Warm Fuzzies

Seeing pictures of my family like these gives me warm fuzzies.

 My sister Sherry makes the best grandma

Blessed.

There's just too much man in this picture for me to process.

Looking Through Some Old Photos

Well, not "old" per se, just not new.

June 2011.
Lots of great things happened in June that I documented with my camera. It's times like these that I'm grateful for my camera-journal. I forgot half of this stuff even happened, let alone that they all happened in June!

• Family portraits of the Ploeger Family (not pictured below)
• Girls Camp (not pictured below)
• Company golf tournament (not pictured below)
• Katie and Eric's wedding (not really pictured below...just shots of the temple)
• 1-year birthday party at Rock Canyon park (for June, I think)
• A visit from the Vic & Mona fam (shots on the Heber Creeper)
• Haskin family campout (this technically happened in July, since it was for the 4th of July, but it's in my June pictures folder, so I'm keeping it on the list)

Salt Lake Temple

Salt Lake Temple...AT NIGHT

That's Jeff and Dan making it a team effort to roll down the hill. And if you want to see some seriously sweet hill-rolling daring, check out Jeff as he takes a head-first leap down the hill, Princess-Bride style!

I call this: Waiting For A Train That Will Never Come

But mainly that's because they were waiting for the "men" to finish buying the tickets, and because the train was on the other side of the station, so technically, it never would get to where they were.

Playing an intricate game of dirt bingo. The rules are top secret, so I'll only say that it involves shovels, two toy cars, and a banana. And I've already said too much.

This is a still from Look Who's Talking 3.

And if you believed that, wait till you see my still of Home Alone 5.

Summer, Family and Fun!

It's that time of year when family gets together for reunions and other stuff.  We have two family reunions in a row this summer, so we've already got family trickling in, even though they don't start until next week.  My brother and his daughter drove in from Chicago last night, and we spent the day hanging out with them.  I had my camera out (of course) so I took a few shots of us lounging in the living room after dinner.

Our house is hot right now because the A/C is a little wimpy, so most of us were in shorts and t-shirts, and spread out as much as we could be, except for Steen.  haha!  Unfortunately, Tina was upstairs on the phone when I took these, so she isn't represented in this series, but I'll make sure to catch her later.

I love my family!

Family, Food, and Fireworks!

Here are some shots from my day today. Minimal explanations needed.

My niece Becca got baptized today! This was taken at the family potluck at Sherry's house afterwards.

Apparently Paul can't look normal in any photograph, ever.  Chris is working on helping him with that. ;)

At dinner earlier this evening.  Unfortunately it's out of focus, but Dad did his usual dinner trick with balancing one fork off the knife another fork.

Sparkler parade!

Accidentally over exposed the photo, but I got a cool shot out of it!

365 Reject #1

365 Reject #2

First Month Down!

So last month I started a 3-6-5 Photo challenge where I have to take a picture every day for 365 in a row (click here to see my last entry about it).  I also have to write a little blurb about each photo, and post it on the blog I created for it.

Now that I've got one month under my belt with this photo challenge (yeehaw!), I'm getting a pretty good feel of what I'm doing.  Below are the pictures from last month which I posted on my other blog, along with my favorite shot from the month.  Enjoy!

Favorite shot for June:

Family & Weddings

My nephew Paul got married on Saturday. 

I didn't take many pictures of the wedding party because it felt rude piggy-backing on the hired photographer's gig.  So, mostly I walked around taking semi-candids of the family that was waiting for their turn to get in the real pictures.

I got some great shots...most of which will be in a later post. But for now, here are some of Paul's family (my sister's family)

While we were waiting for the happy couple to exit the temple, a few of us hung out on one of the lawns at temple square.  Those have to be my favorite shots, so of course I won't be sharing them until I've touched them up and branded them first.  Here are the few I've already fixed.

The family group of Dave and Ashlie above is a great sequence.  All I wanted was a close-up of the family, but baby Lauren didn't want to be there at that moment, and Dave was distracted with Lauren.  Hence, each shot I got of them had neither Dave nor Lauren looking at the camera.

Beautiful capture of a loving family though!

More to come...

Candid

So I'm starting my laptop up to download some pictures from my camera when Stine walks in from the bathroom and says, "I was thinking I could do two things at once, and then I realized...my hands are tied."

I looked up to see what she was talking about, and saw this:

HA!

That was a good one, Stine...

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