More of the PETERSON'S

Just Call Them GORGEOUS!

As you can see, the photos posted below this blog..I had the great opportunity to work with this Beautiful family. Even though I just started, I don't think there is another family so professional, natural and GORGEOUS like them. No fence to everyone, I just had a wonderful time and very grateful to learn from them and also working with Seini. Outfit changes, different poses and locations, individuals and etc. I loved every minute of it. I don't think I'm suppose to say the names of my clients so I need to be careful with that. Overall, I just wanted to thank Angela and Brandon (first names are ok!) for letting me join and take their pictures, it was a great opportunity and thanks for your support. I hope you and your family take care, blessings to you Angela and your pregnancy with your 4th child. And last but not least, Seini, thank you for help during the shoot and the shoots before!
Much Love.

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Monalisa PHOTOGRAPHY

MOST RECENT Edited Pictures! Click to ENLARGE, 

and hope you like them! :) 

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My 1st SHOOT with SEINI

WOW! Was this a ride to be on. I got in Salt Lake City, UT yesterday morning at 9 a.m. Seini Pahulu with Seini Photography picked me up right on time and we had a shoot later that day ready at 7:30 p.m. at the Draper Temple in Draper, UT. It was a young family who wanted photos for their father on Father's Day and Seini and I had a blast together shooting them from different angles, and all in all we made a great team. Seini used my pictures for her Teaser's because she fell in love with it. I'll post my pictures later just because Seini needs the computer to do her editing and stuff like that, also, I'll be making my own photography logo later when I land in the Bay, back home...which will be in a month or so, so that's half of the reason why I don't really want to post pics up yet. So for today's schedule, at around 3 or 4 p.m., Seini and I will be off to tour the city and practice shooting. Later around 5 p.m. we will be hitting up a Baby Shower shooting some pictures for them. Tomorrow, we have 2 shoots, I know one is a Baby Shower but I think the other is a couple, not sure. But, I'll be practicing and stuff like that. Anywho, I got to get off, just wanted to check in here and update you guys. I need to practice editing my pictures so I'll be on later. I'll be posting later but if you would like to see my teaser's, Seini has it on her blog at www.seinis.com, it is under, "A Daughter's Love". Hope you like it, cause I'm so very proud of myself. Well, I got to go but outside looks good in Utah, so go out and have a fabulous day.

Much Love,

Monalisa

Torn in Between the TWO!

Hi Everyone! I know, I know, I've been writing too much on this thing already, but I had something on my mind that has been bothering me that came up today and thought that I could write it and share it with you all. My family always had this problem with which family to stay with the most. My dad's family doesn't live here in the bay but my mom's family does. All my dad's family live in Utah and my mother's family live here in the Bay, UT, TX, Seattle..etc. Problem is, I love both families to death but it seems like we only know ONE. I don't like the feeling, I want to be able to be close with both families. Long story short, both of my families are having a Family Reunion on the same weekend. Ever since I was a young girl, a big event from both families would happen on the same day but our family always went to my mom's family. It's not a bad thing, I love them but it's gotten to a point where me and my brother and sisters don't even remember our first cousins names from our dad's side. I don't like to miss out on precious times with my family, I want to be able to take the time SEPERATELY to be with each family and every time we miss an event of my dad's, we don't feel as close as it used to. I just hate being in a situation like this where we have to choose. I'm TORN IN BETWEEN THE TWO. I haven't had time with my dad's family and I miss them but at the same time, my siblings and I have a great relationship with my mother's family, it's frustrating, and it's a bad feeling to have! Respond if you like, or if you know what I'm talking about! Be back later.
Take Care everyone!
Monalisa Si'i

FINAU FAMILY
Not all of us but this was the last time I seen most of them all together, at BIG cousin Ray (GO RAMS! ..by the way) and Kassie's Wedding in Sept. '08

KAUFUSI FAMILY
Again, JUST MOST of us, but these were the only pics I could find with the most recent, at our Family Reunion in Oct '08 and Seini's Wedding in April '08IT'S OBVIOUS ISN'T IT?
maybe, maybe not.

Quick Announcement!

CHANGE OF PLANS EVERYBODY! NO Summer School for me, turns out, San Mateo High dropped HALF of the Summer School classes and the classes I was enrolled in was the dropped classes. Sooo, I stopped by my school to see if my counselor was there and figured out that I was able to take online courses through BYU Independent Study! WOW! I'm happy with that, now I can sleep in, work extra hours (when I get a job..VERY SOON!) and just enjoy FREEE-ness. Soo, that's all I wanted to say! LOL. Have a great day!
yO' MONALiSA :)

SUMMERTiME!

Mannnn, am I excited for this summer to warm up! It is June already and I'm just trying to enjoy my summer vacation..at least when summer school is done with. Again, I start June 8th, going to summer school at SMHS, my school's rival, every yr. we beat them! On June 9th, my 1st cousin, Hermana Sisilia Kato is coming back home from her Dominican Republic MISSION, after serving over 18 months. I can't wait to see her, I miss having her around, she was like another older sister, but now she's coming back reallll soon. Anyways, my parents are leaving for TONGA the last week of this month and the first 1 or 2 weeks of July, so I'll be getting a break very soon. The first week of August, I have GIRLS CAMP, it's my last year camping but next summer before I leave for college, I will be lucky enough to not just go ONCE but TWICE to BYU for our Stake's YOUTH CONFERENCE, I went in '06 and I'm going again in '10. But I am most excited to fly down to Utah the week after Girl's Camp. Not because of UTAH, pleaaase, UTAH ain't all that. They're OK! But, I'm really going down there to shoot my Senior High School photos with Seini Pahulu, my sister-in-law. The photography for senior pics here in the bay area cost about $200-$300. Seini is willing to do mines for FREE which I am very grateful and excited for. Especially, when I want to work in the same exact field, which is a great oppurtunity for me to learn more about PHOTOGRAPHY. Also, Seini invited me to a Photography Conference in Las Vegas, NV for High School students a few days after I take my shots so I'm most likely going, and I want to learn more about photography, working with people, working the camera, business and so much more. I don't want to pass it on, it's a huge step for me, one problem though, I have to miss the first 2 days of school. WE'LL SEE WHAT DAD SAYS! =/ Haha, So during the summer I'm going to try to lose weight, grow my hair,taking braces off in the next month or even earlier, and etc. so I have a lot to prepare for. And then pretty soon, I'll be starting my SENIOR YEAR and getting prepared to send my application to BYU IDAHO. Wooaaah, I can't believe how much I've grown. I still remember all my older cousins at my age, now it's my turn and now they're all married and popping out babies like no other! Hahaha, anyways, I hope everyone has a great summer. Keep in touch!
Monalisa Sii.


Ma Ulu number that my ward did for our Stake conference. WE WAS BOMB!
You know since I was talking about photography, here's some I took WITH PHONES! Lol, NOT EDITED! 1. Sipola sleeping 2. Woods when I was camping 3. Bride pic while I was at a family wedding in UTAH.
One of my girls camp, not even half of us! This how the BAY goes down.A typical day after Summer school (LAST YR) out eating at Fresh Choice!One of my missed PASSIONS,..Volleyball! I don't play anymore.In Leadership. There was a SUB that day, so we messed around with the iPHOTO.After Sipola's 1st Bday Party. Went home with her, just finished changing her stinky daiper..TWICE in less than 15 mins. Haha, I think it was the keke's.My favorite picture TO DATE, with my namesake, my Auntie MONALISA & I. I love her!The MONSTERS, I mean JOKERS! After Sipola's party, thought this was funny!Heated! Burlingame vs. Cap Football Game! With sis Biena and bruh Anthony..Monster Bangin'!Another day with the SUB in LEADERSHIP! Haha. Me & Nixx.Big Sis Tina Fakahafua graduated, C/O 2009 with a full ride scholarship to play Basketball for CSI:College of Southern Idaho, CONGRATS! Also, to the rest of the CLASS OF '09. I'M NEXT!Another day without the Teacher. Me and Britt!Big cousin Hermana Kato serving the LORD, about to be home JUNE 9th BABYYY!A great picture of the LEGENDARY BOB MARLEY to kick off this SUMMER of 2009! Oh yeah.OH YEAAAAAAAAAH BABYYYYYYY! HAHA.