new blog...

ok so i'm abandoning this site for something with more "substance". new blog site is:

http://paintedtrees.wordpress.com

come see me there....

photography group

hey so as most of you know i've coordinated a little photography group within the ward (although i am open to anyone joining) and we had our first little outing on tuesday. here are some of my favorite shots of the day. we had a good time for sure. linda blazed a trail straight through some very tall grass despite the signs warning us of rattlesnakes. man i was super paranoid but she seemed fine about the whole thing.....crazy! not sure yet where we are going next week but i am sure it will be just as great. anyhow well enjoy the shots...

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swimming...

here's a few pics of the kids swimming.....couldn't get a picture of any of the bigger kids swimming - they don't seem to be still for more than a second...and i don't take the camera up to the pool much...i did get one of them out of the pool while we were getting ready to go though....



































































and sorry, yes, i was messing around with a blur tool tonight trying to master something new....finally i was able to do it all without having to redo it twelve times. i don't know why this one was so hard for me to get - oh well! sorry for the over-blurring!

special places..

so i had this awesome idea to drive around one day and take some way cool pictures of places that are very special to nate & i. this is the final 8 pictures that i chose. i had them printed and we put them up in our room as a mural -

i thought it was a pretty cool project....and i think it turned out pretty swell. what do you think..?

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some people say....

..we look alike.....ya think...? even avery couldn't tell herself apart from larkin in these pictures...















auntie lia do you have any pictures of larkin doing anything like this......?

...blah blah blah.....it's my birthday...blah blah....

so today i turn the big 31. ya ok so it's not a big number in terms of importance, but it's big in terms of numerical value. just yesterday one of my friends said, "31..? oh you're still a baby...." ok uhhh they aren't but 5 years older. but seems like a generation away in terms of music. ha ha. ok little dig there.

anyhow so yeah like i said blah blah blah it's my birthday. whoooopeee. i'm not sure it's going to be all that different than any other day in my life. my mother in law said to "pamper" myself today. and when i told nate that he said, "yeah you should".

funny. not sure why but i find that funny.

whatever. ok so happy birthday to me. avery keeps arguing with me that it's HER birthday. oh boy. she's in for a struggle since ethan's is in a few days and britton's is later this month. it's pretty cute though..

my favorite song.....

ha....i love this song!!! nate thinks i am a NERD for singing it around the house but i can't stop! i love this show!!!