Happy Birthday Kristel!

It's this girl's birthday today!!!!



Seriously how lucky am I to call her business partner AND best friend!?

plenty of ways to wish her a big happy or belated birthday!

www.myspace.com/anoziraphotography
www.twitter.com/kristelio

OR

of course HERE!


Happy Birthday Kristelio! You ROCK!

XOXO,
Laura Loo

Aerosmith sneak-a-roos...VLOG style!

Better late than never right!? Well, we are finally flipping through our pictures and videos from the Aerosmith concert & figured we share some videos...this makes our very first video blog...haha hopefully not our last! We warn you...for some reason we both get crazy accents & the sillys in front of the camera. Seriously, even when we were little. Our moms have videos of us pretending to be the Spice Girls, fighting, & other childhood memories that make us cringe when watching because we sound so funny...kind of like these videos but, WE LOVE YALL & said we would share our fun day! So here are the videos we recorded on our way to see Aerosmith July 19th, the weekend that came & went way too fast! We hope this post finds you all doing well & soaking up all that summer has left...stay tuned.

Haha, you should have seen us running from Loo's apartment & packing up the Hester mobile in the rain...here we are safe in the car heading to Dallas!

Of course we are late, but at least our eye make up looks like da bomb.com! haha!

You had fair warning....if you could understand us hope you enjoyed those silly videos...MORE TO COME & of course pictures!

p.s Laura would like to add that she GOT A PUPPY! You will being seeing lots of him, so no worries!

xoxo,

Anozira

Sneak-a-roos & an update too!

Hello World...Anozira is alive & well. We are just busy bees enjoying & soaking up all summer has to offer these last few weeks! This past week alone, we have had the amazing blessing of photographing a sweet sweet friend of ours & her lucky many together, rocking out to Aerosmith & ZZ top together, shopping till we drop, and laughing until we can't breath...can life get any sweeter? And more exciting news... I have been giddy with joy through the whole editing process of Misha & Chris engagement photos because these two are just down right GORGEOUS! I know when you see the three sneak-a-roos I've cooked up, you will agree! I can't wait to blog some pictures, funny stories, and even VIDEOS of Anozira working & jammin together! Please stay tuned for some more beautiful pictures of Misha & Chris & so much more!

The love birds...

Ain't a woman in love just beautiful?

I know that ring never looked as good as it does on this sexy woman's finger...

Misha & Chris congrats...you guys are so incredibly fun to photo shoot & insanely cute! We are honored that we got to capture some of your sweet love for one another! :)

XOXO,
Laura Loo

We are Twittering!

Sooooo...
We gave in to the Twittering trend...both of us!


Go check us out...we are still updating both tweet sites, but we must say it is quite addicting this twittering! Follow us or let us know if you are a twitter!

www.twitter.com/lauraita

www.twitter.com/kristelio

p.s what do you think of the new layout???


now we will leave you with this oldie but goldie we took together well together....:)


XOXO,
Anozira Photography

Giving Thanks This Season!

Anozira Friends!

Inspirit of Thanksgiving, Anozira Photography just wanted to take this time to say THANK YOU! We feel so blessed to have the friends & family that we do! Thank you all for the wonderful comments & words of encouragement that you send our way! We love hearing from you all & we definitely count our blessings! We SO LOVE our hobby or what some might call "job." We are thankful that we can call our "hobby" play and not "work." We are thankful that we can capture the wonderful & beautiful moments of life FOREVER on camera.
There is something magical in looking at a photograph and reliving that treasured moment again! We just wanted to say that we are definitely giving thanks this season for our new adventure and for all of you that have encouraged us throughout! Thank you for your support, hello's, adding us, commenting on our work, just all that you do! We look forward to see what God has in store for Anozira Photography & we are so glad you have decided to join our space & be apart of our new adventure! Have a wonderful, blessed, & safe THANKSGIVING! cook too much, eat too much, laugh too much, take too many pictures, & have a blast celebrating with all your loved ones! :)

Warm Hugs & Blessings,
Laura & Kristel
Anozira Photography

Meet Kristel Hester by Laura Arellano

(Kristel at age 2...so cute!)

So, let's talk about Kristel Hester today. Which, just so happens to be her Birthday! November 19, 1985. Let's call this my "wish I could be there gift" blog. :)

You all know by either reading previous posts or by being a family member or friend that we have been friend's since the ripe age of 2! So, let's talk about what you don't know or some of you close friends & family might very well know...but i'll go even deeper. Just lend me your eyes...

Friend. Yes, she makes a great, true, honest, the list goes on, friend. She is THE best listener I have ever met in my 22 years of life. You know at those horrible times or super fabulous times of your life when you just need someone to listen, not speak, just listen?...she is THAT friend. She helps me more than she will ever know get through the good and most importantly she celebrates the good times WITH me. Her heart is pure and her heart is BIG. She cries when she laughs, she cries when she's mad, she cries when she's sad, she cries when she's happy...do you get it?...the woman has a HUGE heart! I love it. She is one of the people in my life that God uses to remind me daily to let go and LAUGH. She reminds me to LOVE with all you got and to forgive in order to move on and live a healthy and passionate life. She is my long lost sister or the cool kids would say "she is my sister from another mister."

Mommy & wife. Kristel is a mommy of two beautiful, precious, and spunky kiddos! Words can not begin to express how much this woman loves her kids. I love how she uses her passion & talent of photography to capture her heart & soul, her family, to share with the world. When I see the photographs she takes of her family I can not help but smile because I know she is paparazzi-like in her house with her husband & kids pretty much 24/7. I also know she does this so she doesn't miss that moment that is worth a thousand words that can last forever for their family, now that she captured it on camera. She is one of those moms every woman hopes to be. I know that her favorite and happiest place to be is right with her family...and of course camera in hand ;).

Business partner. This is a new role Kristel has recently started to play in my life. I mean unless you count the photo shoots we use to take of kids down the block with our mom's 35mm cameras back in the day. OR us molding and building things out of clay-doh, mud, sticks, paper, etc. etc. and soliciting them to whatever neighbors or family members were nice enough to listen to our sales pitch. But if you are not counting those adventures, you can now officially call us business partners thanks to our photography company Anozira Photography. Kristel brings much to the table at Anozira Photography. She is not only our West Texas Photographer, she is our organized brain and cheerleader! She is very detailed and very organized. She has an eye for spotting details I would have missed. She keeps Anozira Photography on track. No one makes a to-do list like Kristel makes a to-do list! Kristel also has characteristics of a successful business woman. She is dedicated and will not say the job is done, until the job is done and everything on her detailed, organized to-do list is checked off! Her integrity, creativity, organization, keep growing and I am so excited to see her grow throughout our new adventure as a strong woman and photographer still!

Kristel. She is a friend, wife, mom, photographer, student... I don't know how she juggles it all so gracefully and wonderfully, but she does. Not only does she manage to juggle this crazy thing we call life, she does it with a heart and smile that only get bigger, sweeter, funnier, and more compassionate each and everyday! :)

Oh, and reader, do stay tuned because She & Anozira Photography are only getting better & better! :)


Kristel,
You are such a blessing in my life and in so many others! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! We LOVE YOU!

Peace & love,
Laura Loo

My best friend...

So, okay. This is my first blog and I'm so new at this thing it freaks me out! I want to write a little and let my best friend know how much she is appreciated! Now that I have known Laura for about 21 years, I am very comfortable saying that she is my right hand (well if my right hand lived in Denton). She is truly that one that you call your soulmate. Don't get me wrong, I love my husband for everything that he is - but Laura (Ellay, La, Elsie, LornaDoone, some call her Loo)- she was my first love. I called her my best friend at four, and that has and will never change! We have been through way to much for anything to even chance our relationship. I love that when we were about first graders we promised one another that no matter what the problem was, there was nothing too big to come in between us. We thought we had it all figured out. We saw so many friendships go to waste. People who took one another for granted and shot their friendship over something so petty. I have so many wonderful friends that deserve to be called best (because they are)...but this girl has my heart. She was there from the time my daddy passed away, to the time I got my first kitten. She was my run-away partner, and the only one I would color my face with red lipstick and pretend to be a strawberry for. I look back on the times that we loved to pretend to cook and how many mud-pies we served up! That is my new theory on why you and I both do not like to cook. We did it way too much as children. What is that...we didn't even have time to learn to cook from our mothers. We were too enthralled with one another. I think that I secretly envisioned you leaving me. I just knew you were too good to be true! I always wished for a sister, and suddenly you were placed into my life and I never wanted to leave your side. It really is fate that our paths crossed at the time they did. I can't tell you that we would have even liked one another had we met 10 years later. I am who I am because of you. We taught one another how to be so compassionate and aware. gosh, So many girlfriends we had. And every that one became close to you, they had to get approval by me. I wasn't losing MY best friend. And now, that you are off on your own - I have this sense of security. For some reason I know I won't lose you. I want to share you with as many people that want to be friends with you! They deserve to have some Laura in their lives. Everyone needs your happy spirit to brighten their day. That is the same spirit that I have always known and loved. I am so happy that you moved to a big place and you spread out and have discovered yourself! We discovered our passion for photography so early in life. Haha, one of our first photoshoots - We were in your bathroom on 34th and I had an old 10mm camera. We did the shoot in your bathroom and I was so mad when we realized it had no film! Pictures capture the moment; they capture everything wonderful about that moment that you never want to forget. Everyone deserves to think that their happiest times can be frozen...and photographs have always done that for you and I. We sure have come far from then! We were such young tikes wanting to live so large, haha! We then took four years of photography from a man who will always be so dear to both of us! He loved us so much that he went to great lengths our last two years of high school to form special classes in which we were his only photographers! I think he saw our hearts and how much potential we had! He always challenged us, and we had senioritis bad. We didn't want to give it our all like we could have. I do miss that! I think photography takes me back to you; that is why I would never do this with anyone else. Your vision is so focused and true. I can't wait to add to this venture with you. It will only bring us closer in due time. We both still have an abundance of potential! There is so much we would get with a degree in the art, but we both went with our love for children. That's okay...we will get our fill soon and it will be very much worth the wait! The children that you will be mentoring are in for the time of their lives! What a way to relive your childhood (through others kiddos, haha)! You are so great with children Laura - you bond with them so well and are truly mothering...these are who you photograph best, in my opinion. I cannot wait to see what your future photo fate holds with your new DSLR. You are an inspiration my love! My cousin sure is lucky to have caught you in his bag. I just wish he would hurry and make a move so that I can officially call you family! I love you Laura.

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So, how did Anozira become our name?

Hello dear readers!

So, several have asked where did the name Anozira come from? Maybe a few of you have noticed that Anozira is Arizona spelled backwards...while I would love to say that there is deep and complex meaning behind our business name it is just a funny, cute story really.

Let's go back oh say 10 years, that would make us about 12 years old. This would be the prime time that Kristel & myself were madly in love with the HANSON brothers! Yes, I was to wed the middle one while she was to wed the youngest Hanson brother! Anyways, we loved to play talk show. We of course were always the Spice Girls. Until, one night we decided to write our own songs and come up with our own band name! At the time we were both wearing matching Arizona T-shirts...i mean of course right?...we had to match! We were thinking and debating and then SHABAAM! We looked into the mirror at the same time and saw ANOZIRA!!! This is when the name was formed and we just knew we were going to make it big one day and be on OPRAH!!!!

Well, sadly, our parents never took our Spice Girl moves seriously and we were never signed or on OPRAH :(... AND 10 years later here we are finally putting our 12 year old genius to use!

Yes, friends JcPenny matching T-shirts are the reason today we call ourselves ANOZIRA photography!

Just in case you were all wondering! Haha!

Stay tuned folks. Here and at www.myspace.com/anoziraphotography

If we ain't bloggin here, we be bloggin there!

Peace out loves.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN,
Laura Loo

"What if Halloween was called Halloweiner?"
---5 Year Old Parker

our space is YOUR space!

Baby steps, but steps...
we are slowly but surely getting our name out there in cyber world!
we have e-mail: anoziraphotography@gmail.com
we have this wonderful blog!
and we have a (drum roll please)...MYSPACE!

oh do do do check out www.myspace.com/anoziraphotography

add us. message us. find us. or just check us out....PLEASE!

I said please! :)
---Laura Loo

Meet Anozira!

Ahh! So exciting our first hello to the blogging world!
Here is where we will share a few photos, ideas, thoughts, and much more with the world. Soon Kristel, our West Texas Photographer and Laura (me), our North Texas Photographer will tell all about themselves and even about each other! Please stay tuned, we are too excited about starting this adventure together! Much love and many Blessings!

Laura Loo