Nat and Breann

Nat and Breann are Getting married. Cant Wait for Breann to join our family.

Scott Twins

My Nieces are just Awesome gals.

Johnson Family

This Group of Kids were great to work with. They wanted to get their mother a gift for Christmas that she would love.

Lopes Family Christmas Photos

Vivi Lopes has grown so much since I took her new born pictures.

Finally I got my "I'm a Mormon" Profile to work :)

After about 3 weeks of trying to get my "I'm a Mormon" web profile to be published... It is not up :) Click below to see

Ginny's 1st totally Solo Photo shoot

I volunteered to be Ginny's Subject for her 1st totally solo photo shoot. I have been taking her on shoots with me for years and decided about 6 months ago that it was time for her to try. I have gone with her on a few shoots to help and advise her. But this time she was all on her own. I was not going to help at all. I think she did great and I loved the photos.

A Little Birdie

Went to help my Brother in Law Steve at the shop today to start taking apart a truck. He got the truck to use some of the parts on an old truck and Jeep he is rebuilding. the rest of the parts he is going to sell. But as we worked a little bird came by and just wanted to hang out and watch. I hope the little bird found he way back to his home.

Oktoberfest Again

Lisa, Ginny, Kevin and I went to Oktoberfest. We had fun but I think we are all getting old because by 9pm we were all ready to go home to bed.

My 1st Oyster

Lisa and I went out to lunch today and I tried my frist oyster. I was ok I guess.... but I do not think I will ever have a second. :)

You just don't mess with a mother protecting her child...

This was passed to me in an email and I had to share! Loved it

Squirrel and Dog

Can you imagine being the photographer who caught this?

Lab has baby squirrel pinned down...

and Mother sees it from above!
Mom takes action! God gets it from Mom and baby gets away!

Mother consoles baby ...

Look at the dog's face. He has to be thinking...

"What the heck just happened???

I just got my butt kicked by a squirrel!!!"

Some of my New Fav Photographers in AZ

These guys are great! I love their work and they are super fun!

Back to school

Twas the night before school started, when all through the town, the parents were cheering... it was a riotous sound!

By 8, kids were washed and tucked into bed... wherememories of homework filled them with dread! New pencils, new folders, new notebooks too! New teachers, new friends... Their anxiety grew!

The parents just giggles when they learned of this fright - and shouted upstairs: "Go to bed, it's a school night"

I hope the Twins, Griffin and Little Heather have a great school year!

CALLING ALL COOKS; A NEW RECIPE

CALLING ALL COOKS; A NEW RECIPE

Red-Neck Turtle Burgers
Here's a new twist on burgers and if you don't cook,
give this recipe to someone that does and request them.

Handmade ground beef patties, topped with sharp cheddar cheese, wrapped in a bacon weave, then the next step, add hotdogs as the heads, legs with slits for toes and tail.
Next step. Place on an oven rack, covered loosely with foil and baked for 20-30 minutes at 400 degrees.
A little crispy, not too crunchy...just how a turtle should be, no?

Portrait Professional Version 10

I love love love this program! This is a snapshot I took while at work,,, nothing speacial until I ran it in Protrait Proefessional. Everything done to the photo was done in this program... Now Anyone can have good Pictures! Go get it... you are going to love it.

Here in another photo that I did in this program.

Movie and a Scorpion

Today was so funny… I came home and the twins have really gotten into making wooden dolls. They made dolls to act out scenes from Tangled. Well while Twins were acting out scenes with the dolls and video taping it... Jeanelle starts to scream… Scorpion... Scorpion. Yeah one was walking straight for her. Then next in the video you seemy Sister Heather's hand take a shoe and start beating the ground. Then Jeanelle picks up the video camera and without missing a beat she tell the camera… Now back to our regular scheduled program.
Later Heather told me she was keeping the dead scorpion so she can make a necklace out of it. She is so weird. Lol

2 Week old Vivi

The day after I took my friend Melissa's Picture she had her baby. 2 weeks later (today) I am taking pictures of little Baby Vivianni Lopes. :)

FHE and Little Victories

Mom and Dad came over for FHE. Griff and the twins swam in the pool. Amilynne is staying at here sisters house while Jake is out of town for training. Dad seems to have a little more energy. He has started to use his walker again. Mom told me that he stayed awake the whole time at church. He was very proud of himself.

Mesa Verde Indian Ruins in Colorado

Today we went to the Mesa Verde Indian Ruins National Park. We loved it! But it was an unplanned trip. The Lady at the hotel just told us about it and said we should go. So we did… But none of us were prepared. We Hiked all day in flip flips, Shorts, and no sun screen. But it was fun anyway. At one point I was so busy trying to take a picture I did not notice a snake by my feet. I almost stepped on it. That would have been Fun. After that we saw a lot of snakes. But we also saw Wild horses… which were beautiful. We Left CO around 5 pm for our drive back home. On the way home I was so sick from being over heated due to sunburn I thought I was going to up-chuck. But I didn’t and we got home safely around 12:30am

4 Corners

The day started off late. We went to Steve’s job site to do the 2nd punch list. He thought it would take only 2 hours but of course it took over 4 hours. But I have to say for as long as it took the twins were really good. We walked around taking pictures and they made videos of their favorite parts of the movie Tangled. I think I have had to watch that movie about 2000 times and then they insist on acting parts out. I am starting to think unkindly towards that movie. Lol

By the Take we got to the four corners we only had about 30 min in the park… This was plenty of time. They only have the flags set up and in the middle of the flags is the spot where the four corners meet. Other than that the only thing to do is shop at the little booths of Indian items. Boring.

From there we went to Cortez CO where there was a rodeo. We were a little scared that we were not going to get a hotel room. But we did and it was an awesome hotel. I shared a bed with Jeanelle again and this time I woke up to her grabbing my nose and mouth really hard. I slapped her hand and told her to stop. She looked and me and just laid back down. She does not remember any of this. She was totally sleeping the whole time. Lol

Off we Go

Today when I got off work I went straight home to pack for our trip to Ganado and then to the Four corners. We found a Hotel near Ganado. I shared a bed with Jeanelle… Man that kid is a bed hog. I seriously had to push her over to get off me. lol