The Fat Sisters

My mom and her sisters are hilarious!

This is for all the cousins who missed it.

Darby Elizabeth Photography

In case you haven't heard, my sister Darby is an Amazing photographer! She is super awesome! And now she is teaching classes because she wants to share her talent with others and help those who would like learn more about shooting photos. Below is an excerpt from her blog: (check it out for more info http://jonanddarby.blogspot.com/


I'm opening up the following dates in

Arizona
July 14, 21, 23, 28
5:30-7:30 pm

Cedar City Utah
July 31
8:30-10:30am

South Jordan, Utah
July 31
5:30-7:30pm
August 1
8:30-10:30am

Classes will be limited to 3 persons each and are $50 each.

If you are interested you must bring an SLR camera (ie a big camera, Canon Rebel or the equivalent).

I will be teaching how to really use your camera, how to 'get the background blurry', composition and basic posing techniques.


I can be emailed to secure your seat at darby[at]darbyelizabethphotography.com

Thanks!!

Also feel free to check out more of my stuff at
darbyelizabethphotography.com
darbyelizabethfamilies.com
darbyelizabethlds.com

Toys

Jack loves toys, especially cars and books. He just can't get enough of them sometimes. Since we are on vacation, things are set up a little different than they normally or in our house. Jack is set up in a port-a-crib in our room and it's been as good as can be expected. Well tonight I put him down and as usual it took him FOREVER to fall asleep. He kept talking to himself and making noise, me I just kept reading my book because, hey, he'll fall asleep eventually and I was really close to finishing my book. So a few minutes ago, Erik sneaks into the room to get ready for bed and he sticks his head out and says "Come here, you gotta see this." So naturally I go and this is what I find. Silly boy, oh how we love you.

Can you guess how many toys he had in there with him?

Glamor Shots

So here is our baby in all it's glory! We went to the Dr. today and got our "Glamor Shots."

Our due date is January 12, 2010!

Stone Thrower

Tomorrow is my Sunday to teach the YW. You would think that since it is Father's Day I would be teaching about the priesthood or something...nope...that was a couple of weeks ago. No, my lesson in on Forgiveness. I have been working on this lesson for a while and have been praying....really praying for an opportunity to use this. Of course in my tiny brain I thought that someone would wrong me and I'd take the high road and...well you get the idea.

WRONG! Sometimes I should just eat my words, literally, swallow them whole and then yank my foot out of my mouth.

Asking for forgiveness is hard. Not knowing whether you are forgiven, even harder. But forgiving yourself for hurting someone you care about is the hardest. I know that to be forgiven doesn't come instantly, it takes time for the wronged person to want to forgive, I get that. But how can I forgive myself for my stupidity? For being rude? For hurting them?

Sometimes I wish I could be like Bill and Ted and be able to turn back the clock and do things over again, but I guess we all know that this isn't possible. I suppose that why we have the atonement, so that we can have those mistakes erased and least in God's eyes.

Well this post is turning into a rambling fest so I'll end here. I hope that when I teach this lesson tomorrow I can help them understand the importance of not being a stone thrower. Whether they are throwing stones at someone else or at themselves.P.S. This is my hand out, to be given with Jaw Breakers.

Wish me luck.

The Cat's Out...

...of the bag.

We are getting another one of these in January. We are really excited and can't wait!

MIA

So if you feel as I feel that I have been missing in action. You're right! My iMac went Kaput a couple of weeks ago and spent a couple of weeks with the apple people getting all new inerds. I seriously have a completely new computer except for the outside caseing. I got a new internal Hard Drive put in, and new logic board, and new LCD screen, new power source. Pretty much it's awesome except I had to re-install all of my software back on and I lost all my music and a couple of other things. Luckily I keep all of my photos on an external hard drive and I have past years burned onto DVD's.

Then I was gone up to a family reunion where we had a lot of fun with cousins.

Then I was back but still had no computer = no new blog posts.

But I have my computer back and I can't wait to get back to some real work/ real blogging!

P.S. Darby is giving my blog a much needed makeover. So come back and check it out and let mek now what you think.