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marlowe turns 2…brianne brose | san diego child photographer

Brianne Brose — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:43:53 +0000

My baby turned into a toddler yesterday. Ugh, heartbreaking right?! I just happened to be taking these pictures for a review I wrote for Pediped, so obviously the shoes are featured but I thought she looked too stinking cute not to share them on my blog with you guys. Happy Friday everyone!

crustless mini breakfast quichebrianne brose | san diego food photographer

Brianne Brose — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:47:33 +0000

So the past few months have been a long road to getting my life back. I have lost 30 lbs and feel like a whole new woman. I am still a good 10 lbs from my pre-child weight but I am a heck of a lot closer to being Brianne again and whole lot less the fat mom I had become. I am sure you all want to know my secret and well, like always, there really isn’t one. Unfortunately I have no miracle cure for you. I 100% changed my eating habits. I had to detox from my sugar addiction and I started eating “clean”. I quit all processed foods for 30 days, no sugar, no starches and ate only a very select few veggies, fruits and meats. I quickly saw a major change in my body, all of which wasn’t happening with just exercise and trying to eat healthy over the last 2 years after giving birth to my youngest.

I am now about 65 days into my new life and feeling wonderful. The best part is my husband did this journey with me and we both feel great together. It was rough to start but has evolved into a new lifestyle, which we both enjoy for the most part. For now, we still avoid processed foods but have a much bigger variety of food we eat. Most meats, veggies and fruits are allowed. I love eggs too! I also eat sprouted grain breads (Ezekiel brand or Trader Joe’s brand) with natural peanut butter. Other than that, we still avoid starches, carbs, sugar (we do eat small increments in things, but nothing major) and we feel much healthier. I confess that I have cheated a tiny bit over the holidays. Couldn’t reject my mom’s yummy cheesecake, so I had a small portion. And I shared a few gingerbread boys with my girls while at Disneyland. I have also had frozen yogurt a couples times, I just watch my portions and don’t do it often. I still want to live my life, I just want to be in control now. And I finally am!

Anyhow…this led to me to needing a good crustless quiche recipe for breakfast since we can’t have starch/carbs. I take my breakfast with me to my job everyday and I am very tired of my hardboiled egg and grapefruit combo. I am a creature of habit for sure but even I am sick of that same old meal now. I scoured the internet and finally found a recipe that seemed like something I would like. I made a bunch of changes since it was more of a casserole and didn’t say exactly what to use but it gave me a starting point. I decided I wanted ham steak, egg and a good cheese. I am a HUGE cheese fan. I chose a yummy aged gouda while on a trip to costco today and boy did I choose right!

Here is the crustless quiche making process photos and then recipe to follow.

Crustless Mini Breakfast Quiche

½ Kirkland Ham Steak

1.5 cup shredded aged Gouda

6 eggs

salt & pepper

2 tablespoons dijon mustard

heavy cream

Preaheat oven to 350 degrees.

Dice up ham steak into tiny cubes.

Shred aged gouda.

In large measuring bowl, add 6 eggs, 2 tablespoons dijon, a dash of salt (you can skip this if you want, since the ham and cheese are already salty, but I like me some salt) & fresh ground pepper, however much you like. Add the heavy cream til you get to the 3 cup line. Whisk together.

Spray muffin pan with canola spray, this is VERY important.

Put enough cheese to cover the bottom of each mini muffin. Add cubed ham til you get near the top, but still a bit below it. Pour your egg mixture over the cheese/ham contents til you get to the top. Add a sprinkle of cheese on top of each one. Gently poke each quiche with a toothpick to make sure the egg mixture has gone down into the entire thing.

Cook for 25-30 mins on 350. Turn oven to 450, move the muffin pan to the broil area and broil for about 1 min, watching closely to just slightly brown them. Remove from muffin tin immediately to avoid over cooking and allow them to cool on plate.

This made 3 full trays of 12 mini quiches, obviously 36 total. I packed them in sets of 3 in snack bags for breakfast. Kept enough out for a few days and froze the rest.

I hope you all enjoy this recipe as much as I have. It is SO good!

sweet little roenbrianne brose | san diego newborn photographer

Brianne Brose — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:36:44 +0000

I most definitely have a soft spot for teeny babies and this sweet guy was just perfectly little and so full of cuteness. He was such a good sleeper for me and honestly was a total joy to work with. Thank you for spending your day with me, it was great getting you know your new family of 3. I hope you adore these!

Is this not the most loveable little face or what?! hehe.

These two look way to good to have a 2 week old baby. I look worse 2 years after giving birth then they did at our session today. NOT fair.

my gorgeous friend & her babiesbrianne brose | san diego family photographer

Brianne Brose — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:50:05 +0000

I am so lucky to be able to watch these sweeties grow up. Looking back at all the images I have taken of them over the years literally makes me teary. And yup, their gorgeous mama is one of my closest friends and I am obviously equally lucky to be able to take pictures of her too. I love that this year was focused on her connection with her babies, there is no more special relationship on this earth, believe, I know. And I can see the love pouring out of these images. Even with a nightmarish migraine, I managed to still smile and enjoy my time with them, as always.

She couldn’t help but throw in the occasional cheerleading jump, LOL!

my big (little) kindergartnerbrianne brose | san diego child photographer

Brianne Brose — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:58:42 +0000

I can’t believe this time in our lives is already here. I can’t believe my first baby is now a kindergartner. It just seems almost unreal. She is growing too fast and has become such a beautiful big girl, no longer looking like a baby. I must use the term “big” loosely since she is by far the smallest kindergartner at school. I know it is normal to feel a bit sad when your child enters kindergarten but I also felt extremely proud. I was so proud of how well she did, being only 4 years old entering school and knowing what a wild child she is normally. I was so happy to see her doing so well and to see how excited she was to be there. This is just one of many exciting next steps to come in our lives. Here are a couple pictures from that special morning. She demanded she wear her Hello Kitty shirt with an apple, in honor of her first day of school.

It was still pretty much dark out and raining! You can see the streetlights are still on.

This is her buddy Alex from daycare, the son of our awesome daycare provider. We are so lucky to have Alex in Olivia’s kindergarten class, they are so excited.

and here they are on the bench outside of their classroom, waiting to go inside.

afternoon with hannahbrianne brose | san diego newborn photographer

Brianne Brose — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:21:27 +0000

Sweet baby girl from today…look at the adorable little swirl on the front of her hair in the 3rd image! I thought it was the cutest thing ever! I had a great time spending my afternoon with this adorable family, thanks for being awesome guys! Hope you enjoy these!

have to share one morebrianne brose | san diego family photographer

Brianne Brose — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:45:31 +0000

I can’t help it, I just had to come back and share one more from this session I am finishing up. I LOVE it. They are dressed perfectly, the lighting is just gorgeous and they are just the most adorable little family. I can’t stop editing more pictures for their gallery, eeeeeek!

fun with bikesbrianne brose | san diego child photographer

Brianne Brose — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:41:06 +0000

Ok, so Olivia finally has outgrown her 12 inch bike at nearly 5 years old…pretty sure those are made for 2-3 year olds, LOL! Anyhow, she is beyond super excited about her new Hello Kitty bike, which is her current obsession. She thinks she is pretty darn cool on her new big girl bike. Marlowe wanted in on the action too so she grabbed her ride-on toy and came along. Although she is not as willing of a subject, argh. Anyhow, here are a couple snapshots from this afternoon!

my 3 girlsbrianne brose | san diego child & kitty photographer

Brianne Brose — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:06:12 +0000

Aren’t they just the cutest?! I sure do love them.

pure family funbrianne brose | san diego child & family photographer

Brianne Brose — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:03:34 +0000

I had the best time hanging out with this super cute family yesterday. I am pretty convinced that mom and I must have been friends in a past life. We had so much in common and had a blast chatting about life as a mommy to girls! We most definitely like to keep them clean. HAHA! Little Addison was seriously precious, a total doll! She was so sweet and such a good girl for me! She had so much personality and was a blast to play with! We both love the movie Tangled!

Ok this last one cracks me up! The first shot is what was really going on, hahaha. Lots of running over to see me and show me her Tangled friends, then running back to mom & dad and I would try to snap as fast as I could once I got eye contact. Obviously it worked!