In early October Doug, Clif, and Marc went to a Utes game while us girls were scrappin'.

He is such a cute little guy! Apparently he was picking up girls left and right! Can you blame them though he melts my heart every time I see his smile!

Last Chance BBQ!

Well, I have a little bit to catch up on. We haven't been good at keeping you all updated. Sorry!!! We're starting all the way back in September. We have some great friends and we all decided to have a BBQ since we felt that it might be the last of the season. We had a blast!


We had good food and the kids were all over the place laughing and having fun. Evy loved to sit and watch the kids play. We were with our very good friends Eloisa,Greg, Michelle, and Cory.




So sad that summers gone, but looking forward to the Holidays.

War is (Almost) Over

Hey everybody. I think all of you are on my mailing list, so you've probably already seen this. if not, sorry and send me you e-mail so i can make sure to add you.

This is a piece I put together for a photoshop contest. I had a lot of fun doing it and really sharpened my skills in the process.

Almost all of the destruction in the background was done with brushes or manipulation of what was already in the picture of the industrial plant. The sky was added using a picture I took for another project and the beach was just a random pic i had. The texture, rust, tearing, etc. on the "masked man" were a combination of overlayed pictures and brushes. since only a portion of his head was provided, I took a picture of myself to fill in the blanks, so that is me holding the ornament/bomb (really it was one of Evy's toys). Oh and the guy on the rock is wearing my shoes since his feet were cut off in the original picture.


They provided 7-8 stock pictures. We had to at least use one of them as a main focus of our entry. here are the four I used in there original state.

Evy standing with mama's help

I took this shot of Evinn while I was setting up for a portrait of some people in our ward. She is starting to stand up on her own and is getting close to balancing by herself. Although knowing her, she'll learn how to do it and then take 4 months to WANT to do it.

The Plentiful Gifts of Doug

Okay, so most of you know how amazing my husband is at, well just about every thing. He decides to try something and finds out that he's a natural. Of course when he is interested in something he immerses himself in it. Around the time Evy was born Doug decided to learn about photography. Of course he picked it up right away. He has been practicing and growing in his knowledge and ability. These pictures are just a few amazing photos out of his portfolio. I felt that it was my obligation as his wife to show off his great work! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

The three pictures here are photos that Doug compiled to present the image that you see. In the ally way picture Doug took 6 different photos and combined them. He also added in a few things like the light over the door and the light reflecting down from it. Its amazing to watch him put it all together. Its hard to understand just how much goes into it without seeing the process for yourself.



Doug has had great luck finding models that are willing to pose for an exchange of services. Although I think that they definitely get the better end of the bargain. The girl above is Danny. She has worked with Doug several different times and wants to continue working with him. She loves his photography and his ideas for photos. Its quite a compliment for Doug because Danny has worked with a lot of photographers and of all of them Doug is someone she continues to seek out.
Doug has done a few photos for family as well. Doug loves taking pictures of family and processing them.
As I said before these are just a few of Doug's pictures. He has had the great fortune to have a few paying jobs. He took photos for the local dance troop in town. He also took the photos for the Miss Tintic Pageant this last August. He has been fortunate enough to also have a few families contact him for family portraits. Its awesome to watch him progress and fall even further in love with what he is doing. I am so grateful for my hubby and all that he does for us as a family. I hope he truly knows how amazing he really is. I love you Doug!



For new posts of Evy just continue down. I've been up-dating a little fast so don't miss some great pictures further back. Hope you enjoy!

Let Them Eat Cake!

These pictures somehow got out of order and I didn't want to take the time to figure it out. We had a lot of babies close to the same age at Evinn's birthday party. It was awesome! These are most of the babies. Only Evy and Gen are missing. We had a great time! The twins are our next door neighbors. Their names are Ella and Ellie ( I think those are their names). The blond beauty is Lanea. Hiding in the back is Clair, Evinn's cousin. Sally was kind enough to sit with them all for a while. Looks like fun!
Yep she's really one! Can you believe it! What a great pose to get at her first birthday party!
On the 23rd we celebrated Evinn's 1st birthday! Her actual birthday is on the 21st but we needed a weekend so that we could celebrate with our friends! Now I know that she won't remember this party, but it was really about us as her parents celebrating the fact that she's with us and that we made it a whole year without someone dying or being taken out! :)

I think that Evy had a great time! I had to get this red crown it was too cute to pass up! She took her role as princes very seriously and made sure that she was heard! She loved the food and being outside with other kids!


Evy was lucky to get lots of presents! Of course she had no idea what to do with the wrapped presents. We had a few kids there help open the presents. They were only too wiling to help! In the picture above you can see two of the little helpers Aiden and Isabel! We were grateful for all of their help and excitement!
We were lucky to have so many of our friends and family there at the party! Several young toddlers and babies were there and it was nice to see them all enjoy themselves. When a new toy was opened and Evinn let go of the "old" toy the other babies were only to happy to give all the toys a try. The giraffe above was one of my favorite gifts to give Evy and yet she plays with it the least! Go figure, she already has a mind of her own.

We had to get her this puppet! She loves it and even now will say hi when she see it and will pick it up for a huge bear hug!
Then there was cake! Obviously the event that all were waiting for. Notice the clothes have been stripped! The table cleared! Now its time!

She wasn't so sure at first that she liked being covered in frosting. She kept flinging her hands trying to make the frosting come off. It was great to watch her! She decided that it wasn't so bad after a while though.

Even her foot was in on the action! At one point she put her entire leg on top of the cake!

She was covered in frosting from head to toe! It was great!
After she decided she was done we wrapped her in a plastic table cloth and Sally and her sister in-law Steph were kind enough to take her home and clean her up while we cleaned up the rest of the party.
All in all I think the party was a hit. We loved watching Evinn experience new things. Thank you everyone who came and celebrated with us. We are so blessed to have close family and great friends! Now we can look forward too next year! Although I try not to think of it too much!

Memories

I saw this great idea on my friends blog and decided that I wanted to try it.
The way it works is:
1: you write in the comments a memory that you have with me or with Doug. It can be anything that we may have experienced together or something that you remember about us from the past.
2:If you like the idea you can copy the instructions on your blog and see what people remember about you.

Hope you all participate. I'm excited to read what all you remember about me and Dougie! Fun blogging.