{"id":7405,"date":"2011-01-01T21:18:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T04:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/?p=7405"},"modified":"2011-01-01T21:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T04:32:00","slug":"1-1-11-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/1-1-11-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"1.1.11 &#8211; Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Partied out. Yep. That&#8217;s how I feel right about now. This is the first night I&#8217;ve been home sitting here doing nothing in about 10 days. When I say mini vacation that I scheduled myself, I meant it. It&#8217;s almost been a marathon of how much fun I could have. Exhausted. I&#8217;ve never been so exited to be sitting here in a clean house on a Saturday night with nothing to do and nowhere to go. I also just got back from the grocery store, needless to say it&#8217;s all fruits, vegetables, milk and protein. I think I&#8217;ve eaten so much, I might turn into a big fat Italian meatball. Well now that I&#8217;ve gotten that out of my system, I&#8217;m looking forward to a new start. That involves healthy food, water and lots of exercise.<\/p>\n<p>I really can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s 2011. Where did last year go? It feels like the blink of an eye. Looking forward to thumbing through my images from last year and pulling my favorites out. It&#8217;s crazy to think how much I&#8217;ve been shooting lately &#8211; I am forever grateful to each one of you who has asked me to photograph for you. I never in a million years thought I would be where I am today. I look forward to photographing the 24 Weddings I have booked for this year, my special &#8216;Grow With Me&#8217; kiddos and all the new people I&#8217;ll be meeting this year.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010 I married my best friend, road tripped to Vegas, LA, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Napa, San Fran, and witnessed our best friends Dana and Tim marry in the Bahamas. I captured some sweet moments behind the lens, and also experienced what it was like to be on the other side of the lens. Learned that a handful of the brides I&#8217;ve photographed are now expecting their first child :) Watched my business mature to a new level, made some great new friends, watched the Saint&#8217;s win the Superbowl, laughed, cried, gotten sick a few times, called my mom to help me out more times then I can think of, experienced turning a house into a home. Had fun remodeling, decorating, buying and refinishing. Enjoyed picking out our first Christmas tree. Gotten in 2 wrecks this past year, one was the other persons fault &#8211; one mine. Cried some more. Read some amazing books. Worked my butt off. Edited more hours than I can count. Celebrated, danced and enjoyed the company of my loved ones. Gained some more responsibility, turned 26. Planned and organized as best as I could. Set some new goals for 2012. Grown richer in Faith and really enjoyed going to church every Sunday. Prayed and given thanks for everything I&#8217;ve been so fortunate to receive.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a toast to you all- I thank you for your kind works and comments over the past year. For allowing me to follow my passion of photography. For checking back to see what&#8217;s new, for supporting me and being my friend. THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how we rang in the new year last night. 5 couples, Tony Angello&#8217;s Restaurant for dinner, laughs, jokes, reminiscing about when we were young and first became friends, toasting to a new year! At midnight, we were still at the restaurant, so we headed outside with our champagne and watched the fireworks!<\/p>\n<p>Much love, happiness, health, success and blessings to you all in 2011!<\/p>\n<p>Love, Jen<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7409\" title=\"IMG_1458\" src=\"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1458.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1458.jpg 900w, http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1458-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7408\" title=\"IMG_1455\" src=\"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1455.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1455.jpg 900w, http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1455-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7407\" title=\"IMG_1448\" src=\"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1448.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1448.jpg 600w, http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_1448-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n\t<div class=\"p3-fb-like-btn-wrap\">\n\t\t<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fjenamato.com%2Fblog%2F1-1-11-happy-new-year%2F&layout=standard&show_faces=false&action=like&colorscheme=light&width=450&height=35\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:35px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partied out. Yep. That&#8217;s how I feel right about now. This is the first night I&#8217;ve been home sitting here doing nothing in about 10 days. When I say mini vacation that I scheduled myself, I meant it. It&#8217;s almost been a marathon of how much fun I could have. Exhausted. 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