{12/20/17} Moments before getting my Port put in

{12/20/17} Sad face = (

{12/20/17} Post surgery with my lil bro 🙂

{12/25/17} Dad surprised me and shaved his head too!

{1/1/18} Happy New Year!

{1/4/18} Morning kisses are the best 🙂

{1/6/18} Palm Springs

{01/6/18} Palm Springs 📷🎞 shot on Hasselblad 500c/m with Fuji Pro 400H

{1/10/18} First shoot of 2018!

{1/10/18} Fun day shooting 🙂

{1/13/18} Taking a walk with papa

{1/13/18} Taking a walk with papa

{1/18/18} San Diego

{1/19/18} 2nd Chemo down! WOOT WOOT!

{1/21/18} When your friend is a Chef and brings you the most amazing lunch in the world (Thank you Erik!!!) SO DELICIOUS!

{1/24/18} Out and about

{1/25/18} Thank you so much for the care package Allie!

{1/25/18} Couldn’t resist trying on the blue wig! lol

{1/27/18} Sunrise Helicopter ride! Every sunrise is beautiful, but this one was SPECTACULAR! 😍 Last weekend’s helicopter ride was by far one of the coolest & most magical adventures I’ve ever been on ♥️🚁✨ (Thank you Vincent!!)

{1/28/18} His snuggles make me happy

{1/29/17} Thank you for the yummy butternut squash / carrot warm and fuzzy soup, Gaby! So delicious. It was so great to see you and catchup 🙂 Can’t wait to shoot again together!

{1/31/18} Congrats to ThreadBare for all the nominations! 🎥📺🎉 So honored to have been a part of this incredible series. I had such a fun time shooting it, and by fun I mean, it was hard to keep the camera as steady as possible from laughing sooo hard every single shoot day 😂♥️Mega shoutout to our boss babe director Natalie (Best Comedy series, Best Writing, Best Directing) oh yeah, and she was pregnant while filming the entire show 🙌🏻 We also got Best Cinematography 😉 Go team!

{2/02/18} Thank you Chelsea & Martin! So sweet receiving all these goodies for my 3rd chemo treatment. Those socks are everything 😉 And that coloring book is so fun! Incredibly grateful to Chelsea for taking good care of me during my chemo day. So much care & support. Love you guys!

{2/2/18} Chemo treatment #3! Love this coloring book Chelsea! So relaxing and fun 🙂

{2/02/18} Thank you Bliss! What a beautiful surprise this was 🙂 Can’t wait to use all these wonderful products and make my skin extra happy! This was so thoughtful!

{2/3/18} Post Chemo burrito

{2/04/18} Chef Erik drops off food and makes my tummy super happy again! Excuse my lack of proper food presentation, but the meals were exquisite. Had a fun time exchanging our crazy stories 😉

{2/05/18} Delicious Almond Milk! Thanks Erik for bringing it and introducing me to this brand from the Farmers Market. So silky yummy : )

{2/5/18} Mama giving me some facials and pampering me 😉

{2/06/18} Thank you so much Krista for the card and the bracelet! Happy tears from reading the sweetest card. This bracelet isn’t only beautiful and strengthening, but as soon as I put it on, I had the sudden urge to bump some Shakira and JLO and all I did was dance around in the best mood ever! No words just love and gratitude. Love you chica 🙂

{2/07/18} Shooting lifestyle ads in Venice for a Summer release.

{2/11/18} Photoshoot!

{2/11/18} Lunch with my girls! Wrapped our shoot early enough to grab some late lunch yummy Vegan food 🙂 Love you ladies! Eternally grateful to be able to work with such kickass, talented, fun, beauties. xoxo

{2/12/18} Spa day with mama!

{2/12/18} Yoga interrupted by Nico 😛

{2/13/18} Filming some promo work

{2/13/18} my #womancrusheveryday. Thank you Cat! ♥️ for the bracelet, for all the inspiration you’ve given me to keep on fighting, your thoughtfulness throughout all of this, and for the incredible friendship that keeps getting stronger. So grateful to have such a badass, caring friend in my life. Love you!

{2/16/18} Chemo Number 4! Woot!

{2/17/18} ASC Awards! What a special night 🙂 So great to see so many industry friends and all the incredible Cinematographers that continue to inspire us.

{2/17/18} ASC Awards! Thank you so much Jeff for the invitation! It was so great to see you. We had a blast! 🙂

{2/19/18} So great to finally catchup with these beauties!

{2/19/18} Thanks for stopping by Natalie and for bringing this deliciousness 🙂 It’s always so nice to catchup off set 😉

{2/20/18} Brunching with our mamas at The Inn of the Seventh Ray 🙂

{2/24/18} Cosmetics Campaign Photoshoot! In high school, we did small odd jobs and dreamed about one day working together on photoshoots when we were older. We would literally say: “dude, imagine how cool this would be?!” 😂 Here’s to that ten years later 📸😊 The Hammy & Pinti adventures continue!

{2/24/18} Cosmetics Campaign Photoshoot!

{3/2/18} Chemo #5!

{3/3/18} Nico takes good care of me 🙂

{3/4/18} Oscars party!

{3/8/18} My baby brother all grown up! 😭😭😭

{3/8/18} Date night at Yazawa Japanese Restaurant. Food was amazing! 🤤

{3/9/18} Our little family 🙂

{3/17/18} Gym time!

{3/18/18} Photo Shoot! 📷

{3/22/18} Shoot in San Francisco!

{3/23/18} Chemo No.6 !

{3/28/18} Dog Park with little Nico di Cannoli 🐶🐾

{3/29/18} Sunrise Kisses

{4/2/18} Walk in the park with little Nico

{4/4/18} Indie Series Awards! Got nominated for Best Cinematography 🙂

{4/4/18} Indie Series Awards! Got nominated for Best Cinematography 🙂

{4/6/18} Chemo #7!

{4/6/18} Chemo #7! Portrait taken by mama 🙂

{4/10/18} Photoshoot in desert!

{4/10/18} Photo shoot in desert!

{4/13/18} Studio Shoot with a group of awesome ladies + our feminist AF director Jon!

{4/15/18} Filming in New Mexico!

{4/23/18} A few days after completing Chemo N.8! Grateful for the challenges that have turned into growth ♥️📷photo by mama

{4/28/18} Martin and Chelsea’s Wedding! 👰🏼😍🤵🏼What an epic and beautiful ceremony. Congrats you two lovebirds!! We love you guys and we’re so excited for this new chapter in your lives ♥️ #dirtyRoemance

{4/28/18} Martin and Chelsea’s Wedding!

{4/28/18} Martin and Chelsea’s Wedding!

{4/29/18} LAWebFest Awards! Congrats to team ThreadBare and Natalie Smyka!

{5/4/18} Breakfast with parents!

{5/5/18} 10 year high school reunion! So great seeing everyone 🙂

{5/5/18} Exciting news! I’ve signed with Partos for my cinematography representation 😎🎥🎉 Looking forward to creating even more magical visuals together! This is only the beginning 🙂

{5/17/18} Huntington Library with papa. Few days after chemo Number 9!

{5/21/18} Shooting “Night Hawk” series

{5/22/18} Oncology checkup! Blood-work tests are great 🙂

{5/26/18} Chemo No.10! Woot!

{5/30/18} We’re engaged!! 💍 I don’t even know where to begin, my head is still in the clouds 😍 The sunset alone was one of the most breathtaking views I’ve ever seen. What I thought was a last minute helicopter fun add-on to our date night, was actually months of planning to make for this beautiful surprise. Thank you Vincent, Hannah, family & friends for being a part of such an incredible moment ♥️🙈Matt, i love you more than you could ever imagine. Feeling so incredibly lucky to be by your side forever 👫

{06/2/18} Elke & Justin’s Wedding 🙂

{6/8/18} Chemo No.11! One more left!! 🙂

{6/9/18} Homemade Cauliflower Soup, first day after chemo infusion.

{6/10/18) Feeling all types of happiness!

{6/13/18) Artist promo work! Such a fun day 🙂

{6/18/18) Can’t say much but wrapped a great commercial shoot and excited to share it soon! Had an excellent team on this one ♥️ David C Weldon Jr., Michael Solomon, Jihan Casquejo and the rest of our amazing crew. Thank you so much you guys. You guys killed it!

{6/20/18) Particularly excited for this shoot because we shot 16mm film, 120film black & white/ color, and digital! So many fun different formats 🙂 Got to play with my favorite muse Kimberly Leemans and my makeup/hair goddess Cynthia Angelina.

{6/22/18) Today is a very special day….. it’s my LAST CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENT! 😊🙏🏻

{7/6/18) 😊🎓Little brother graduates from Sheriff Academy!

{7/19/18) First job post chemo! Officially named the “S.S. Fio” 🤪🚢🎥 ___ And that’s a wrap on our film! 🎥🌴🌊 What an incredible experience this shoot has been. I’m really proud of what we shot and I really cannot wait for everyone to watch this episode. Sam, we did it! From under the sun to the pouring rain, above water to under water, from boats to mountain tops, our #beastmode adventures never stopped. Andrew, you absolutely killed it in every way possible and I seriously cannot thank you enough. Thank you Dirty Robber & Religion of Sports for this amazing opportunity and letting me be a part of such an unforgettable project ♥️

{7/23/18) 🎈2️⃣8️⃣🎉 It’s seriously going to be so difficult to top this birthday because there were so many things to celebrate. I got THE BEST special present this year… 🎁🎁🎁 Just a few weeks ago, my PET scan came back clear, there’s no signs of cancer and I’m officially in complete remission 🙏🏻 I know some of you have been asking after my last chemo, what’s next? and so I wanted to update you all ♥️ This means that I’m 100% back to my regular life before the diagnosis😊🙌🏻 Wheeeee! It’s been honestly one heck of a year for me. So many different feelings and emotions that I’m still processing everything. I don’t regret a single day since the diagnosis because it didn’t only change my life, it saved me. The “horrible” days made the “okay” days, the best…days…ever. And the amazing days? You can only imagine! 🤩 I learned the most important lesson of my life. Long post I know, but written with hope that it reaches the right person.. Last October, I was told I would be too sick to work, too weak of an immune system to be in large parties, airports, gyms. That I should forget about wanting to travel. I was told I would lose all my hair and have side effects from A-Z. Then have prescription medications for each one of those reactions. When I heard all of this, it devastated me and it completely crushed me. I felt like I was about to lose my identity and ability to enjoy life, and I hated the thought of putting my career on pause. Especially when I felt things were finally starting to kick off for me. I’m not gonna lie, I cried my eyeballs out. It affected me for a few days until I said “Alright, that’s enough”… I cleared my mind, shaved my head, and had a game-plan 👊🏻 During my chemo treatments, I’ve worked harder than I ever have before and it’s been, by far, the most fruitful year of my career yet. I’ve been healthier, going to the gym and having a more active lifestyle even since before the diagnosis. I’ve been enjoying life to the fullest, going to way more events and parties, lots of airports and travel. By the 2nd treatment, my 10 drug prescriptions were put away and I had no more use for them. My hair didn’t fall out, in fact, it grew back in the middle of my treatment (for those of you that know about my fasting, I will be sharing a post on that sometime soon) Even my hair that started to thin out and fall out was like “we got this!” and my hair eventually started to full on sprout back in action. I liked to think the few hairs I had left as little Spartans holding on for their dear life! 🏇🏻🛡🗡I laughed at myself and found a way to bring humor into all the ways chemo affected my body. My favorite quote by Carlos Castaneda is: “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.” 💪🏻 I didn’t let what was told was going to happen to me dictate my life. The paper that was handed to me that listed all my side effects was not a contract. Cancer was in the background and out of focus Life was in the foreground. I ignored everything and lived only day to day, making sure every day was better than the previous one. I took that seriously, like it was my job, to push myself and only focus on improving each day instead of thinking of the overall picture. I guess what im trying to say is, I didn’t let myself fall into a statistic. We’re not numbers, we are humans after all. Everything the oncologist had told me was based off of patient history numerical data. In a mathematical equation, you can also be an odd number and not the median. When I truly believed that it was possible, I felt like nothing could stop me. For anyone going through a tough situation, you will get through it. I promise ♥️🙏🏻 #hodgkinslymphoma #lymphoma #cancer #chemo #chemotherapy