Friday, August 26, 2011

Bye Brian!

Brian started school last week and boy is he busy! He will be working full time, going to school full time, he is the Young Men's president in our ward, AND he will be spending time with his overly needy wife at home : )


What a dork : )

Bye Brian! See you in 5 months : (

On a completely unrelated note! Brian and I are training for Ragnar!


We're doing it with some of my cousins and my aunt who are all so funny and so fun to be around, and some good friends in our ward Jesse and Alyssa Hunt! Its a relay race that ends up being 13 miles for me and 14 miles for Brian. You run it in different legs and end up running through the night under the stars and the best part is that it goes through San Francisco and Napa Valley and it will be gorgeous! I've always admired people that are all healthy and in shape and do marathons and what-not so I'm giving it a shot! The only small problem is that I'm neither healthy nor in shape....

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Life In Autofocus

So as you all probably know, I've been working on a new hobby for awhile now. Photography has become my passion and seirously all I can think about. Driving around town I don't see the scenery anymore I see opportunities for backdrops and cool poses that I can do there. When Brian starts talking about motorcycles, I start thinking about where I'm going to do my next photoshoot. (Before you all gasp in horror at the thought that I admittedly don't always listen to my husband, take solace in the fact that when I start rambling about apertures and ISO's, he is almost certainly thinking about motorcycles) So as a result of my constant need to "fit the world into a picture frame" (that quote is all John Mayer, I am not nearly as poetic) I've accumulated a lot of pictures that I am just dying to share with the world! So I started a blog. It's called


and its a small portfolio of all my pictures, plus some little posts about my thoughts on photography (hopefully its not as boring as that sounds :) So check it out! And if you like it, click the small "Follow" button at the bottom of the page and feel free to leave comments!

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Jackson's New Obsession

This is Jackson's new obsession: Hats. Besides reading books, Jackson's favorite hobby is to run up to us holding a hat, begging us to put it on him. Once we do he smiles and runs away, only to return a few minutes later holding his hat and wanting us to put it on him again. Yes, our cute little boy loves hats. Whether it be......

His pirate hat,


Mom's girly Volcom hat,


or her Breast Cancer Awareness hat she runs in, he wants to wear it.


Now we just have the small problem of getting him to stop pulling it over his eyes while running around....... Got to watch that boy like a hawk.

Monday, August 1, 2011

The Lake : )

Here are some of the wild adventures we had at the lake : )

Alfredo


Jana


Jake


Brian


Brane


Austin


And I don't know why Brian's won't automatically play (because its vertical??) But click on the picture if you want to see Brian's awesome pose in this one : )


I apologize for the horrible, horrible quality of these pictures. More still pictures to come : )