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so..does anyone still read this thing?

I know I have been very neglectful of ye olde blog. And I wish I had some great excuse. Like, maybe, I was on an African safari and was captured by an aborigine named Nyack and forced to wear large bones as earrings and a plate in my lip and talk the click-y language and I barely escaped within an inch of my life.

OR maybe that I was on a peace mission in Bolivia where I was building orphanages and digging wells for the villagers and I just fell so in love with the people and the land and decided to renounce my American ways and live the simple life in a hut.

OR OR maybe the CIA recruited me for a top-secret job and I had to leave in the dead of night without telling my friends or family goodbye and move to a small town in Alaska where I wore lots of fur coats and hunted baby seals as my daily source of nourishment.

Unfortunately, the truth is simply I have become lazy and couldn't think of anything interesting to write. Which is unfortunate, cuz lots of fun things have happened in my life as of late.

-Went on a little trip with Mom, Drew's girlfriend and her mom out to Missouri to watch Drew graduate from Army Combat Engineer training. (this trip was not so much of the "fun", as "makes you really appreciate home and the less-crazy people you normally spend your time with")

-Jason and I spend Easter weekend with his parents in St. George. Went on a shopping trip to Las Vegas where I was introduced to the World of Trader Joes. I may never be the same again. Mostly because they have the birdseed cookies that I love so much and have only been able to find in Germany.

-Spent a fabulous, fun-filled week in Las Vegas with Sam, Amy, and Kelly at WPPI. We had a blast learning and meeting photographers from all over the country. (including [b]ecker, Jesh De Rox, and Jessica Claire. While this may not be significant to many of you, we were quite star-struck. good times!)

-Had a couple FUN bridal sessions with some gorgeous brides. Check out my Photog Blog for updates.

so..all in all its been a fun couple of weeks. Lots of coming and going, lots of long car rides, lots of family and new friends. Now I'm ready to sit back and enjoy the beautiful spring weather. (er..except for the 3 inches of snow we got today. figures.)

.freezing.

Can you say COLD? We had 2 engagements shoots on Wednesday. The first in park city, and the second in Provo.
Park city's high for the day was 13, but it hovered right around 8 while we were there. Poor Annalee and Buck, they were such good sports! Sam has one posted so far, check it out! Their photos turned out awesome!

Eddie & Nichole came and played around at the farm with us. Poor Nichole stepped through ice into 6" of water wearing stilettos...and then had to walk around in the snow! They were also quite the troopers. Here is one of theirs...it's more of an artsy photo than a real engagement one, but I like it nonetheless. They also have tons of fun/cute ones to choose from!



check back soon on our photo blog for more engagement fun.

In other news, I have potentially something very exciting in the works. Exciting for me, anyway. And it would be sort of exciting for you if you live in Utah County. I don't want to jinx myself just yet....but keep your eyes out at your local Fire House Car Wash and I'll keep you updated!

Wedding-ness

Entering a contest where I have to come up with a "fun, interesting, new or creative way to photograph wedding rings."

This is take 1. I have some other ideas bouncing around my head, so stay tuned for that. Maybe you can help me decide on which one to enter.

(Not from a real wedding. Those are mine and Jasons rings. HOWEVER, I have 3...count em...3 weddings to shoot coming up soon. WOOT!)

My Fruit Will Go On....

My little brother (Kam) is learning about the Titanic at school right now. He came home the other day, and was telling me and my dad all about the movie.

Kam: ...and then Rose and Jack were in the water, and Rose was laying on a board but there was no room for Jack so he was floating in the water and they were just holding hands, but then it got too cold and Jack died so Rose had to push him off the board and he floated down into the ocean and he was dead and THEN Rose got rescued and she went to New York and she was standing there and she reached into her pocket....and she still had the necklace! And it was ONE HUNDRED BANANAS!

Blink. Blink.

Dad: One hundred bananas?

Kam: Yep!

Dad: Um. Do you mean 100 carats?

Kam: Oh, ya. Thats What I meant. I knew it was a fruit or vegetable, I just couldn't remember which one.

I think he felt bad that we laughed so hard.

Not only can I photograph your baby....

FINALLY something to blog about!!! This morning started out SO cool. Normally I would be less than thrilled about being jarred awake at 5 am after not going to sleep until 2 am...but today, it was all totally worth it.

I woke up to my ambulance pager going off for a pregnant female, possibly in labor. Since I wasn't on duty I turned my pager down and rolled back over, per usual. Then they updated the page and said the baby was definitely coming, and the address was in my complex, just around the corner from me. Me and Jas jumped up and got dressed (if there ever was a world-record for speed-dressing, I'm sure we broke it) and jumped in the car.
As we ran into the house, I had time to get one glove half-way on before I was delivering the baby!!! Her little head was about halfway out, and with a push or two more, she was born right there in Mom's bed.

It was the coolest thing ever!! She was a cute little baby girl, 8 pounds. (I'm not sure how long she was.)

It's kinda funny...I was just saying a few days ago that I would love to be able to deliver a baby sometime beforeI quit the ambulance. Not that I plan on that happening anytime soon, but who knows how life goes!!
It was really one of the neatest, most exciting calls I have ever been on! and although they didn't name the baby after me (it always happened on Rescue 911!) I was so excited to be able to help bring that little baby into the world.

We are going to visit them in the hospital tomorrow, so hopefully I can get a couple pics...stay tuned!

In other news, check out http://www.everylittlemomentphoto.blogspot.com (our other blog...don't know why the hyperlink won't work)...for some pictures of the cutest little girl from our latest session.

I have been a blog slacker lately. This is do in part to 2 things:

1. I don't have much interesting going on in my life. Nothing blog-worthy anyway.

2. I have been suffering from a cold which might be the death of me. Last week I was sitting there feeling perfect, when I suddenly sneezed. An everyday sneeze. Suddenly I was sick, and the next 24 hours I went through multiple tissue boxes, sneezed more times than I have up to this point in my life combined, and had one red little nose.

Over the past few days I have been feeling on and off better. Until tonight, when the cold decided to leave my head and take up permanent residence in my chest. And my neck is sore. And my throat hurts. And I am sitting at work right now.

Merrhgh.

I'll be back when I'm feeling better.

Jas and I are off to Vegas for the weekend for a little BYU/UNLV football action. In the meantime, please enjoy a few photos from some recent photo sessions...

In honor of my little brother Drew, who will be leaving Monday for the military. Around February he will become a full-time Marine. We are all very proud of him, of course, but it is definitely a scary though given our Country's current situation.



These guys were so much fun to work with. Lots of joking and laughing, and Grandma and Grandpa were a crack up!


These guys adopted Landon a couple months ago and were just sealed as a family.



This family was SO much fun to photograph. Their kids were all so photogenic and posed so well. Aren't they adorable?










Fun shoot up AF canyon with a mom and Son