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.

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...

Family Pizza Night: May Edition

We had pizza night at RoseAnne's house this month, and it was so much fun!  Even though my voice isn't back yet from my illness, I still had fun trying to talk over the pleasant cacophony of the family visiting with one another.  It was potluck, so we all tried to bring something to the dinner.

I brought my car.

Not edible, I know, but then again...I live with Grandma, and she needed a ride, and she brought half the food...so really, my car was quite invaluable.  The food was great, the company even better...and the kids...

Well, we all know I'm a sucker for babies.  They can wrap me around their tiny little pinkies with just one look.  Check out theses gems of my great-niece, Esther.  I SWEAR she was absolutely POSING for these shots.  She would make the faces a split second before the camera clicked, and then demand that I show her how it turned out on the LCD screen!

She's two, by the way.

Back to the Good Stuff

I know my last few posts have been slightly meaningless and mostly about A.D.D., but that's mainly because that's how I've been feeling lately.  But I'm ready to snap out of it, so to start myself off I thought I'd share some cute pics of my friend's adorable little boy.

I got to hang out with my childhood friend, Sarah, on Saturday last week and we had so much fun hanging out!  We hit Tepanyaki's, then parked it at Old Navy for a while to do a little shopping for the kids.  After that, we went for pedicures!  A totally unexpected and awesome treat for me!

While we were at Old Navy, Sarah's little boy was being so cute that I had to get a few shots of him and the hats he kept trying on:

I think the fedora is my favorite.  What a stud!

I love the sequence when Sarah dropped the hat on his head!  The cutest shocked face I've ever seen!

Kids are just so fun!  Especially to take pictures of.
Thanks Sarah, for an awesome girls night out!

Easter

I didn't really "celebrate" Easter this year...at least not in the sense of the Easter Bunny.

But my brother and his family did come over to watch conference with us and dye a few Easter eggs.  Of course, I forgot to get a single shot of the cool eggs we colored, but I did get these awesome shots of my niece after she rubbed easter egg all over her face:

Priceless.

My Christmas

Sadly, I hurt my back on Christmas morning, so I took a sparse amount of pictures during my 10-day break.  Still, there's something to be said of minimalistic photography...

I may not have taken many, but I got a few good ones (when they weren't blurry):

Us on Christmas morning eating our huge breakfast before opening presents! (BEFORE I hurt my back)

Baby Lauren's first exposure to Christmas Crackers (her parents' as well, I believe).

I love babies in big hats...and they usually like them too!

My brother James and his family came to visit the week after Christmas, and his youngest son was a crack-up.  Here's one of my favorite shots of William watching The Iron Giant for the first time...CLASSIC!

I never got any good shots of James and Rachel, or many of their kids, but this one of James makes me laugh (and actually, Christine took it):