at your bday party and seeing the faces of all of them in shock and me being in shock then laughing, Light-ring Master, Great designer!, Guy with the great cameras
Elsie says…Great squishy hugs and a painful sting on my ass cheek.
Roxy says…cameras and cars, grity rock-n-roll and guitars, ghosts and raptor noises, awesome t-shirts and cool-cat hats, San Fransisco and yummy eats, nerding out and good times!
Corliss says…beard, jafar, EMO, 600 cameras and the shakira she-wolf video
Matt says…Fun guy, photography…and a beard…
James says…Funny,Guitar, Beatles,Beard,Creative, Awesometacular
Camero says…hot dogs. Also, burgers.
Tammy says…Funny, very creative, talented. Ze Germans 😉
Adri says…creative!
Primi says…easy going, artistic, great husband…makes u happy:)
Omar says…Bearded Monster Photographer with a Guitar that’s ready to kick ass.
Fullman says…the first time I met him was at storks for photography class at art institute in september 2001. I saw him and out of all the people in the class, figured he’d be the only person in the class that would be cool. He was the only one. Naming his yellow mini jeeves, and his black mini nazgul, him changing any statement to “your face,” and always describing me as someone who smells.
Ang says…Ugly jerkface.  Oh & talented motherf*cker!
Tata says…Creative and beautiful pictures!! When I think of Tio Truck I see him with a camera nearby and his mac laptop ready to put his pics on a CD for his anal sister-in-law.. he also happens to be the sweetest Tio to Lucas.. it’s no wonder why Lucas is always “calling” Tio Truck on his Lightning McQueen cell phone! 🙂