Mueller Park

Here is just a quick post from our little trip to Mueller Park. We only got a few shots off and then my battery died on my camera (nice planning).

Happy First Day of School

Here are some of our traditional "First Day of School" pictures. The pictures of them together weren't so great...maybe I can talk them into a do-over later! McKell wasn't so hip on getting up so early this morning (notice the "thumbs-up"). She is used to sleeping until at least 9:00 every day, so 6:00 comes pretty early! She is a little nervous about High School!

Landon was up and dressed when Ron and I got back from the gym at 6:30. He said he had been awake since 6:00. He just wanted to wear his new clothes and shoes! We had a fight last night because he wanted to wear jeans today (we are having record highs and there is no A/C in the school). He's my little Mr. GQ. And...can you tell he got a haircut last night?

Well...I hope you all had a happy First Day. The excitement drops off from here!

The Greatest Goalie

L's team lost their game Friday and their chance to get into the semi-finals. He was pretty bummed after the game. Good thing that the real season hasn't started yet and we can look forward to some more opportunities to win! Here are a few pictures of my favorite goalie.

Sparta Cup

L and J have been playing in the Sparta Cup this week. Here are a few pictures of their games this afternoon. Both teams lost today. L's team has one more game tomorrow. If they win, they move to the semi-finals. Cross your fingers! By the way...J is in white and L's team is the black team.

Seamless Paper

I bought a roll of seamless paper for a background yesterday. What does this mean? Nothing unless you are one of my kids and are forced to model for me while I try it out. The roll is 107 inches wide. What does this mean? Nothing unless you are my husband and have to move furniture out of the living room to make room for it. For me it means another excuse to pull out the camera!

Ok...here are some pictures from today's shoot. Lucky for M, she is at Lake Mead where it is 112-114 degrees. She gets a pass on today's shoot.

Toot!

This is what happens when I try to do a little "photo shoot" with L and M. Somehow it turned into a "toot shoot". The funny thing is...no one will admit who did it! I think we must have barking spiders!

Photography Field Trip

My photography class went on a field trip to the Great Salt Lake last night. Landon and Hannah came along as models. They work pretty cheap (a little ice cream after the shoot). It was 104 degrees out there and smelled really bad...not to mention the spiders crawling around EVERYTHING! We were afraid to lean on or sit on anything for fear of a hitchhiker jumping on! Even though Ron just had surgery on Friday, he tagged along too!

Here are a few pictures from last night...

More from the Farm

I tried to add more pictures to my last post and it wouldn't let me so here are some more in a second post...

Down on the Farm

We went to Idaho last weekend for our Family Reunion (I'll post that in a separate post). Here are a few of the pictures we took at the ranch. Good memories from there!



I swear this chicken kept posing for me! Can you say "Chicken Dance"?




Ha Ha...I think Ron and Jason really had a good time posing for Katie and me! They just pretended to not like it!


This is the famous barn. I hope it stays up a little while longer. I'll be sad to see it go someday.


I will post Reunion pics tomorrow or Friday. You all know that at 9:30, I turn into a pumpkin (at 10:30, I'm a real mess)!

Happy 4th of July!

Here are a few pictures from our day. Hope you had a great one!

Random Pictures

Here are a few random pictures from the past week. The first one is Father's Day at my parents house.



The second is Landon's cub scout group after an all day Scout camp. Don't they look like something you would want to spend an entire day with??? Ok...that's why they don't ask me to do Cub Scouts. I would have left some of them on the mountain!



The last ones are a few from Cody's basketball game at the U of U last night. They are a little too grainy for my liking. I'm still struggling with gym lighting.







We are heading to Boise to the Balloon Festival with Jason, Katie and Bailey so come back to see some pics from that!

The Pelican

Ron, Landon and I took a little trip to Bountiful Lake last Friday to kill some time. The past two times we have been there, there have been 5-6 pelicans floating around. So...this time, I took my camera down and there was one, lonely pelican hanging out. The one with the kids in the boat...I have no idea who they are. There was a scout troop having a camp out that night. I just liked the color of their canoe!