Toot

On my own horn that is. This 24th of July, I ran another 5k race with my sister-in-law Kim. And I beat my high school time, so rah for this 30 year old.








Thanks to Kim's husband for getting these shots. I'm pretty sure he had to have it on sports mode.

the Turner family

This family drove all the way from Idaho to come see me. What an honor! They just added their newest addition two weeks prior and wanted some pictures of him while he was still ittybitty. Of course it ended up being the brightest morning known to mankind, so we had to bring it inside and get creative. While I'm defiantly not the studio type, I think we still got some great shots of the baby and family inside, all with natural lighting of course!

KGrace

In November I had the pleasure of shooting one of my very best friends' new line of clothing in New York. Kamilah Cole is an incredibly talented woman who graduated from Parsons and is now releasing her Spring/Summer 2010 collection. I am beaming with pride as I've seen her set a goal and now attain it. She is truly an example of hard work and dedication.

All of KGrace's clothing is made from eco-friendly, or sustainable fabrics like modal, silk hemp, and cotton hemp blends. Kamilah describes seeing so much waste produced by the fashion industry and the drive that created in her to make a change. "By choosing to use sustainable fabrics, I hope to be able to do my little part in helping to keep the earth a little bit cleaner and to leave it for future generations."

KGrace has extended a 15% off deal to all my readers which will be good until August 8th. Use the code LAUNCH15 at checkout.

If you're interested in learning more about this line of clothing, check out the video here, and of course, go order something on the website!

The Reynolds family

There's not much more beautiful then seeing two parents absolutely smitten with their baby. That was certainly the case with this shoot. I discovered a new talent we coined "the spider" which had baby and parents rolling and got some really great smiles. She was done after our first location though and no amount of spidering could get those infectious smiles again. Thankfully it's hard to tell babies are crying when they're held up in the air. Thank you Reynolds family for making the trip to see my camera and I.

I'll never look at grass the same way again

Pardon me while I gush for a minute about grass and the fact that I now have it. Thanks to my husband, who could never in his life be accused of not being a hard worker, we have a lawn!! He was outside from 6am till about 11pm every night for a week digging, installing, hitting phone lines (that's another story), and just being amazing all around while he got our sprinkler system installed. He got it all done in time to put in our sod, on the hottest day of the summer no less (100 degrees people). Thanks to friends and family, they were able to do it in a day. What a rewarding effort it was and I can't tell you the grins we have on our faces when we look at our house now. I never realized before all that was involved in the creation of a lawn, nor how much it is vital to keeping the dust, dirt, and all around sanity of a mother who enjoys a clean house.

Hallelujah!!!

8:30am the work begins.



Geoff's sister was such a hard worker!



The finished product.

Lizzie Jane

Meet my newest niece, Lizzie. She is the miniest doll I've ever laid eyes on. I'm so happy I was able to finally meet her and had my camera!

Fourth of July weekend and an update

We started out the festivities on Saturday with a fun filled day at Geoff's sister's house: pool party, games, lots of delicious food, and fireworks. Our forefathers would have been proud.








On Monday, we ran a 5k race in Provo. It was so much fun, I don't know why I haven't done this one before! Geoff placed third in his age division and Geoff's youngest sister Kim and I, well we ran a good race. It was a great way to start the day. We then met up with the kids at the Provo parade which was a lot of fun. I decided to tote around a camera with a dead battery so these photos are courtesy of Kim.











The rest of our summer has been occupied with boating, swim lessons, t-ball and a whole lot of hard manual labor on Geoff's part getting our yard ready for grass.

Though Isaac was playing t-ball, he requested the coach pitch to him every time since that's how we do it at home. He did such a great job!






A visit to cousin Sofia's gorgeous new house.



Isaac knee boarding while Lucy tubes.









Geoff showing off a lovely rooster tail.



Me looking like I'm doing next to nothing wakeboarding. Geoff must have missed my sweet jump.




In computer related news, she's in surgery, hopefully back home on Wednesday. It's been rough to say the least. Thank goodness I back everything up!

M.I.A

Things have been crazy over here, hence the lack of blogging:

1. My computer is on the fritz which is a HUGE problem that will hopefully be remedied soon.
2. I was a single mother all week while Geoff was off in Toronto presenting three papers. We missed him!
3. I became and auntie again not once, but TWICE this last week. Welcome to the world Lizzie Jane, and Mila Naomi.
4. I have some major design projects that I'm working on. Please refer to #1 to ascertain my stress level.
5. And last, but certainly not least, we have family in town!

I'll be back soon, have no fear.