I am a born and raised San Diego native and I LOVE being able to call Southern California my home!

Being a close enough drive to the beach, mountains, forest, and desert is such a blessing that I will be forever grateful for.

Someone once told me that I am sunshine in human form and honestly, I blame it all on my roots.

For my fellow San Diegans, I grew up in La Mesa and went to Helix High School.

I’m a part-time Behavioral Therapist for kids with Autism.

What was supposed to be a volunteer opportunity turned into a (super) part-time job and it has filled my life with so much joy this last year!

I had no idea how much I would love working with kiddos and feel like it has made me so much more of a patient person.

It has also helped me SO much with photographing little ones.

My mom actually surprisingly set me up with my now husband!

Connor and my mom used to work together at a little Italian Deli at the top of the hill from my childhood home.

She would talk about him all the time to me, but I was very uninterested (my mom is a little crazy)… She did the same thing with him and he also said no because, again, she’s a little crazy.

But then he found out I went to high school with his best friends and allegedly heard good things about me, so he slid into the IG DM’s. Yep, that’s right, so Gen Z of us.

I ignored it for a week because I had no idea who he was, but then finally decided to respond. We met up and had lunch at the little deli and have been inseparable ever since! My 18-year-old self would have never believed it, but here we are.

I am grateful to my mom for finding me the love of my life, she’s still a little crazy though lol!

Oh, and if you want a bomb.com sandwich, check out BMH Italian Deli! It’s where my love story all began ;)