Paul and Amy Adopt

           So I found out through my face book account that a fellow sister that served in the same mission as I did  is trying to adopt with her husband.  I haven't seen her for years so it was really fun to see all the fun and exciting things that have happened within the past 10 years or so.  I can't believe all that these two have to offer and all the fun experiences they have been able to share together.  They are both lawyers and live in the San Francisco Bay area and are ready to start their family but due to a genetic disorder she has she is unable to conceive ever.  I think their story is really inspiring and think that they will make some seriously awesome parents to lucky kids in the future.  If you run across this and have a spare few minutes, please put a link on your blog or face book about it,  it only takes a second but could possibly have big effects for this sweet couple.  Good luck Paul and Amy!

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Paul and Amy Adopt

Love them both so much

Fall Pictures

She had the most beautiful hair, and such a cutie!

Not My Three Sons

These little guys were so fun to hang out with and crawl around their grandparents wood pile, I am loving the matching hoodies their mom bought them for the shoot!

Recent Session

This little girl was such a sweetie, the weather is getting cold here and luckily her mom brought a warm hat!

This kid cracks me up

Q-T

             This year we spent Thanksgiving down South in B-town and had a lot of fun hanging out with everyone, it's always a little crazy with all I think 24 of us together, but then there are also lots of great memories, late nights staying up laughing and telling stories and it's always good to reconnect and look forward to the next time we will see each other again.  We stayed in the bunkhouse with Heather, Charles, Michelle and Ben and little Andy.  It made me want a bunkhouse of my own, hopefully we can utilize it again in the future, Jon and Camie stayed with a friend in town and the rest were at Dave's parents, definitely nice having everyone spread out a little.  We all went for a hike on Saturday where we could see some ruins high up in the cliffs, there are so many cool hiking trails in the area and lots of ruins to see.  On the way there we had three cute little guys in the back of the truck and they were pretty happy to be along with Uncle Dave who is pretty much worshiped by any kid in the world.  We ended up bushwhacking our way during the first of it.  We lost the trail at one point and it was funny to watch Charles as he was crawling on his stomach with Andy on his back in the kid carrier through some bushes with Andy acting a little nervous.  Then we all sort of scrambled up a steep bank where we giggled when Jon and the other brothers helped everyone up which meant shoving and pulling whatever it took to get up.   I loved having three-year-old Morgann be my little side kick over and all the attention she gave me.  I managed to snap a few shots of my nephews and nieces while there.  Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas!

This little guy was so good as long as he had a sucker in his hand, no problem, just cropped it out.

October, 2010

The Weigts

I love this one with Little C being his active self and M-moo is looking so happy and content.  So I was going over all of their pictures from their session and I was getting a little emotional because I seriously love this family so much and think they are all such cool, fun people, I'm so lucky to have such a sweet sis!

So much concentration

I always laugh and imitate Dave whenever he's really focusing or concentrating on doing something and he sticks his tongue out, I think it probably started when he was Little C's age.

Little house on the corner

Little C

Just a Friday morning with Dave off on a Coyote contest hunt with friends in Bryce Canyon and no work today I am on the computer for the 20th hour this week I swear.  I am still trying to get my images to look as sharp as I can on screen and playing around a little, these shots were taken this summer.

Pretty in Pink

Fun photo session!

Sisters

The White Family

                I had so much fun doing a session with this awesome family.  Their backyard was perfect with lots of old farm equipment, old barns and fields to play around with.  The kids were seriously cool, sweet and all have possible future careers as models, here's a teaser with more to come soon.

Fun to do a photo session in my room I have a huge window that is way too big but for pictures pretty fun, had a good time trying to keep this one contained while I snapped a few, she was a real busy body and so patient with me, what a sweetie, fun to see her take notice as I recited the names of her brothers and sisters and listened to her say "dadadada."

Westwater Canyon on the Colorado, November 2010

               We went and rafted down Westwater this last weekend and lucked out with great weather, it was 70 degrees and blue skies with no wind.  Dave came home Friday after I had bought the food for the lunch, classic river wraps, and it was a hurry and put together another boat for Charles, throw everything in the truck and take off as soon as we could.  It was about 6 o'clock and we were going through Price when Charles called to tell us that his ride down from Ogden had forgot about him.  We ended up waiting at the Wal-Mart there in Price for a couple hours until he made his way down.  I read magazines while Dave had a lengthy conversation with his Mom on the phone all about Thanksgiving weekend.  Charles made the drive safely and we all piled into the truck and made it to the put in at midnight where Curt, Zach and Chris were all waiting up and helped us unload boats and boxes and set up our tent.  Everyone else made it there by the next morning and the 12 off us pushed off.  It turned out to be a great day not as many people were on the river compared to the same time last month.  We waited a few times for kayakers to get back into their boats after getting tossed out, stopped and had lunch then an hour and a half later of flat water rowing brought us to the take out.  The group was so fun and laid back and it definitely didn't feel like November down in the canyon, it was a beautiful fall day.
               Dave and I were talking about how nice it is to get away for the weekend and have a little adventure before heading back into another work week and how it is such a sanity saver.  Dave definitely needed it with his crazy work schedule lately.  This new job has kind of thrown him for a loop, well both of us actually, I think he has been working 80 hour weeks and most of it has been typing numbers into excel and doing fun things like making spreadsheets for presentations to oilfield companies and driving a ton of miles everyday out in "The Patch".  It was great to hang out with some old friends from Cedar City days and forget about work and worries for a day, which is always easy to day when you're floatin the riv.

Dusty, Chris and Lail

Jon

Roy

Charles and Trevor

Zach and Jon

Curt and Dave

       

Ryann

         So I am trying to figure out my photo editing software program and I can't tell you how completely frustrating it has been and at the same time really exciting.  I think I have started to figure out how to make my pics on the web look like they do in my program.  I have been disappointed at how they look on my blog, so here goes the first one.
         Tell me the truth does this one look more crisp and clear than the previous ones, if not I think I might go shoot myself, why am I so computer stupid?

Halloween 2010

I don't think my aunt Sheila is competitive at all : )

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

                  This is our annual Halloween party that my mom goes to a lot of time and effort to put together, thanks Mom for all your work!!  We had dinner, games, musical chairs, a fishing pond, decorating cookies and of course sloppy joes, potato salad, chips and root beer with dry ice, a classic family get together meal good for feeding large masses of people.  My mom even found some spooky straws to slurp it down with skeletons on them that all the kids loved.  I love it when we can all get together as a family and every time a new someone has been added to the mix.  My Uncle Lynn and his wife Janet just got their mission calls to the Dominican Republic.  This is him with the "large hat" on, I don't know how to spell it okay??  He usually likes to sit in the background, I think you will see him like this a lot as he watches his kids and grand kids and prepares to leave them for awhile while he serves people on what might as well be another planet, I am sure it is a sacrifice that will bring many blessings for everyone involved.  I really appreciate their example.
                You know how it's easy to take things for granted...I think it's really easy to take for granted that I get to live by my mom and dad, brothers and sisters, lots of aunts and uncles and cousins.  I think I have such an awesome family and extended family.  It has been a lot of fun to be able to see everyone more since we moved back  and fun to have opportunities to strengthen friendships whether through being able to work with my cousin in the OR, see my other cousins house in my sisters backyard when I visit and watch her children jump on their trampoline or run through the alfalfa field that separates the two and watch their kids play together just like we used to do.  I love that I can go hang out with my aunt because we both work at the hospital and plan our next bike ride together or early morning workout, or when my grandma calls to say she has her potato salad she wants to share then watching her take off in walking shoes to lap the pond on the golf course with a neighborhood friend, a nightly routine for both of them.  I also really love being able to spend time with my sister, she is so easy to be around and is such an awesome, cool, hip mom that I want to be like when I grow up and have kids too.  I'm glad we can hang out together whether we are DI'ing, decorating, reconfiguring furniture in a room or fun weekend trips to the city with mom and the kids, yea, I'm just feeling really happy today.