...July Fun!...

Tyler and I have had a busy fun month! We wish we would have taken pictures on every event, but we are slackers in that department. Hard to picture I know.. me being a photographer and all.. :] Anyway, this is what we've been up to this month! (in no particular order...)

Enjoyed my first time riding a ski lift.. we did the Alpine Slide up at Park City Mtn Resort...

The view from the ski lift...

Saw the biggest dogs ever at a dog&cat boutique in Park City... they are called newfoundlands & this picture does not do it justice at all. They were 280 lbs & the size of a small horse. We snuck this picture because the owner charges $5 for a picture!

Enjoyed spending time with our family to celebrate Aaron & Tim's birthdays...

Laughed hard watching them stuff a whole cupcake in their mouth...

Loved sitting out on the porch enjoying the weather with all the family...

Enjoyed watching Emerie try new things.. sipping from her daddy's cup while trying to figure out what I was doing out of he corner of her eye!

Tyler & I got charactures drawn of us at Park City Mtn Resort.. they don't look a thing like us.. agree??

Tyler and I celebrated our 1st year anniversary.
Here we are eating a slice of our year old wedding cake :]

Toby got a scary haircut... my dad loves it.

I got to watch my husband win his annual work basketball tournament held at the huntsman center!

I enjoyed the American Idol concert with my Mom, Aunt & cousin!

I have seen quite a bit of this little munchkin... I got to babysit her while her mommy went to physical therapy.

Other things we enjoyed this month:

• seeing my best friend Laura & her baby Emma. We had not seen each other since November, they have been living in CA & they just barely moved to TX!
• spending a weekend in East Canyon with Tyler's extended family. We went swimming, and four wheeling, made smores around a campfire, and enjoyed each other's company.
• enjoyed having some time off from shooting weddings every week, even though I am still not caught up on editing.
• loved going to the Oquirrh Mtn Temple open house with the Gapinski's! Even though Carson was really smelly :]
• had a blast on the 4th of July going to the parade, having a BBQ & watching fireworks with the ones we love.
• spending lots of nights watching Micah play (& my dad coach) baseball on his allstar team. They made it to the championship in the state tournament.

Things to look forward to in the next few weeks:

• my Mom's birthday
• Porter's baby blessing
• a weekend in Idaho watching Dev play softball
• a whole week at girls camp & coming straight home to shoot a wedding (not looking forward to being without Tyler though)
• Roxi having puppies (cross your fingers.. yes we are 99% sure she is pregnant!)
• Finishing my studio.. wood flooring goes in tomorrow!
  

Our "family" photos 2009!

Tyler and I got some "family" photos done earlier this week by my great friend and mentor Dustin Izatt of Dustin Izatt Photography. Since we don't have kids yet (besides my yorkies of course) we decided to do an engagement style shoot. It was so much fun to hang out with Dustin & he did such an amazing job! We absolutely love them, even more than our REAL engagements we had done last year when we got married. You can see them larger & even more HERE

THANKS DUSTIN!! YOU'RE THE BEST!!

Father's Day

Father's Day weekend was great! Saturday we had our whole family together, it was a special treat to have Porter over for the first time! We all got to see Porter roll over from his tummy to his back! He is not even a month old yet!

Here is a picture of him and his cute mommy while we were all hanging out.

Emerie watching Porter, they are the first 2 grandbabies!My mom made homemade pizza for us to enjoy & it was just so great to see everybody and be together.

Sunday, we decided to go on a picnic to celebrate Father's day. We were wanting to go up in the mountains but it started to be really rainy and windy unfortunately so we just went to Nichols park near our house. It was still really fun & we enjoyed the intense hail storm as we were driving! It is always great to be with family, and I am very grateful that I have family so close.

I am also so grateful for my daddy. It was especially bittersweet this year to be grateful to have my dad here with us because of the scare he gave us all a month or so ago. We love him so much & we are so thankful for all he has taught us and will continue to teach us!

Porter Ray has arrived!!

We are so excited about the new arrival of my brother Aaron & sis-in-law Meghann's baby boy! His name is Porter Ray, and he came yesterday May 31st @ 1:59 PM. Meghann had to receive a C-section because the umbilical cord was too short! He weighed 6 lbs. 1 oz. & is 19 inches long. He is a tiny bundle of joy & we already love and adore him SO much! He is such a blessing in all of our lives & we are so excited that he is finally here!

Aaron & Meghann, we love you guys so much & we are so excited about this new little guy. We already have so much love for him & it will only grow. He is a choice spirit of our Heavenly Father & he couldn't have been born to better parents. What a tremendous blessing he is in all of our lives! We can't wait to see what life holds for your cute family, CONGRATULATIONS!!


This picture was taken when my little brother Micah was holding him just a couple hours after he was born!
Here's Tyler holding Porter earlier today!
He's opened his eyes a few times when I've been there visiting, he is so sweet.
Oh and he has red hair! I'm so happy :] Meghann has gorgeous red hair so I'm hoping Porter will keep his red hair to be like his Mommy!

Taylor Swift Concert!

We had been anticipating this night for months now & finally on Tuesday night we got to go see Taylor Swift in concert! I was so excited to get to spend the night with my sisters. We had fairly good seats we could see the stage really well but unfortunately my iPhone wouldn't do a good job of taking pictures of it so I had to resort to snapping pictures of the big screen. Oh well~ Taylor is such a doll, she is loads of fun & her concert was so entertaining! She surprised everyone by showing up in a random aisle and so tons of fans got to see her up close & hug her and stuff. She had a bunch of outfit changes, and at one part in the concert she came out wearing a Utah Jazz jersey which I thought was way cool! Our favorite part was probably the down pour of water at the end of her show on stage. It was so awesome! I had never seen it done before & she went beneath it and got DRENCHED! (picture below) I don't know many other female artists who would willingly get drenched in front of millions of people on stage! I love how Taylor's songs all reflect life as a teenager, and first loves, break ups, real life stuff. She is a great role model for teen girls & I think very highly of her! Hopefully she'll keep it up :]





We had such a great night!!

Memorial Day!

I honestly kinda forgot Memorial Day was coming up & I woke up Monday morning with the intent to go work out at the gym with Tyler like we do every Monday morning. But then I remembered how bad I had been craving a hike the day before but it was RAINY.. so we decided to hike up Adam's Canyon! I invited my siblings to come with Tyler and I but the only one who would was Micah! We were so glad he came along cuz it made it more fun that way. We invited Tyler's siblings as well but learned Braden was already up there with some friends. It had honestly been about 5 or 6 years since I had done this hike & it was when I was 80 pounds heavier in my teenage years with my friends (not a very fun experience for me) haha. So it was my goal to make it up the whole way without one single break. Well I must say it was a lot easier than I expected! And we even ran the whole way back down! We got our feet soaking wet crossing the water to see the waterfall & it was FREEZING! It was so much fun though, next time I'm going to take Roxi & see if she can make it, cuz I know she'd have so much fun!
We are planning another hike for this weekend up Waterfall Canyon in Ogden, which is an even bigger waterfall! I'm excited! Here is a picture of us at the top of the hike & I look like a complete idiot so don't judge me.. but Braden was taking the picture with Tyler's phone and he had no clue what he was doing so we were all wondering if he had taken it or what.. anyway we will post pictures from our next hike in about a week!After our hike, we had a picnic with my Dad, Devanee & cousin Jesse at Barnes Park.. even though we cheated and just picked up Subway it was still fun! Tyler had to go to work after so he didn't get to come along to see Confessions of a Shopoholic (pretty cute show). Then my older brothers and their wives came over for a BBQ, we had ribs & chicken, and homemade ice cream for dessert! They had to head home early cuz they are party poopers (jk you guys) so they didn't get to see an awesome movie, Taken!
It was a great day yesterday & I wish everyday could be that eventful!

Quite the Scare!

Saturday seemed like an ordinary day, I hosted a Mary Kay party at my house for my cute friend Cassie Peterson, I had a maternity shoot planned that evening.. and then I got a phone call from my Mom..
That morning my Dad was driving with Micah, my lil bro to their baseball practice & while turning left from a stop sign my Dad passed out and slouched over onto Micah. The car continued to go over the curb and onto someones lawn. Micah had to get my dads foot off the pedals & turned the wheel so the car could go back onto the street, he then forced the car into park. 30 seconds later my Dad woke up wondering what was going on.. being the stubborn person he is he didn't listen to Micah as he was told to not drive any further. They arrived at practice, but my Dad still didn't feel right. My Mom forced him to go with her to the instacare. When arriving there, they discovered their insurance wouldn't cover it, but the doc/nurse was kind enough to check his vitals, etc. and sent them on their way. It wasn't too long until my Dad was saying he didn't feel good/right & he then passed out again onto my Mom's shoulder. My Mom then took him to the ER. They hooked him up to all kinds of heart monitors & different machines trying to see anything out of the ordinary. My Dad then passed out a 3rd time for about 15 seconds. The doctor printed out a report from the heart monitor & then told them that my Dad's heart had actually stopped for 15 seconds...
He was admitted into the hospital for a series of more tests including a brain scan to insure no tumors, blood clots, etc. And an ecocardiogram (sp?) to see if his heart had any blockages of any kind. The tests came out normal and showed a healthy heart. This is when the doctor made the decision to put a pacemaker into his heart. This way if his heart stopped again, the pacemaker would act as a generator or backup & continue to beat his heart. He had the surgery on Sunday & is now home recovering..
We are so grateful that he is doing good and that it wasn't something different that couldn't be fixed. We don't know what we would ever do without him here with us, he is such an amazing man & such an example to us all. How thankful we are to our Heavenly Father for him and for his life. WE LOVE YOU DAD!