Mission Impossible Premiere

“The only rule is don’t be boring and dress cute wherever you go. 

Life is too short to blend in.” – Paris Hilton

Great Day For Capturing Light

"Everything around us, ourselves included, is in constant change. Photography is our means of capturing now - and to remember where we've come from." ~ Amanda Van

A Special Day

“If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.”

~Joseph Smith Jr. 

Welcome To The World! BFF!

"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life."

One Very Hard Day

"Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. 

The way you deal with it is what makes the difference."

~ Virginia Satir ~

We Know How To ParTay!

Sometimes it just feels good to 

Dress up,

Be silly,

Play games,

And embrace everything girly!

So . . .

Lets have a tea party!

Having A Personal Relationship With Christ Makes All The Difference In Everything.

"You are the work of God, and His work is wholly lovable and wholly loving.

This is how a man must think of himself in his heart, because this is what he is."

~ A Course In Miracles ~

13.1

My First Ogden 1/2 Marathon

I might not be fast, but

I'm lapping every one on the couch!

The Goal At Hand

"Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see farther."

End Of An Era

"If you live to be a hundred,

I want to be a hundred minus one day,

So I never have to live without you."

~ Winnie the Pooh ~

"What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matter compared to what lies within us."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Love That Hat! Love That Boy!

"Grab your coat, and get your HAT, leave your worry on the doorstep,

 Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street."

A Glimpse Of A Tulip's Soul

"Deep in their roots,

All flowers keep the light."

Live To Learn

It feels good when I finally capture an image that reflects time spent in class is paying off! 

Dressed In Pink

"Earth laughs in flowers."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Fun Little Tune

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."  ~Victor Hugo

Sea Of Blossoms

I came around the corner and it took my breath away. Pink blossoms streaming everywhere. Draping low to the ground and reaching up as high as the eye could see. All of them going off in their own directions. I went home and got my camera, came back and swam in the beautiful sea of blossoms with it.

Senate Banquet

Des is about to graduate!

Her brothers have some advice!

"Don't let any guy sweep you off your feet!"
~The Bro's

Happy Mother's Day Mom

"All I am, or hope to be... I owe to my angel mother!!!"

~Abraham Lincoln

Could I Have This Dance?

Frosty: "I just know if I look in her eyes, I'm going to melt!"

Senior Cotillion 2011

Spring Means New Life

"The day the Lord Created hope was probably the same day he created Spring."

~Bern Williams

And The Winner Is . . .

GOOSE!

"It is better to be lucky than good?"

"Shallow men believe in luck.
Strong men believe in cause and effect."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

She's First In The Line Up

A Birthday lunch with a granddaughter is about the best lunch there is. 

The food is delicious and the company is divine!

Love My K-Tot 

I Got A Thing For Men In Blue!

What's that saying? "Like father, like son!" His dad wore one, and now Man With A Drill wears one too. He'd wear it to his office if he could. The blue jump suit ...it's his way of defying fashion and it's high priced controlling grip on humans. He loves his jump suit. He even wears it to exercise in. I love the man in the jump suit! I've always had a thing for men in blue!

The Best Things In Life Go Zoom, Zoom!

It zooms by ---LIFE ---All the Good Stuff!

Make sure you enjoy the little things.

Cause one day you're going to turn around

And discover...

They are really the BIG things!

Family

"It's E V E R Y T H I N G!"

A DaffyDilly Of A Day

"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."

Utah

You know you live in Utah when you can wear snow boots

and flip flops on the same day!

Eden with her flip flops.

Anna in her snow boots. 

Both dressed appropriately for a crazy Utah spring day!

First Try At Homemade Chocolate Carmel Apples

"If at first you don't succeed... try, try again!"

(It tasted delicious, now to improve on

the look!)

Lucy In The Light

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. 

What you have caught on film is captured forever...

It remembers little things,

Long after you have forgotten everything."

Watcher In The Woods

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

To keep our faces toward change

And behave like free spirits

In the presence of fate

Is strength undefeatable."

~Helen Keller

Spring Clean Up

Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.  ~Chinese Proverb

Let The Fun Begin

Q: Why did the Easter egg hide?

A: He was a little chicken!

Q: What do you call ten rabbits marching backwards?

A: A receding hareline.

Q: Why did the magician have to cancel his show?

A: He'd just washed his hare and couldn't do a thing with it.

Q. What do Easter Bunny helpers get for making a basket?

A. Two points, just like anyone else on the team.

Q. What's invisible and smells like carrots?

A. The Ether Bunny

Q: What did the rabbit say to the carrot?

A: It's been nice gnawing at you.

Chalk Drawing Day

"A smile is a light in the window of the soul, indicating that the heart is at home."

Knowledge... You Can Take It All With You!

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

A Weatherful Day

"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, 

for going out, I found, was really going in."  

~John Muir

The Rain Came Down

And the floods rose up.

The rains came down

And the floods rose up.

And the house on the rock stood firm."

Pretty In Pink

"While there is perhaps a province

 in which the photograph can tell us nothing 

more than what we see with our own eyes, 

there is another 

in which it proves to us 

how little our eyes permit us to see."

~Dorothea Lange

The Intruder

I snapped the photo and had a look at the image.

Humf... an intruder!

I'm not the only one who loves the daffodils!

"Jingles, get out of my picture!"

"A pussy cat is a lion in the small bushes."

~Indian saying

Spring Is Making Her Debut

"If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom."  

~Terri Guillemets

The Heart Of A Child

Henry Beecher said, 

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, 

and forgot to put a soul into." 

I'm not sure,

But I think it's because he ran out.

See ...

My grandchildren took them all. 

The best one's anyway!

Just Give Him a Ball!

"Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.  ~Bob Lemon


By the way... take a look at who's name is on the mitt.
That's a very old mitt.
Notice how the mitt is not worn.
This is a tale-tale sign of how much this little girl loved baseball.
Quote.
"Mom, I use to stand out in the field and hope the ball didn't come to me!"
LOL!!!
Spencer ...you are your father's child!

Logan & Katie

"Life Is Art."

Ogden 1/2 ---One Month Away

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop 

to look fear in the face. You must do that which you think you cannot do."

~Eleanor roosevelt

Ode To A Tan

There was something sacred about that afternoon ---pagan, it's true but sacred.

The browner my skin turned, the more clearly I understood the sun truly is a thing to worship.

Even with eyes closed and face covered I could feel it sinking into my skin,

Infusing every cell as I drifted in and out of sleep, 

Clouds of sun-induced lethargy,

Head spinning with idle questions such as,

 What dress am I going to wear to Senior Cotillion?

And...

Why do boys have such big feet?

Sunny Sunburned Smiles

Goal ---Get a sunburn. Everyone who lives in Utah will be jealous. 

Men, Start Your Engines

"To finish first... You must first finish!"

The Pilot

Gavin has the heart of a small boy. 

He keeps it in a jar on his desk. 

I like it when he opens the lid and sets it free.

Sunny St. George ...well, most of the time.

"The family that plays together, stays together!"