back-to-back crazy weekends

     April and May have been (and will continue to be) just crazy...the weekends that is.  We have been trying to be better at going on dates on the rare weekends that we have time because alone time has been seriously cut back this semester due to Jeremy's school load.  (By the way summer, you're so welcome to come speedily so we can have the return of fun days with our husband/dad.)  Anyhow, this weekend Jeremy was the sweetest and planned a date completely by himself and totally just for me.  Remember how I just finished reading Jane Eyre again and wanted to see the latest version which was only going to be shown at a select few theatres in San Diego?  Well Jeremy got his mom to babysit, took me to TGI Fridays in La Jolla, and then we walked across the parking lot to the movie theatre there to see Jane Eyre!  I enjoyed it, he fell asleep for part of it, but sucked it up for the rest so I could do something I wanted.  Such a good time.  We don't have a picture from our date, but here is one from Kasey's wedding in February that I just got and love!

(gideon photography)

As a side note let me tell you about a sweet deal.  I was leaving a review for our wedding photographer (Abby's also, and taker of the beautiful picture above from Kasey's) for a chance to win a free family shoot with him, and the website I was leaving the review on gives you a free gift if you rate/review 5 wedding vendors that you used.  I found four more on their website that we had used, left some quick reviews, and got a free 20 page 9x7 hardcover book from lulu.com.  It took a few weeks to get my free book code, and their layouts aren't the cutest I've used or seen, but shipping was only $4.49 and the fonts they have are super cute.  If you're interested, go to weddingwire.com and start reviewing!

For good measure.

A few more pictures that I just love from the wedding shoot +1 other...sorry if you're sick of them!

This (head on the dirty asphalt) is how I accomplished...

...this!

One of my favorite pictures from the day...Beckett and Woody chillin' at the temple.

The first potty picture!  I know you can't see it, and he hasn't had any desire to do it again since, but it's in there!  (Don't mind his shaggy morning hair.)

Keith and Brooke

My cousin Keith got married on February 12th, 2011.  My mom and I had to step in and take the pictures last minute since the photographer backed out.  Here are my favorites that I took!

we're back...

After many downloads, re-installations, and getting old music from the family computer we have almost everything we were missing (minus a few pictures and Jeremy's school work from last semester - but he still has hard copies of everything).  I got a new lens and am loving it...thanks Melanie for the advice!

i like to take pictures

Some of my picture taking practice at Disneyland...

Reflections of Christ

Remeber this post?  Well Mark Mabry, who took the photos of the Easter Pageant in Mesa, AZ a few years back, went to Honduras and took some more amazing pictures.  I love it.  It makes me want to go and visit Jeremy's mission in Guatemala even more.  Like the first set, you can also purchase a dvd or book of the pictures from Deseret Book.  Enjoy.

Reflections of Christ

So while we were in Arizona last month we were able to go into the visitor's center at the temple and see this fine art photography exhibit of photos taken of the Easter Pageant actors by Mark Mabry. This one was Jeremy's favorite, but the rest were also amazing. You can view a slideshow of all the pictures here...Reflections of Christ. I love these so much!!! The actor this year definitely seemed to be the most accurate portrayal of Christ (according to my imagination) that I've ever seen.

Arizona

So this last weekend we drove down to Arizona to go to one of Jeremy's mission friends' weddings. It was a really awesome sealing...it's great how different each sealing is that we go to, I love it! We got to spend a lot of time with both of our relatives there. One of the coolest things we did was go to the capitol building and see all the war memorials there. Jeremy's grandpa served in Vietnam so he has a brick there with his name on it by the purple heart wall. The other really cool thing to see was the anchor and mast from the U.S.S. Arizona. We were able to see the ship when we went to Pearl Harbor a couple years ago, and it was really awesome to see the anchor and mast that were brought back to Arizona. I was really stoked to be able to use grandpa's sweet Nikon to take some pictures there. So all in all it was a nice trip, but it was hard to come back to a snowstorm after a nice weekend in the 80's.

It's official...

The blogging has begun! Also, in case anyone was wondering, it's blizzarding outside and has been for about six hours. Completely unrelated...I wish I had a nicer camera to take some rad pictures with. These are the best my elf will give me...