This is for my mom and anyone else who cares....

My final project for photography had to be three pictures taken that represented some sort of narrative, either song lyrics, a favorite story, a scene from a movie, memory etc. The first thing that popped in my head was to this song: The Pina Colada Song (click to listen to it).

The first picture is Daniel reading the paper and noticing the personal column. I was going for a serious look on his face and a dark cloudy sky to set the mood. Also the dead flowers are kinda symbolic through the whole story and represent the love. I focused on Daniel because I wanted the story being told through his perspective and wanting him interacting with the camera sort of as his "confessional" type thing.The second is when they meet up. I wanted Daniels face to look a little shocked, but mostly happy and relieved that it ended up being me "his wife". This picture was tricky. I couldn't get the picture to work very well with the remote so I took a picture of Daniel and then photoshopped myself in, blurred to match the background and added a shadow for myself. Also notice the daffodils again.

And finally, the happy ending. This one was done with the camera's remote. Once again there is the daffodil.

Just some more random pictures from our Easter weekend. Keep scrolling down to see the 2 other Easter posts.


Over the past month or 2, Chase has finally learned what the whole jumping thing is about. He has been using his crib and our bed as a trampoline, and was thrilled this weekend when he got to use the real trampoline.



We got one of the bunnies out and caged it in with our kids please don't call child protective services... Chase kept following that bunny around trying to grab it, and when he couldn't catch it, this is what happened:

Each year we switch which family we spend Easter with, and we always know that no matter where we go, we will have a fun filled day in the great outdoors.... and sand is usually involved. This year was in Moab. We went out and rode motorcylces and 4-wheelers.




We pretty much weren't parents for the day. Daniel and I were each on our own motorcylce (really really big ones) and there was no way either of us were going to take Chase with us, Picture taken by my mom
I told you really really big. That's my bike in the front there. So Chase rode on the 4-wheeler.... and then my mom carried him.... and then he rode in the truck behind everyone. I think he loved every second of it!

I can't help but laugh when I see this picture, so it had to go up.





The whole gang... This was at the "cowboy caves". We ended up running into the whole jeep safari... ooops.


Picture taken by my mom


Our only family picture for the weekend... in the "cowboy caves".

Easter break...

We had a great Easter. Hope you did too!



Chase was all about dunking the eggs. I was frantically trying to get a new dye ready before he threw the egg in. (Notice how I didn't make it in time for the red cup.)

You should watch this!

There are times when I really wish that I had the talent of writing better, and right now is one of those times. Please excuse my horrible way of putting the words together and look for the important message in them.

I am so proud of my dad- he's doing what many of us don't do- standing up for what he believes in. My dad loves the outdoors and in particular motorcycles. He loves taking us (his family) out riding to places that a lot of people never get to see and we love to go.

It is so unfortunate that there are people out there who want to see the land closed to people who just want to enjoy and experience the beautiful land that God created for us. There are many places that my dad has taken us in the past that have been closed down and now Daniel and I will not be able to share those places with our kids.

My dad is part of a group called Ride with Respect- that focuses on working to keep the lands open by maintaining trails and informing people. They understand that if we abuse the land by going off trails and destroying the land, that it will be closed for all of us, and they work to make sure others understand that as well. They stand for respecting the land while still using it.

My dad and a couple of his friends have worked hard for 6 months to make this breakthrough. They stood up for what they believed and caught Governor Huntsman's attention, so much that he came to Moab and went riding with my dad and friends.

Watch this movie to see how it went. My dad is the one wearing the American flag hat in his interview section.

HERE is the link

http://www.atyourleisure.info/episodes.asp?season=7&episode=32&category=2

Playing at the park

After hiking Dixie rock we met up with Jill, Aiden, Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Drew at a park near Jill's house.

We played to our hearts content as you'll see in the pictures to follow.And then there was a nap after the Cafe Rio lunch for the others, while he hit up In-N-Out burger with Teresa and family.



This picture is about as bad as they come on my part, and although I wanted to throw it away, I thought the look on Chase and Grandmas face was too priceless. I think they both are thinking that they are going to fly out of that slide :)

Dixie Rock

After visiting Kyle and Michelle and fam. we stayed the night in St. George. The next morning we went on a hike to Dixie rock and brought back a lot of fun memories of a not so fun year of college for me.If you look really close you can see the little tiny St. George temple in the background.

Don't worry- that's the face Daniel always gives me when I pull the camera out.

After we got done hiking up there we let Chase just roam around at the bottom.

He would go to all the big rocks and try to pick them up until he found one that he actually could. Then he would carry it all around grunting like he was tough.

Visiting Baby Bridger

I hate that I can't seem to catch this blog up. I feel like it's more me trying to throw these pictures out there so they don't become lost in my computer, so sorry. I will work on that, especially now that spring may soon peek it's head out from under the snow and allow us some time outside. If I were to blog my everyday life now it would be filled with a lot of boring school and how I can't seem to get the motivation to finish these last four weeks of school out strong- but I'm trying.

Anyways... Two weekends ago we went down to St. George. First of all we had been planning on going because it was my spring break and we wanted to warm up, then it just so happened that they were going to induce my sister in law early that week so we had even more reason to go down to see the new baby, then a mission homecomeing, and an Eagle court of honor were thrown in the mix and we filled our weekend up fast.

We stayed with Daniels sister and now I'm mad that I didn't get the camera out at their house at all. Not even when Alyssa was teaching Chase how to hula hoop.

But there are plenty of other pictures:

We stopped in Cedar City on the way down to meet 2 day old little Bridger. This is the only picture I took on him. Chase was actually quite interested in Bridger even though he doesn't seem to be in the picture, but Bridger was so quite and so still the whole time that I don't know if Chase believed he was real.


This was about the first time that Chase and Porter actually played TOGETHER. They disagreed over the toys a bit too, but that's only to be expected.
(Sorry your blurry Porter :)